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The Return of BacheletSANTIAGO – Michelle Bachelet’s landslide victory in Chile’s recent presidential election represents a mandate that many political leaders could only envy.
In recent years, social movements have demanded that the state play a stronger role in redistribution, and Bachelet’s mandate will be to reduce inequality.
In Europe, Germany is obviously the indispensable nation, yet it lacks not only a clear mandate to lead, but also a clear sense of what the European Union should look like after the great projects of peace, the common market, and enlargement are more or less completed.
With all this trouble, the ECB is showing itself to be an “anchor of stability” by steadfastly sticking to its mandate of insuring price stability.
James Wolfensohn, the Bank’s previous president, and I are widely credited with putting corruption on the Bank’s agenda, against opponents who regarded corruption as a political issue, not an economic one, and thus outside the Bank’s mandate.
The most strident criticism, however, comes from those who worry that the World Bank is straying from its mandate.
Prior to September 11 th , it could not make much headway in implementing its ideology because it lacked a clear mandate and defined enemy.
By declaring war on terrorism, President Bush gained the domestic mandate he lacked.
In view of the Fed’s decidedly mixed track record since the Dodd-Frank reforms, some officials evidently regarded that default by Congress as a mandate to conduct business as usual.
Monetary hawks – the Bundesbank and several other core central banks – who were worried about a new open-ended ECB mandate pushed successfully for strict and effective conditionality for countries benefiting from the bond purchases.
Of course, even in the face of weak and declining economic performance, there may be an upper limit to the support that populist parties can muster – a level that falls short of a governing mandate.
The president’s mandate was outlined by a constitutional declaration in March 2011, but the SCAF has said that a more detailed one would be forthcoming after the election.
At the polls, my countrymen conferred a solemn mandate on me to make democracy the means for eliminating corruption and alleviating poverty.
Nonetheless, Spaniards recognize that they have not had it so good for a long time, and recently returned Prime Minister José Maria Aznar to office with both a parliamentary majority no longer dependent on coalition partners and a mandate to modernize Spain even more.
A rule of thumb is that a minimum wage that is above 55% of the median wage will impede job creation (and economic growth);Puerto Rico’s minimum wage is 77% of the median, owing to the federal mandate.
The BRICS’ proposed New Development Bank presents an important opportunity to reflect these changes, with modern financial instruments, strong governance, and a broad-based mandate.
Security Council consensus about when and how to apply R2P, so evident in February and March 2011, has evaporated in a welter of recrimination about how the NATO-led implementation of the Council’s Libya mandate “to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack” was carried out.
The Kremlin continues its propaganda offensive against Georgia, and has vetoed prolonging the mandate for United Nations observers in Georgia and Abkhazia.
Though the Global Partnership for Education and other organizations want to do more, their mandate does not permit them to provide assistance to middle-income countries like Lebanon.
Do Markets Now Love The Left?LONDON: It is often said that the power of global financial markets far exceeds the mandate of any government.
Therefore, it's a pity that the German voters refused to endow the new Berlin government with a clear mandate to start fighting against the army of domestic veto powers.
But the constitution established by General Charles de Gaulle is strong, and Sarkozy will keep his position until the end of his mandate in 2012.
For starters, like Bush, Trump did not win the popular vote, but may nonetheless assume that he has a mandate for sweeping change.
Those driving that process were aiming to fulfill a perceived mandate for “science-based social intervention.”
For this, it needs a clear mandate from member countries, as well as new instruments for financial and technical assistance that are geared toward the provision of development-relevant global public goods.
They safeguard them, and should not diminish those liberties without an explicit mandate.
Their mandate is to maintain price and financial stability, as well as maximum employment.
At the same time, France has given a strong mandate to its new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, who is without question the most formidable political adversary the ECB has had to face in its brief history.
Central bankers in Europe have always resented the narrow monetary-policy mandate given to the ECB under the Maastricht Treaty.
In a post-crisis environment of aggressive and unconventional monetary policy in other advanced countries, the ECB’s less aggressive policies (owing to its more restrictive mandate) have resulted in an exchange rate that has damaged competitiveness and the growth potential of many eurozone economies’ tradable sectors.
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