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But which principles a government
focuses
on varies by approach.
The Anglophone strategy
focuses
on freeing up the remittance market by encouraging competition, relaxing regulatory constraints for non-bank operators, offering financial incentives, encouraging technical and financial innovation, and stimulating collaboration among market players.
Anat Admati, a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business,
focuses
on bank capital – specifically, the incentives that banks have to fund their activities with very high leverage – little equity and a great deal of debt.
Already, AI – which
focuses
on advancing the cognitive functions of machines so that they can “learn” on their own – is reshaping our lives.
Time to Test IranNEW YORK – Most of the debate about how to address Iran’s efforts to develop nuclear-weapons capacity
focuses
on two options.
But the Kyoto approach
focuses
on early cuts, which are expensive and do little good.
Second, most research
focuses
on the impact of inequality on growth, rather than on how specific policies affect growth.
Occupy the GovernmentNEW YORK – Too much of the talk nowadays about how social media has affected politics
focuses
on awareness: People adopt social media, discover they are not alone, start to protest, and eventually their “Facebook revolution” overwhelms those in power.
At this year’s meeting, G-8 leaders should develop an effective action plan that
focuses
on the causes, rather than the symptoms, of poverty, and that lays the groundwork for a system that protects citizens from the depredations of corruption and bad governance.
The global vision promoted by China
focuses
almost entirely on economic relations – precisely the soullessness that got the liberal world order into trouble in the first place.
A key focus should be on reinforcing the “billions-to-trillions” approach, which
focuses
on mobilizing private-sector capital and ensuring the best use of public-sector capital.
The proposal, furthermore,
focuses
exclusively on raw ores and metals, and excludes products that contain the relevant minerals, such as mobile phones, vehicles, and medical equipment.
Instead, policymakers should adopt a new climate paradigm that
focuses
on limiting cumulative emissions.
Most important, it highlights the need for climate policy that
focuses
on the deployment of CCS systems, which use various industrial processes to capture CO2 from fossil-fuel use and then store it in underground geological formations, where it cannot accumulate in the biosphere.
One
focuses
on corruption: The previous guys were corrupt, so we kicked the rascals out.
If one
focuses
on net exports, following Keynesian or even mercantilist arguments, might one not expect to find that Trump’s tariffs stimulate US economic growth, with others’ losses being America’s gains?
The current criticism, which provided what one observer called an “uneasy ambiance” at this month’s G20 summit in Hamburg,
focuses
on two claims.
Second, a reasonably priced system is one that
focuses
only on essential care.
Any new system that eliminates unnecessary care and
focuses
on what is really needed for patient wellbeing would also be more reasonably priced.
Being out of step also
focuses
attention on the fact that the ECB is in danger of losing control over inflationary expectations.
For example, the Fed could follow the Bank of Japan’s recent move to target the ten-year interest rate instead of the very short-term one it usually
focuses
on.
But perhaps the most effective approach to closing the apathy gap
focuses
on initiatives led by young people themselves.
The spring meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund represent a pivotal moment for shifting the debate toward a second phase of post-crisis reform efforts – one that
focuses
on ensuring a healthy flow of financing to the real economy.
Finally, while Doing Business
focuses
on helping the poorest countries to improve their economic performance, it also influences advanced-country policymaking and business practices.
Under Hollande, France’s Socialists favor achieving that renewal through a process of social dialogue that convinces rather than imposes, that
focuses
both on revenue measures and on boosting government efficiency, and that may adopt some of northern Europe’s more successful “flexicurity” policies, which combine greater labor-market flexibility with strong social protection.
Recognizing the potentially large economic benefits of regulation might encourage a more sophisticated debate that moves beyond political pantomime and
focuses
attention on the crucial issue of regulatory design.
Either the Fed pursues the first goal by keeping rates low for longer and normalizing them very slowly, in which case a huge credit and asset bubble would emerge in due course; or the Fed
focuses
on preventing financial instability and increases the policy rate much faster than weak growth and high unemployment would otherwise warrant, thereby halting an already-sluggish recovery.
But the growth formula that long underpinned South Korea’s success – a form of state-guided capitalism that
focuses
on export-led manufacturing – is no longer working for many South Koreans.
European populism
focuses
on Islam and immigration, but it may be mobilizing a wider rage against elites expressed by people who feel unrepresented, or fear being left behind economically.
Most media coverage
focuses
on refugees fleeing armed conflict (think Syria) or migrants seeking better economic opportunities than they have at home (think Nigeria or Pakistan).
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