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So health reform or even partial pension reform must wait a few years.
Just over a year ago, the Finnish EU presidency failed to break the gridlock over the Cyprus trade issue, illustrating again the limited value of trying to agree partial solutions and “confidence-building” measures.
Rather than proving the unilateralists' point, the partial nature of the success in Afghanistan illustrates the continuing need for cooperation.
Worse, because the partial fixes to the financial system will enable even more globalization, they will end up making matters worse, as strain on already-inadequate governance and regulatory frameworks increases, not only in finance, but also in other economic and technological fields.
African farmers should wonder how it could be Bush--not some left-wing Democrat--who reversed the archconservative Newt Gingrich's proudest achievement: the partial reform of agricultural subsidies.
National governments of course assume partial responsibility, and bear part of the cost, but government officials have far too many responsibilities to devote themselves to the process entirely.
Sharon might decide on partial withdrawals and dismantling of settlements on the West Bank.
(Paradoxically, British Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne seems to agree with these left-leaning American Democrats: He offered a minimum-wage increase as partial compensation for cutting wage subsidies.)
But, to my mind, for the most part, decentralized experimentation beats Africa’s partial addiction to aid.
While scientists at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) believe that they gained valuable lessons from the experience, the partial failure of the Chandrayaan mission still haunts them.
Rather than resorting to extensive layoffs, firms had their employees work a partial week.
Partial benefits could be paid to workers on short hours, rather than limiting payments to those who are fully unemployed.
The Asian Development Bank is working on innovative mechanisms to bring more finance to the infrastructure sector, such as the recent partial credit guarantee facility set up by India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited in collaboration with the ADB.
Eurozone officials’ decision to reform the surveillance of governments and banks, and to boost the European Financial Stability Facility, is a welcome response, but, unfortunately, a partial one.
This has pushed central banks away from their core competencies as they have been forced to use partial and imperfect policy tools for quite a long time.
So, threatened as the regional hegemon, Saudi Arabia has joined the reform race by announcing partial municipal elections to consultative bodies in which the royal family already appoints half the members.
Some reforms – if only partial – are already in sight.
These assets are, in a sense, spoken for – there are claims on them in the form of liabilities, which have grown as expected risk-adjusted returns on assets decline; but they do represent a partial funding of public liabilities and are an element of resilience.
China's reforms are marked by partial liberalization, two-track pricing, limited deregulation, financial restraint, an unorthodox legal regime, and the absence of clear private property rights.
But a step in the right direction could be taken by partial fiscal centralization with a limited countercyclical mandate.
But, unfortunately, doing so is still a country-by-country decision – the collective mechanisms for recapitalizing European banks remain partial and far too weak.
This does not sound like a partial or proselytizing body, but one that has striven to assemble, order, and make sense of a rapidly evolving scientific puzzle for which new pieces emerge almost daily while others remain to be found.
Without at least partial public financing, the uptake of these new technologies will be slow and uneven.
Ahmadinejad stands for a policy of confrontation and partial isolation;Moussavi stands for more openness.
At the same time, if Greece does not fully adjust its policies to restore fiscal sustainability and competitiveness, a partial bailout by the EU and the ECB will still be likely in order to avoid the risk of contagion to the rest of the euro zone and the consequent threat to the monetary union’s survival.
It was a partial deal, to be sure.
Overall, the PBOC succeeded in maintaining an independent monetary policy, while preserving exchange-rate stability and partial capital-account openness.
The partial recovery this year thus reflects neither a return to pre-crisis normality nor the success of monetary policy alone.
For, while the simplified pre-crisis conventional wisdom appeared to provide a complete set of answers resting on a unified intellectual system and methodology, really good economic thinking must provide multiple partial insights, based on varied analytical approaches.
A partial Russian victory, like that in Georgia or Ukraine, would mean carving out pieces of western Syria under Russo-Iranian protection, and ultimately the de facto partition of the country.
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