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The lessons learned in the immediate aftermath bear little relationship to the eventual outcome.
There are immediate and obvious answers to the question of who was to blame, but they rarely correspond with the new shape of the financial landscape that ultimately emerges.
For now, education is at the back of the queue in the immediate aftermath of crises, accounting for only 2% of humanitarian aid, the bulk of which is allocated to health, housing, and food.
And they should highlight the social value, rather than only the immediate financial returns, of essential infrastructure.
Whatever long-term benefits such reforms might bring, it is difficult to see how they would provide immediate benefits.
In Brussels, which was semi-deserted and in lockdown, owing to the risk of terrorist attacks, the European Union institutions have yet to devise a unified strategy to manage the influx of migrants and refugees, much less address the instability and violence in the EU’s immediate neighborhood.
As the economics commentator Martin Wolf has noted, “The fiscal challenge is long term, not immediate.”
And yet many policymakers are insisting on immediate action to rectify not only fiscal deficits, but also trade imbalances and banks’ balance-sheet weaknesses.
In the current setting, the exchange market strategy should be: an immediate depreciation of 10% combined with the transition to a BBC regime.
However large or small, whether in a Cairo internet café or a New York office, today's investors demand, and increasingly get, instant information and immediate execution of trades.
Labour, by contrast, argues that immediate spending cuts would wreck the recovery – that the hole in the economy, not the government budget deficit, is the problem needing most attention.
President Pervez Musharraf must take immediate steps – most importantly, the formation of a national unity government – to prevent Pakistan from tearing apart at the seams.
But until the Lebanese state is able to integrate or dominate non-state militias, and until some of the raging confrontations in Lebanon’s immediate environment are calmed, Lebanon is not likely to know real stability.
And past injustices will need to be put aside, so that the cycle of revenge and the automatic reflex in favor of immediate gain do not scuttle regional solutions to problems.
More than 70 years ago, world leaders addressed the unprecedented humanitarian crisis following World War II by creating new institutions to bring immediate assistance to those in need.
The idea for such immediate "partial membership" is not new.
If the Fund attaches tough “German-style” conditions to its loans, it risks provoking immediate confrontation and default.
Through careful design and sequencing, these five measures can help not only to deal with immediate economic and financial problems, but also to create the conditions for higher growth, job creation, and financial stability in the longer term.
Already, most export taxes and currency controls have been scrapped, income taxes have been cut, and the exchange rate has been freed up, allowing for an immediate 30% depreciation of the peso.
The most immediate threat is to the DSM.
Meanwhile, Turkey’s immediate security threats would be exacerbated.
When Mao Zedong took power in 1949, his immediate goal was to re-establish the “greater China” of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), insisting that the Manchu-led empire was the permanent and enduring China.
The more immediate issue for Scots is money.
So we must distinguish between long-term and immediate action.
The immediate challenge is to obtain the most change possible within the existing framework of European institutions and treaties.
Ever since Japan dispatched minesweepers to the Persian Gulf after the Gulf War in 1991, the Self-Defense Forces have been expanding their activities beyond Japan and its immediate vicinity to include international peacekeeping missions, emergency relief operations, multilateral military exercises, and naval refueling support in the Indian Ocean.
While the guidelines simply formalized existing EU policy, they drew immediate criticism, with Netanyahu declaring that they “undermined peace” and “hardened Palestinian positions” during negotiations.
In the immediate future, governments must stop relying so much on central bank policies to restore sustainable growth.
The eurozone’s immediate challenge is declining fiscal stability in a subset of countries whose credit ratings are falling and debt-service costs rising.
The immediate cause of the crisis is clear: a sudden, unexpected, and large-scale reversal of international capital flows into Asia.
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