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The doctrine of safe schools – a rare new idea in a region beleaguered by the confrontation with Boko Haram – seemed to be gradually taking hold.
The traditional policy framework, which the new thinking is gradually replacing, is presumptive rather than diagnostic .
Voters in Italy, France, the Netherlands, or Austria - the countries in which post-fascist or extreme-right parties incited the greatest concerns - gradually realized that mainstream democratic forces in Europe would allow extremist parties only limited influence in the European Parliament and other EU institutions.
This is gradually encouraging social segregation and threatening the security and safety of residents.
Still, Italians have long been uncomfortable with the lack of an independent monetary policy, and that sense of lost control has gradually overshadowed the advantages of euro membership.
It is true that capital’s share of income (interest, dividends, and capital gains) rose gradually in major rich countries during the period 1975-2007, while labor’s share (wages and salaries) fell, a trend that would support Piketty’s hypothesis if it continued.
Many economic commentators now focus on prospects for “exit” from nearly a decade of ultra-loose monetary policy, with central banks reducing their balance sheets to “normal” levels and gradually raising interest rates.
At that point, discrete carbon prices could gradually converge toward a single price, as has occurred with prices for commodities like oil.
These workers will reap large benefits from living in societies with stable or gradually declining populations.
More generally, however the problem of the Irish referendum result is addressed, the EU will gradually acquire its definitive shape on the basis of the ongoing problems that it must address, because as the dimensions of these problems grow, their management will require solid and durable forms of cooperation.
What these countries do not seem to recognize is that it is the petrodollar-funded export of Wahhabism – the source of modern Sunni jihad – that has gradually extinguished more liberal Islamic traditions elsewhere and fueled the international terrorism that now threatens to devour its sponsors.
And the government has indicated that, if the need arises, it is prepared to raise taxes to achieve its goal of gradually reducing public debt and improving public services.
As prudent fiscal and financial policies gradually stabilize China’s economy, monetary policy must remain neutral.
But the most important one, in my view, was the absence of a clear strategy on the part of the Socialists, who consistently refuse to make the choices that have gradually been accepted by international social democracy, embodied today in the Party of European Socialists.
Some of his “politically naive” economic advisers, including me, advocated a much larger increase, phased in gradually over five years, on both fiscal and environmental grounds.
To be sure, collaboration requires trust, and trust is established gradually over time.
According to his staff, he developed and improved this gradually over his career.
In Europe and elsewhere, regional integration is gradually changing the political environment, increasing self-confidence in societies and bringing international trust.
What was long regarded as too unconventional to be contemplated has gradually become a matter of consensus.
Unlike the financial benefits of reducing labor costs, the financial benefits of profit sharing, realized gradually through greater employee engagement and reduced turnover, are difficult to measure, uncertain, and unlikely to have an immediate effect on earnings per share, a major determinant of executive compensation.
The United States first tried to resolve the issue back in 1994, with the US-North Korean Agreed Framework; but that effort gradually collapsed, owing to actions taken – and not taken – on both sides.
Or should they be keeping their eyes on China, which has gradually expanded both its regional influence and its revanchist claims?
Consider, for example, the “taper tantrum” that roiled financial markets in the spring of 2013, after then-Fed Chair Ben Bernanke said only that policymakers were thinking of gradually ending quantitative easing.
Monetary policymakers in some countries should contemplate a shift toward targeting nominal GDP – a switch that could be phased in gradually in such a way as to preserve credibility with respect to inflation.
The practical solution is to phase in a nominal GDP target gradually.
We can now expect the renminbi to begin appreciating again, very gradually, against the dollar, as it did between 2005 and 2007.
China was right to wait in adjusting its exchange rate, and it is now right to move gradually rather than discontinuously.
But the patterns are systematic, with consequences that unfold gradually, and painfully, over time.
Entrepreneurship is on the rise, especially among young Africans, gradually replacing the dead end of foreign aid.
Even Amazon has gradually transformed itself from an Internet hypermarket to something closer to a clearinghouse that matches customer requests with near-customized products.
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