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For every dollar spent on adaptation, we would achieve about $1.70 worth of positive changes for the planet.
To stem today’s spiral of pessimism and avoid the burnout of crisis management, we must look at the future in a much more positive, constructive, and dynamic manner, gaining the resilience to adapt to changing contexts, withstand sudden shocks, and recover from them while still pursuing critical goals.
Still, it is important to remember that there’s a positive aspect to the Party’s self-confidence.
With a less competitive currency, many analysts hope, China will export less and import more, making a positive contribution to the recovery of the US and other economies.
Yet the growth of corporate debt is not as ominous as it first appears – and, indeed, in some ways even points to a positive economic outcome.
Beyond the near-term bumps in the road, the shift to bond financing by companies is a positive development.
Such investments would help close the global savings gap and generate positive feedback for advanced economies as well.
The Western Balkans Summit last month was a positive step, provided that the countries still eager to join the EU do not lose sight of the need to enact deep reforms.
One of two things will happen: either tighter containment of Iran through sanctions on oil exports will produce positive results and weaken Iran, or containment will fail, leading the US inexorably toward a new war in the Middle East.
The main positive effect of quantitative easing was on asset prices – chiefly financial assets.
Hope was a force for good in post-war Europe, and it can be a force for positive transformation now.
Advocates of an “ownership society” argue that homeowners take better care of their property than renters, with positive externalities for the neighborhood.
In this regard, Tunisia starts on a positive note: a sense of national cohesion created by the successful overthrow of a widely hated dictator.
In addition, it doesn’t ignore the positive – the current and future taxes available to cover these liabilities.
But a closer examination shows that they are not quite as positive as they seem.
Taiwan’s December 2004 legislative elections had delivered an unexpected defeat for Chen and his ruling Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and the pro-independence camp’s failure to secure a legislative majority was seen as a positive development for relations with the mainland.
The key political change was the appointment of a new finance minister, Palaniappan Chidambaram, whose selection by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party leader Sonia Gandhi sent a strong positive signal to the Indian business community and to financial markets.
Open trade policies seem to have a positive effect on other macroeconomic variables crucial to the overall health of economies, acting as a sort of economic immune system booster.
For one thing, a respect for and understanding of the positive values inherent in other cultures.
This was an extremely positive and encouraging spirit that has been generated as a result of today’s meetings.”
Their view of the overall impact on employment levels in their industries was for the most part positive – provided that new workforce skills can be developed rapidly in their own sectors and in the labor market more broadly.
While this was far from a perfect monetary system, it had one very positive attribute: countries could leave in hard economic times, and rejoin if and when the outlook brightened.
Traditionalists argue that criticism of cronyism is really criticism of social solidarity and responsibility, which they see as positive features of Korean society.
The possibility of a positive choice, instead of mere rejection, created for some of us an unusually encouraging feeling.
Stability in the eurozone has been perhaps the single most important positive factor underpinning market confidence in the last year.
The Dead Cat BounceNEW YORK – Mild signs that the rate of economic contraction is slowing in the United States, China, and other parts of the world have led many economists to forecast that positive growth will return to the US in the second half of the year, and that a similar recovery will occur in other advanced economies.
Investors are talking of “green shoots” of recovery and of positive “second derivatives of economic activity” (continuing economic contraction is the first, negative, derivative, but the slower rate suggests that the bottom is near).
For this reason, politicians and powerful businessmen often cajole the press, the credit rating agencies, and even the analysts to portray their actions in a positive light.
Moreover, if deflation were to become entrenched in the eurozone and other parts of the world, a negative nominal return could be associated with a positive real return.
Of course, negative returns make their balance sheets shakier: a defined-benefit pension plan needs positive returns to break even, and when most of its assets yield a negative nominal return, such results become increasingly difficult to achieve.
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