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The latter is where the likes of Kudrin come in.
Of course, the latter requires delivering the former; but it also means going beyond statistics, to comprehend that we are all individuals with our own hopes, fears, and aspirations.
But there is one critical caveat: Regulators’ core organizational objectives must have priority over soft, culture-related goals, with the latter supporting – not displacing – the former.
If managers did not produce suitably high rewards for shareholders, the latter could vote for change, which they have.
Or they could be the ones who hold up a mirror to those in authority, making sure that the latter serve a good cause, and that they do not begin to use fine words as a cloak for evil deeds, as happened to so many intellectuals in politics in past centuries.
The major problem with the new credit line is that it runs the risk of unduly dividing developing countries into two categories, with significant additional risks for the latter.
A rapid rebalancing of global growth by reducing financial imbalances between OECD economies and their emerging-market creditors is risky, because it would cause a major recession for the former – and then for the latter.
Policies designed for one fault line are not necessarily appropriate for the latter.
Economists would typically argue that the way to balance a country’s external accounts is through a fall in its currency, which would make imports more expensive and exports cheaper, causing the former to fall and the latter to rise.
Indeed, the latter now stand at more than 15% of GDP.
The latter seems the dominant motive.
The latter clearly falls within the EU’s competence.
Politics and culture don’t work on the same level: the former governs action, the latter influences mentalities; the former deals with emergencies, the latter can require generations to produce any result.
The former runs the risk of developing a new bureaucracy, but the latter may forego continuity.
There is strong evidence that economies perform better with a tight labor market and, as the International Monetary Fund has shown, lower inequality (and the former typically leads to the latter).
Diversity must be a source of richness, not antagonism, and countries that favor the latter must be excluded.
A supposed advantage of inflation targeting over targeting a particular level in the money supply is that the latter is not very transparent (the public, in general, does not pay attention to various monetary aggregates).
Unfortunately, policymakers focused on the former, and blithely hoped that structural reforms would resolve the latter.
But history has shown that the latter may have the stronger pull.
The latter are regaining confidence in the political process, following the recent appointment of a no-nonsense academic as head of the election commission.
The challenge today is to learn from the past, in order to embrace the former and avert the latter.
The latter is a political issue, and Russian society is not yet ready to discuss it.
One might expect that the former would have diffused more than the latter, just because of the time advantage.
At the same time, we often overlook the health benefits of spending money in ways that have nothing to do with the direct delivery of medical care: education and health, for example, are strongly correlated: the higher the former the better the latter.
In countries which allow for the former, it is probably a good idea to ban the latter.
Of the two scenarios, the most compelling evidence indicates the latter for China.
The successes of the former have been nullified by the drag exerted by the latter.
But later, over drinks, they would ask whether America would shift its focus from Japan to China as the latter grew in strength.
Destroying the latter could damage lives and property; interference with the former threatens deeply held political values.
But the latter takes time and energy, and can lead to a backlash.
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