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This directly contradicts Prime Minister Theresa May’s stated priorities – and probably explains why she refuses to talk about her Brexit strategy.
Third, the need for immigration reform, combined with “illiberal democracy” in Central Europe, calls for changes in EU spending priorities and foreign policy.
Today, the World Bank and other development agencies are mapping out the global development priorities that will follow the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which officially end in 2015 and included specific targets for promoting gender equality and empowering women as a strategy for economic growth.
None of this will work if Germany will not start defining military strategy, security, and defense as top political priorities.
Dani Rodrik’s 2011 book The Globalization Paradox criticizes globalization enthusiasts for wanting full liberalization of foreign trade and capital movements; he argues that when democratically established social arrangements clash with the demands of globalization, national priorities should take precedence.
But, within China, as the American political scientists Andrew Nathan and Andrew Scobell argued recently in Foreign Affairs, there is growing tension between domestic economic priorities and Chinese leaders’ belief that “China’s political stability and territorial integrity are threatened by foreign actors and forces.”
Paradoxically, accepting the reality of tribal, or ethnic, power lays the foundation for national unity by letting each group first sort out its own priorities.
This political turmoil suggests that economists’ priorities may not have been entirely appropriate.
This begins with political will and the setting of priorities.
Yet their priorities are often set in an ad hoc way with little regard for achieving the largest welfare gains possible.
But the experts’ ranking of priorities also revealed some exciting and promising policy options.
By highlighting the factors that correlate with success, the Legatum Prosperity Index should spur policymakers and citizens to reconsider their priorities.
Second, the liberals’ priorities were misplaced.
China, Japan, and Indonesia must be among Obama’s priorities, but many others will clamor for him to visit their capitals.
Members are equally empowered to set priorities and contribute to discussions.
Second, what are the purposes and priorities of foreign policy?
Like the ACD, the ECS shifts Thai foreign policy priorities to the Southeast Asian mainland, highlighting Thailand’s role and Thaksin’s canny leadership.
And yet Europe has proven utterly incapable of developing an appropriate response to conditions in which Islamist regimes are independently shaping their priorities and external actors – Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Russia, China, and perhaps even Iran – are vying for influence with an extraordinary combination of financial firepower and political muscle.
NATO’s “Operation Unified Protector” in Libya was a major success for the alliance, but America’s decision to let Europe assume the leading role also signaled its intention to “rebalance” its global priorities.
Many in Japan would like to avoid a divisive debate that could distract the government’s attention from other priorities.
In its report, the SDSN has identified ten high-priority goals for sustainable development:The idea behind these priorities is to combine the four key dimensions of sustainable development: economic growth (including ending poverty), social inclusion, a healthy natural environment, and good governance (including peace).
The EU needs to distinguish between core and peripheral priorities.
Instead of waiting for challenges to arise, young men should begin establishing their priorities now.
Having served as Sierra Leone’s finance minister, central bank governor, and now foreign minister, I have worked for many years with international organizations to manage these competing priorities as I oversaw the economic revitalization of my own post-conflict state.
In other words, they should make the search for excellence compatible with national priorities and objectives.
An apology is the least that Australia can now offer, accompanied by a commitment to review its intelligence-gathering methods and priorities.
The risk they face is clear enough: absent a profound reengineering, inertial spending – owing to entitlements and civil-service wages – is bound to crowd out spending on new priorities and new policies.
Setting priorities – whether to spend more on education and less on pensions, for example, or whether to invest in infrastructure or in research – entails hard choices that should be made explicit.
Judging from past experience, it is likely that the targets of additional lending will be selected according to national political priorities.
The new analyses from India Consensus follow the Copenhagen Consensus approach of studying costs and benefits, used previously to improve priorities for billions of dollars in spending in Haiti and Bangladesh, and to help sharpen the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
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