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Bureaucratic and judicial reform ought to have priority in most countries in Latin America.
This is dangerously shortsighted: the real concern ought to be how far it could cut rates in the next deep recession.
Simply put, it means overt law-breaking, but in a conscientious, nonviolent manner aimed at persuading fellow citizens that a law ought to be changed because it is unjust.
On the media side, this ought to mean more rigorous research at the start of the reporting and writing process.
Moreover, it ought not to be forgotten that between 1950 and 1980, Venezuela itself reduced extreme poverty from 43% to 8% of the population, one of the lowest figures in Latin America.
Countries that qualify ought to have access to a lender of last resort and be empowered to pursue countercyclical policies.
What ought to have been hard-wired into the EU’s institutional structure was not permanent fiscal austerity, but tough financial regulation.
We can plausibly argue that we ought not to kill, against their will, self-aware beings who want to continue to live.
In short, Obama ought not to ask, “What will India do for us?”, but rather, “Is a strong, democratic and independent India in America’s national interest?”
But Dawkins goes further and argues that if one is a follower of Darwin, then sensibly one ought to be an atheist.
In order to guarantee the outcome, the statutes of such committees and their mandates ought to be agreed upon by all euro members.
The answer may be that we, too, feel that we ought to live much more ethically, and the people described in Strangers Drowning are a standing reproach to our own way of life.
Phare programs ought to encourage this by being more competitive, opened to all who qualify, and, whenever possible, regional in scope.
Maybe, many say, we are too ambitious and ought to enjoy a higher quality of life with more leisure.
The Bundesbank will never accept these proposals, but the European authorities ought to take them seriously.
Political and media support ought to focus on programs that work on the ground, as reported by humanitarian and non-governmental agencies, and not on particular religious agendas.
The same vision ought to apply to young people who – yes, it is true – were undocumented at the time of arrival, but who came to America through no choice of their own.
The US has consistently pursued a grand strategy “focused on acquiring and maintaining preeminent power over various rivals,” they wrote, and “primacy ought to remain the central objective of US grand strategy in the twenty-first century.”
Of course, while a substantial part of Big Tech’s capital is produced by the public, there is no sensible way to compute personal contributions, which makes it impossible to calculate what our individual shares ought to be.
Europe, as one of the world’s wealthiest regions, ought to be at the forefront of the effort to promote environmental sustainability.
Germans have a point when they argue that complaints about “austerity” ought to be directed at Greece’s previous governments.
But they ought to be making even deeper concessions on debt repayments, where the overhang still creates considerable policy uncertainty for investors.
Critics of short-term thinking, like the authors of the Kay Review and the EU Green Paper, ought to consider that economic life has, in fact, become more short term.
Cameron is right: “key values” like “democracy and tolerance” are fine things, and they ought to be defended.
These South American countries – Brazil included – ought to be thinking about what will fuel economic growth if and when the commodity boom ends.
Most importantly, Iran ought to press for an American assurance that its cooperation will be reciprocated by an American guarantee that Iran will not be a target of American military action in the future.
Needless to say, wage levels ought to be determined solely by management and workers.
National borders ought to be abolished in God’s earthly kingdom.
But, like most temptations, the urge to gloat at America’s imperfections and struggles ought to be resisted.
The passage of time ought to help with this bargaining.
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