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To combat the downturn, Brazil’s government implemented measures that are now yielding clear dividends.
As a result of these measures, the Brazilian economy is returning to an annual growth rate of around 4%, which should be sustained in 2013.
For example, Singapore is harnessing its near-complete fiber-optic network to reduce urban congestion by introducing a spate of measures encouraging workers to telecommute.
As these measures take effect, self-sufficient satellite towns will likely develop, reducing transportation-related energy consumption further, while fostering a more active civil society.
The United Nations Security Council has authorized the International Security Assistance Force to take all necessary measures to fulfill its mandate.
Regulators use two key measures to mitigate such risk-taking: they require banks to hold more capital and to keep investments, loans, and operations safer (and potentially less profitable) than the banks want them to be.
But these measures were merely palliative; the next MFF should be much more ambitious in identifying the role of the EU budget in the management and prevention of crises.
Some governments have already implemented important measures to support the shift toward more environmentally friendly practices, including financial and market incentives.
In many developed countries, such measures would have been (and still are) impossible to enact.
The world’s governments will meet in Montreal at the end of November to plot the next steps, including specific measures that the world could adopt if the Bush administration abandoned its willful neglect of this critical issue.
What explains this slew of repressive measures?
It requires measures that do not come easily to citizens, groups, and authorities steeped in a tradition of liberalism and tolerance.
The skimpy enforcement measures undertaken by bank regulators since the crisis are nowhere near appropriate to what is at stake.
But the necessary financial measures can no longer be implemented while respecting states’ traditional and full sovereignty.
The approaching storm, and the measures that must be taken to address it, will bring enormous change.
With European politicians arguing that introducing environmental safeguards will hurt the EU’s already-weakened economy, it comes as little surprise that measures to limit air pollution fall far short of the mark.
At the heart of China’s measures are improved public transportation, green trade, and a revision of the energy mix.
But in many other situations, we would miss major sources of motivation – and thus would adopt useless, if not counter-productive, measures aimed at producing the outcomes we seek.
Without compensatory measures – including pre-school education, ideally beginning at a very young age – unequal opportunities translate into unequal lifelong outcomes by the time children reach the age of five.
While the main focus has been on the impact of climate-change mitigation on industrialized countries, the urgent adaptation needs of the world’s poorest countries, in the face of possible catastrophe, have largely been ignored, at least in terms of concrete measures.
Among other measures, they must keep their promises to increase aid and make it more effective by reducing bureaucratic delays, speeding disbursements and better aligning programs with African priorities.
China can and should lower the temperature by re-embracing the modest set of risk-reduction and confidence-building measures that it agreed with ASEAN in 2002 – and building upon them in a new, multilateral code of conduct.
Unless it is ready to take punitive measures now, the EU will have to give these countries additional leeway – mindful that the European public tends to respond negatively every time it is consulted.
Although more developed regions have been taking such measures, they are not yet standard practice in Africa.
Credible measures that deliver and anchor savings in the medium term will help create space to accommodate growth today – by allowing a slower pace of consolidation.
What is needed now is a new reform-oriented agreement – one that recognizes the need for measures to be implemented in the right sequence, delaying those that will have a recessionary effect.
At the moment, the framework for property rights, investor protection, and corporate governance is extremely weak, and recent legislative measures regarding the personal liability of shareholders in limited liability companies have made things worse.
Indeed, the APEC Economic Leaders’ Meeting in 1997 designated 15 major sectors – including automobiles, chemicals, energy assets, and environmental measures – for early liberalization.
STAR safeguards the flow of goods and people through measures that secure ships, aviation, and travelers – thereby enhancing cross-border security, customs networking, and protection of corporate supply chains.
The CCAMLR should also apply to krill fishing the same monitoring, control, and surveillance measures that it requires for all other fisheries.
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