Potential
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Africa has learned a lot about democracy in these years, both its fragility and its
potential.
But this is now changing, and France’s
potential
future growth is about half a percentage point higher than that of Germany, where the population is shrinking.
Did the Israelis really want a resurgence of Islamist violence in Gaza, the
potential
collapse of peaceful politics on the West Bank, and now the right of a recognized Palestinian state to take Israel to the International Criminal Court for war crimes?
Israel is, however, a semi-imperial power, using traditional colonial methods: ruling by proxy, dividing
potential
rebels, rewarding obeisance, and punishing opposition.
It can mean two or more countries joining forces to face a
potential
enemy more efficiently; or, on the contrary, to invade and gain control over some other country.
That means that the principal bond of such an alliance is not a mere calculus of geopolitical interest, or of
potential
enemies, but something much deeper: solidarity.
But political disarray is far from the only
potential
threat to Trump’s economic success.
One
potential
mechanism for advancing these objectives is a South American Defense College, now under consideration.
Russian membership in the World Trade Organization has the
potential
to strengthen the rule of law, combat corruption, and give Russia a stake in better relations with the outside world.
Amid all the attention being devoted to China and the
potential
for competition or even conflict with the US, it should not be forgotten that Russia’s future hangs in the balance, for history suggests that declining powers can pose as great a challenge to world order as rising ones.
At best, Russia is a
potential
partner in the effort to manage globalization’s challenges; at worst, it is a
potential
problem.
Though pay-for-success contracts remain in their infancy and can involve complex and lengthy negotiations, they have the
potential
to transform how state and local governments fund, deliver, and evaluate social-service programs.
Brad Delong and Larry Summers have argued that in a repressed economy, short-term increases in borrowing can pay for themselves, even if the expenditures do not directly increase long-run
potential.
Moreover, given aging populations and low productivity growth,
potential
output is likely to be eroded in the absence of more aggressive structural reforms to boost competitiveness, leaving the private sector no reason to finance chronic current-account deficits.
All three have been studied in-depth by specialist economists for my think tank, the Copenhagen Consensus Center, which researches interventions and policies with the greatest
potential
to improve the world.
It is estimated that about 70% of the drugs currently in development across the industry are
potential
“first in class” treatments, meaning that they use a completely new mechanism of action against disease.
Finally, real-time data and emerging technology tools have the
potential
to improve patient engagement and adherence, especially among those with chronic conditions caused by non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Technologies that engage patients in their own health care and enable more seamless adherence to medication regimes have the
potential
to improve disease management, reduce hospitalization, and lower costs.
If these banks also have a commercial bank division, they may have an incentive to maintain credit lines beyond a prudent level, because to cut such lines would put at risk high
potential
future revenues from mergers and acquisitions and stock and bond issues.
But other actors, including
potential
future creditors, could be more open to persuasion.
But it would also demonstrate to old and
potential
new creditors alike not only a capacity, but also a willingness, to make payments, thereby creating incentives for external actors to support economic recovery.
And yet scaring off
potential
parents continues.
But scaring people from having children denies
potential
parents what is often seen as one of the best things life has to offer, in order to achieve less good than what $23,400 could buy.
Indeed, Ukraine’s interests form a comfortingly familiar triangle of economic, political, and strategic priorities: free trade and open markets across the globe; prosperous and democratic neighbors; and not being on the front-line of a conflict, still less a
potential
battleground, between Russia and the West.
And the
potential
for volatility is particularly great if domestic corporations have large foreign-currency debts, which is true in all of the emerging economies under stress today.
With the end of the Cold War, China had two options concerning India: to regard it as a natural ally, together with Russia, in building up an alternative to American dominance in the region, or to identify it as a
potential
adversary.
Needling an eager-to-please India on its troubled northern borders helps China to keep India guessing about its intentions, exposes the giant democracy’s vulnerabilities in an election year, and cuts a
potential
strategic rival down to size.
But now Japan is on board, South Korea is watching closely, and there is
potential
for engaging with China through this or a similar framework in the foreseeable future.
These episodes highlight the complexity of the Middle East’s changing geopolitical landscape, the fragility of Egypt’s post-Mubarak political order, and the explosive
potential
of Sinai, which, though sparsely populated, includes Egypt’s borders with Israel and the Palestinian enclave of Gaza.
But Sinai’s explosive
potential
clearly has been increased by the Muslim Brotherhood’s takeover.
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