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Despite escalating geopolitical tensions, most countries in the region have maintained their economic momentum.
The UN’s own calls to accelerate momentum at the launch of the 500-day countdown to the MDGs’ expiry highlight the fact that inequality, maternal mortality from childbirth, lack of universal education, and environmental degradation remain serious challenges.
Nationalism and populism, already on the rise for both economic and social reasons, would gather even more momentum.
Though the other 11 countries have continued to move the deal forward, in the form of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), America’s departure has undermined momentum toward greater trade multilateralism.
But if we act fast, harvesting fresh momentum on HFCs under sister agreements like Montreal and a growing array of cooperative coalitions, we can avoid disaster and ensure long-term economic development, including by supporting progress toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
And that dynamic could pick up even more momentum, especially if the recent pro-growth measures in the US and the endogenous healing in Europe are buttressed by structural reforms, more balanced demand management, and improved international policy coordination.
Russia’s own “pivot” to Asia is not new; but, in the deep freeze settling over Russia’s relations with the US and Europe, it does seem to have gained the momentum of real necessity.
Another explanation for the momentum behind health-insurer mergers is lobbying.
For a few years, the momentum created by previous reforms, together with strong global growth, carried India forward.
The SDGs can create political momentum for these efforts, which could then be framed by the World Trade Organization in December 2015.
President Obama has defined America's goals in Afghanistan as denying Al Qaeda a safe haven, reversing the Taliban's momentum, and helping the country's security forces and government "take lead responsibility for Afghanistan’s future."
It will take a decade to get certain applications into a lot of places, but the momentum will build and we will learn as we go.
Yet instead of thinking that the momentum building in 2006 will carry forward and make 2007 an even better year, Europe’s gloomy experts are predicting a significant slowdown.
Europe’s actual economic growth has been quite good and – thanks to low gas prices, low real interest rates, solid profits, and strong growth momentum – promises to get better before the ceiling is hit and inflationary pressures set in.
They gathered momentum after a summer of labor strikes, when Poland’s communist chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, concluded that the country’s economic troubles were too grim to face alone.
A united EU can also help catalyze reforms that might reinvigorate ailing multilateral institutions, injecting them with new momentum.
These events hindered the global economy by thwarting confidence and momentum.
Lebanon’s traditional political class may not like it, but, as more of its members are now recognizing, the momentum for a new kind of presidency will not be stopped.
What they did not anticipate was the speed at which economic and political liberalization would gain momentum.
Looking ahead, the leaders of all UN agencies and major nongovernmental organizations will need to maintain the current momentum on preventing sexual exploitation and abuse, as previously agreed through the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC), a key humanitarian coordination platform chaired by OCHA.
The concert, he said, would “take on a momentum of its own,” and have a positive effect on North Korean society.
A French Cure for the Resource CurseNEW YORK – The campaign to ensure that companies engaged in extractive activities disclose all of their payments in their host countries is gaining momentum – and France is leading the effort.
Driven by the momentum of trends in employment, industrial production, consumer sentiment, and corporate earnings, the case for sound fundamentals plays like a broken record during periods of financial market volatility.
But momentum and fundamentals are two very different things.
In the early 1970’s, when it was still an overwhelmingly agrarian country and Islamization was just gaining momentum, Malaysia embarked on its so-called “New Economic Policy” (NEP), designed to help the majority Malays gain a bigger share of the country’s wealth.
This problem is highly relevant for the eurozone, which is emerging from a long recession, with GDP still below its 2007 level and the recovery, though real, still lacking momentum.
Both its jihadist and political identity have, indeed, only gained momentum ever since.
Only by coming together can we build a groundswell of support for climate leadership and create the right momentum to secure a fast transition to a sustainable and equitable world.
In 2013, we will have to turn our gaze to other countries (such as Cyprus and Spain), and ensure that we maintain the momentum needed to build a banking union.
The Carbon Pricing Panel, led by the IMF and World Bank, will further increase the policy momentum at the national, regional, and municipal levels.
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