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One pressing issue – for the US, China, and the global economy – is China’s move to a more flexible exchange-rate policy.
For example, the UK and the US may be adopting approaches that differ with respect to protecting commercial banks from more speculative, proprietary trading, but the policy concerns are broadly similar – and may not be so pressing elsewhere, where banking traditions are different and trading is more restrained.
“Everyday people come with ideas to demobilize the fighters and integrate them into society,” notes an official in the Labor Ministry, referring to the most pressing problem facing the NTC.
People will talk of nothing else, while pressing social, economic, and political questions are left to fester.
The inadequate response to pressing questions of natural resource management, whether of water or trees, merely strengthens the hands of opium dealers and malcontents in what is already the most disaffected and sensitive part of Afghanistan – the clear-cut mountain slopes where intelligence officers believe Osama bin Laden is most likely holed up.
In emerging markets and low-income economies, the challenge is to avoid overheating, contain financial risks, and address pressing social spending needs, while not compromising sustainability.
– the terrible privilege of having felt six million shadows pressing against his frail silhouette, in an effort to gain their almost imperceptible place in the great book of the dead.
I am a strong, almost old-fashioned believer in parliamentary democracy, but when it comes to situations like postwar Iraq, two other imperatives are equally pressing.
But the Union's finance ministers would be better off pushing the internal reforms Europe needs, rather than following the Bush example and pressing the European Central Bank to force a strong currency down to earth.
Breaking the cycle will not be easy, but there is no other way to address many of the most pressing problems confronting China’s economy.
With good-governance reforms now a condition for international aid, developing-country governments often end up mimicking donor expectations, instead of addressing the issues that are most pressing for their own citizens.
Sadly, the US and other advanced countries have been pressing for stronger intellectual-property regimes around the world.
The United Kingdom and France are pressing hard for indirect military intervention: supplying arms to the rebel side, in their view, would be a low-cost, low-risk, potentially high-return option.
Aside from the eurozone’s design flaws, the pressing items on Europe’s agenda concern competitiveness, jobs, innovation, and technology.
In Russia, Ukraine, Hungary, Pakistan, Turkey, Malaysia, Mexico, Nigeria, and other states, battles among domestic political factions will yield often-incoherent responses to pressing economic problems.
While the Bank’s annual report, released in September, talks of a commitment to “researching today’s most pressing topics,” trade is not among them.
Indeed, though the US Constitution stipulates that the power to “regulate Commerce with foreign Nations” lies solely in the hands of Congress, the Obama administration is pressing legislators to approve so-called fast-track authority, under which they would have no say over either the TPP’s terms or the parties to it – or even the power to amend the treaty text in any way.
Now, after decades of turf wars and self-marginalization, international organizations must rally around an increasingly pressing global priority: sustainable urbanization.
“When I am President,” he proclaimed in another, Russia and the US “will, perhaps, work together to solve some of the many great and pressing problems and issues of the WORLD!”
Developing-country financial regulators have already taken steps to direct investment toward their countries’ most pressing needs.
Energy lies at the heart of the world’s most pressing global challenges.
Our policy advice can help shine a light on the pressing issues of the day – growth, core vulnerabilities, and interconnectedness.
During his mandate, the Secretary-General will face the pressing challenge of forging a global agreement on climate change for the years beyond 2012, when the Kyoto Protocol ends.
Established political parties fare even worse: 80% of Germans trust political parties “little or not at all,” and nearly 60% no longer believe that they can devise solutions to pressing problems.
Only by shifting to a broader understanding of growth and development can the world address the pressing problems of inequality and sustainability.
Yes, he should have adopted a more conciliatory style and shown greater appreciation for the norms of European negotiations; and, yes, he overestimated Greece’s bargaining power, wrongly assuming that pressing the threat of Grexit would compel his European partners to reconsider their long-entrenched positions.
This is the kind of progress the world needs if it is to address effectively one of the most pressing issues of our time: providing a healthy, sustainable planet for rich and poor alike.
But the need for critical thinking has never been as pressing as in the Internet era.
More of the same in US-Latin American relations would mean four more years of "the war on terror" at center stage, four more years of pressing issues - trade, poverty, the environment, immigration - placed on the back burner, and four more years of an American foreign policy that defines friendship in terms of the number of troops sent to Iraq.
The world cannot do without rules; it cannot move forward against our age's most pressing problems without defined legal rules and the institutions that regulate international law.
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