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Second, although countries have laid the groundwork for sustainable growth in a number of areas, the reform agenda remains vast, and most countries are not yet able to avoid the boom-and-bust cycles that have long plagued them.
That way, fiscal stimulus, such as public investment, can help to invigorate sluggish economies and lay the groundwork for longer-term growth.
China has already laid the groundwork for these relationships, strengthening economic cooperation and trade with countries along the “belt and road.”
But, until May’s announcement, seasoned political players, such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair, thought Brexit would be over before the next general election, so none laid the groundwork for such a project.
These decisions played a major role in enabling a new wave of globalization, which increasingly diffused growth and wealth across countries, but also laid the groundwork for the concentration of income and wealth within countries.
Just as rules-based processes have laid the groundwork for self-driving vehicles, rules-based precision medicine will steadily increase the importance of automated super-machines in health care.
The opposition must begin to lay the groundwork for a new order based on unity and cooperation.
The time is ripe to gather and coordinate recent economic insights on motivation, preferences, measurement, and modeling, and lay the groundwork for systematic, rather than symptomatic, change.
Most economists promoted government provision of public goods; some even championed “equity before growth” strategies, which maintained that redistribution could lay the groundwork for growth that benefited the poor.
Indeed, far from laying the groundwork for a protracted recession, China’s response – increasing imports and accelerating domestic structural reforms – will support high-quality long-term growth.
Oil therefore provides an important opportunity to lay the groundwork for long-term economic growth and development.
That helped to lay the groundwork for the China “opening” of 1970-1971, engineered by US National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, who until then had no knowledge of the country.
If China can withstand US counterattacks, its efforts will lay the financial groundwork for the emergence of a multipolar world.
Sacrifice, too many Europeans believe, is not laying the groundwork for a better, more prosperous Europe, but is dragging them into a fatal tailspin.
Premier Wen Jiabao laid the groundwork four years ago, when he first articulated the paradox of the “Four ‘Uns’” – an economy whose strength on the surface masked a structure that was increasingly “unstable, unbalanced, uncoordinated, and ultimately unsustainable.”
For many years, intellectuals, activists, journalists, and clerics had articulated hateful ideas that laid the groundwork for Mussolini, Hitler, and their imitators in other countries.
Kim did a fantastic job, and his efforts provided the groundwork for bringing ARVs to millions, saving lives, livelihoods, and families.
Although impact investors can lay the groundwork for commercial investors, they must also work in unison with government authorities to ensure well-functioning market systems.
And with the technology train already hurtling down the track, we must act fast to mitigate current risks and ensure that we are laying the groundwork needed to avoid future threats.
Sensible macroeconomic policies, coupled with non-violent resolution of political or racial conflicts, as in, say, Namibia, Botswana, or South Africa, can set the groundwork for highly constructive partnerships.
The collapse of communism laid the groundwork for a universal open society, but Western democracies did not rise to the occasion.
This competitive process is already laying the groundwork for more effective political activism not just in 2018, but also in 2020, when the forces emerging today will seek to disrupt Trump himself.
And it lays the groundwork for a truly transformational approach to education, one that is holistic, ambitious, and aspirational.
Less spectacularly, but perhaps more important in the long run, ECOWAS is laying the groundwork for regional economic integration, with the creation of a single currency now a stated objective.
By ensuring access to work, strengthening communication and digital access, and laying the groundwork for post-war reconstruction, the people of a shattered region can begin planning for a more prosperous future.
By contrast, the US Federal Reserve, beginning under former Chair Janet Yellen, and the Bank of England, under Mark Carney, have been laying the groundwork for policy “normalization.”
Along the way, they can lay the groundwork for a new kind of security system – one that does not rely on nuclear deterrence.
Much of the groundwork has already been laid by the OECD, in several guiding principles: economic goals, especially growth and competitiveness, should be as important as social and environmental goals; a regulation’s benefits must justify its costs; regulations should be reviewed frequently, and a cost-benefit analysis of all the alternatives – including simply maintaining the status quo – should always be carried out.
Simone de Beauvoir, whose seminal book The Second Sex laid the groundwork for post-war Western feminism, was an Existentialist who was neither a wife nor a mother nor a woman of faith.
Only such an understanding can permit a start to the groundwork needed for a political resolution that can permanently end both the siege of Gaza and the occupation of Palestinian lands.
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