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Similarly – and this is the third critical reform priority – more aggressive action is needed to regulate financial markets, especially to prevent insider trading and money laundering, and to close down illegal financial centers.
The fourth and final priority is a more concerted effort to ensure fair competition and avoid crony capitalism.
Seared by memories of turmoil, reinforced by the Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s and 1970’s, China’s leadership places the highest priority on stability.
But all indications are that the North Koreans have accelerated their testing schedule and have made nuclear weapons a top priority.
The latest detonation also tests whether the world can make addressing North Korea’s dangerous aspirations a priority by uniting around a common policy that is more than rhetorical in its condemnation.
An innovative strategy under discussion in Washington, DC, is linked to corporate-tax reform – a priority for President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans.
Federal funding, he has signaled, would be limited to “high priority,” “transformative” national projects and used as leverage to encourage public-private partnerships (PPPs).
The Changing Climate on Climate ChangeOSLO – In the early 1990s, when I was Prime Minister of Norway, I once found myself debating sustainable development with an opposition leader who insisted that I tell him the government’s single most important priority in that field.
The essence of the Chinese economic model is a careful sequencing of reforms, with priority given to economic reform over political reform, which means retaining the existing constitutional system and the ruling status of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
In downgrading EU enlargement as a formal policy priority, the Commission is preparing itself to take other important steps.
The top priority for the European Union at the beginning of the twenty first century must be the historic project concealed beneath the rather boring label of ‘enlargement’.
CAMBRIDGE – Under French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s leadership, the G-20 has made addressing food-price volatility a top priority this year, with member states’ agriculture ministers meeting recently in Paris to come up with solutions.
In a year when there are more local conflicts than ever – and in which children have become among the first (and forgotten) casualties – it is urgent that we make stopping attacks on schools a high priority.
One priority is to reduce global payments imbalances.
This is why our priority is growth: everything else, frankly, is less important."
A few years ago, Fareed Zakaria, then an editor of Foreign Affairs , argued against the priority normally given to democracy, simply defined as the possibility of choosing political leaders through free elections.
A vital tool to affect public policy is a national business agenda identifying the highest priority reforms.
The German and Swedish governments have not placed a high priority on addressing this question.
Gilani unequivocally declared in his inaugural address that fighting terrorism is a top priority, and his first decision was to release from house arrest judges deposed by Musharraf.
But no, their highest priority is to enact more tax cuts that will mainly benefit the rich.
For Saudi Arabia, these challenges are a higher priority than defeating ISIS, which accounts for the country’s virtual disappearance from the fight.
But this would mean reversing the priority given to deficit reduction.
San Antonio, Texas, made investment in early education a priority.
For President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration, raising national income and ensuring that people earned more became the top priority.
Before the intervention, Mali was not a French priority.
To prepare for these changes, France should not only send more students abroad and welcome more foreign students; in a country where a non-negligible share of each generation still struggles to master basic literacy and numeracy, public education must remain a key priority.
And the fastest way to achieve its goals is by making education a top priority in every member state.
In those settings, the US, reasonably enough, did not view traditional investment support from the IMF and World Bank as a high priority.
Finally, top priority should be assigned to completing the Single European Market, in which the Union has powerful legal instruments to pry open markets and sustain competition.
One priority should be the development of an appropriate mechanism for ensuring that revenues from the sale of natural gas are properly accounted for, repatriated, and allocated to meet urgent national needs.
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