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As we develop a better understanding of ordinary people’s needs and priorities, those negotiating a global agreement at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris later this year would be wise to take note.
Opaque decisions and unexplained
priorities
are unlikely to receive public support.
The uneven development of infrastructure, as a result of
priorities
skewed to benefit colonialists, can lead to resources being distributed unevenly, which can lead to increasing social fissures.
The most important
priorities
include boosting the efficiency of government spending and developing new sources of revenue to replace oil exports.
The refugee crisis is fundamentally changing German economic-policy
priorities.
For one, delivering affordable energy to the poor does not figure prominently in the
priorities
of Africa’s state utilities, which function largely as vehicles for delivering cheap electricity to the wealthy, creating opportunities for patronage, and, as in the case of Tanzania, enabling large-scale institutionalized theft.
But they are wrong about our priorities, and they are advocating an inefficient remedy.
They found that dealing with HIV/AIDS, hunger, free trade, and malaria were the world’s top
priorities.
On the other hand, the experts rated immediate responses to climate change at the bottom of the world’s
priorities.
But policymakers have different
priorities
than economists do.
Blair has promised that he will make the fight against poverty and long-term climate change the two
priorities
of the summit.
The US, in particular, could intensify its pursuit of bilateral deals, by which it is able to impose increasingly inappropriate policy
priorities
on smaller nations.
At the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, participants set economic, social, and environmental
priorities
with which financing flows and policies for sustainable development should be aligned.
Europeans consumers' growing awareness of their rights and farmers' increasing fear of dependence on multinational companies are symptoms of a deeper concern about values and priorities: the type of environment we want, the role of biodiversity, our tolerance for risk, and the price we are prepared to pay for regulation.
We will know how good they are by the extent to which they view the SDGs as an opportunity to establish truly new
priorities
and truly universal goals for environmental and development policy in the twenty-first century.
Civic organizations should now modify their
priorities
before it is too late.
The EU’s inefficiencies, coupled with changes in the international
priorities
of some of its member states, have led to a decline in the Union’s political clout.
That means communicating to the Chinese more clearly where North Korea stands among its own
priorities.
The morbidity and mortality caused by diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, and pediatric pneumonia and diarrhea certainly justify such
priorities.
It is simply a question of
priorities.
As it stands, political
priorities
are constantly in flux, with individual dossiers losing their centrality, and even vanishing, from year to year.
And, finally, disease-control strategies must be designed to support the economic and health-care
priorities
of the RECs.
While there are currently other priorities, it would be useful for the IMF to study anew an SDR substitution account and similar schemes.
The report includes specific recommendations on matters such as how to shift to low-carbon systems; but it presents them against the backdrop of broader priorities, such as the SDGs.
In the Baltic Sea region, we have already adjusted the legal framework to reflect our priorities, built energy links and liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals, invested in relevant market instruments, and secured a reliable energy supply.
He did not have to carry out too many surveys of voters to arrive at those
priorities.
Governments are right to worry about the fate of Chernobyl-affected territories, but the way forward will require fresh thinking and bold decisions, particularly a shift in
priorities
from paying paltry benefits to millions to targeted spending that helps to promote jobs and economic growth.
But budgets are about priorities, and we have clearly made the Asia-Pacific region a priority.
But implementing a full-blown UBI would be difficult, not least because it would require answering a number of complex questions about goals and
priorities.
Adopting a more socially inclusive model of growth and development will require widening the lens through which
priorities
are set when shaping national economic strategies.
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