Instrument
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Currency undervaluation is currently the Chinese government’s main
instrument
for subsidizing manufacturing and other tradable sectors, and therefore promoting growth through structural change.
To stay ahead, they will use every kind of leverage and
instrument
at their disposal.
In economic terms, growth was an instrument, not a target – the means by which the true targets, like poverty reduction and the social advancement of the masses, would be achieved.
Meanwhile, negotiations over the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), the central-planning
instrument
for the use of EU funds, have broken down, owing to disagreement over key issues, including the size of the budget and the composition of expenditure.
The elections we originally saw as a concession turned out to be an integral
instrument
of our victory.
The second type of
instrument
is emergency funding to deal with unforeseen events, such as natural disasters, market breakdowns, and political instability.
But diaspora bonds will not be a feasible development
instrument
unless they are linked to development projects in places where there is sufficient trust in the government.
With carbon prices as the sole policy instrument, risk assessments of renewables investments would reflect highly uncertain forecasts of fossil fuel and marginal electricity prices far into the future.
There are strong historical grounds for believing that waging aggressive war has simply run its course as an
instrument
of state policy.
The case of Hungary shows that the EU can tweak an existing
instrument
– balance-of-payment support – and use it creatively.
Progress on the big questions – the Kashmir dispute and Pakistan’s use of terrorism as an
instrument
of policy – will require much more groundwork and constructive, gradual action.
But when two countries are genuinely prepared to engage each other, a grand sporting occasion can be a useful
instrument
to signal the change.
A second
instrument
at Trump’s disposal is managed trade, which entails cutting deals directly with companies in order to reduce exports to the US, or to cap their market share.
A third
instrument
is bilateral “grievance” negotiations, whereby the US will compel reciprocity from countries that are seen as piggybacking on American openness.
Adding insult to injury, the $1.1 trillion appropriations bill for federal-government operations agreed last month by the US Congress does not include any money to recapitalize the IMF, the main
instrument
of international monetary cooperation.
Oil embargos turned out to be a blunt
instrument
that hurt many besides the targeted countries.
Democracy may be imperfect, but compared to other arrangements it remains the best
instrument
for adapting to the world with flexibility and efficiency.
In this country, democracy is – so far – a young but realistically working
instrument.
Conceived in 1944 at Bretton Woods primarily as an
instrument
through which a war-torn world’s physical assets were to be rebuilt, the IBRD’s accent was on reconstruction; development was essentially an afterthought, with the first loans going exclusively to Europe.
Communism was obviously an
instrument
of Soviet domination over conquered societies, but it was also a modus vivendi for large parts of these nations under the conditions in which they were obliged to live.
Not many Africans, even among those who are knowledgeable in world affairs, had ever heard of Radio Milles Collines, the most blatant
instrument
of the Rwandan genocide.
Zimbabwe's ongoing economic decline under the misrule of President Robert Mugabe has raised doubts about NEPAD's key innovation, its self-monitoring instrument, the African Peer Review Mechanism.
For the first time in history, there exists a valid global
instrument
that holds up a mirror to the misery of this world: a universal standard with which to compare the actual state of affairs and in whose name we can act to combat injustice.
An
instrument
for it already exists: the new Union for the Mediterranean.
Even the Sheriff Upholds the LawFor some time now America has appeared to be intent on discarding the basic ordering
instrument
of relations between states - international treaties and the institutions that watch over them.
But administrative caps are a blunt
instrument
that introduce new nonlinearities and opportunities for arbitrage and speculation.
On December 16, the Pakistanis signed the
instrument
of surrender in Dacca.
Europe’s potentially most effective
instrument
to help Russian modernization is gradual abolition of the visa regime with Russia.
There is little doubt that the SCO is an
instrument
for Russia and China to make the case for a multi-polar world based on regional security blocs that counterbalance American strategic hegemony.
Finally, there is the Internet’s potential as an
instrument
of political change.
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