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Gradually the Bank came to be perceived, at least in many quarters, as a partner in the joint quest for growth and poverty reduction, not an adversary attempting to promote a Western economic agenda or ideology.
Areas of focus would include using the SDR for some bond issuance and trade transactions, developing market infrastructure (including payments and settlement mechanisms), improving valuation methodologies, and gradually developing a yield curve for SDR-denominated loans and bonds.
Central banks want this tightening to come about gradually, but the brief history of unconventional monetary policy suggests that asset re-pricing tends to occur abruptly – sometimes disruptively so.
Bernanke and the FOMC should recognize this and gradually bring the bond-buying program to an end during the next 12 months.
The government never liked Rajan’s insistence on pursuing interest-rate cuts gradually in order to promote price stability; instead, it wanted to see them slashed aggressively, in order to spur growth.
By using economic means to pursue its foreign-policy ends, Germany is gradually turning its back on its European partners.
For now, low world interest rates are restraining debt-service costs, but debt levels can be reduced only very gradually over long periods, whereas real (inflation-adjusted) interest rates can rise far more quickly, even for rich countries.
Following the changing of the guard after the end of Germany’s red/green coalition, a fundamental shift in attitude has gradually taken place.
Japan entered modernity after the Meiji Restoration in 1868, and its constitutional monarchy gradually evolved into a functioning parliamentary democracy around the early 1920’s.
But perhaps America’s most important New Year’s resolution should be to return to global leadership – a role that has gradually eroded over the last decade, with devastating consequences.
Monetary policy should gradually recalibrate the balance between these two economic indicators as the business cycle proceeds.
When leaders make political decisions, they are reasserting control over the concept of sovereignty itself, which has been gradually eroded and transformed through various phases of globalization.
A simple way forward would be to provide all citizens an unconditional tax credit, which could be built up gradually as the rewards from work fall.
The best way to avoid such an outcome is for emerging Asian economies to increase rates gradually and predictably.
National funds – and thus national authorities – will continue to be responsible for “their” banks’ problems, with the SRF’s contribution to any rescue operation rising only gradually.
For the US, such an impetus might be especially welcome as the Federal Reserve raises interest rates (albeit gradually) while other countries ease further or hold rates steady and the dollar likely strengthens.
And, as the functioning of European institutions became increasingly complicated, the EU itself gradually became dysfunctional in some ways.
Reflecting the reality of adults’ cognitive abilities, such programs should aim to transfer new knowledge gradually, while leveraging crystalized intellectual skills.
As the new risk-management industry develops, its components will gradually boost each other.
To protect economic activity and redress vulnerabilities, the strategy of gradually reducing the primary fiscal deficit should be maintained.
All of this can be achieved only gradually, as Europe moves to a fully-fledged federal union.
To provide reassurance, policymakers issued statements to the effect that China would move only gradually in that direction.
What has changed, gradually and over several decades, is concern for animals.
Gradually and persistently, the fundamentalism of money must be eliminated.
More striking is the CBO’s projection that the deficit will continue to decline rapidly, reaching just 2.1% of GDP in 2015, before rising gradually to just 3.5% of GDP in 2023, the end of the CBO’s official forecast period.
And those estimates are based on the optimistic assumption that the economy will have returned gradually to full employment with low inflation and moderate interest rates.
The Oslo Peace Process was built on the premise that moderates on both sides would gradually gain each other's trust and move steadily towards compromise.
But the Kremlin gradually boosted investment in “counter-space” capabilities.
Rather than new mega-investments in high tech, the difficult route of Saudization, initiated a decade ago, can gradually do the job, if augmented by greater support for competition and for small and medium-size enterprises.
While the regime gradually succeeded in violently quelling the momentum of the opposition Green Movement, the country’s deep internal rifts – both among political elites as well as between government and society – are far from being reconciled.
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