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Ironically, it is these measures, which have helped offset some of the negative effects of free trade, that Trump has condemned in his pursuit of policies that will do little to protect workers.
Which measures can ensure the EU’s global competitiveness?
In the short run, the economy needs confidence-boosting measures to stabilize financial markets.
If green measures are used to shortcut the political process, we can actually end up worse off, because countries will be deprived of jobs, wealth, and welfare, while relatively small environmental benefits will be achieved.
In general, green accounting may end up being more biased than conventional GDP measures.
All of this leaves future societies amazingly richer – but would be missed in green GDP measures.
This provision will offer some buffer –specifically, for Canada – against anti-dumping duties and other protectionist measures.
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton – Sanders’s opponent for the Democratic nomination – recognizes the need to place a high priority on regulating non-banks, and she has proposed specific measures to do so.
To get the details of financial regulation right, the US needs leaders with the wisdom, experience, and perseverance to identify the right measures, push for their enactment, and then implement them effectively.
Although the US does well on the traditional measures of power, those measures increasingly fail to capture much of what defines world politics, which, owing to the information revolution and globalization, is changing in a way that prevents Americans from achieving all their international goals by acting alone.
In March, Turkey and the European Union agreed on an ambitious package of measures designed to stem the flow of refugees to Europe.
They all agreed to encourage other countries to ratify and implement the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), which will make it harder for dishonest fishing operations to operate.
The EU’s regulations are perhaps the strongest suite of measures to stop illicitly caught fish from entering the market.
Although Bernanke is right to view a soft landing as the most likely outcome, common sense would suggest agreing on some prophylactic measures, even if this means that the US, China, and other large contributors to the global imbalances have to swallow some bitter medicine.
The G-8 could end the suffering of the world's poorest billion people if it adopted realistic measures to solve their problems.
Inequality has fallen by other measures as well.
These and other measures are meant to make the Netherlands a hostile place for Muslims.
The weakening of the euro and the ECB’s aggressive measures may even stop the deflationary pressure later this year.
And, while structural reforms are necessary, some measures – for example, labor-market liberalization and pension overhauls – may boost the eurozone’s savings rate and thus weaken aggregate demand further (as occurred in Germany following its structural reforms a decade ago).
A predictable funding problem was left unresolved until the moment when creditors would be least likely to present a united front, and most likely to give in to pressure to undertake crisis-management measures.
A combination of measures and international agreements must be found that would allow taxpayers to obtain decent returns on their investments, without removing the incentives for savvy entrepreneurs to commercialize innovative products.
Instead, targeted economic sanctions and calibrated military measures should be coupled with intensive and open political dialogue.
An unknown attacker may also be deterred by cyber-security measures.
But the US has argued that arms-control measures banning offensive capabilities could weaken defenses against attacks and would be impossible to verify or enforce.
Companies and investors are hedging their bets by taking a few resource-efficiency measures and investing in some low-carbon assets, but leaving their high-carbon portfolios and activities largely intact.
Moreover, in a repressive climate, drug users who avoid arrest are more likely to face increased discrimination, reducing their motivation to take measures to protect their own health and the health of those around them.
But, since the global financial crisis, the need to revive and sustain economic growth in the US, the United Kingdom, and Japan – and to avoid financial collapse in the eurozone – has prompted major central banks to be more outspoken and pursue more aggressive monetary policies, including unconventional measures like quantitative easing (QE).
The BoE and the ECB have since adopted similar measures.
Unconventional measures are part of a broader transformation of monetary policymaking.
Arguably, Japan is an exceptional case, with the constraint of the zero bound on nominal interest rates demanding, at long last, a deviation from conventional measures.
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