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But global health emergencies like the current Ebola epidemic highlight the folly of these fiscal priorities.
They need to identify priorities and opportunities, and work on them.
Of course, in the best of all worlds, we would not need to choose our priorities.
They found that dealing with HIV/AIDS, hunger, free trade, and malaria were the world’s top priorities, where we could do the most good for our money.
In 2014 and beyond, CEOs and their boards will need to establish new priorities, invest wisely, and be willing to support experimentation.
For the time being, Germany’s main foreign policy priorities are likely to remain the EU and the continent’s eastern and southern neighbors – from which immediate security risks are most likely to emanate.
Obviously, this means that everyone wants their favorite issue on the agenda, and more than a thousand targets have been proposed, which is tantamount to having no priorities at all.
That is why helping the UN narrow its priorities to include the best targets could be the most important thing that any of us can do this decade.
These are indeed the right priorities.
Financial Innovation Goes to SchoolPARIS – Later this month, the United Nations will discuss a high-level report on global development priorities for the period following the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which expire in 2015.
Quality education is one of the global priorities that world leaders will be taking up.
If one company takes the lead on developing new drugs to respond to antibiotic-resistant pathogens that the WHO has identified as urgent priorities, it will free others from their conventional strait jackets, and force them to stop thinking so narrowly about quarterly returns.
To this end, governments should encourage public-private partnerships focused on, for example, identifying the labor market’s unmet needs, setting TVET policy priorities, developing curricula and national standards, training TVET teachers, and implementing cost-sharing mechanisms.
Last month, IGAD foreign ministers convened in Brussels, together with the EU and the UNHCR, to assess progress, identify challenges, and set priorities for the coming months.
And financial professionals’ skills and incentives will have to be retooled and revised to reflect these new priorities.
He is mostly right: the best thing that monetary authorities could have done, given their other priorities and concerns, is to lean against the real estate bubble, not stop it from inflating.
In the United States, barring a foreign-policy crisis that directly threatens national security, President Barack Obama’s administration will focus most of its time, energy, and political capital on debt reduction and other domestic priorities.
Turkey’s powerful military establishment may want to maintain close relations with Israel, but the widely popular change in Turkey’s foreign policy priorities, and the serious identity dilemmas facing the nation, send an unequivocal message that the alliance can no longer serve as an alternative to peace with the Arab world.
That increase would have raised the carbon price substantially, providing governments with revenue – reaching $375 per ton of carbon today – to apply to meeting fiscal priorities, all while cushioning the fall in gasoline prices caused by the steep decline in the price of crude.
(The UN, the European Union, and the Union of South American Nations, focusing on other priorities, have avoided becoming collectively involved.)
Lomborg is the Director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center (CCC), and both there and in his regular commentaries, including for Project Syndicate, he reports on the results of CBA to recommend development priorities.
In choosing our priorities, we need to honor and reconcile different views about what counts and how to count it, in what will be – and should be – messy, participatory, democratic processes.
Once again, we see how misplaced Western national priorities can bring ruin on a non-Western nation.
If Africa is to finance its development priorities and meet the Sustainable Development Goals, it cannot afford inaction.
Above all, policymakers should ensure that fighting poverty remains one of their highest priorities.
Protecting women migrants – often the most desperate of the desperate – should top their priorities.
While maintaining stable exchange rates within the EMS initially proved difficult, owing to large differences in national inflation rates and economic-policy priorities, the situation quickly improved, thanks to US President Ronald Reagan.
Under this system, why would a minister spend money on another minister’s priorities?
The central pool of resources is designed to increase the responsiveness of one ministry’s back end to the demands of society as identified by another ministry’s front end, without these resources competing with the priorities that each ministry has for its “own” budget.
By allocating a small proportion of each year’s budget to priorities identified in this way, we may find that, over time, budgets become more responsive and better reflect society’s evolving needs.
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