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Second, the current situation is highly anomalous, and some exceptional measures are needed to restore normalcy.
Most importantly, some extraordinary measures need to be invented to bring conditions back to normal.
And when the changes give rise to particularly high levels of inequality, redistributive measures are needed.
Though it is extremely difficult to estimate the precise costs and benefits, it is safe to say that such measures are likely to be highly cost-effective.
But (there is always a “but”) if any of these measures are to work, they must be enforced as widely, consistently, and strictly as possible.
Even before attaining EU membership, all candidate countries' governments had to start adopting measures aimed at meeting the Maastricht criteria within several years, because the new members had committed themselves in their accession treaties to adopting the euro.
The most important measures required cutting budget deficits, often at the cost of lowering public expenditures.
Measures to compensate the poorest met with considerable sympathy in EU capitals, and favorable sentiment would have strengthened had Greece started to cut its bloated defense budget (as a leftist government might have been expected to do).
Yet it seems just as clear that the pursuit of extreme measures by any party will surely lead to wider and worse clashes.
The disaster could have been avoided if strict measures had been taken to preserve water bodies and respect environmental imperatives.
As Russia suggests, without popular support, wealth is protected only by increasingly coercive measures.
Even if other countries did agree on measures, the impact would be insufficient without the US and China on board.
Any unilateral measures against North Korea by individual countries must be executed within the broader framework of the new resolution.
Climate experts have long argued that the frequency and magnitude of such events are increasing, and evidence of this should certainly influence precautionary steps – and cause us to review such measures regularly.
The new Basel III banking guidelines, together with new national regulations, aim at creating a more robust financial system by insisting on higher capital-adequacy ratios, less leverage, greater separation between investment and retail banking, a better macro-prudential framework, and measures to prevent financial institutions from becoming “too big to fail.”
In the mid-1980’s, when wild exchange-rate swings produced calls for new trade protection measures, the US and Japan found a solution that involved exchange-rate stabilization.
Among many issues, the referendum she put forward proposes three measures: end automatic tax withholding; end judicial power to reinstate dismissed workers; end automatic withholding of union dues from pay checks.
Second, Trump is assuming that supply-side measures to boost after-tax corporate profits will raise incomes and create jobs.
Five years later, the 2000 Review Conference finally adopted a Final Document , which contained concrete measures, including "13 practical steps" for systematic and progressive efforts to achieve nuclear disarmament.
The power of the market to transform China will not be unleashed in a stagnant economy, where such measures would aggravate deflationary forces and produce a calamity.
But, though necessary, such measures will not resolve the crisis.
In a demand-constrained regime, recent measures to increase labor-market flexibility – and thus facilitate the lowering of wages by employers – will not result in faster growth.
But if issuing more taxi medallions reduces cab drivers’ earnings, while pharmacists succeed in vetoing pro-competition measures to lower the cost of their services, the taxi drivers will end up worse off and the pharmacists will be enriched, which hardly seems fair.
The Trump administration would also have to refrain from pursuing protectionist trade measures that would disrupt the “spaghetti bowl” of cross-border value chains for both producers and consumers.
In such a scenario, the US engine could sputter, causing the entire global economy to suffer, especially if these economic challenges prompt the Trump administration to implement protectionist measures.
Given that GDP does not account for natural and social capital, which often constrain improvement in human well-being, better measures of progress are needed.
It would be more productive for the US to join in, at the same time agreeing with Europeans on measures to be taken should their combined efforts fail.
Human-rights groups criticized some of these measures as violations of civil liberties; but, for the most part, they were applied smoothly.
On November 1, 2017, many of the same state-of-emergency measures, with some adjustments, were codified in law.
It is worrying that European leaders find it so difficult to agree on fiscal adjustment policies that make room for the stimulus measures needed to revive economic growth.
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