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In some countries, including the United States, there are major political obstacles to taking even modest steps.
I find this to be a rational strategy, given the heavy toll that infections take, and that many can be prevented and treated at a relatively modest cost.
With multilateral talks floundering – the WTO’s Doha Round talks stalled again this summer, as India blocked implementation of the “Bali Package,” the modest agreement reached at last year’s ministerial conference – some of the WTO’s largest members, notably the US and EU, are pursuing bilateral and regional trade agreements.
Still, relative to Africa’s massive energy needs, these are modest gains.
The most likely outcome is that all will be fine, and the Fed doesn’t really care if a modest equity-price correction ensues.
It is too modest.
But it now lags behind the recovery of output (which is itself modest), because the kind of global political order hospitable to globalization is disappearing.
The EU’s recent Treaty on Fiscal Union – the successor to the Growth and Stability Pact – prescribes binding legal commitments to balanced budgets and modest national debt, backed by supervision and sanctions.
The modest initiatives on the table reflect the government’s anti-public-sector rhetoric.
The UK example is important; but, given the scope and scale of the challenges, the proposal is a relatively modest one.
This should be combined with the mutualization of some portion of the liabilities of highly indebted countries – defined as a debt-to-GDP ratio above, say, 60% or 70% – and modest write-downs in exchange for long-term zero-coupon bonds.
Even a partial reversal of this long regressive trend for wealth and income would fund a modest initial basic income.
But the Americans used a modest amount of force to remove the Taliban government, avoided disproportionate civilian casualties, and were able to create an indigenous political framework.
Relatively modest investments in the resilience, redundancy, and integrity of these systems pay high dividends, albeit at random intervals.
In an economy with vast problems, underutilization of resources, and a massive lack of credit, a modest credit expansion would not in fact lead to high inflation.
The Kim regime would incur only modest costs by restarting its nuclear program, but it may be able to impose severe and irreversible costs on the US and South Korea, should that decision lead to a full-fledged nuclear arsenal.
Moreover, economic forecasters have made only modest upward revisions to their growth projections.
Yet, according to all public-opinion polls, close to 70% of the French support the demonstrators who are taking to the streets to block the very modest reforms introduced by President Nicolas Sarkozy’s government.
But Sarkozy is unlikely to derive long-term political benefit from his modest success, and he will face an uphill battle to be re-elected.
But their promises are modest, relative to what is actually needed, and doubts about whether they will be fulfilled persist.
Efforts to entice investors under “business as usual” conditions, which provide only modest incentives to pursue projects that strengthen economic sustainability, are no longer tenable.
Greece’s fire-breathing new government, it is generally assumed, will have little choice but to stick to its predecessor’s program of structural reform, perhaps in return for a modest relaxation of fiscal austerity.
I had just arrived as the “assistant commercial attaché,” a rather modest position, appropriate to a 25-year-old junior Foreign Service officer.
The argument against is moral hazard: If we admit that modest ECB-financed deficits are possible and appropriate now, what will prevent politicians and electorates from demanding large and inflationary ECB-financed deficits on other occasions?
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.
Though initial compensation is very modest (perhaps $100 per month), the experience and training can put these young workers on a path toward further education (such as nursing), rising skills, and higher incomes.
The incoming Trump administration should grasp the historic opportunity to help bring AIDS to an end through a modest financial commitment by governments and other funders.
Current negotiations seem to envisage a modest primary budget surplus of 0.8-1% of GDP for 2015.
It is far from clear whether such a force will come into being, and even less certain that it could stand on its own, given these countries’ modest capabilities and extensive commitments.
First, it is important that expectations be kept modest.
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