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The question for China, after 36 years of catching up, is how much longer it can continue to benefit from this process.
Looking back to the four "red-green" years since 1998, one has to conclude that the neocorporatist style of "round-table" agreements between Big Business, Big Labour, and Big Government no longer works.
Consequently, Africa’s rural population has been growing faster and for longer than any other in human history, with a correspondingly rapid and prolonged decline in per-capita endowments of land and other natural resources.
How much longer can we ignore the fact that, in raising the bogeyman of “Chechen terrorism,” the Russian government is suppressing the liberties gained when the Soviet empire collapsed?
In the short term, they are a public assertion of women’s autonomy; after so much propaganda and brutality, many in the region no longer thought such behavior was possible.
In the longer term, Fatima recommends that the international community consider adopting a comprehensive legal instrument and civil accountability mechanism for the protection of children in armed conflict.
The formula could run as follows: a comprehensive agreement about the final status now (taking into account all open questions, including East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine); implementation of the agreement in pre-defined steps over a longer period of time; and monitoring of the process via a mechanism based on the presence on the ground of a third party (led by the US).This would give Palestinians a guarantee of their state’s borders, its capital, and the Israeli occupation’s pre-defined endpoint.
A London-centric approach is no longer of benefit even to London, which struggles with congestion, economic overheating, and a housing crisis.
Longer maturities leave more time for adjustment, lowering the risk of a confidence shock.
Egyptian researchers have shown that by transferring a single gene from barley to wheat, the plants can tolerate reduced watering for a longer period of time.
The weaker countries accept the need for reforms, but favor a longer time horizon for fiscal-deficit reduction in order to encourage a return to growth.
Eurobonds, viable in the longer term, are thus premature, because they imply a relaxation of conditionality, thereby weakening incentives to implement reforms.
Substantial international research shows that the longer one is unemployed, the harder it is to get a job.
In the longer term, countries should aim to match participation rates in conventional first-aid courses.
With deposit insurance, clients who no longer risk losing their money have no incentive to monitor their bank, while banks, with no one watching, have incentives to invest in excessively risky projects.
It will also take longer to validate a PARP inhibitor for use as a prophylactic treatment, because the treatment cannot be proven effective in a short time.
Worse, over the longer term, low investment undermines productivity, while protracted unemployment destroys skills.
For a government such as that now ruling China, one which does not derive legitimacy from the will of the people, the deeply rooted cultural presumption of ordinary people that the cosmic forces of heaven no longer shine on it, could deal a devastating psychological blow.
When embedded in new and unfamiliar settings, our habitual ways of thinking, feeling, and acting no longer function to sustain the moral compass that has guided us reliably in the past.
In the longer run, the challenge is to deal with the JCPOA’s flaws, above all with its sunset provisions.
And, once unemployed, state-sector workers tend to take much longer to find a new job than their private-sector counterparts do.
That analysis suggests that the process might take even longer than that.
Indeed, growth in southern Europe is expected to be close to zero or negative for the next two years, and is not expected to exceed 2-3% even in the longer term.
There is little difference any longer between moderate social democrats and mainstream conservatives.
Fed officials wrung their hands about missing the target and reaffirmed their commitment to a symmetric goal of 2% inflation in the longer run.
And the longer America’s politicians take to resolve the debt-ceiling issue, the greater the risk of an inadvertent accident.
The very fierceness of the financial crash convinced everybody that there was no longer any free money that enterprises had to manage on their own.
The longer that European authorities postpone the introduction of Eurobonds, an effective banking and fiscal union, and lender-of-last-resort status for the ECB, the longer the crisis will last.
As societies around the world prepare for swelling numbers of retirees, the policy challenge will be to ensure the financial sustainability of pension systems while guaranteeing adequate incomes for those no longer working.
In the short term, Nigeria needs to make its schools safer and more secure from terrorist attacks, and a safe-schools plan is being created by the Nigerian authorities to ensure that girls no longer fear going to school in the country’s six northern states.
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