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Its priorities should include agricultural productivity; mobilization of information technologies for sustainable development; deployment of low-carbon energy systems; and quality education for all, with greater reliance on new forms of communication to reach hundreds of millions of under-served students.
The Pact for Mexico has already taught us the important lesson that national priorities and partisan loyalties are not mutually exclusive.
But the key to dialogue is political will and setting the right priorities.
A case study in Bangladesh, which spends more than $9 billion on public procurement annually, found that piloting e-procurement in just one government department lowered prices by 12%, leaving more resources for other important budget priorities.
When credit is politicized, investment priorities quickly become distorted.
In order to reinvent itself, if not to manage its relative international decline, America must proceed toward a rebalancing of its domestic and international priorities.
Today, by contrast, the starting point for a reassessment of American priorities is more economic than ethical.
That means that US foreign policy itself – defined in recent years by too much attention to the Middle East, and too little to Asia – must embrace a shift in priorities.
Though the requirement is adhered to only loosely – President Barack Obama has released just two strategies in the last seven years – the intent is clear: to establish a set of concrete national security priorities informed by the administration in office and the country’s changing circumstances.
But how can they avoid electing another politician whose priorities are as misguided as those of Yanukovych?
This test will not select the best candidate, but it will eliminate at least some candidates with priorities that no decent political leader should have.
Thus, let national negotiators, local leaders, and communities determine what their economic needs and priorities are, and let insurgents determine their preferred venue for reintegration.
Indeed, there is something fundamentally immoral about the way we set our priorities.
But, for the next few years, the priorities of fiscal policy should be jobs, investment, and growth.
Should priorities once again be reversed?
In theory, it should be easy to conceive of two different regulatory systems that reflect, for example, the different priorities that the US and the EU assign to privacy.
How are these countries to harmonize their own national interests and priorities with those of the Western powers?
The US effort to create two mega-regional free-trade zones – the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, neither of which includes China – is indicative of America’s priorities.
Risk aversion has gone hand in hand with skewed institutional priorities, as is evident in the Bank’s budget.
But, whatever one’s view is about the proper priorities, it is clear that the US has room for improvement in all three areas.
The GIRL Center, which I direct, aims to make the most of the world’s investments in girls, both by supporting evidence-based policies and by aligning the goals and priorities of various stakeholders.
With (mostly) United States-based academic journals reigning over global science, no one has to move to become part of a new brain drain, whereby scientists’ research priorities, problems, and methods gravitate to the dominant positivist epistemology, at the expense of all alternatives.
But none of this is apparently enough to force officials to re-examine their priorities.
Webs of intrigue and murky players obscure details, but the priorities are unmistakeable.
So one of the G20’s top priorities this year will be our work to prevent a recurrence of a global financial and economic crisis like that of 2008-2009, which stemmed from a myopic, debt-based growth model.
The plan comprises five key priorities.
The third and fourth priorities are to boost “green” or environmentally sustainable production techniques and renewable energy, and to promote the structural transformation of industries and firms.
I doubt, however, that celebrities like Miss Bardot will ever recognize the absurdity of their misplaced priorities – to come to a country where millions live in despair and dire conditions, and show concern for only the wild dogs.
His current priorities are to secure a massive military-aid deal with the US in the coming months, and to orchestrate a new public-relations blitz justifying his government’s current policy regarding settlements in the occupied territories, which the international community has condemned as illegal.
Of course, with Turkey’s term at the G-20’s helm having barely begun, Xi probably has not yet settled on specific priorities.
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