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With Harper’s pro-trade credentials well established, it is up to European leaders to win domestic support for the EU-Canada CETA, by explaining to their publics not only its economic merits, but also its critical role in advancing strategic energy-policy objectives.
Instead, both long-term objectives and sustainable public finances have been sacrificed for the short-term promise of electoral success.
The MDGs and the Decade of Vaccines prove that focused global development objectives can make a profound difference.
While Russia is not as politically or economically appealing as the EU, it can fall back on reliance on its natural resources to achieve its political objectives in adjacent territories.
Contextual intelligence is the intuitive diagnostic skill that helps a leader align tactics with objectives to produce smart strategies in different situations.
In fact, fiscal austerity directly undermines these objectives, depressing demand and discouraging growth.
Given their policy objectives, conservatives should support a well-crafted federal infrastructure program, and liberals should support corporate-tax reform.
The TTP’s stated objectives include jihad against the Pakistani army, enforcement of sharia law across the country, and a plan to unite with the Afghan Taliban to fight the NATO forces in that country.
Saudi Arabia had two clearly defined military objectives in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia has achieved both objectives.
There are also inconsistencies between the US and the EU in derivatives-market reform, which the Financial Stability Board has warned could undermine the objectives, set out by the G-20, of greater standardization of contracts and enhanced transparency.
The use of development aid as a political stick merely deepens the suffering of impoverished and unstable countries, without producing the political objectives sought by donors.
But realism in international economic affairs requires accepting that official development assistance can help achieve the broad political objectives of stability and democracy only in the long run.
Last year, more than 500 adolescent girls living in poverty in 14 countries helped create the Girl Declaration, which presents principles and objectives that should guide investment in their lives and potential.
The ideal carbon price would depend on the objectives of the agreement.
In the future, the EU will have to approach climate change primarily as a matter of politics, rather than in terms of scientifically defined objectives.
For example, while annual inflation stood at 0.8% in December 2014, the minutes of the January 2015 FOMC meeting refer several times to the Committee’s need to make “progress toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2% inflation” by maintaining a highly accommodative policy stance.
Based on my research and experience, I would suggest that three key objectives must be assigned top priority if the initiative is to succeed.
This has triggered a search for a radical redefinition of central banks’ objectives – and has cast doubt on the appropriateness of maintaining their independence.
This shift toward multiple policy objectives inevitably reduces central-bank independence.
Given that central banks are likely to continue to pursue multiple objectives for a long time, their independence will continue to erode.
Unlike in the case of millenarian terrorists like Al Qaeda, for whom the goal is amorphous–nationalist extremists’ more realistic objectives might make it possible to neutralize them by addressing the root issue (for example, the creation of a viable Palestinian state).
Suicide bombers who target innocent Israeli civilians – and sometimes legitimate military objectives – rightly or wrongly appear to counterbalance Israeli “strategic” strikes.
Governments should encourage and enable the industry to meet these objectives.
The more we think about those decisions, the more we examine ourselves and the social models on which we depend, the better our chances are of shaping the revolution in a way that advances our common objectives and upholds our values.
But the victory of June 1967 was not a license for Israel to set utterly unrealistic objectives for itself.
As soon as they were appointed in June 2007, Sarkozy’s ministers were given a clear set of objectives in the form of a letter of intent.
On another level, however, state bureaucracies are very different from private-sector organizations, for they have their own characteristics and objectives, which will be endangered were they are reduced to quantitative standards of performance and efficiency.
And if assessment of state action were based only on a set of pre-defined quantitative targets, ministers would also understandably – but mistakenly – neglect quality and other important objectives.
So, targeting quantitative objectives can be a useful innovation, but only as long as its purpose is to provide a new tool in managing certain aspects of the state’s performance.
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