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Duty hikes are problematic not just because they can be imposed on questionable grounds; they also tend to trigger domino effects, because other countries – many of which have much practice using and abusing these instruments – will adopt similar measures.
Many official instruments of soft power – public diplomacy, broadcasting, exchange programs, development assistance, disaster relief, military to military contacts – are scattered around the government, and there is no overarching strategypolicy, much less ora common budget, that even tries to integrate combine them with hard power into a national coherent security strategy.
Finally, with remittances exceeding $400 billion annually, there is scope to develop financial instruments that would facilitate diaspora communities’ investment in development projects.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights marks UN documents, hundreds of international treaties, and constitutional instruments in individual nations.
Either risk-sharing instruments are unnecessary, or they can be deployed only under conditions in which they would undermine eurozone stability.
Second, public- and private-sector decision-makers now have a multitude of instruments available for better assessing the social and environmental ramifications of their actions.
But after 1945, new international legal instruments were forged to eliminate statelessness.
But it is also contemplating other macro-prudential instruments, such as a kind of Tobin tax, the levy on financial transactions first suggested in 1972 by the Nobel laureate economist James Tobin, in order to discourage volatile capital flows.
Simply put, children in Iraq have been reduced from human beings worthy of care to tools of production and instruments of violence.
The degree of interdependence that the euro has created calls for proportionate instruments to manage common public goods.
The same is true for a variety of once-risky fixed-income instruments – from high-yield corporate “junk” bonds to sovereign debt in crisis-torn Europe.
Hedging instruments such as so-called catastrophe bonds can help insure against the increasing risk posed by natural disasters.
Other financial instruments, such as “green” stock indices and “green” bonds, can help reallocate investment to sectors that support environmentally sustainable growth.
Moreover, disenchantment with the sophisticated instruments that American financial institutions specialize in originating and distributing means more limited foreign capital flows into the United States.
A third answer is that policy instruments are simply ineffective in today’s conditions.
Claims that our leadership, institutions, analyses, or policy instruments are inadequate to the task at hand surely contain a kernel of truth.
Lenders to defaulting countries were also punished, as their instruments (mostly bonds) became worthless.
But it is hard to imagine that the mass media (other than quality newspapers) would, of their own volition, become instruments of an education that enhances citizens’ critical capacities.
Our approach is an adaptation of America’s longstanding “engage but hedge” strategy, through which the US and its allies have used economic, diplomatic, and sometimes military instruments to give China incentives to rise peacefully, while maintaining robust military capabilities in case engagement proves unsuccessful.
Soft-power instruments like the Marshall Plan and the Voice of America helped to determine the outcome of the Cold War.
Mathematical whiz kids developed new financial instruments, which, by promising to rob debt of its sting, broke down the barriers of prudence and self-restraint.
Future events could now be decomposed into calculable risks, and strategies and instruments could be developed to satisfy the full range of “risk preferences.”
In several African countries, there are impressive legal instruments in terms of independent court systems; but the challenge consists in impartial implementation.
It is absurd that the EU now has instruments to enforce everything from competition policy to policing, but not to protect its core liberal-democratic tenets.
When traditional market mechanisms fail, instruments such as “transferable market exclusivities” can help, by allowing drug makers to transfer an antimicrobial medicine’s intellectual-property benefits to another drug.
The qualitative parallels are obvious: banks using off-balance loans to finance highly risky ventures, exotic new financial instruments, and excessive exuberance over the promise of new markets.
For example, Western leaders concerned about climate change must understand that economic instruments like emissions trading are not a panacea.
The package stands out for its tangle of instruments – and thus the risk of counterproductive, overlapping regulation, which will substantially increase costs compared to an effective climate policy.
Whether it does depends heavily on whether important instruments that support equality of opportunity, principally education and health care, are universally accessible.
But Germany also swamped world’s markets with mass consumption goods: cheaper musical instruments than the traditional makers in France or Italy could produce, and lithographic prints used for Christmas cards and seaside postcards.
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