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Developing more stringent transparency rules and better risk-assessment tools has been a top priority for the financial community itself.
Given the heightened financial risks associated with climate change, resisting Trump’s executive order to roll back Wall Street transparency regulations should be a top priority.
But preventing the spillover into Xinjiang of Taliban-inspired religious extremism remains a high priority as well.
President Hamid Karzai has been a regular guest at SCO summits since 2004, and has called on the SCO to make combating narcotics trafficking a priority.
Unfortunately, today’s top policy priority is to address remote possibilities, whereas the urgent task at hand – coordinating and implementing efforts to raise and sustain growth and job creation – is being ignored.
Green spaces are nice, but at a time when 1.2 billion people still live in abject poverty, 2.5 billion lack access to water and sanitation, and almost a billion people go to bed hungry each night, are they really a top priority?
Given this priority, the main policy response follows automatically: massive investment, on a “Marshall Plan scale,” in education and workforce training to ensure that humans are taught the critical skills to enable them to cope with the transition.
In contrast, the Center for American Progress report devoted very little space to financial-sector reform – in the authors’ view, such issues hardly seem to be a high priority.
This means that agriculture should become an international priority, with the poorest countries helped to safeguard the security and independence of their food supplies.
As for the eight countries recently freed from Soviet domination, their priority is democratic consolidation.
But the Iraq crisis provided East European countries with an opportunity to confirm the absolute priority they place on strategic stability, which is why they put relations with the US ahead of worries about European political solidarity.
Of course, Clinton’s efforts to revitalize America’s alliances made restoring confidence in US leadership an overriding priority, which she achieved without seeking to militarize every international problem.
He prepared an agenda of cooperation on multiple issues, including security as a top priority.
Terrorism is a serious issue, and it deserves to be a top priority of our intelligence, police, military, and diplomatic agencies.
In such cases, the central bank’s governor should be required to write an open letter explaining the bank’s decision, including how long it expects to give priority to the non-inflation objective and how it foresees returning to normal operations.
Today, the top priority for socialists is to re-establish a balance between economic productivity and social justice.
The region is now America’s top foreign-policy priority.
Perhaps the final nail in the coffin of Latin American left-wing politics comes from Colombia, where President Juan Manuel Santos has made achieving peace with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Latin America’s oldest guerrilla group, his top priority.
When Putin became president in 2000, he named accession to the World Trade Organization as his foreign policy priority.
And though education is clearly a development priority, less than 10% of official development aid for education that year went toward children trapped in emergencies.
Those are outstanding returns, and a panel of Nobel laureates that studied the United Nations’ new Global Goals determined that controlling TB is one of 19 phenomenal development investments that should be given high priority globally.
A panel of development and economic experts that examined policy options for Bangladesh last year found that TB control should be the highest national priority.
It is simply inconceivable that Xi would attach higher priority to credit management than to winning the tariff war and thereby demonstrating the futility of a US containment strategy against China.
For developed countries, increasing resilience and flexibility over time by building public assets should be a long-term priority.
Hezbollah’s priority is to maintain the military capacity to fight Israel, and also to play a pivotal role in the broader regional rivalry between Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas on one side, and the United States, the Sunni-led mainstream Arab states, the Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestinian Authority, and Syria’s Lebanese foes on the other.
Likewise, Japan stands to benefit from its technological prowess in environmental remediation – an urgent priority for China in the years ahead.
Delivering arms to Ukraine before Russia attacks, openly or covertly, should be a priority.
So what right has priority when they conflict?
Such investment should come partly from international development assistance, which must place a higher priority on sexual- and reproductive-health services, and partly from national governments.
Safe pregnancy and childbirth should be a top priority for all societies, as it is for the UNFPA.
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