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It also contained a series of specific political objectives: decolonization and self-determination of peoples, social progress, and the promotion of fundamental human rights.
It will almost certainly fail to achieve its immediate objectives; but it may open the door to serious progress afterwards.
But Abe’s central objectives – improving Japan’s ability to respond to threats that do not amount to armed attack; enabling Japan to participate more effectively in international peacekeeping activities; and redefining measures for self-defense permitted under Article 9 – are actually relatively modest.
If policymakers choose a model based on a large state-dominated sector protected from internal and external competition, innovation objectives are unlikely to be met, adversely affecting future growth.
The fact that things often do not work out as expected is precisely why central banks’ objectives should be written to give policymakers flexibility – or poetic license to bend the rules – when extreme events occur.
Many have argued that lengthening the policy horizon by precisely defining “the medium term” would give policymakers room to pursue other objectives temporarily.
And, as always, his views, allies, and short-term objectives are inconstant, because they ultimately matter little to him.
It is not uncommon for a grant to be restricted to specific activities, leaving major gaps in a program’s capacity to meet its objectives.
Although he was an architect of core components of social democratic policy – particularly its emphasis on maintaining full employment – he did not subscribe to other key social democratic objectives, such as public ownership or massive expansion of the welfare state.
Making progress toward an energy union is crucial and should be one of the new Commission’s main objectives.
China’s new, less antagonistic approach does not reflect a change of heart or objectives on the part of its leaders, but rather a change in the regional geopolitical landscape.
On the surface, the UN seems ideally placed to lead reconstruction efforts because, unlike development institutions like the World Bank, it can integrate the political and economic objectives that are equal parts of a transition to peace.
Yet cooperation within the SCO remains focused on national rather than collective objectives, because its members’ interests vary so much.
These diverging objectives make it hard to believe that the SCO will ever evolve into an eastern version of NATO.
Reaching out to the SCO would certainly seem to support NATO’s stated objectives.
Indeed, the movement lacks clear policy objectives, instead capitalizing on popular disgust with Italy’s political elites – a sentiment that led directly to the last election’s failure to produce a clear winner.
One potential mechanism for advancing these objectives is a South American Defense College, now under consideration.
The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) has the right idea, with negotiating objectives that cover labor issues and wages, transparency, corruption, and some aspects of human rights.
A review of that propaganda recalls Hitler's Mein Kampf in the 1920s: an announcement of a far more ambitious set of objectives than the group's current circumstances would justify.
Insofar as they entail distributional consequences or tradeoffs between contending goals (employment versus price stability, for example), policy objectives have to be determined through politics.
Delegation is warranted at best in the conduct of policy that serves politically determined objectives.
By limiting the total number of indicators studied and producing clear benchmarks, it helps policymakers to define their objectives and to improve the efficiency of regulation in crucial areas.
Anyone, especially in the region, who attempts to parse the group’s objectives – in order, for example, to support its anti-Shia aims, if not its methods – does not belong in the fight.
Clear objectives, measurable targets, close monitoring, proper evaluation, well-designed rules, and professionalism provide useful institutional safeguards.
Indirect but politically salient objectives such as “green jobs” will most likely continue to present a more attractive platform for promoting industrial policy than alternative energy or clean technologies.
But, betraying its strategic objectives, China has also sent warships to visit the Maldives.
Will India intervene militarily, as Nasheed and other Maldivian opposition leaders have requested, or will it allow Yameen to continue to enable China to pursue its strategic objectives in the region?
This means that the Chinese economy can achieve its all-important labor-absorption objectives – employment, urbanization, and poverty reduction – with much slower GDP growth than in the past.
A central bank, including the new European Central Bank, in order to conduct a monetary policy geared to its own economic objectives, must be able to make its interest rates move somewhat independently of world market rates.
Schmidt reinforced his image as a pragmatist by consistently voicing his deep skepticism of grand designs and long-term visions, albeit without ever renouncing his fundamental belief that there was a moral basis for his political objectives.
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