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From 1991 to 2010, for example, Italy forecast growth rates at the three-year
horizon
that were, on average, 2.3 percentage points above what was actually achieved.
Long-term estimates project that over a 50-year time horizon, most of the planet’s arable land would have to be used to feed the world and for forest conservation.
Other dangerous possibilities – such as an effort to regulate data ownership, access, and usability – lie on the
horizon.
If one treats so-called “hacktivism” by ideological groups as mostly a disruptive nuisance at this stage, there remain four major categories of cyber threats to national security, each with a different time horizon: cyber war and economic espionage are largely associated with states, and cyber crime and cyber terrorism are mostly associated with non-state actors.
No candidate on the
horizon
seems able to stop her.
The reformers believe that such reforms are the only way for Saudi Arabia to survive the threat of violence, instability, and national fragmentation that is looming on its
horizon.
As we confront the warnings of Chemobyl and Yalta, it is time to seek that which transcends the
horizon
of mere rational or scientific thought and the limits of the illusory pretensions of Chernobyl's social engineers and Yalta's geopolitical strategists.
With no end in sight to a war with thousands of civilian victims, and democracy far from the horizon, nobody could have foreseen how Nepal’s people would express their demand for peace and change.
In other words, with trade conflicts escalating, international interest rates climbing, and US-led safety nets weakening, a perfect storm is gathering on Latin America’s economic
horizon.
But their
horizon
of reform is similarly confined to the banking sector, and they rarely ask what caused the banks to behave so badly.
Deficits have to fall within a time
horizon
of 5-10 years.
While such decisions must not ignore longer-term developments, the time
horizon
for inflation forecasts is usually only one to two years, beyond it gets highly uncertain.
There is no white knight on the
horizon
to save the day.
That shift is on the horizon, and I am inspired by the women and men who are calling on future generations to work together more equitably.
Making Old Age Less SafeIt is almost an optical illusion: looming on Japan’s horizon, and on Europe’s and on America’s, is a pensions crisis.
He was a true patriot, in the old-fashioned sense of the word: proud of his people, but never ethno-centric; a man of the world, but deeply embedded in Jewish cultural heritage; focused on the plights and tribulations of the Jewish people, but never losing the universal
horizon
of mankind.
True, no rebel troops are yet besieging Harare, no US warship with 2000 marines hovers on the horizon, and President George W. Bush has not demanded that President Robert Mugabe step down after 23 years in office.
The recent deadly violence in Gaza is only the latest proof that people living under occupation and siege need a political horizon, and not simply a cease-fire: the case for an independent state of Palestine has never been so compelling as it is today.
In 1994, when I became State Secretary for Financial Affairs in Sweden’s Ministry of Finance, recovery appeared to be on the horizon, following the abolition of the fixed exchange rate, the ensuing sharp depreciation of the Krona, and lower interest rates.
In particular, regulators have no chance to look over the
horizon
and act preventively when markets are opaque, and when powerful Wall Street interests (and their Capitol Hill allies) can circle the wagons and claim that there is no problem.
The economy is growing at a double-digit rate, and the 2014 Soccer World Cup and 2016 Olympics are on the
horizon.
On the
horizon
in two directions, spaced at around four kilometers, were the mobile towers to connect the new school with the world.
Truly effective global governance is the strategic
horizon
that humanity must pursue today with all its energy.
It seems to me that I have usually been right, judged at a two- to three-year
horizon.
To be sure, the United States has not experienced any major catastrophes, even though massive policy mistakes always seem to be looming on the
horizon.
In the US, by contrast, members of the House of Representatives face an election every two years, forcing even the president and senators – who serve four- and six-year terms, respectively – to operate, to some extent, on a two-year time
horizon.
And change was on the
horizon
in apartheid South Africa and Namibia, following the release in 1990 of Nelson Mandela, after 27 years in prison.
While the
horizon
of opportunities widened for educated cosmopolitans in big cities, the bonds between citizens weakened as national social contracts were dismantled.
The purpose of the European fiscal framework is to lengthen the time
horizon
of policy and to make decision-makers more aware of the debt-sustainability challenges that they face.
Yet volatility in the assessment of potential growth prevents politicians from “owning” the already abstruse structural deficit and causes volatility in the policies based on this assessment, paradoxically resulting in a shortening of decision-makers’ time
horizon.
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