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Grading ObamanomicsPALO ALTO – It is still too soon to gauge the full economic impact of President Barack Obama’s implemented and proposed policies, but a preliminary read indicates limited short-term benefit at large long-term cost.
Preliminary statistics from the General Department of Vietnam Customs (GDVC), which oversees Vietnam’s trade data, contradict the IMF assessment.
NEW YORK – China’s willingness to join negotiations on potential sanctions against Iran and to send President Hu Jintao to a nuclear security summit in Washington this month are important preliminary steps towards taking more responsibility in managing international affairs.
China’s active courtship of countries that violate human rights on a massive scale, such as Sudan, North Korea, and Burma, similarly represents a preliminary decapitation of the international human rights regime.
And, although several new vaccine candidates have passed preliminary clinical tests, BCG will remain the only available vaccine for years to come.
One explanation is that the published balance-of-payments data, now only preliminary, will be revised.
The recent G-20 summit occurred with virtually no real preliminary work.
The outlook for 2006 was also bullish, with preliminary data for the first quarter indicating that FDI flows had already reached US$14 billion, up from US$7.4 billion in the year-earlier period.
The International Civil Aviation Organization is working to reduce emissions from air travel, having reached a preliminary agreement on the subject just a few weeks ago.
Because the NATO strategy's success requires significant progress on each of these fronts, even the current preliminary signs of military progress and in Pakistan's relations with the Afghan Taliban will be for naught if Afghanistan's government cannot establish its legitimacy domestically.
Preliminary findings from a joint nutrition assessment show that one in four children is malnourished, and refugees are desperate when they cross the border.
In fact, China has run investment-account deficits for six of the last nine years, with preliminary statistics suggesting a deficit of $57.4 billion in 2012.
Many of the results of human studies are highly preliminary and do not actually identify a gene.
Our preliminary results suggest that the ideology behind violent extremism is delivered with a flexible marketing strategy, whereby extremist groups tailor their message for potential recruits.
This episode offers a few preliminary lessons on debt buybacks.
Now, as the process has become more fraught, the Obama administration has introduced a still further preliminary stage in which the nominee engages in a sort of do-it-yourself consultation with senators, after which the administration gauges the reaction and decides whether or not to go through with the nomination.
The IMF followed through by publishing a preliminary set of guidelines this past April.
While it is important to note that this figure is only an estimate, it represents a preliminary but credible indicator of climate finance, based on information provided by developed countries.
Given the extraordinary steps the Israeli military takes to avoid the commission of war crimes, it seems highly unlikely that, after a preliminary investigation, the ICC will ultimately bring a case against an Israeli soldier.
By agreeing to another summit while slow-rolling preliminary talks, Kim is reconnoitering Trump’s bottom line.
Preliminary conclusions emerging from these studies will illuminate political debates – and likely annoy ideologues of both the right and the left.
This nod from the White House followed the publication of reports that representatives of Afghan President Hamid Karzai had begun preliminary high-level talks regarding a possible coalition government and an agreed timetable for a NATO military withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Emerging Lessons of the New EconomyCAMBRIDGE: Debates about the New Economy have raged for years, yet preliminary conclusions are now possible.
While these findings are preliminary and the sample size small, it is nonetheless exciting to imagine that the world may be on the verge of a viable vaccine.
Nothing extraordinary has been revealed, but the cables now available allow readers and analysts to draw some preliminary conclusions about the Obama administration’s views of the region; about Latin American leaders’ attitudes toward the United States; and about the quality of US diplomatic and intelligence-gathering activities in the hemisphere.
Our preliminary results suggest that they can.
In February, Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), opened a preliminary investigation into allegations of crimes against humanity connected to the Philippines’ “war on drugs.”
If the ICC’s preliminary investigation does lead to a formal indictment, as I hope it will, the case could quickly ensnare top police officials, helping to end the wave of extrajudicial killings that have sown fear across the country.
But it is not too early to draw other preliminary conclusions.
To determine whether this event was indicative of a deeper pattern, Philip Hans Franses and I have studied how stock markets worldwide responded to preliminary estimates of quarterly GDP data from China (released first), the United States (released two weeks later), and Germany (released two weeks after that) in 2006-2009.
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