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By creating a joint venture “free from profit-making incentives and constraints,” the initiative aims to do something remarkable: put patients first.
Based on my research and experience, I would suggest that three key objectives must be assigned top priority if the initiative is to succeed.
A government initiative is something that they seem to regard as an oxymoron.
The Visegrad initiative worked to some extent, though it was temporarily paralyzed by the disintegration of Czechoslovakia just over a decade ago.
This would be much more effective and durable than the Visegrad initiative, which lumps together three small states with a country that has more inhabitants than its three partners put together, plus its own agenda.
The power of that relationship is what the Pisani-Ferry/Enderlein initiative represents – and what could, with sufficient political support, revitalize Europe.
Since 2012, when the humanitarian impact initiative was conceived, most countries have stepped up to support it, owing to their anxiety and frustration at the snail-like pace of disarmament.
That initiative, funded by Novartis, is viewed as a pilot program that could expand to other regional countries.
Rewards for risk taking and initiative are immediate and highly motivating.
My colleagues and I, serving on an advisory committee for the Spanish initiative, have recommended that donors pool their funds into a single international account, which we call the Financial Coordination Mechanism (FCM).
While First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Let’s Move” initiative attempts to curtail sharply the amount of unhealthy fast food that Americans consume, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has launched a campaign to crack down on “super-sized” sodas, Asia is witnessing the opposite trend.
And, though the Russian diplomatic initiative (based on a joint proposal with Iran) averted this disaster, everything has its price.
In reality, it is in the Union’s interest to take the initiative and to engage Russia in a dialogue over the institutional foundations of what has become a shaken European order.
Most far-reaching is China’s “one belt, one road” initiative, which aims to recreate the ancient maritime and overland Silk Roads, connecting China to the rest of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.
All successful economies are built on thrift, hard work, and individual initiative.
Undoubtedly, most of the credit belongs to the initiative and hard work Chinese entrepreneurs and laborers.
The Mission Innovation initiative, announced in Paris, which commits 20 major countries to doubling clean-energy R&D, is a vital step forward in this respect.
Finally, American forces would conduct diverse follow-on operations, such as “distant blockades,” in order to seize the operational initiative and ensure protracted US freedom of action in the region.
This led to the Olympic initiative whereby Kim’s sister, Kim Yo-jong, attended the Winter Games in Pyeongchang, and the two countries competed as one team.
Political leaders must take the initiative to avert an economically driven social crisis.
With the stakes so high, the Russian-US initiative to organize a peace conference has not only been welcomed, but is seen as an indispensable initiative that must be planned with excruciating care.
Moreover, during the euro’s existential crisis in July 2012, Merkel supported European Central Bank President Mario Draghi’s initiative to create an “outright monetary transactions” mechanism, whereby the ECB could purchase the bonds of struggling eurozone countries.
Given the Kim regime’s past negotiating tactics, Obama is understandably reluctant to launch any new diplomatic initiative and may well believe that negotiating with North Korea would provide his domestic political opponents with ammunition to ruin his Iran deal.
And it has plowed forward with its Belt and Road initiative, a thinly veiled challenge to America’s global primacy.
One such initiative is the Africa Programme on Accelerated Improvement of Civil Registration and Vital Statistics, which was formally launched in 2011.
They have the initiative as much as Macron does.
Far more damaging is the simple fact that when a closed group monopolizes much of society's power and wealth, initiative and enterprise are stifled in the wider population.
On one hand, capitalism offers the best safeguard of individual freedom, choice, and entrepreneurial initiative.
The US with Iran in SyriaPRINCETON – The prospect of a US military strike on Syria has dimmed following President Barack Obama’s embrace of an international initiative to take control of Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpile.
This initiative would allow Obama to escape from a messy political and foreign-policy predicament.
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