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Obama has understandably focused on competing priorities, including the troubled US economy and ongoing wars abroad.
And all of this would amplify rather than attenuate political polarization, placing other urgent policy priorities at even greater risk.
Two decades ago, judicious European politicians looked for a “third way,” steering a zigzag course between the importance of market mechanisms and that of other social priorities, according to which the market needed to be directed.
Sometimes these were simply consumption booms – whether for households or for military outlays and presidential palaces – and sometimes they were investment booms, though much of the investment had been misallocated as a result of political priorities.
A second general issue has to do with priorities.
Only by aligning innovation with the priorities of a civilized society can we finally take health care to the next frontier.
Effective negotiations require a deep understanding of the other side’s interests, priorities, and constraints.
The much wiser approach would be to agree on policy priorities first and jobs later.
They have made it clear that when it comes to free expression, their priorities lie on the side of surrender.
But European priorities have to be the primary concern in this crisis – even at the price of losing office.
But the most important reason why an elected president is better equipped than a monarch to catalyze a public conversation about a society’s values and priorities is that he or she is more likely to be a person of superior ability.
So “Smart Defense,” which the Alliance defines as “pooling and sharing capabilities, setting priorities, and coordinating efforts better,” must also be a partnership issue.
First, it’s tough enough for leaders within the Chinese Communist Party elite to agree on economic-policy priorities.
Factions within the Russian, Indian, Mexican, and South African governments have their own competing political priorities.
To get the G-8 to agree on priorities is a complicated enough; building consensus within the G-20 is exponentially more difficult, not simply because of the larger number of players involved, but because many of them don’t agree on the most basic rules of the global economic game.
To some extent, this is because - all rhetoric notwithstanding - human rights rank relatively low among these governments' priorities.
Given traditional Republican priorities, reflected in President-elect Trump’s cabinet choices, federal government programs (with the notable exception of the military) are likely to be slashed.
Chile and Peru, too, have fallen in line with US priorities by emphasizing their openness to American investment.
Terrorism, proliferation, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the Middle East, and China are higher priorities.
A regional agenda must be created to help identify priorities, based on a three-pronged strategy that includes energy and water policy, arms control, and debt reduction.
And interminable reorganizations, politicized appointments, and the changing priorities of successive presidents have contributed to the perception that the institution is less than functional.
I hope that they do not share policy priorities, particularly a change of strategic alliances, which would be equally bad for Greece and for Europe.
If we get our priorities right, we will heed the lessons of this horror and create urban space only in environmentally sustainable ways.
In the field of development, these include large-scale decisions such as spending priorities – and thus budget allocations – by governments and international organizations.
In RethinkHIV, we engage some of the world’s top HIV economists, epidemiologists, and demographers in this vital discussion about priorities.
Little will be genuinely free in a future crafted by these populists: "liberalism" behind barricades; "welfare" that denies the most needy; "tolerance" that allows some to be targets; the un-liberating leader-cults of "noisy little men," their nationalisms and their narrow-mindedness, their police priorities and procrustean plans for "integrating" minorities.
Wastewater management is thus a central feature of the AfDB’s strategic priorities, known as the High 5s, which aim to improve Africans’ quality of life, boost public health, achieve gender equality, create jobs, and increase communities’ resilience to the effects of climate change.
Nuclear non-proliferation remains one of Obama’s priorities, as does the sale of US civilian nuclear technology to India, for which former President George W. Bush cleared the way.
What are the policy priorities, and how should they be fixed?
As for priorities, the EU has clearly indicated that Structural and Cohesion funds should be used to implement the “EU 2020” strategy, according to which member countries are asked to focus resources on a small number of high-return projects – so-called “thematic concentration.”
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