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The World Bank has become the World Bank Group, though its founding pillar, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), remains at its center.
The “world factory” could not have been built without the second pillar: the “China infrastructure network,” installed and operated mostly by vertically integrated state-owned enterprises in logistics, energy, roads, telecoms, shipping, and ports.
This
pillar
relies heavily on planning, large-scale fixed investment, and administrative controls, and its quality, scale, and relative efficiency were strategic to Chinese competitiveness and productivity.
The third
pillar
is the “Chinese financial supply chain,” which provided the financing needed to construct and maintain the infrastructure network.
The final
pillar
is the “government services supply chain,” by which central and local officials affect every link of production, logistics, and financial networks through regulations, taxes, or permits.
Establishing the concept of sovereign obligations as a
pillar
of the international order will take decades of consultations and negotiations – and even then, its acceptance and impact will be uneven.
Now we need to work on the second pillar, resolution of the banking crisis.
Fiscal consolidation is the second
pillar
of France’s economic strategy.
But even during the Cold War, Americans often pointed out that the European
pillar
was lacking.
For example, with a European army serving as an autonomous
pillar
within NATO, the EU would no longer have to defer to the US on security decisions.
The very principles of multilateralism, a key
pillar
of global governance, seem to have become a relic from a distant past.
Much like in Germany in the 1840’s, when the appeal to private enterprise converted the entire middle class to nationalism, the explicit definition of economic power as the central
pillar
of China’s greatness awakened ordinary Chinese to nationalism’s appeal.
Indeed, by reinforcing the European
pillar
of NATO, it will benefit the entire Western world.
Given that framework’s place as a
pillar
of the Maastricht Treaty – the other being a shared monetary policy – the result could be the destruction of the euro.
Another positive step by the EU, expected at this month’s Gothenburg Social Summit, is the endorsement of the European
Pillar
of Social Rights by the European Council, the European Commission, and the European Parliament.
The
pillar
focuses on ensuring equal opportunities and labor-market access, fair working conditions, and social protection and inclusion.
The second
pillar
of an effective crisis-response strategy is an emergency reserve workforce – established by the WHO, in cooperation with national governments – comprising well-trained health professionals who are prepared for rapid deployment in low-resource settings.
This intergenerational altruism is an essential
pillar
of modern societies.
That is, after all, a
pillar
of Trump’s economic plan – an objective that he claims deregulation will go a long way toward achieving.
Read the memoirs of the tsarist prime-minister Sergei Witte and you understand that, paradoxically, a liberally-minded progressive bureaucrat was back then, just as some in the small circle of officials around Yeltsin are today, the lone
pillar
of reform.
Back in 1986, Hyman Minsky warned about the longer-term dangers to financial stability if “Ponzi” borrowers – those who can service their debt only with new debt – become the main
pillar
of the economy.
A central
pillar
of this effort is the “Compact with Africa,” which provides a framework for supporting private investment, including in infrastructure.
If one cause of the repression of the Ecumenical Patriarchate is nationalism, though, the other one is the other
pillar
of the Kemalist ideology: secularism.
With sufficient political will, strong leadership, and a clear, goal-driven reform program, the UN can still be a
pillar
of a stable, just, and sustainable global order.
Indeed, creating opportunities for women in the workforce is an essential
pillar
of the government’s reform program, so-called “Abenomics.”
Technically speaking, the central
pillar
of the new debt agreement is a decade-long postponement of payments totaling €96.6 billion ($112.5 billion) that were due to begin in 2023.
The Franco-German partnership has long been the
pillar
of EU stability.
The basic
pillar
of ocean governance, the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, was established 30 years ago.
The second
pillar
of Macron’s economic program, reform of the state, has two major components: a revamp of fiscal policy and an overhaul of the public spending system.
Political leaders in Saudi Arabia clearly regard the Geneva Convention, the legal
pillar
of protection for civilians, as irrelevant.
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