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In the longer term, more radical policies – such as the introduction of a negative income tax or a basic income – must be considered, with the goal of providing a guaranteed minimum standard of living regardless of employment status and market wage.
But the UK’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) might not be around for much longer.
The longer we wait to increase R&D funding and strengthen collaboration on treatment, the higher TB’s death toll will climb.
The longer Egypt’s current disarray persists, the more its political elites will lose the battle for the hearts and minds of a population whose basic aspirations are summed up by four well-founded demands: bread, dignity, social justice, and democracy.
The consequence will almost surely be a slower recovery and an even longer delay before unemployment falls to acceptable levels.
Over the longer term, increased food yields could be turned into sustained economic growth.
Second, and simultaneously, donors should help impoverished countries to invest in roads, ports, rural electricity, and diversified production (both agricultural and non-agricultural), in order to promote higher productivity and alternative livelihoods in the longer term.
Flowers are starting to bloom, as the sun shines brighter and longer each day.
At the same time, China’s leaders need to ask themselves how much longer they intend to provide unconditional support to the North Korean regime – which is completely dependent on Chinese supplies – rather than putting pressure on it to cease its provocations.
True, the federal tax code is in dire need of improvement, and last year’s reform, especially the reduction in the corporate tax rate, should boost output in the longer term.
They have come to recognize that powerful interests are blocking the necessary shift to clean energy, and they simply no longer trust that their governments are doing enough to stand up for the future of the planet.
Both countries are seeking to create a longer, more manageable repayment profile for their privately-held debt as they begin weaning themselves from dependence on official “bailout” funds provided by the “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund).
About two thirds of the WTO’s 164 members have declared themselves developing countries – a label that entitles them to S&D provisions, including the authority to maintain trade tariffs for a longer period of time.
China and its partners in the AIIB can thus build the big things – roads, bridges, dams, railroads and ports – that unquestionably power an economy and that citizens notice, but that the US, and for that matter the World Bank, no longer funds.
But, over the longer term, the new US model of development is actually far more resilient and sustainable than the old government-to-government model.
Being left out of the labor market increases the risk of poverty and poor health, and the longer unemployment lasts, the more damaging the effects.
After all, we no longer smoke cigarettes to prevent infections.
Present-day China, even with its imperfect judiciary, can no longer imprison officials purely on political grounds, as was the case under Mao.
In the longer term, Europe faces serious demographic problems, owing to low birth rates and unwillingness to accept mass immigration.
A bigoted chief minister running India’s largest state might well help the ruling party’s short-term electoral prospects, but it could have serious consequences for the country over the longer term.
Though a write-off of eurozone debts would be politically difficult, it would be possible to refinance a large proportion with longer maturity Eurobonds, which all eurozone countries would underwrite.
This commentary is adapted from a longer article appearing in the November/December 2014 issue of Foreign Affairs.
The outcome may not be much different this time around if Western central banks maintain their current monetary policies for much longer.
The real negotiations – which are supposed to take two years, but are likely to take much longer – haven’t even started.
So the authorities’ aim seems clear: put Khodorkovsky and Lebedev away for a much longer time – more than 20 years if they are convicted.
But developing countries’ currencies will undoubtedly become more prominent in the longer term.
Otherwise, they would need to sustain for much longer their unconventional monetary policies, including quantitative easing and negative policy rates – an approach with which most central banks (with the possible exception of the Bank of Japan) are not comfortable.
The real danger is that adjustment would take place even later, with imbalances left to accumulate for a longer period of time.
Sarkozy has adopted a statesmanlike pose, as befits the incumbent, warning voters of the hard grind to come, such as the need to work longer hours for lower hourly pay.
But selling to the French public painful structural change as the price to be paid for “Europe” no longer works.
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