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The non-partisan US Congressional Budget Office reports that the 2009 spending increase and tax cuts gave a positive boost to the economy, and indeed had the extra multiplier effects predicted by traditional Keynesian models.
For example, it is not obvious how to deal with the fact that decisions by large countries have larger externalities, both positive and negative, than those made by their smaller peers, setting the ground for different treatment in a monetary union of supposed equals.
Indeed, the committee entered in the sphere of moral conscience by stating that anyone who does not adhere to a positive moral evaluation of homosexuality is unfit to serve as a European commissioner.
PRINCETON – When I wrote the cover article of the July/August issue of The Atlantic, entitled “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” I expected a hostile reaction from many American career women of my generation and older, and positive reactions from women aged roughly 25-35.
By boosting investment and generating tax revenue for local governments, this approach has a more immediate positive impact on GDP than efforts to develop the service sector.
The government has taken some positive steps: the air quality around Beijing, for example, has improved considerably this winter, thanks to efforts to shut down polluting factories and replace coal with natural gas for household heating.
A wide range of policies and practices that support positive relationships and quality learning experiences – at home, in early care and education programs, and through targeted interventions – can have a positive impact if based on solid evidence and matched to the specific needs they are expected to address.
It is also about moral responsibility, wisdom, judgment and courage – and about leveraging knowledge to promote positive social change.
Today, “intrusive” has a positive connotation in the regulatory lexicon.
The other point my wise old bird made was that the only way to generate a positive story about regulation was to warn of trouble ahead.
Even though its October World Economic Outlook presents a positive picture of global growth, the IMF, no doubt still conscious of the Panglossian view it offered in 2006, now warns that the world economy is “vulnerable to a sudden tightening of financial conditions” and that “equity valuations appear stretched in some markets.”
But the positive momentum for reconciliation must be intensified.
Moreover, trillions of dollars have been wasted, with the few positive effects of the US-led military intervention already beginning to fade, and its many adverse consequences continuing to destabilize the region.
The answer is that the underlying trend of productivity growth in the American economy continues to be exceptionally positive.
As for financial inclusion, digital finance has two positive effects.
“Meister” high schools, introduced in 2010 specifically to prepare young people for high-skilled jobs, are a positive step.
Missile defense can be part of that positive trend.
It demands early intervention to put children on a positive health path, together with an adequate social safety net throughout citizens’ lives.
This has important potential implications – both positive and negative.
On the positive side, the revival of China’s stock market in a low-interest-rate environment represents an important shift in asset allocation away from real estate and deposits.
But the EU can make a much more positive and important contribution to the Arab awakening by launching an economic strategy along the lines laid out by Italy’s foreign minister, Franco Frattini, and Britain’s deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg.
The Road Ahead in the Middle EastDuring these hard times for Israeli-Palestinian relations, it is vital that positive steps be taken and international goodwill be mobilized.
A positive aspect of South Africa’s BEE policy is that it requires companies to recruit a racially more diverse team of managers and workers, so as to allow once excluded groups into the knowhow accumulation process.
If, on the other hand, IMF credit is obtained on reasonable terms, it will make a positive contribution.
The evidence is weak, for example, that monitoring initiatives in agriculture or environmental management have had a positive impact.
It provides decision-makers and stakeholders insights into how to improve policies to maximize positive outcomes and reduce risks, such as the possibility of low rates of adoption or limited institutional capacity for effective implementation.
That will only come when it opens its eyes to the real and positive possibilities of such collaboration.
The outcome was positive economically but a disaster politically.
Donald Trump’s election as US president has triggered a surge in positive economic sentiment, because he pledged that his administration would aggressively pursue the policy trifecta of deregulation, tax cuts and reform, and infrastructure construction.
Republican majorities in both houses of Congress reinforced the positive sentiment, as they signaled that Trump would not face the kind of paralyzing gridlock that Barack Obama confronted for most of his presidency.
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