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New TB drugs with novel
mechanisms
of action are badly needed, not only to treat multi-drug resistant TB, but also to shorten the treatment time for drug-sensitive TB.
The second implication of the absence of fiscal transfers is that countries need to invest more in other
mechanisms
to share the cost of shocks.
But if China is truly to build a balanced, resilient, and anti-fragile real economy and financial system, it will need to go further, developing a comprehensive set of risk-sharing
mechanisms.
At the same time, while getting the crisis-response
mechanisms
right is important, it is not the whole story.
What is at stake are both the lives of thousands of civilians and the enduring effectiveness of the multilateral system, by which these norms have been agreed and
mechanisms
to enforce them established.
It is vital that countries take advantage of the opportunity offered by the Istanbul summit to reaffirm their legal commitments to safeguard civilians in conflicts and to expedite the development of new
mechanisms
to prevent the victims of catastrophes from being abandoned.
Perhaps it is because they believe they do not have the governance
mechanisms
in place to make tough decisions, to pick winners and losers.
The sanguine view is that as long as those selling expertise compete vigorously for the attention of discriminating buyers (the mass media), market
mechanisms
will assure quality control.
Accountability entails a proper legal basis, clear objectives, well defined relationships between the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government, clear procedures for appointment and dismissal of chief executives, override mechanisms, budgetary accountability rules, and rules supporting transparency.
European countries, for example, need to devise
mechanisms
to share the flow of incoming migrants.
But the EU seems to lack effective
mechanisms
for resolving this problem, despite being legally, politically, and indeed morally unable to permit it to persist.
By contrast, international trade and investment regimes provide robust enforcement
mechanisms.
The points at which global communications intersect with international trade and investment – for example, when media businesses distribute content and operate offices in foreign countries – provide opportunities for employing these enforcement
mechanisms
to protect freedom of expression.
In pressing its claims under this regime, Al Jazeera is showing how media investors might be able to use the
mechanisms
of international investment law to stop host countries from interfering with independent reporting, while helping to establish global norms regarding freedom of expression.
This renewed decline in debt discipline reflects the socialization of potential bankruptcy costs among all eurozone countries by way of establishing joint-liability
mechanisms.
In Europe, by contrast, easy access to the local printing presses before and after the foundation of the ECB, together with the new fiscal rescue mechanisms, ensure that investors start to become nervous only when debt ratios are 10-20 times as high.
Discrete, limited programs failed to create properly functioning state
mechanisms.
Given this, governments should provide specific fiscal-consolidation
mechanisms
that are visibly likely to take effect when the time comes.
Indonesia argues that a nation’s right to control all information on locally discovered viruses should be protected through the same
mechanisms
that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization uses to guarantee poor countries’ rights of ownership and patents on the seeds of its indigenous plants.
Step by step, despite strong resistance, we have changed the rules that govern financial institutions, the institutions that oversee banking operations, and the
mechanisms
to coordinate resolution of failed banks.
Important recent books, such as Duke University historian Nancy MacLean’s Democracy in Chains and University of Oregon political scientist Gordon Lafer’s The One Percent Solution, trace the intellectual origins and organizational
mechanisms
of the Republicans’ assault on democracy.
Just last month, the Carbon Disclosure Project revealed that the number of companies with plans to pursue internal carbon price
mechanisms
has grown to almost 1,400 globally, up from 150 in 2014.
As the post-2015 sustainable development agenda is drafted, world leaders and their development partners need to think beyond setting new goals or targets that fade with time, and move toward establishing accountability mechanisms, processes, and systems to ensure that we meet the goals that we have already set.
Without strong accountability mechanisms, ending preventable maternal deaths and fostering sustainable and equitable development will continue to elude us as we move into increasingly perilous times.
Research at McKinsey into the effectiveness and cost of more than 200
mechanisms
for reducing carbon emissions – from greater car efficiency to nuclear power, improved insulation in buildings, and better forest management – suggests that only concerted global action can ensure levels that the scientific community says is necessary to avoid the disastrous consequences of climate change.
A couple of years ago, the world seemed to be stepping up to the challenge with innovative governance models in a range of areas that rested heavily on soft or non-binding mechanisms, rather than the strict rules of the past.
One is to rely on centralized
mechanisms
of direct support for research, such as the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation in the United States.
This means challenging the idea that a referendum permanently outweighs all other
mechanisms
of democratic politics and persuading voters that a referendum mandate refers to a specific question in specific conditions, at a specific time.
The
mechanisms
for funding HIV/AIDS research reinforce this separation, because they rarely allow for – much less invite – the kind of innovative cross-field approaches that will be needed to translate recent breakthroughs into testable products.
This can only be done by introducing legal
mechanisms
to reward those who protect the environment, while making polluters pay, and by helping to unify the environmental watchdogs scattered across different sectors.
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