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That experience was marked by the attempt to use a fixed exchange-rate regime as the main policy instrument to control inflation; that attempt’s colossal failure; and the shift, over the last decade, to more flexible regimes, freeing the exchange rate from playing a central role in controlling inflation, but not necessarily allowing a pure float in world currency markets.
One important lesson from Latin America’s journey concerns the futility of relying on the exchange-rate regime as the main stabilization instrument.
The moment the Pakistani establishment genuinely disavows terrorism as an instrument of state policy, the prospect of peace will dawn on the subcontinent.
As a result, only the Fed’s interest-rate instrument, Stein and Tarullo argue, can get into all of the financial system’s cracks.
But if the Fed has only one effective instrument – interest rates – its two goals of economic and financial stability cannot be pursued simultaneously.
But having lost control of their national monetary policies, euro member countries retain only one macroeconomic instrument, fiscal policy.
A key instrument is the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria.
This has been the basic argument behind import-substitution strategies, which use trade barriers as their main policy instrument.
But, after three years of unimaginable carnage, the Kaiser had been reduced to an instrument of a military dictatorship run by Paul von Hindenburg and his chief of staff, Erich Ludendorff.
Staggered alignment of economic and social policies (such as the legal retirement age), new balancing schemes (euro bonds as a transfer instrument), and an effective stability mechanism are all needed to preserve the common currency.
To be sure, democracy has proved to be an extraordinary instrument for transforming an ancient country – one featuring astonishing ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural diversity, myriad social divisions, and deeply entrenched poverty – into a twenty-first-century success story.
Directing credit in order to increase supply of goods need not be inflationary; on the contrary, the increased supply of domestically produced goods may be an effective instrument for combating inflation.
Where the international community can help Argentina is by opening its doors to Argentine goods, taking the rhetoric of free trade seriously and recognizing that trade can be an important instrument not only for long-term growth, but also for economic recovery.
It is a monetary instrument that the central bank must rely on when its policy interest rate has hit the zero lower bound and thus cannot be pushed lower.
At the country level, EU funds – if appropriately employed – are a powerful instrument for growth-enhancing reform.
The commentary’s main points are that it is wrong for the great powers to use the UN as an instrument of regime change in Syria, and it is better for the country’s multi-faceted and highly complex problems to be resolved by political means and internal negotiations.
He will not calculate the possible consequences of his or her purchase on the labor market, on the social system, and he shouldn't because markets would not function as an instrument to manage the complexity of a highly sophisticated economy if criteria such as these would enter market decisionmaking.
Education is also a vital instrument for combating violent extremism, which can capture the minds of young people with no hope for the future.
Europe is generally considered more a constraint than as a plan, more as an instrument than a vision nourished by a clear and credible idea.
QE is a legitimate monetary-policy instrument, but the Fed and the Bank of England would probably not embrace it with such enthusiasm were it not for the anticipated exchange-rate depreciation.
In Xi's hands, the law is an instrument for securing his political objectives.
The challenge for Europe is to use English as such an instrument, while avoiding submersion in American and British culture.
In an increasingly water-stressed world, shared water resources are becoming an instrument of power, fostering competition within and between countries.
Bank regulators had long insisted that the safest possible financial instrument was a bond issued by a rich industrial country.
In fact, ITER is a big instrument for fundamental research, so its €500 million Euros annual cost needs to be compared with similar scientific initiatives, such as the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), which costs one billion Swiss francs per year.
Just when the world reached a consensus that Ahmadinejad was merely an instrument of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, Ahmadinejad appointed a Vice-President against Khamenei’s wishes (though he later retracted the appointment).
The Hague Tribunal: Belgrade's ViewBELGRADE: Opinion polls in Serbia show that large majorities believe the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia to be a political instrument to bash Serbs.
When Nazi Germany invaded the western Soviet Union, the Germans kept the collective farms intact, rightly seeing them as the instrument that would allow them to divert Ukrainian food for their own purposes, and starve whom they wished.
In the past, tariffs have not been countries’ chosen instrument for pressuring others.
This sequencing and reckless use of the tariff instrument encourage observers to dismiss even valid concerns as fake news.
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