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In such a scenario, the economy would gradually weaken, hampering the royal family’s ability to continue buying middle-class support, while enabling rebel groups in the east and the south to erode the government’s authority.
This will require painstaking efforts to promote pro-Russian groups and gradually weaken and neutralize pro-Western circles.
A group of farsighted statesmen, inspired by the vision of a United States of Europe, recognized that this ideal could be approached only gradually, by setting limited objectives, mobilizing the political will needed to achieve them, and concluding treaties that required states to surrender only as much sovereignty as they could bear politically.
EU-wide coordination of these minimum guaranteed income schemes should be gradually pursued, with the long-term intention of building up a pan-European safety net as one of the institutional pillars of the EU.
And the real price of 9/11 may be the opportunity costs: for most of the first decade of this century, as the world economy gradually shifted its center of gravity toward Asia, the US was preoccupied with a mistaken war of choice in the Middle East.
Some policymakers in Brussels are gradually beginning to recognize that lower energy prices might be good for the economy.
Stronger growth with inflation still below target allowed unconventional monetary policies either to remain in full force, as in the eurozone and Japan, or to be rolled back very gradually, as in the US.
At the same time, the prospect of higher inflation has led even the European Central Bank to consider gradually ending unconventional monetary policies, implying less monetary accommodation at the global level.
The government needs to improve public-sector accountability at all levels, and then gradually look for more ways to prevent malfeasance in the first place.
Gradually, with lenders becoming increasingly confident in subsequent years that low inflation was here to stay, real long-term interest rates began heading south.
As a result, markets seem convinced that the US will gradually exit its prolonged period of excessive reliance on unconventional monetary policy, replacing it with a mix of looser fiscal policy and pro-growth structural reforms – an approach much like that pursued by former US President Ronald Reagan.
And, since 2013, the UK has applied a special tax rate on income from patents, which will fall gradually to 10% by 2017.
The Padoa-Schioppa group recently proposed that rule-breaking governments should gradually lose control over their own national budgetary processes.
For example, The Financial Times reported on June 23 that, “Hundreds of Bangladeshi garment factories supplying western buyers such as Marks and Spencer, Tesco, Walmart, and Hampamp;M gradually reopened under heavy police protection…after days of violent protests by tens of thousands of laborers demanding higher wages.”
Indeed, at the end of the 1990s, some researchers actually wondered how international markets would function if the US government gradually retired all of its debt.
While Xi will work to build a strong power base by gradually appointing his supporters to key positions, he needs the PLA to defend his political authority in the interim.
The 2004 reforms, with their elimination of restrictions on access to foreign exchange and reduction of import tariffs, gradually improved the business and investment climate.
In yet another shrewd move, he pursued the turnover of senior officials at the Vatican gradually, rather than in one fell swoop.
Although cooperatives are gradually catching on in Asia, they will need more support.
As with most EU developments, dramatic institutional change will happen gradually through extensive negotiations and the treaties that result.
Germans have long been among the most europhile of peoples, but their mood has gradually been turning against Europe and its common currency, the euro.
Instead, these respectable supporters have gradually been replaced over the years by a shady new class of rich Japanese, who have risen through loan-sharking and other dubious businesses.
Social security taxes as a proportion of income rise gradually from 5% at the 10th percentile to 9% at the 80th percentile, stay there at the 90th percentile, but then fall off sharply to 5% at the top.
That panic subsided – and gold prices started to drift down again – after US banks were subjected to “stress tests,” America’s Troubled Asset Relief Program further backstopped the financial system by removing bad assets from banks’ balance sheets, and the global economy gradually bottomed out.
In the last few years, France has distinguished itself from other European nations by gradually abandoning community-based policing, which the government considers too “social” and prevention-oriented.
Meanwhile, political leaders gradually developed regulatory and trade regimes that eliminated tariffs, simplified border crossings, and opened exciting new markets.
The debtor economies, such as Spain and Portugal, now run small current-account surpluses, and are gradually reducing their debt.
The country is gradually turning into an industrial bazaar that is relocating its workbench to low-wage ex-communist countries.
But even if Trump stops short of neo-fascism, he could create an America that works for fewer and fewer people, while voters, so busy sharing cat pics and fake news on social media, gradually lose their remaining capacity to distinguish between lived reality and its virtual shadow.
Now that the US has at last begun to move, gradually and thoughtfully, away from the passions that characterized the country’s response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, it is worth asking if Bill Clinton was right to say that America’s virtues and assets always prevail against its vices and defects.
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