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In one respect, multilateral action has had a clearly positive impact: the elimination of the Syrian government’s chemical-weapons program.
Indeed, despite Guterres’s many positive attributes, the fact is that the UN has all but disappeared from the international radar screen since he took over.
And for African governments in particular, that fact creates an opportunity to harness the positive power of human mobility.
But this positive productivity response is not guaranteed.
Designated castes and tribes were guaranteed not only equality of opportunity, but also positive outcomes, aided by quotas for educational institutions, government jobs, and even seats in parliament and state assemblies.
Moreover, a commitment to pursue euro membership will have positive spillover effects.
The United States Federal Reserve and the International Monetary Fund have both taken some positive steps.
Despite these risks, the overall trend in Europe’s tech sector is a positive one.
There is some positive news, however grim the overall picture.
In fact, they can play a positive role as active consumers – a potential that many industries have already recognized and begun to tap.
More than 40 studies have shown that people suffering from schizophrenia test positive for T. gondii antibodies, indicating that they may have been previously infected.
In contrast, tax cuts for the bottom 95% have a positive and significant effect on job growth.
Overall, the AIIB is a positive development.
It creates skepticism about whether the net benefits of openness are positive, and uncertainty about what adaptations are needed in the regulation of free markets to achieve a reasonable balance between their benefits and risks.
For example, Norway, which has been promoting positive gender discrimination for years and recently elected Erna Solberg as its first female prime minister, has yet to allow a woman to control the purse strings – at either the central bank or the finance ministry, with its powerful sovereign wealth fund.
But many people drew the wrong conclusion from the episode, which they viewed as affirming the idea that competence and experience must always trump ill-conceived ideas about positive discrimination.
Youth unemployment is a particularly serious concern, even in countries with otherwise positive employment statistics; in countries with worse labor-market conditions, it represents a potential source of social and political instability.
Using a different approach, economists at the International Monetary Fund also find a positive relationship between lower income inequality and faster growth, concluding that policies that redistribute income can foster faster, more sustainable growth.
Yet the trend is positive: Russia has become a stable, high-income market economy, with strong prospects for decades of rapid GDP growth and high-tech progress if it pursues a sensible economic strategy in the coming years.
In this sense, the participation of more European countries in the AIIB is a positive development, as it helps to ensure that the new bank complements, rather than rivals, existing institutions.
Short-term goals must have priority, because many Islamist parties are being pressed to produce positive results within a single electoral cycle.
Students with higher positive hensachi scores are admitted to more rigorous high schools and colleges, where they are often encouraged to study medicine, simply because the entrance exam is difficult, even if they have no interest in a medical career.
But the growth of the domestic economy, the role of international trade, and America’s new positive energy position also receive substantial attention.
These 15 countries drive most of the positive momentum behind the world economy nowadays.
France, Sweden, the UK, and other European nations guarantee a long list of positive rights and entitlements for their citizens.
For example, Ghana’s smooth transfer of power after the December 2016 election set a positive democratic example.
Finally, in order to stand a chance of preventing inflation from increasing much further, real interest rates must, at the very least, be equal to zero or slightly positive.
Just as free trade provides the lowest-cost goods and services, benefiting both consumers and the most efficient producers, global academic competition is making free movement of people and ideas, on the basis of merit, more and more the norm, with enormously positive consequences for individuals, universities, and countries.
The announced rate should be substantially positive, they wrote, because if officials tried to get it close to zero, any mistake could result in deflation, which “might endanger the financial system and precipitate an economic contraction.”
After Cuba joined the IMF (and the World Bank) in 1946, it played a positive role in the Fund for the next 12 years.
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