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She has suggested that there is nothing wrong with feeling that you ought to die for the sake of others as well as for yourself.
America’s fiscal challenges ought to prompt a re-evaluation.
But they did not go well, bolstering those who declare “enough,” and prompting the question of whether the US president alone – even under the facade of congressional authorizations rather than formal declarations of war – ought to bear the war-making responsibility.
Most were not students, who started the peaceful demonstrations against corruption and autocracy, but ordinary workers, the sort of people a Communist Party ought to be standing up for.
This ought to be a major political issue, with significant implications for public finances, social protection, tax policy, and labor market regulation.
The upcoming climate negotiations ought to address the specific problems of Africa and similarly vulnerable poor parts of the world.
But poor nations could have shifted the “burden” onto rich countries, where, economic logic suggests, it ought to be placed.
In a state that protects individual rights, therefore, deciding how to die ought to be recognized as such a right.
That is only fitting: an award for moral courage ought not to be compromised by those offering it.
But this overlooks what ought to be at the center of the discussion: higher US unemployment right now is not an appropriate goal for stabilizing US output and offers few benefits, if any, for stabilizing US prices.
But dithering over Michel Camdessus's replacement ought to stop.
Almost everyone agrees that the first line of defense ought to be better consumer education.
If Syria in turn accepts Lebanon’s sovereignty, and if it helps force Hezbollah into becoming a political force shorn of its military power, Israel and America ought to persuade Lebanon’s government to accept that Syria and Lebanon need to consult each other in security matters.
The international community ought to initiate an open and honest dialogue with China at all levels, urging it to guarantee freedom of religion to all of its citizens in accordance with its international obligations – and its own laws.
The priority for now and for months to come ought to be to staff up the new administration.
Last but not least, the IMF, as the multilateral agency charged with maintaining global financial stability, ought to be providing more leadership.
True, most studies suggest that developing countries ought to precede any sharp opening to international financial markets by liberalizing trade.
For all these reasons, the developing countries ought to embrace my proposal.
Because America is the most powerful nation on earth, it ought to use that power more assertively.
The US ought not to shy away from wider use of IMF Special Drawing Rights.
That process needs to be initiated by the US, but China and other developing countries ought to participate as equals.
The programs developed by the REF ought to be scaled up by governments, with the help of the EU, and made available to all Roma children in Europe.
“We ought to do all we can to weaken the bad feeling, which has been called out through our growth to the position of a real great power.
As a result, its leaders believes that China ought to be able to project military power and defend what it regards as its strategic space – just like the US.
In theory, monetary authorities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay adhere to the modern orthodoxy of inflation targeting, which holds that price stability is the main (perhaps the only) goal of monetary policy, the short-term interest rate should be the only instrument used to achieve the inflation target, and the exchange rate ought to float freely.
Governments ought not to be allowed to massacre their own people.
Second, the UN ought to make good on its threat and impose sanctions against the Sudanese government unless it stops using its aircraft to destroy villages and unless it stops supporting the jangaweed.
Criminal indictments for war crimes ought to be issued against specific officials who do not comply.
Second, while the diaspora should be integrated through more rights, its members also ought to accept obligations that put them on an equal footing with those who remain behind.
Common-sense policy reforms that ought to be adopted for their own sake, like the Dutch disability and welfare reforms, will provide a second dividend by lowering the dependency ratio.
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