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Realizing the “one belt, one road” initiative will not be easy.
Governments, the private sector, and civil-society groups in Africa and beyond should support the UN Secretary-General’s initiative, by nurturing the new generation of entrepreneurs and innovators who will bring light to 600 million African citizens whose lives and livelihoods remain benighted.
It is difficult to be optimistic about the success of an initiative built on such flimsy legal foundations, and lacking democratic legitimacy.
One initiative is a high-speed rail line between Belgrade and Budapest, which is meant to connect the Greek port of Piraeus with Central Europe.
Obama’s announcement received a decidedly unsympathetic reception from Europeans, who perceived his initiative as a unilateral move that would undermine international coordination of financial regulation.
Paul Romer, a former Stanford University economist best known for his Charter City initiative, has a scheme for building new cities from scratch – and using competition to spread the benefits to old cities over time.
APEC, an Australian diplomatic initiative launched 25 years ago, was originally conceived as an exclusively economic forum.
The initiative for the Brady Plan did not come from the official sector at all.
In the United Kingdom, for example, the Help to Buy initiative has subsidized home purchases with down payments of only 5%.
More recently, the authorities launched an open-data initiative, making vast amounts of government data easily accessible.
This is a laudable initiative, and concerned Muslims and non-Muslims alike should be encouraged to help.
According to the five European companies involved in the project (each with a 10% stake), their partnership with Russia’s Gazprom (which owns the remaining 50%) is simply a commercial business initiative.
On the initiative of Lucio Gutierrez, Indians and a contingent of mid-level army officers took control of the presidential palace and announced a short-lived ruling triumvirate that included then CONAIE president Antonio Vargas.
The suspicions which surround Abdullah’s peace initiative, and which dismiss it as stillborn, are founded in the belief that it was conceived to appease Saudi Arabia’s American critics and to divert them from focussing on Saudi domestic tensions.
Crown Prince Abdullah’s initiative provoked widespread surprise, not because the idea is so startlingly new, but because of its source and timing.
America’s seemingly hostile attention gave rise to the speculation that Crown Prince Abdullah’s initiative really denotes a Saudi public relations counteroffensive, hatched in the Saudi embassy in Washington to cover over the rift with the US.
To the average Saudi, the initiative appears as either a sell-out or the prelude to a fresh Arab humiliation.
Egypt’s leaders deem the proposal a mere conversation, something not nearly as serious as a written diplomatic initiative.
Hizbollah’s leader Mohammed Fadlallah defined the initiative as one of Arab submission, while Syria demanded a guarantee of its interests in the Golan Heights.
Crown Prince Abdullah’s initiative is meant to be made official during a speech at the Arab League summit in Beirut of 27-28 March.
This time, the initiative came from Singh, who invited his Pakistani counterpart, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, to visit Mohali, near New Delhi, to watch the two countries play the semi-final in the Cricket World Cup.
As Xi put it on his recent visit to Cairo: “Instead of looking for a proxy in the Middle East, we promote peace talks; instead of seeking any sphere of influence, we call on all parties to join the circle of friends for the Belt and Road initiative.”
China’s determination to reestablish the ancient Silk Roads – including the overland route that runs through the Middle East – has led it to enter into strategic partnerships with eight Arab countries in recent years, and to sign agreements with six Arab countries to pursue the initiative jointly.
But China is not waiting for the One Belt, One Road initiative to be completed before pursuing increased trade with Middle Eastern countries.
To help fill these critical gaps, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has created a three-year, $80 million initiative to generate more reliable data that can improve the design and targeting of programs and policy interventions.
The foundation is also supporting Equal Measures 2030, an initiative to empower advocates and civil-society groups with easy-to-use evidence to assess progress toward targets and keep the SDGs for women and girls on track.
Unless it somehow manages to deliver tangible economic benefits anyway, the EaEU seems destined to become another failed institutional initiative, like the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Russian-Belarusian Union State, or the Central Asian Union.
The Education Cannot Wait initiative is rolling out more programs to address educational needs in crisis and emergency scenarios.
The alliance with MHP will therefore preclude any opening – akin to the peace initiative launched by the AKP government in 2015 – toward Turkey’s Kurds.
As leading Russian military expert Alexander Golts argues, the problem in Russia is not a lack of central power, but of power exercised incompetently and without individual initiative.
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