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For all of their infuriating brinkmanship, it is reasonable to assume that North Korea’s leaders are not bent on national suicide, as any attempted use of their still very modest nuclear arsenal would certainly entail.
But in purely Machiavellian terms, his modest success shows he was right.
Others suggest it plays a more modest role.
The fund would serve as a concrete risk-sharing mechanism and would be a modest, yet meaningful step toward overcoming the deadlock over EU initiatives, if not toward mutualizing defense and security, as some scholars recommend.
Trotted out by China’s rulers many years ago, the “harmonious society” campaign has yielded, at best, modest changes in policy.
Progress in reducing child malnutrition has also been modest, with almost one-third of South Asia’s children underweight in 2010.
The Brexit vote is no more irreversible than any other election or referendum, provided the EU is willing to adopt some modest reforms.
Under Rato, the IMF at least took some modest steps towards giving China and other rapidly emerging markets more say in running the place.
A modest Doha free-trade agreement, by contrast, could help the world’s poor thousands of times more, much sooner, and at a much lower cost.
This was accomplished with only modest human and economic cost to the extraordinary multi-national coalition assembled by President George H.W. Bush.
In the OECD, many of the countries with the highest debt-to-GDP ratios – including Italy, Portugal, and Spain – ran relatively modest deficits, but failed to invest effectively in education, research, training, or well-designed welfare programs that facilitate economic adjustment.
In Ecuador and Bolivia, income from oil and gas is more modest, but in both cases hydrocarbon exports account for the largest share of total exports, and provide about one-third of government revenue.
Only Germany stands out, having recently announced a tax cut, albeit a modest one.
In addition, a half-decade after the Obama administration agreed to modest changes in the voting rights of China and other emerging markets at the IMF – a small nod to the new economic realities – the US Congress finally approved the reforms.
The only regulations that appear safe are those involving cigarettes (lawsuits filed against Uruguay and Australia for requiring modest labeling about health hazards had drawn too much negative attention).
He has some modest ideals, and may yet be an excellent president.
Just before the recent G-20 meeting in Toronto, China announced a formula that would allow modest renminbi appreciation, but some American Congressmen remain unconvinced, and threaten to increase tariffs on Chinese goods.
Moreover, economic growth in the US is modest, and appears to come mainly from segments of the tradable sector that are exposed to and benefit from emerging-market demand.
He could then present an estimated price tag for phasing in these changes over time, and demonstrate that the costs would be modest compared to the enormous benefits.
Macron had already been struggling to enact his pro-growth reform agenda, focused on imposing modest constraints on France’s hypertrophied welfare state.
Those expectations were not modest.
Even in the better-known cases, institutional changes at the outset of growth acceleration were typically modest.
The Global Ocean Commission urges the remaining 40% of the WTO’s members – and especially the biggest players currently blocking this process – to accept the relatively modest proposals on the table.
Second, they would levy a modest 1% wealth tax on residents with assets of more than $20 million.
The World Bank has received a modest increase in resources, but it has yet to build capacity to lend rapidly and globally beyond existing borrowers and loan arrangements, and its income trajectory is diminishing.
Instead, regions and countries are quietly finding their own ways to manage finance, create pooled emergency funds, and strengthen development finance – an outcome that heralds a more fragmented and decentralized set of regulatory regimes and a modest de-globalization of finance and aid.
Seen against this background, US officials’ handwringing over the recent modest reversal in the renminbi’s exchange rate appears absurd.
To mitigate the effects of a US recession and global economic slump, the Fed and other central banks should be cutting rates much more aggressively, rather than relying on modest liquidity injections that are bound to fail.
The EU’s most recent response has been a “new, ambitious, and revitalized neighborhood strategy” that added a very modest €1.5 billion to the €5.7 billion already earmarked for Arab countries.
With these goals in mind, China’s government recently engineered a modest currency devaluation – about 3% so far.
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