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America's Problems Run Deeper than Wall StreetCAMBRIDGE – With less than two months remaining before America’s presidential election, much attention is focused on the state of the American economy and the challenges that it will present to the next president.
This effort will be coordinated by representatives in seven newly established vice-presidential positions, and spearheaded by the first vice president to have a portfolio focused on “better regulation.”
And some policymakers question whether the Swiss approach has focused drug policy too much on public health and too little on dealing with the poverty and social exclusion faced by drug users.
So regulators have focused on command-and-control orders to financial firms to increase their equity, and to reduce the riskiness of their investments.
The policy consensus has properly focused first on the new risks that were added.
The Adaptation ImperativeNAIROBI – In the run-up to the recent United Nations meeting on climate change in Lima, Peru, much of the world’s attention focused on how strongly countries would commit to a framework for cutting greenhouse-gas emissions.
Far from exploiting shale reserves, the world needs to halt new fossil-fuel projects, phase out existing ones, and implement ambitious clean-energy investment strategies focused on providing decent jobs and respecting communities’ rights to control development on their land.
For example, the Ecuadorian Association of Businessmen (ANDE) recently launched an anti-corruption program that focused on the root causes of corruption.
But, as clever as the speech was, it is unlikely to succeed in beating back UKIP – and it leaves the British debate about EU membership focused on the wrong issue.
Instead, central bankers focused single-mindedly on price stability, though the costs of somewhat higher inflation would have been miniscule compared to the havoc wrought by the financial excesses that they allowed, if not encouraged.
Each group is focused on determining its particular privileges while preserving the territorial integrity and national unity of a country growing increasingly fractious and fragile.
Japanese business leaders need to combine big thinking with a focused attention to detail.
In the EU’s western, net-contributor states, the MFF debate remains narrowly focused on how much money can be cut from the European Commission’s proposed €1.033 trillion ($1.3 trillion) budget for 2014-2020.
Fourth, the IMF has learned that reforms are most likely to be implemented when they are few in number and carefully focused.
Their attention is focused on obtaining basic necessities like food and clothing; few are interested in analyzing the causes of their declining living standards.
The 2014-2016 Global Agenda Councils, 86 groups of experts, each focused on a pressing global issue, an industry, or a region, began work this month.
In most other countries of the region, talk remains focused on the difficulty of "changing the mentality" of the people.
In a shift from the illogical import policy of the past, we focused our energies on revitalizing rural irrigation, which boosted the first dry-season crop yields.
Our diplomacy is also focused on protecting the well-being of the roughly ten million Filipinos working overseas.
But once Bismarck had accomplished that goal, he focused German diplomacy on creating alliances with neighbors and made Berlin the hub of European diplomacy and conflict resolution.
By contrast, governments in many successful developing countries have focused on strengthening industries that have done well in countries with comparable factor endowments.
Thus far, much of the interest among investors has been focused on Myanmar’s energy and mining sectors – no surprise, given the country’s large reserves of oil and gas, its 90% share of global jade production, and its strong position in ruby and sapphire mining.
European politics has focused so far on providing public credit to the crisis countries at near-zero interest rates, which eventually may morph into transfers.
The MDGs worked because they were few in number and sharply focused.
Most recently that debate has focused on encryption: whether technology companies should be able to develop programs that encrypt their users’ messages so securely that no one but their intended recipients – not even governments – can read them.
So why has ISIS focused on attacking France and Turkey?
The adoption of the MDGs focused increased attention by African governments, non-governmental organizations, UN agencies, international donors, foundations, and activists on the urgency of combating poverty, hunger, and disease.
The Millennium Development Goals, due to expire in 2015, succeeded because they marshaled international resources and funding to address a focused set of poverty-related issues.
This does not necessarily mean more regulation, but it certainly means better regulation, focused on improving incentives.
With an agenda focused on building prosperity, democracy, and peace, the Commonwealth is clearly committed to a stronger, more “common future.”
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