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Some analysts have recently claimed that this is because the pursuit of GDP growth, job creation, and financial stability, as well as the establishment of priorities when there are tradeoffs, clearly requires political decisions, which should not be made by unelected officials alone.
At the beginning of the year, when Rousseff’s second presidential term officially began, her administration’s priorities were clear: implement a credible fiscal-adjustment program that would take the primary budget balance (which excludes interest payments) comfortably back into surplus and reduce the growth rate of public debt to sustainable levels.
Donald Trump and the New Economic OrderHONG KONG – Since the end of World War II, the hierarchy of economic priorities has been relatively clear.
While Trump might pursue mutually beneficial bilateral agreements, one can expect that they will be subordinated to domestic priorities, especially distributional aims, and supported only insofar as they are consistent with these priorities.
As inequality across countries has declined, inequality within countries has surged – to the point that the reversal of priorities was probably inevitable.
Trends in the US budget reflect an inconvenient truth: If the growth of spending on health-care programs cannot be slowed, stabilizing the federal debt at a sustainable level will require deep cuts in spending on other priorities and increases in taxes on the middle class.
Since the late 1990’s, China’s strategic priorities and the PLA’s defense doctrine have increasingly focused on “diversified missions.”
The temptation to favor misguided national priorities could lead to disaster for all.
Yet Merkel’s poor communication of her policy priorities, together with a lackluster debate performance, nearly cost her the election.
Yet one is obvious: States possess common interests that should trump national priorities.
A program of strategic priorities is in order.
Setting the right priorities is the first, critical step.
Last month, Bill Gates announced that he will do what Carnegie recommended: in two years, he will change his priorities so that he can work full time for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which he and his wife founded.
For example, by creatively using social media to collect, collate, and amplify young people’s priorities in the Kenyan elections, Jiactivate helped spur their interest in politics.
The priorities are clear.
The top priorities include modernizing the country’s transport and energy infrastructure, reforming an underperforming education system, improving the labor market, bringing order to an overly-fragmented fiscal structure, enhancing the provision of public goods, and safeguarding America’s interests abroad.
Iraq provides numerous examples of the dangers created by misplaced priorities.
Instead, he should take into account the priorities of both Italy, the biggest obstacle to EU reform, and Germany.
That means putting together a package that responds to Germany’s priorities – namely, ensuring fiscal stability and securing limits on bank holdings of sovereign debt – while helping to ease the burden on Italy of guarding the EU’s external border and admitting refugees.
I realized my priorities were all out of whack.
Unlike elected governments, which face competing priorities, ranging from diplomatic concerns to taxpayer sentiment, the Gates Foundation can focus on what works best.
These are grotesquely distorted priorities.
Indeed, Ukraine’s interests form a comfortingly familiar triangle of economic, political, and strategic priorities: free trade and open markets across the globe; prosperous and democratic neighbors; and not being on the front-line of a conflict, still less a potential battleground, between Russia and the West.
In the current global age, Asia, the Middle East, and even maybe Africa will constitute greater priorities for the US.
Russian foreign policy is, as it was under the Soviets, an extension of official domestic priorities.
But while governments dictated broad sectoral priorities, banks decided the firm-by-firm allocation and extended credit via loan contracts, which imposed financial discipline.
In response, China has launched its “Silk Road” initiative to create an economic zone that will favor its own priorities.
We would do well to keep his priorities and his principles uppermost in our minds, now that he is no longer here to remind us of their necessity.
There was no leadership over economic policy defining new priorities and measures to meet the changed macroeconomic conditions.
The coordinated fiscal stimulus that saved the world from economic collapse in 2009 disappeared too quickly, with governments shifting their focus to domestic politics and priorities.
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