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Regulators and governments view the main purpose of financial stress tests as being to persuade some institutions of the urgent need to
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their capital ratios.
Instead, the easiest way to
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capital ratios is to cut lending.
The new analyses from India Consensus follow the Copenhagen Consensus approach of studying costs and benefits, used previously to
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priorities for billions of dollars in spending in Haiti and Bangladesh, and to help sharpen the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
Diarrhea is a major killer of young children, and counseling mothers to
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breastfeeding, food preparation, and hand-washing can cost less than $20 per mother reached, transforming babies’ entire life trajectories and promising higher productivity and greater prosperity.
The ambition was to
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significantly the lot of the planet’s most disadvantaged citizens before 2015.
The MDGs comprised eight sweeping statements of ambition: the world decided to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; achieve universal primary education; promote gender equality and empower women; reduce child mortality rates;
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maternal health; combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases; ensure environmental sustainability; and develop a global partnership for development.
Why aspire to
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access to information technology (the Internet, mobile phones) but not to basic energy?
To attract it, the government must
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transparency, simplify rules and regulations, introduce performance bonds (to guarantee the completion of projects), and abolish the cap on return on investment.
To mark the tenth anniversary of Buffett’s pledge, Bill and Melinda Gates recently reported to him on what the foundation, together with other organizations, achieved to
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global health over that decade.
Perhaps the biggest contribution that the Gates Foundation made to that decline was pledging $750 million to establish the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (now known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance), a public-private initiative that works with governments and United Nations agencies to
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the rate of vaccination in poor countries and foster the development of new vaccines.
A final element of our involvement in the Asia-Pacific region is the effort to
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our capabilities in difficult tactical environments.
For example, the surveillance centers will generate the data needed to tackle infectious diseases, provide early warning of epidemics, and generally
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global health.
A dedicated entity delivering long-term economic support is vital to
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the lot of some of the world’s most disadvantaged people.
Another factor working against RMB depreciation is that deterioration in China’s balance of payments may not
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China's international competitiveness.
Depreciation, moreover, may also not
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the competitiveness of Chinese goods either, as up to 40% of China’s exports nowadays are from manufacturing industries using imported parts and materials.
Over the next few years, US producers are likely to retrench, focus on sweet spots,
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technology, reduce costs, and increase production once again.
That means investing in infrastructure (including digital) and education, enforcing land registration and property rights, and supporting research to preserve scarce resources, combat climate change, and
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sustainability and resilience to shocks.
Many governments try to
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farmers’ incomes by setting high prices domestically and erecting trade barriers to keep out imports.
Moreover, we need to
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market access, and convince countries to commit to a stronger enforcement regime for export-competition issues and export restrictions.
But tax revenues in most developing countries are low, impeding progress toward more balanced, inclusive, and sustainable economic development that can
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public health and raise standards of living.
Governments should also work to
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tax compliance and reduce evasion, which requires limiting tax officials’ discretionary authority.
At a financing conference for the Global Partnership for Education in February, developing countries vowed to increase spending on education by $110 billion, and wealthy donors pledged an additional $2.3 billion to
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school systems in poor countries.
It is time to address mobility as a whole, and in all forms, regardless of whether people are moving for reasons beyond their control, such as a natural disaster, or in pursuit of opportunities to
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their lives.
By working together toward a coherent solution, we can significantly
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the global governance of human mobility.
Addressing the challenges facing Ukraine will require policymakers inside and outside of the country to work together to stabilize the country’s economy, protect its territory, and create space for reforms, while seeking to
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cooperation with its powerful eastern neighbor.
The economic data are almost uniformly bleak and will not
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soon, and, while national security issues appear less pressing because of the financial crisis, they have hardly disappeared, given the tenuous situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan and the unresolved problems in Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
In fact, elites everywhere have always lived by this injunction, and ordinary people have not minded very much, provided that the elites fulfill their part of the bargain: protect the country against its enemies and
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living conditions.
Governments will have to intervene to set these standards, as they did during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to
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abysmal conditions in factories.
It is also crucial that they continue to
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their systems to create an enabling environment for dynamic rural growth to transform subsistence farmers into entrepreneurs.
It will, however, demand that the Afghan government deal effectively with corruption,
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governance, and make better use of the resources it receives from the international community.
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