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By bringing about its demise, the Trump administration could severely undermine future multilateral initiatives.
Neither of these initiatives is a game changer as regards the depth of economic integration within the eurozone, but both promise to open a new debate on the structural underpinnings of monetary union.
But a pragmatic version of “America first,” focused on achieving re-election in 2020, is more likely to mean some largely symbolic measures (such as antidumping tariffs on some Chinese steel imports) and abandonment of further trade liberalization initiatives such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
As citizens of the world, our job now is to demand peace through diplomacy, and through global, regional, and national initiatives to address the scourges of poverty, disease, and environmental degradation.
But Valls and Renzi also plan to cut spending to prevent their budget deficits from rising, which means that their initiatives will not boost demand.
Spending $3.9 billion on family planning and maternal health initiatives, such as provision of emergency contraception in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, could avert 1.4 million infant deaths and 142,000 pregnancy-related deaths in women.
Given this, any “southern flank strategy” will need to include initiatives to bolster southern countries’ defenses against state actors, such as expanding the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 in the Mediterranean and accelerating the NATO Response Force’s move toward a more flexible and deterrence-focused posture.
Many actors – including the biggest plastic producers and polluters, zero-waste initiatives, research labs, and waste-picker cooperatives – will have to tackle the problem head-on.
But investors are reluctant to finance long-term projects, let alone cover the incremental costs of green initiatives, which are projected to add at least another 14% to a $100 trillion climate bill by 2030.
After independence, African and Asian countries pursued massive and largely successful initiatives to raise basic education and literacy.
But his main policy initiatives for corporate tax reform and infrastructure spending remain on the drawing board.
Such initiatives are meant to appeal to girls in ways that government programs do not.
The money would be given to developing countries to finance their development programs as well as global public goods like environmental projects, health initiatives, humanitarian assistance, and so on.
Papal initiatives are thus subject to significant cultural and institutional constraints.
It is just one weapon in the fight against malnutrition – the arsenal also includes education and targeted initiatives such as providing supplements to mothers and newborns – but a very important one.
The US would gain much by putting its foreign-policy initiatives to the test of Security Council votes.
I saw this in Brussels two weeks ago, when my new colleagues from the International Rescue Committee and I discussed the crisis in Syria and other Arab countries, humanitarian relief in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Myanmar, and Thailand, and initiatives across Africa.
But there are other important initiatives that countries like Britain and Ireland could argue for together:This agenda is squarely focused on how the EU works, not how it is structured.
This translated into series of positive initiatives towards the aspiring newcomers: the PHARE programme, the EBRD, the association agreements leading to a slow but steady strengthening of the EU's ties with candidate countries.
There are already many important initiatives dedicated to various dimensions of the inclusiveness challenge, which include not just income and wealth inequality, but also automation, artificial intelligence, and the future of work.
Despite their good intentions, it remains to be seen if any of these initiatives will pave the way for effective policy responses.
From this perspective, the proliferation of commissions and other initiatives that are structured around inclusion, which might seem excessive and redundant under less polarized circumstances, is actually very encouraging.
And, while no one can say yet whether the BRICS’ initiatives will succeed, they represent a major challenge to the Bretton Woods institutions, which should respond.
It means, instead, completing key initiatives, most urgently the banking union; improving accountability; and ensuring that the public understands what the EU institutions are doing.
They can generally tell when they are being strung along, and they are tired of empty rhetoric and half-baked initiatives.
As a result, there needs to be far greater support from the international community for promising initiatives.
A Republican presidential victory, together with Republican control of the House and Senate, would likely lead to substantial reduction, repeal, and replacement of many Obama initiatives, attempts to reform taxes and entitlements, and measures to impose greater fiscal discipline.
We have also launched several new initiatives to make education more widely accessible.
To that end, big water bottlers like Nestlé, PepsiCo, and Coca-Cola Company have taken a page out of the playbook of energy behemoths like ExxonMobil, BP, and Shell, by pursuing “green” initiatives.
And in 2015, the authorities’ “Made in China 2025” and “Internet Plus” initiatives signaled a determination to take the country’s manufacturing base into the Internet age.
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