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To leave SOEs through layoffs, reemployment in the private sector, early retirement, or a lump sum payment becomes more palatable to SOE workers who fear that the state can no longer be a reliable provider of privileges and economic well being in a constantly evolving society.
Neither of these alternatives is palatable, which may help to explain why the crisis of confidence gripping the eurozone lingers on.
These can be provided in politically palatable ways, which also means that the conclusion of Doha is within our reach, not beyond our grasp.
Without an Israelis-Palestinian peace settlement, such strategic cooperation would not be palatable to the Arab public.
He identified a source of revenue – the tariff – that could be devoted to this end, and he rendered the bargain politically palatable by making clear that if state governments accumulated additional debts, and again got into trouble, they would not be bailed out a second time.
Not so much an iron lady as a stubborn and dogged one, May has begun another round of effort to extract a few further concessions from European leaders to make her divorce agreement more palatable to her party, if not a majority of the public.
This is no accident: pairing these ideas makes them more palatable for European publics that, traumatized by history, have long been lukewarm on defense.
Europe, dependent as it is on Russian energy supplies, is not prepared for a new Cold War, and its alternative to Russian oil – Iran – is not palatable to the Americans.
The optimistic scenario is that private-sector job creation and rapid population aging will cause the labor market to tighten, which will make employment protection a less pressing concern – and make reform more politically palatable.
Until now, negotiators have aimed for a global deal palatable to developed and developing countries alike.
Chinese negotiators’ obstreperousness might be somewhat palatable if the agreements that resulted were ironclad.
To make his request more palatable, Bakiyev announced that he was demanding that the United States close its airbase in Kyrgyzstan, which resupplies NATO troops in neighboring Afghanistan.
The implications for the present are important: the only palatable way in which the necessary balance between liability and security can be achieved is through a process of political reform that dissolves corrupt oligarchies and weakens incentives for fiscal imprudence.
In principle, one can create a “cap-and-trade” system of quantitative restrictions that accomplishes much the same thing – and this seems to be more palatable to politicians, who will jump through hoops to avoid using the word “tax.”
Modern-day record unemployment and extreme inequality may seem far less tolerable as young people realize that some of the most cherished “free” things in life – palatable weather, clean air, and nice beaches, for example – cannot be taken for granted.
Winning the European Confidence GameCHICAGO – If any solution to the European crisis proposed over the next few days is to restore confidence to the sovereign-bond markets, it will have to be both economically viable and politically palatable to rescuers and rescued alike.
This was not palatable to the Punjabi-dominated military brass or to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of West Pakistan’s largest political party.
Fiscal rules can help make such behavior politically palatable.
This will capitalize on the US military’s ability to project force around the world quickly, while providing a more flexible and politically palatable way of doing so.
But even if this customs-union fudge were palatable to both sides, there would still be the question of the Irish border.
Nor is Egypt’s political discourse likely to be especially palatable to Israelis.
She argued that to set limits on war, as the ICRC devotes itself to doing, is also to make war more morally palatable to those who wage them and those who fight them.
But he did oppose his party’s decision to enter into a coalition with the Conservatives between 2010 and 2015, which could make him more palatable to voters fleeing from Labour.
This, of course, does not make the killings more palatable.
At a time when reducing uncertainty and strengthening market confidence are high priorities across Europe, this may not be a palatable option.
A bold opening gambit, the argument goes, softens the adversary for a more palatable endgame.
After all, America’s “moderate” jihadist allies are no more palatable than President Bashar al-Assad, and the so-called Islamic State is far from defeated.
Then there was the Palestinian election of 2006: Promoting democracy generates ridicule when it extends only to elections that produce palatable winners, as Gaza’s vote for Hamas did not.
The Economics of InclusionCAMBRIDGE – Many people find economic growth to be a morally ambiguous goal – palatable, they would argue, only if it is broadly shared and environmentally sustainable.
Inclusiveness should not be seen as a restriction on growth to make it morally palatable.
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