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In this kind of politics, rulers are insulated from democratic accountability by a panoply of restraints that
limit
the range of policies they can deliver.
Still, it is possible to discern some similarities between them, in part because some of their disagreements are not as pronounced as they seem, and in part because the constraints that the next president of the United States will face are certain to
limit
what either man could do in office.
This $1.90 threshold for extreme poverty is a really tight limit: it is not what a wealthy tourist could buy in a low-cost, developing country.
He is always ready to serve the interests of the rich and powerful, with no line in the sand, no
limit
to “compromise.”
But those campaigning for Brexit overlook the fact that Europe has become a truly open free market, something that the UK has always wanted, and that the UK was one of the few EU member states not to
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the entry of workers after the EU’s eastward expansion of 2004.
The most visible concession he was able to obtain in negotiations with the EU’s other 27 member states is an agreement to
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access to social benefits for citizens residing in a country different from their own.
But fairness cuts both ways: there is no indication that Donald Trump’s appointees to the Board of Governors of the Fed will be careful or
limit
what big banks want to do.
The desire to
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or protect some forms of human activity from the free market may be understandable, particularly in countries like Poland where the free market is still an unknown animal.
Those who try to reconcile the two would
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modernization to the narrowly economic sphere end up combining economic liberalism with old-style social collectivism.
In formulating such policies – whether through legislation, regulatory rule-setting, international agreements, or measures addressing related issues such as tax and trade – the goal should be to
limit
the downsides of technology without stifling innovation.
The protectionist responses are sadly familiar: protests against foreign workers, demands for trade protection, and a financial nationalism that seeks to
limit
the flow of money across national frontiers.
The US resisted what it saw as an effort to
limit
American capabilities, and continues to regard a broad treaty as unverifiable and deceptive.
For example, the 2015 agreement between China and the US to
limit
industrial cyber espionage was a bilateral accord that was later taken up by the G20.
If the Chinese government does use this approach to stimulate the purchase of insurance, it should
limit
the favorable tax treatment to insurance for expensive medical conditions like surgery or the treatment of diabetes.
Today, too many Latin governments, fearful of the media’s ability to expose misdeeds, have altered their tactics but remain determined to
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press freedom.
One is to make all such measures temporary by giving these new laws and regulations "sunset clauses" that
limit
their duration.
To achieve the second goal – making Mexico a place where modern companies thrive – Mexico needs not only to remove obstacles such as restrictive zoning, which
limit
the growth of modern stores; it also must improve the overall business environment and ensure that contracts can be enforced.
Prudent lenders therefore try to
limit
both how much a business can borrow and the other risks it can take.
Now, however, due to the surge in crude oil prices, even Bush has had to begin to consider alternative energy sources, and it won’t be possible to
limit
these to nuclear power or ethanol, which is so popular among farmers, a key Bush constituency.
Instead, it attempted to
limit
verification to that which was already known.
Once students are online, there is no
limit
to what they can do with the vast amount of information available to them or how they will collaborate with and learn from one another.
To minimize that risk, the Troika reserves currently devoted to the Greek bailout should be used to
limit
exchange-rate overshooting; capital controls would help, too.
Looking ahead, the EU should not
limit
itself to reaffirming its commitment to the JCPOA.
International rules bind the US and
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America's freedom of action, but they also serve American interests by binding others to observable rules and norms as well.
That is why it has fought to
limit
the rise in temperature to 1.5 degrees – an ambition that was included, thanks to the forum’s efforts, in the Paris agreement.
In exchange for this, however, Pakistan would have to
limit
the number of tactical nuclear weapons in its arsenal and cease development work on them.
The US believed that shifting Pakistani leaders’ attention from nuclear-weapons development to power-plant construction would, in addition to bolstering efforts to close the energy gap,
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Pakistan’s dependence on China for nuclear technology and reduce the risk of an immensely destructive war in South Asia.
Against this background, the US should have known that trying to compel Pakistan to
limit
its nuclear-weapons capability would fail.
If that fails, Trump could unilaterally intervene to weaken the dollar, or impose capital controls to
limit
dollar-strengthening capital inflows.
The Right Way to Judge Chinese GovernanceHONG KONG – Following China’s “two sessions” – the annual meetings of the national legislature and the top political advisory body – all Western observers, it seems, are discussing the removal of the two-term
limit
for the president.
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