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It would have a chance to participate in steering the international system, and gradually gain in power and influence.
Under the new plan, rural migrants settling in smaller towns and cities will gain access to services like health care and education, and the government will gradually relax hukou restrictions in medium-size cities.
Gradually, many countries, with prodding from their trade unions, now have some form of benefit protection plan for private pensions.
The British government is gradually realizing that voters do not really want the complete rupture with Europe demanded by hard-core Euroskeptics.
Voters’ aversion to Brexit’s adverse consequences, analogous to the realism that gradually dawned in Greece after its 2015 referendum rejected an EU bailout, helps to explain the otherwise perplexing tactics of Prime Minister Theresa May and her Conservative Party.
After starting out proclaiming a clear instruction from the people to “take back control” from the EU, May has gradually blurred and erased her red lines: an end to EU budget contributions, limiting European immigration, and an exemption from European rules and court judgments.
UMNO’s repression of the opposition has had the unintended consequence that the party gradually had to abandon its secular-nationalist politics and enter an Islamization race with PAS.
It believed that global imbalances would unwind gradually.
Perhaps the least bad solution would be to proceed by default: gradually allow the drug war to vanish from television screens and newspapers, and have its place taken by other wars: on poverty, on petty crime, and for economic growth.
A consensus has gradually emerged around this idea, with calls for a shift toward intensive, efficiency-driven growth intensifying since China’s GDP growth began to slow in 2011.
First, Brazil should adopt a medium-term fiscal framework that targets a gradually declining path for public debt, including a commitment to adjusting the target for the primary budget surplus accordingly.
It should also gradually reduce the plethora of payroll levies that currently add about 50% on average to labor costs, hindering competitiveness and creating a significant incentive to informal employment.
Unlike Japan, which was pressured by the West into a large yen revaluation in 1985 (the “Plaza Accord”), the Chinese have opted to move gradually and deliberately.
China is seeking to alter the status quo gradually as part of a high-stakes effort to extend its control to strategic areas and resources.
China’s approach reflects what the Chinese general Zhang Zhaozhong this year called a “cabbage” strategy: assert a territorial claim and gradually surround the area with multiple layers of security, thus denying access to a rival.
Governments and multilateral bodies like the UN have gradually been discredited, along with the value systems on which they are based.
Today, the impact of the Chinese School seems to be limited mostly to official statements, while the traditionalists are gradually gaining policy influence.
In that case, the tax cut, while gradually increasing private wealth, would decrease social wealth.
With the rise of political leaders who had not witnessed the terrifying consequences of WWII, it was inevitable that Germany’s emotional bond with its European mission – born of guilt and the quest for redemption – should gradually disappear.
Although US federal debt is projected to rise at an unsustainable rate in the long term, the right solution is not fiscal belt-tightening now, but rather a credible plan to stabilize the debt/GDP ratio gradually as the economy recovers.
But it would also be challenging – even if carried out gradually.
But the fact that countries have continued to pursue trade liberalization, however gradually, at a time of weak economic growth, suggests that free trade is here to stay.
Regulators are gradually waking up to the fact that they cannot countenance large expensive-to-trace transaction technologies that facilitate tax evasion and criminal activity.
But over the next decade, the politics of energy in the US may gradually change.
Moreover, independence would not be accepted by the Serbian public, which has already watched in dismay as “Great Serbia” has been gradually whittled away, most recently with the secession of Montenegro.
In a flexible exchange rate system, currencies would have gradually depreciated, as happened in some other commodity exporting countries (such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand).
Fifth, the political transition should take place gradually and with confidence building on all sides, rather than through an arbitrary, destabilizing rush to “free elections.”
Yanukovych’s victory notwithstanding, Ukraine is a country that is becoming more European and gradually moving out of Russia’s orbit in its own chaotic way.
As one can see, the yen appreciated gradually in the 1960s and 1970s, as one would expect, given Japan’s rapid catch-up growth of those decades.
Redistribution of wealth became gradually less important than the social emancipation of ethnic and sexual minorities.
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