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Health education through public media, reaching distant areas of the country, is an urgent priority, but has been utterly ignored in favor of commercial priorities.
For example, defense priorities are still overwhelmingly national – focused on pet projects rather than projecting European power.
They are too big to be free riders, so the incentives relating to sustainability are becoming internalized as national priorities.
The emergence of sustainability as a critical element in growth strategies in the worlds’ future largest economies is an extraordinarily positive development, because national needs, goals, and priorities remain much more powerful incentives than international agreements.
In many cases, they are already in debt, and struggling to fund their own investment priorities, such as education, infrastructure, and security.
Focus and establishment of priorities should be the watchwords for the US side.
This means that China must treat climate change and intelligent energy use as priorities in its national policies.
It is back to normal, to domestic priorities, to a narrow definition of national interests.
So one question is whether existing sanctions can be extended and tightened; here, China and Russia must determine their priorities.
At the same time, EU policy has sidelined clear southern priorities, like opening up Europe’s agriculture and textile markets.
Eradicating hunger, ending food insecurity, and ensuring sustainability are global priorities that call for collective action.
The fact is that whenever one party has firm control of government, it has a powerful incentive to borrow to finance its priorities, knowing that it won’t necessarily be the one to foot the bill.
So expect US President-elect Donald Trump’s administration, conservative or not, to make aggressive use of budget deficits to fund its priorities for taxes and spending.
Instead, deficits are almost always the product of fierce political infighting over fiscal priorities.
They also believed in – or at least toyed with – forms of socialism and étatism, and did not consider democracy or civil rights to be priorities.
To make the best of this outcome, developing nations will have to have a good sense of their interests and priorities.
The upcoming Strategic and Economic Dialogue between the US and China is an excellent opportunity to examine – and rethink – America’s priorities.
Wen’s priorities for his trip to India are clear: trade, security, and, far behind, the territorial disputes between the two countries.
Whereas good policymaking is about setting priorities, Trump’s policymaking is about wanting it all, wanting it now, and gaining very little.
In Bangladesh, three top priorities were identified by the research and by a panel of experts including a Nobel laureate and Bangladeshi development specialists: e-government solutions, improved TB response, and child nutrition.
It would mean spending too much time and resources on lower-return priorities, instead of focusing on the targets that promise the biggest impact on the world’s poorest.
But, in addition to shaping strategic priorities, it must have practical plans in place on the ground.
As the only entity that integrates central banks, supervisors, treasuries of major economies, and international standard-setting bodies, the FSB is uniquely positioned to set priorities on financial regulation, provide regulatory coherence across the financial sector, oversee consistent implementation, and, in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund, to assess systemic vulnerabilities.
Effective execution of such an ambitious mandate is particularly important in view of two emerging G-20 priorities for the FSB: regulatory initiatives with respect to the functioning of markets, including so-called “shadow banking” (the less regulated forms of private financing), and new mechanisms to foster consistent implementation of standards.
Investing in a Closed-Border WorldCAMBRIDGE – Investors, like astronomers or anthropologists, rely on intellectual models to make sense of a complicated universe, guide immediate choices, and set priorities for further inquiry.
The shift of US military priorities to the Asia-Pacific region is an understandable strategic rebalancing, given America’s excessive focus on the Middle East and its maintenance of an unnecessary military presence in Europe.
But NATO’s priorities this year include a sweeping review of its own strategic purpose, something the alliance has not questioned since 1999, while the EU continues to struggle towards its goal of forging a European defense policy worthy of the name.
The Hamas/Fatah face-off marks a dramatic shift in Palestinian politics, whose top priorities until now has been an end to the Israeli occupation and the establishment of an independent state.
Priorities for XDR-TB surveillance include facilitating access to reliable susceptibility testing to second-line drugs and incorporating this, together with information about HIV testing, into existing TB surveillance activities.
Among other things, this unprecedented skewing of priorities led to a collapse in oil production, because the national oil company PDVSA failed to maintain its productive infrastructure and defaulted on payments to key contractors in order to pay its bondholders – thereby killing the goose that laid the golden eggs.
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