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Achieving these goals, TAD supporters recognize, would require policymakers to give food security high political and fiscal priority, in order to support the needed research and action.
With taming inflation its top priority, the PBC has raised banks’ mandatory reserve ratio six times this year.
This, too, should be a high priority of a true development round.
But China has identified automation as a strategic priority, and is now developing its own robotics industry in order to stay ahead of its rising labor costs and aging population.
The second pillar is a special priority of mine: modernizing and strengthening America’s alliances and partnerships in the region, and developing new ones.
But budgets are about priorities, and we have clearly made the Asia-Pacific region a priority.
But, for those wealthy economies, restoring decent growth is now the major priority.
Based on my research and experience, I would suggest that three key objectives must be assigned top priority if the initiative is to succeed.
Reagan’s White House staff kept the administration’s message focused on the priority issue of the day or week.
Presidents in their second terms often apply old-fashioned American pragmatism to tough issues, which they often cannot do during their first terms, when reelection is their first priority.
A priority for any interim administration must be to restore and improve educational and healthcare institutions so that they can recover lost ground.
Another priority is to wean people from dependence on government.
Mutually beneficial international arrangements governing flows of goods, capital, technology, and people (the four key flows in the global economy) are appropriate only when they reinforce – or, at least, don’t undermine – progress on meeting the highest priority.
Given fear of contamination – and military interest in a more durable supply – research into synthetic alternatives has long been a medical priority.
As a start, priority must be given to face-to-face negotiations.
If Russia’s strategy aims to erode the Union by focusing on bilateral relations, the EU’s priority should be to institutionalize the Union as Russia’s negotiating partner.
But Xi made clear at the UN that it is a priority, declaring that China is ready to share its development experience with other countries, provide them with new opportunities, and “welcome them to board China’s express train of development.”
The priority for Africa and the international community must be to ensure that the continent weathers the global financial storm, preserves the significant achievements of the past decade, and continues to make decisive progress in combating poverty.
A top priority should be to preserve and expand its cost-cutting provisions.
In northern Europe, for example, the European Central Bank’s independence is seen as essential for price stability – and politicians on the right typically attach a higher priority to this goal.
Economic growth must be the priority, for only growth will put people back to work and repay Europe’s debts.
Although Obama is likely to give priority in his diplomacy to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, he cannot take the Asia-Pacific region’s stability for granted.
Cleaning up two such institutions – the public sector and the judiciary – should be a priority for many governments in the region.
Bureaucratic and judicial reform ought to have priority in most countries in Latin America.
In the meantime, the most urgent priority is a process of de-escalation, stabilization and political consolidation within Palestinian society.
Yemen’s location, along the critical shipping lanes in the Gulf of Aden, makes the country a strategic priority for everybody, but especially for the Saudis.
Obviously, US President Barack Obama’s administration is right to make restraining Iran’s nuclear ambitions a high priority.
Wen said recently that China “should continue to implement a proactive fiscal policy and a prudent monetary policy, while giving more priority to maintaining growth.”
The top priority at the conference must be to secure a ceasefire.
Now that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s government has been forced to acknowledge the unqualified priority of debt servicing, and can now benefit from unlimited monetary support from the ECB, Greece should have little problem supporting its debt burden, which is no heavier than Japan’s or Italy’s.
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