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The western media focuses on a tsunami in Asia; donations flow freely.
The Pope of Japanese FinanceTOKYO – While the world focuses on the gathering of cardinals in Rome to choose a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, a similar conclave is underway in Tokyo to choose the Bank of Japan’s (BOJ) next governor.
That program focuses on the Afghanization of the development process, as well as on allowing the security forces to operate autonomously.
Presidents must pressure their planning, education, and finance ministers to work with the health ministry and other key stakeholders to create a national plan that focuses the government's energies.
Much of the existing research focuses on the US economy, where some studies have measured the growth of dominant firms’ market power through the steep upward trend in mark-up pricing; and others have examined the role of proliferating information technologies in the accumulation of “surplus wealth.”
A second popular explanation for British decline focuses on the educational system.
But, whereas US antitrust law rightly focuses on whether consumers are being harmed, EU competition authorities also consider whether rival firms have lost out – including old-fashioned shopping portals, such as Ladenzeile.de,
The report focuses on the lessons of the OSCE’s engagement in Ukraine, and part of the solution is reflected in the Panel’s title;European security is, indeed, a common project.
This group is sympathetic to the “Beijing model” of governance, which focuses on national sovereignty and state control.
Will they wait to see what happens to the new leader, and thus continue their policy of “strategic patience,” which focuses mainly on denuclearization, and not move on to other areas until the North moves first?
Roadmap 2050 focuses on greening the power system.
It requires a fiscal policy that focuses not only on efficiency, but also on equity – particularly on fairness in sharing the burden of adjustment, and on protecting the weak and vulnerable.
Alternatively, can “politically correct” behavior be a form of recklessness, to the extent that it evades difficult issues and focuses on what is easier to justify rather than what is right?
It advocates soft power, but focuses only on the substance and not enough on the process.
The Electoral College was included in America’s constitution to protect small states in a federal system, but it now means that the political campaign focuses largely on the dozen or so battleground states where public opinion is closely divided.
Governance writ small focuses instead on those institutional arrangements that can best relax the constraints on growth.
This recognition lies at the heart of the concept of “planetary health,” which focuses on the health of human civilization and the condition of the natural systems on which it depends.
The United Nations focuses on three categories of development: social, economic, and environmental.
To be sure, the Communist Party of China’s sophisticated “United Front” operation – which focuses on neutralizing opposition to its policies and authority, inside and outside China – often relies on private citizens to achieve its objectives.
Discussion of China’s currency focuses around the need to shrink the country’s trade surplus and correct global macroeconomic imbalances.
This month, in Thailand, I met Jonathan Hursh, who runs Compassion for Migrant Children (soon to be renamed), which focuses on migrant populations – adults and children with few resources and few rights – in the slums that surround almost every large city in the world.
The French model, which focuses on redressing excessive social inequalities through transfers, was built at a time when the number of losers was relatively small.
Singapore, for example, has a ten-year master plan that focuses on the development of a robust information and communications industry, including data analytics.
The new book Financial Intimacy , by Jacquette Timmons, a talented financial coach who focuses on women, offers truths that would have been valuable to any of the middle-class women now in crisis.
For Europe, Leijonhufvud argues, this implies a three-pronged approach that focuses on “levels of leverage,” “maturity mismatches,” and “the topology of the web,” – that is, “its connectivity and the presence of critical nodes that are ‘too big to fail.’”
These are the countries on which the Pneumonia and Diarrhea Progress Report focuses.
News reporting, as well as political and economic debate, now focuses on identifying the culprits, with bankers and politicians emerging as the prime suspects.
The report, which focuses on the cost to the United States of its failure to act on climate change, indicates that up to a half-trillion dollars of US property, and some 70% of agricultural output, will be subject to climate risks this century.
But monetary policy typically focuses on domestic recovery.
Inevitably the anger--visible or otherwise--at having to fight America's war against Al-Qaida and the Taliban focuses on Musharraf, a man who received high praise from the United Jihad Council after incursions and battles fought against India around Kargil in Kashmir two years ago.
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