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The case for liberalization has always focused on reducing the transaction costs of global trade, investment, and information flows.
This requires consistent macroeconomic policies focused on economic integration, food self-sufficiency, low inflation, and reduced debt.
Last week’s summit sharply defined the issue and focused attention in capitals the world over.
One dialogue is focused on the protection of refugees; the other on migration.
There has never been a global treaty governing migration, and past bilateral efforts have focused almost exclusively on violence and conflict as root causes of displacement.
To avoid future increases in this appetite, policymakers and pundits have focused on the so-called “moral hazard problem”: the “bad guys” must pay for their mistakes, lest they make them again.
Not surprisingly, the discussions during Park’s four-day visit focused on grand strategy, and included detailed talks on maritime security and naval shipbuilding.
Unlike their predecessor, the Millennium Development Goals, which focused almost exclusively on developing countries, the new global goals are universal and apply to all countries equally.
But some economists supported a dissenting – and much more damning – verdict, one that focused on the failure of economics education.
The secret behind these countries’ success is relentlessly focused leaders, whether entrenched but benign dictators or democratically elected politicians with a shared vision of a broad-based economy.
And, indeed, Russia’s state corporations are supposedly focused on advancing the public interest or creating public goods.
In the past decade attention has focused on bringing down budget deficits, establishing the EU convergence targets and the like.
Though the United States is currently focused on destroying Syria’s chemical-weapons arsenal, its long-term goal is to remove Bashar al-Assad from power.
Too much of the debate since then has focused on what Germany, the EU, or the International Monetary Fund must do.
Others were too focused on ideological rhetoric to do much good.
Recent debate about income inequality in the US and other developed countries has focused on the rapid surge in incomes for the few.
These experiments are so detached from our technological capabilities that physicists have focused on trying to remove the mathematical contradictions first, developing approaches like string theory, loop quantum gravity, and asymptotically safe gravity.
Budgets must be focused on the most excluded children, and primary education must be free at the point of use, so that every child can learn.
Indeed, with Shia Arabs and Kurds making up 80% of the country, the insurgency is focused on only four of Iraq’s 18 provinces.
The US becomes focused on leading in six key clean-tech areas: building efficiency, battery technology, solar, carbon capture and storage (CCS), smart grids, and electric vehicles (EV).
We are about to get a comprehensive package of re-regulation focused on capital requirements and leverage, transparency, ratings and other sources of information, incentives, conflicts of interest and limits on the scope of financial firms, consumer protection, and resolution mechanisms.
This represents a significant departure from the agendas produced at previous Third Plenums, which focused exclusively on economic reform.
Whether or not the next government can do what is needed will depend on its ability to unify the electorate and a disparate group of regionally focused political parties.
If the neo- conservatives had instead focused their attentions on strengthening the soft power of Turkey, they could have done far more to advance the cause of democracy in the Middle East.
By its very nature, this sort of disaggregated but highly focused threat is almost impossible to identify and intercept in advance.
It is investing energy in other regionally focused FTAs like the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the EU.
Much of the discussion in the period following the 2008 financial crisis focused on various economic imbalances that either threatened or impeded growth.
But the political process may generate poorly timed or ineffective responses – focused on transfers rather than purchases, infra-marginal tax rebates, and spending that fails cost-benefit tests – that do little good in the short run and cause substantial harm later.
The electorate focused almost entirely on the question of electoral districts.
Those focused on emerging markets are emphasizing accelerating growth, with some forecasts projecting a 5% increase in world output.
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