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Likewise, while the nationalism of America’s principal rival, China, has become more assertive lately, the communist regime’s clear priority – indeed, the key to its stability – is domestic economic growth.
A first-term Kerry administration or a second-term Bush presidency must make this a high foreign policy priority.
Between 1995 and 2002, it doubled the percentage of its rapidly growing GDP that it invests in R&D, with biotechnology and other high-tech fields enjoying the highest priority.
A political leader has greater opportunities than almost anyone else to help people, and that should have been Yanukovych’s highest priority.
Venezuela’s next president will have neither the time nor the resources to make foreign policy a priority.
While all five want a non-nuclear North Korea, China and South Korea place a higher priority on the stability of the North Korean regime than the US and Japan do.
And autocrats are not exactly known for placing a high priority on social justice.
But the number one priority for economists – indeed, for humankind – is finding ways to spur equitable economic growth.
China’s naval build-up is also a function of its growing overseas interests, which Chinese President Hu Jintao has publicly described as a priority for the armed forces.
On the contrary, devising solutions should be a high priority, with the policy debate centering on measures that would help to create truly inclusive economies.
Those on the right believe that governments’ top priority should be fiscal consolidation.
Fiscal discipline should not take priority over the important structural reforms included in the new deal, particularly measures to overhaul pensions, the legal system, product markets, public administration, and the judiciary.
And destroying the Islamic State’s “provinces” in Libya, Sinai, and elsewhere must become the number one priority of the international community.
That was a noble thing to do, but a key question was never asked: Why should someone who is able to travel to another country have priority over others who are in refugee camps and unable to travel?
Humanitarian responses too often give lower priority – and thus far fewer resources – to education than, say, basic health, shelter, and nutrition.
Rescue is the initial priority, followed by ensuring food, shelter, and medical aid.
In Asia, especially, filling the vacuum with alternative financing mechanisms has become a high priority.
But now that many governments and private institutions have made fighting the disease a high priority, its death toll has been halved over the last 15 years.
Winning it will require large-scale public-private cooperation, underpinned by political leadership that makes global public health a top priority.
BERKELEY – US President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have made large tax cuts for top earners a high priority, arguing that such cuts will stimulate economic growth, create jobs, and pay for themselves through increased revenues.
Only then can digital technology accelerate progress toward universal health coverage and address countries’ priority health needs.
By remaining focused on the reality of end-users and on priority health needs, rather than being dazzled by the latest technology, we can fulfil the promise of digital health.
Around the world, chronic diseases are increasing and populations are aging, making universal access to affordable care a top priority.
In the short run, the top priority is income support for the poor and the unemployed, who are the immediate victims of crises and the underlying imbalances and structural problems, which take time to remove.
Thus, the International Labor Organization and trade-union lobbies have managed to insert “Decent Jobs” into the seven priority areas at the Rio conference.
Both Romania’s recent treaty with Hungary (in which each country recognized, at long last, their common border), the campaign of the winning coalition led by current president Emil Constantinescu (which ousted Iliescu), and the various economic and diplomatic steps taken ever since Constantinescu and his allies came to power, are geared to Romanian accession to NATO, which is presented as a solution to all the country’s ills.This rejection by NATO, for which possibility the government made no effort to prepare the population, will likely be seen as a national humiliation, a sign that no matter how virtuously they behave Romanians will never be considered as real EuropeansA more prudent strategy is that pursued by Ukraine, which tries to keep good relations with Russia while giving priority to relations with the West.
Those people made the fight against female genital mutilation a priority in their lives.
When women are disempowered and underrepresented in decision-making processes, meeting their needs often is not given high priority.
Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, who currently holds the EU’s rotating presidency, has pushed for it, and Jean-Claude Juncker, the president-elect of the European Commission, has called it his “first priority.”
Beyond short-term fixes, the main priority must be to encourage a resumption of savings flows across Europe, but this time in the form of equity, not bank deposits and loans.
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