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I have no doubt that all countries around the Baltic Sea stand ready to support such an initiative politically as well as financially.
Currently, Israel emphasizes massive deterrence, but it would be well advised to utilize the political and diplomatic possibilities presented by this war and take the initiative from a position of strength to offer a comprehensive peace to all those who are ready to recognize its existence and permanently renounce violence, not just in word, but also in deed.
Although the African Development Bank (AfDB) hopes to create 25 million new jobs within a decade through its Jobs for Youth in Africa initiative, it is not immediately clear where those opportunities will come from.
This challenge was the focus of my research as part of the Youth Think Tank, a youth-led research initiative in partnership with Restless Development Uganda and the Mastercard Foundation.
The US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership, for example, is directed against China; and China’s New Silk Road initiative is a reaction to its exclusion from the 12-country TPP.
European officialdom is now responding to these deficits with an initiative to reform and democratize the European Commission.
Moreover, the economy was opened, state enterprises were privatized, and the country participated in an important regional free-trade initiative.
Each of these efforts started as a country-led initiative, born of particular challenges and designed to meet the specific needs of the local population.
(Indeed, Karzai has reportedly already met with Taliban representatives for secret talks aimed at restarting the stalled peace initiative.)
In Lebanon, for example, the central bank has launched an unprecedented startup support initiative, Circular 331, through which it guarantees up to 75% of risk capital made available by local banks, amounting to up to 3% of their assets.
What the eurozone needs now isn’t a repetition of Maastricht, but a kind of Schmidt/Giscard 2.0.This kind of initiative requires the support of Germany and France, because the crisis cannot be resolved without them.
On the other hand, taking this historic initiative would, relative to fainthearted tactical maneuvering, substantially increase politicians’ chances of re-election later.
Philosopher Kings Versus Philosopher PresidentsLONDON – When I recently met Irish President Michael Higgins – sharing a platform for a speech in which he connected his newly launched “ethics initiative” to a book I co-wrote with my son, How Much is Enough?
Yet, without US support, the initiative was overwhelmingly endorsed in late July by the UN's Economic and Social Council.
Known as the “Barcelona process,” this initiative proved weak and ineffective, because much of its funding was diverted to Eastern Europe for the EU’s ambitious enlargement drive.
Her style since arriving in Brussels as the EU’s foreign-policy chief has been distinctly unassuming, but that does not mean that she cannot now show her mettle and seize the initiative.
Beyond its own specific objectives, the initiative can help to catalyze a broader transformation of the Dutch tech culture.
Revival of trade credit is also urgent - its importance was recognized early on during East Asia's crisis, where Japan, in a good neighborly gesture, provided $30 billion dollars through the Miyazawa initiative, much of which went to finance trade credit and help restart the economy.
What we saw on September 5, of course, is that an initiative begun by executive order can be dismantled through a counter-order by the executive’s successor.
A few years later, the process was repeated successfully in the debt-reduction programs for low-income countries under the HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries) initiative.
The next year, an even larger grouping was formed for Live Aid, a major benefit concert and music-based fundraising initiative that continues to this day.
It needs the US to guide it – with ingenuity, initiative, and stamina – in the direction of peace and prosperity.
It is premature to invite Lukashenko to the opening summit of this initiative in Prague on May 7.But, after years of atrophy, EU-Belarus relations finally offer some promise for the future.
Beyond making the banking sector more robust, such an initiative would boost job creation per dollar in bank credit.
China needs to decentralize by opening up the production system to private initiative.
In a short time, money and self-interested initiative would create a boom in employment and activity because China has an immensely entrepreneurial culture.
To help meet this need, we have created the Reaching all Children with Education (RACE) initiative, focused on improving access to formal education for Syrian refugees and underprivileged Lebanese.
In 2002, APEC’s leaders launched the STAR initiative, establishing a “Secure Trade Area in the APEC Region.”
But the most radical indigenous groups rejected the initiative, and the group organizing the coca growers took advantage of the situation, stirring up nationalist sentiments.
This initiative should accompany efforts to restart bilateral military-to-military dialogue between the US and Russia.
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