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Doing everything possible to avoid a repeat of the 1989 scenario may well be the Communist Party leadership’s top priority in 2009.
Thanks to the leadership of African countries that have made agricultural development a priority, and to the tireless efforts of many international organizations, real progress is being made against hunger and poverty on the continent.
Short-term goals must have priority, because many Islamist parties are being pressed to produce positive results within a single electoral cycle.
A drastic reduction of CO2 emissions is an urgent priority, but fusion is unlikely to produce sufficient energy to achieve that goal before the twenty-second century.
The present US administration, by contrast, seems to put a much higher priority on war and the rhetoric of war.
There are, of course, local reasons why the Europeans set a high priority on peacekeeping and reconstruction in the Balkans.
But nobody should imagine that Europeans are ever likely to share the priority attached by America to the value of military power.
Although this infrastructure is financed mainly by individual EU member states using their own funds, the TEN-T is binding and marks out the priority projects for each member.
In order to ensure this, policymakers must give priority to the efficiency criterion and bear in mind the environmental costs of both land and sea transport.
Preventing that outcome should be a top priority for Europe’s leaders.
Africa’s Free-Trade FutureLUSAKA – When African leaders launch the massive Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) on March 21, 2018, at a summit in Kigali, Rwanda, their top priority should be to avoid rolling out something that is either hollow or redundant.
African governments should give priority to investments in technical education and HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, care, and support programs.
Moreover, adaptation should be a high priority, particularly for the most vulnerable groups.
Finally, the international financial community must live up to its responsibility to ensure that the development agenda remains a priority.
If South Korea takes the lead, the US will be able to concentrate on its top priority: North Korea’s nuclear arsenal.
For creditors, especially German lenders, the main priority has been to impose austerity and discipline on the eurozone’s profligate south.
Building a framework that allows dissenting voices to be heard, and heeded, must be Malaysia’s highest priority.
When the SDGs were first proposed in 2012, the UN’s member said that they “should be action-oriented,” “easy to communicate,” and “limited in number,” with many governments favoring a total of perhaps 10-12 goals encompassing the 17 priority areas.
During Obama’s first year in office, his administration placed a high priority on cooperation with China, but Chinese leaders seemed to misread US policy as a sign of weakness.
On the expenditure side, Brazil needs a new round of pension reform – clearly a priority, given the rapid aging of the population.
To be sure, the G-20 has made the most vulnerable countries’ key challenges a top priority, and has pursued the Seoul Development Consensus for Shared Growth – the nine-pillar multi-year plan endorsed at the 2010 summit – with unprecedented vigor.
With this in mind, the G-20 presidency has set food security as a key priority this year.
First, utmost priority should be given to strengthening the mechanisms aimed at preventing pro-cyclical policies and large fiscal shocks.
Therefore, labor-market liberalization should be a high priority and another area of focus for the reinvigorated Lisbon Agenda.
As desirable as the rule of law and similar reforms may be in the long run and for development in general, they rarely deserve priority as part of a growth strategy.
Europe’s leaders remain convinced that structural reform must be their top priority.
Though no one can say for sure what Tobin would have thought of Europe’s crisis, his priority was always the pursuit of full employment.
Brazil’s current criticisms of Iran, along with a request for dialogue with the opposition, weak as they may be, represent a change of position, which reflects the absolute priority of Brazilian diplomacy: permanent membership of the Security Council.
Why does the Chief Rabbinate of Israel never discuss peace, much less make a statement on what, in the eyes of God, should have priority: a piece of land or millions of human lives?
That measure, the first projection of Chinese naval power so far from home, is consistent with Confucianism, which regards morality as the top priority of policymaking, rather than Marxism, according to which economic interests alone drive foreign policy.
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