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Where they did, they and their representatives had no good way to think about how they could benefit from stimulative government policies to moderate economic downturns, and no way to reach the levers of power in any event.
But, unlike in a complete currency union, such as that of the United States, eurozone members retained full financial sovereignty, meaning that they controlled all of the levers of macroeconomic policy.
These food taxes operate one of the most effective behavioral-change levers available to policymakers: price.
Such incentives, in turn, could provide more levers to ensure respect for human rights.
Most, especially in Europe, are professional politicians with no experience apart from working the levers of party machines.
When the Social Democrats were sniffing victory last summer, they went out of their way to assure their foreign counterparts not to worry about Green participation in the new government; no Green would get his hand on the levers of foreign and security policy.
The latter option would, to use Milton Friedman’s phrase, inject additional demand directly “into the income stream,” rather than trying to stimulate the economy through the indirect levers of asset-price and portfolio-balance effects.
With the prospect of agreement on a new foreign policy machinery, it is high time for the Union to forge a common European foreign policy that uses all the levers of Europe’s power to promote its values and interests in the world.
If we are to create a more equitable world, then traditional levers of development such as trade, investment, aid, and migration need to be scaled up comprehensively and coherently, and global institutions must be reformed.
Climate economists widely acknowledge that there are only four policy levers that can be used in an attempt to lower carbon emissions and rein in climate change: reducing the world’s population, shrinking the global economy, increasing the efficiency of energy consumption, and decreasing carbon intensity (meaning that we create less carbon for each unit of energy that we produce).
“The Hartwell Paper,” then, sets out to develop a strategy that identifies a number of ways of pulling the levers of energy efficiency and carbon intensity.
But the opposite conclusion was equally plausible: Given the extent of fragility, a clever twist to the control levers might facilitate a military victory by the economic hegemon.
Despite his apparent grip on most levers of power, Hu lacks the authority of a Deng Xiaoping, and thus must strike a balance among the CCP’s major factions regarding the division of spoils at the top.
In the past several years, more effective means of collective action – such as social media, open publishing platforms, and online video sharing – have given people more levers to pull.
Three levers could be used to reach this goal: adjustment in nominal wages, extension of working time, and a reduction in social-security contributions (compensated for by an increase in value-added tax).
Since assuming his post, Xi has rapidly consolidated all of the main levers of power, elbowing aside his prime minister, the ineffectual Li Keqiang.
Finally, an especially popular explanation is that the rich have captured the levers of power, through campaign donations.
In both cases, South Africa – the main regional power with the most levers of influence over Zimbabwe – has a vital role to play.
The focus, instead, should be on accelerating the process of balance-sheet repair, while at the same time returning monetary and fiscal policy levers to more normal settings.
Such questions stem from a growing fear that Islamist groups might once again make a serious bid to capture the levers of power in the country.
Ultimately, he won back the votes of almost half the electorate, primarily because he appeared as the most credible candidate capable restraining the ex-communists from holding all levers of political power.
Venezuelans and Cubans provide Morales with the levers of his power: communications, bodyguards, military assistance, transportation, and intelligence networks.
Of course, any attempt to bring treasuries and central banks back under one roof would expose politicians to accusations of trying to get their grubby hands on the levers of monetary policy.
Policy levers – both benchmark interest rates and central banks’ balance sheets – remain at their emergency settings, even though the emergency ended long ago.
There are many ways that international institutions can use economic-policy levers to reduce significantly the probability of infectious-disease outbreaks, and to increase vulnerable countries’ resilience to such risks.
These four levers, if used systematically, can reduce the costs of housing for those who need it the most, while creating a better-functioning market that provides more choices for households across income levels.
Instead, the US seems to hope that it can use primarily economic levers to weaken China – a kind of death from a thousand cuts.
None of this is surprising, and little of it can be managed by a new government that lacks experience, market confidence, and full control of the levers of power.
Herein lies the core of the dilemma for the US: it wants Egypt’s basic state apparatus to survive, so that the levers of power do not fall into the wrong hands.
All of these levers – not to mention the tremendous sympathy and support Palestinians have received from international observers – will be essential to ensure that the high price Palestinians paid during the 51-day war was not in vain.
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