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They – along with Brazil, India, and South Africa (the BRICS) – have established their own development bank, motivated partly by the International Monetary Fund’s failure to fulfill its 2010
pledge
to adjust voting rights to reflect the global balance of economic power.
(Until the 2010 G-20 summit where that
pledge
was made, China had the same voting rights as Belgium.)
Similarly, the G-20’s
pledge
in 2009 to protect the poorest and most fragile countries and communities from the effects of the crisis remains unfulfilled.
The meeting of ministers and others from Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Nigeria and Pakistan, known as the E-9, is the latest in a series of encounters held every two years to fulfill the
pledge
of “education for all” by 2015.
That
pledge
reflected Rouhani’s broader effort to challenge and curtail the power of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is rooted in the IRGC’s control of large swaths of the Iranian economy.
Draghi, with his famous
pledge
to do “whatever it takes” to ensure the euro’s survival, succeeded where Paulson did not.
It had been widely assumed that the UK’s continued membership in the European Union would be a leading campaign issue, given the rise of the UK Independence Party and Cameron’s
pledge
that, if re-elected, he would hold a referendum on the question by 2017.
What is needed, therefore, is a
pledge
by governments to make global trade liberalization a much higher political priority.
That bold political pledge, indeed, allowed him to form an alliance with his former rival, Kim Jong Pil, who will be prime minister in President Kim's first cabinet.
Over the last decade, we have watched as the Stability and Growth Pact (in which EU countries
pledge
to keep their public debts and deficits low) has dissipated in a mist of permissiveness.
If it succeeds, Nehru's pledge, on the eve of Indian independence, "to wipe every tear from every eye," will finally be redeemed.
However, the eurozone, and Germany in particular, must fully acknowledge the fundamental causes of Greece’s exit and
pledge
to move towards fiscal union, while acknowledging that an austerity-only approach towards other at-risk members is a dead end.
For starters, the entire international community, but especially the US, must explicitly
pledge
not to attempt to change the nature of the North Korean regime.
In order to achieve this, countries joining the program would
pledge
to devote at least 0.02% of their GDP toward the effort.
Following the recent G-7 summit in Germany, the leaders of the world’s largest economies issued a
pledge
to “work together and with other interested countries to raise the overall coordination and transparency of clean energy research, development, and demonstration, highlighting the importance of renewable energy and other low-carbon technologies.”
For his fellow Republicans, however, it is “but he broke with the legacy of Ronald Reagan by repudiating his ‘no new taxes’ pledge.”
But Bush’s mistake was that he made that anti-tax
pledge
in the first place and stuck to it in the first part of his presidency.
And the bet paid off, in the sense that the tax
pledge
helped him win the election.
This was universally viewed as a retraction of his “no new taxes”
pledge.
Redeeming the
pledge
to phase out fossil-fuel subsidies would also help to restore the reputation of the G-20 itself.
The IMF’s remedy is a large international loan to Brazil, combined with a
pledge
by the Brazilian Government to cut its budget deficit sharply.
To mark the tenth anniversary of Buffett’s pledge, Bill and Melinda Gates recently reported to him on what the foundation, together with other organizations, achieved to improve global health over that decade.
Though he has reiterated his
pledge
to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, that deal had not yet been ratified, anyway.
That no-tax pledge, and the public attitudes that led Obama to make it, block reasonable policies.
Capital-exporting developing nations should be willing to accept greater transparency in the operation of sovereign wealth funds and
pledge
not to use them for political purposes.
Odinga worked hard to help elect Kibaki in 2002, only to see Kibaki renege on a similar
pledge.
Her promises to improve the health system, curb exorbitant pay packages of top executives, and deliver more social housing (which tenants could then purchase) looks reassuringly familiar, even old-fashioned (especially when viewed alongside her
pledge
to let Parliament vote to lift a nearly two-decade-old ban on fox hunting).
Greece’s European partners eventually agreed to provide additional financial support, in exchange for a
pledge
from Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government to implement difficult structural reforms and deep budget cuts.
The likely outcome – in typical European, consensus-driven fashion – will be to forgo deadlines and concrete targets in favor of an ambiguous, open-ended
pledge
to undertake further pension reform.
We embraced these norms to avoid barbarism; if we want them to be respected, we need unflinching commitments from the great powers, such as a
pledge
not to support or remain in coalitions with those who hold humanitarian norms in contempt.
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