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Since the riots last spring, China’s government has taken many pro-active measures, even adopting a “Serf Liberation Day,” to defend its record in Tibet of the past 50 years, while continuing to talk with the Dalai Lama’s representatives.
Indeed, there’s nothing inherently authoritarian about the anti-corruption measures that made Lee’s efforts a success.
These measures are popular with the country’s citizens, indicating that there is no reason that democratization would erode Singapore’s anti-corruption efforts.
Instead of discussing how to adapt specific policies to Poland’s national interests or amplify the country’s voice at the European level, PiS writes off all European measures and decisions as a direct challenge to what makes Poland Poland.
Several measures could nonetheless strengthen the China-EU strategic partnership.
Left-leaning pundits claim that the dictator’s daughter has the same autocratic vision as her father, though Park invariably prefers incremental change to radical measures, and cut her political teeth in the tough-minded politics of the GNP.
If so, they may have prevented the implementation of more draconian anti-terrorist measures – thus enabling the current debate.
Given this, China can be expected to continue to manage capital-account transactions to some extent, using macroprudential measures and, when appropriate, direct capital controls.
In Central Europe this effect has been amplified by the fact that, regardless of ideological leanings, rulings parties have had to privatize the economy and, under pressure from the European Union, introduce reform measures that would, in a classical Western system, usually be undertaken by the political right.
Many people believe that the Socialists would not privatize the economy or slash welfare systems if such measures were not absolutely necessary.
When the financial crisis erupted with full force in 2008, the world’s major central banks were right to employ exceptional measures.
Second, Western central banks should start rolling back the emergency measures put in place in response to the financial and economic crisis.
Yet America was great before Trump, and his behavior – riding roughshod over international agreements, trashing allies, and pursuing protectionist trade measures – will only undermine that greatness by, among other things, depleting the country’s formidable stock of soft power.
According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), despite this colossal spending, America lags behind Japan and several European countries in standard measures of health: infant mortality, life expectancy at birth, and deaths that could have been prevented by appropriate medical care.
His measures have increased prices while shrinking the number of transactions – precisely the opposite of what is needed.
During the euro crisis, Van Rompuy, working largely behind the scenes, marshaled support for badly needed measures among the member states and the three cornerstone EU institutions.
Instead, when the Dalai Lama arrived in Arunachal Pradesh, Chinese official media declared that China might be “forced to take tough measures.”
Nonetheless, the measures undertaken or contemplated so far already represent a step in the right direction.
According to constitutional convention in the UK, the Lords do not block measures that the government had in its manifesto.
But the current situation calls for far more serious measures.
Inflation would help, but even the most expansionary monetary measures have been struggling to raise inflation to targets, Japan being a case in point.
Either way, unless decisive measures are taken within weeks or at most months, Afghanistan will be on its way to yet another round of bloody conflict.
In fact, it was largely a necessary concession to Germany’s Constitutional Court, which had argued that the bailout measures lacked a proper legal basis.
While financial contagion today is limited to bank interaction, the EU’s measures have broadened the channels for contagion to include government budgets.
It is also right to advocate measures that could, over time, reduce excess demand by improving conditions in leading source countries.
These measures will require international cooperation and investment in development, peace keeping, humanitarian assistance, and migration management.
Equally necessary are confidence-building measures, including open and equal access to the media, which are now state-controlled.
Tellingly, the so-called Baltic Dry Index, which measures the cost of chartering the large ships that carry most long-distance trade, has fallen to an all-time low.
Many centrists agree that an optimal fiscal policy would feature short-term stimulus, a multi-year medium-term deficit reduction plan, and measures to reduce long-term liabilities, especially if retrenchment protected growth-oriented public-sector investments.
Such measures may prove wasteful or ineffective, but they do not rise to the level of being reckless.
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