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China has yet to follow through on its second promise: that Hong Kong would elect its chief executive by “universal suffrage” by 2017.
Last year, with the New York Declaration, governments around the world made a collective promise to invest in refugees and the communities hosting them.
Either way, the consequences promise to be far-reaching.
The new provision in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 that holds promise for low-income communities is the Social Impact Partnerships to Pay for Results Act (SIPPRA), which establishes a $100 million federal fund to facilitate pay-for-success (PFS) contracts by state and local governments.
To be sure, this could weaken a debtor’s leverage – the promise of future repayment – in bringing creditors back to the negotiating table.
The promise of never-ending and self-defeating austerity cannot provide solid foundations to the monetary union.
But the Brexit vote – with its promise to recreate the Britain of yesterday – is less revolution than counter-revolution.
Its transformative power springs from the promise of potential membership, a “neighborhood policy” that exports European values, and its facilitation of global institution-building and copycat regional integration.
They may succeed in unraveling the EU, but they are unlikely to deliver on their promise of recreating the world of yesterday, much less a better future.
But fulfilling that promise – which would now entail improving the wellbeing of about 45 million people, roughly equivalent to Sudan’s entire population – will carry significant costs.
Second, they should promise to unveil, in the next couple of years, national “pathways” to deep decarbonization by 2050.
To be sure, expanded trade holds great promise for promoting development and democracy.
The US and Europe reneged on their promise that this would be a round of trade negotiations designed to improve the plight of developing countries.
The idea that central banks should consider making a new promise to raise their inflation targets is hardly credible.
Understanding this history is vital, because Europe’s Union once again stands at a threshold: should it keep its promise to start membership talks with Turkey?
In the wake of the defeat of the EU’s Constitutional Treaty in France and the Netherlands this spring, many say that Europe’s decade-old promise cannot and should not be kept.
The promise of greater exchange of goods, services, and capital across the Pacific, as well as the creation of international standards (for example, for intellectual-property rights), is simply too appealing to ignore.
In essence, a brand is a promise; and powerful brands deliver on their promise consistently – be it based on quality, price, or experience.
Hamas’s promise to the Palestinians, however, is a delusion.
For example, at the International Conference on Financing for Development, in Monterrey, Mexico in March 2002, America signed the Monterrey Consensus, which includes a promise by rich countries to raise their development assistance towards 0.7% of national income.
Yet President Bush has simply ignored this promise.
Using a GET FiT-type structure to underpin the early financing of initiatives such as DESERTEC, a large-scale program to generate solar and wind power in the Sahara desert for use in North Africa and export to Europe, holds particular promise.
That promise would be as hard to keep as it was important to make.
But the EU has so far failed to prepare the Western Balkans for accession, in line with its leaders’ promise at their Thessaloniki summit in 2003 to admit the Western Balkan states when they meet the Union’s standards.
That promise was not a matter of charity; the Balkans would add value to the EU.
So, for millions of such children, the future holds little promise or hope.
But the victorious Allied powers later abandoned this promise, and the Kurdish people have lived under constant oppression ever since.
Indeed, nowadays political parties dangle the carrot of reservations to ever more castes, and even promise to extend the policy to admissions into elite educational institutions and the private sector.
Admittedly, violent Islamic fundamentalism has deeper roots in the fading promise of Arab nationalism.
Third, let us hope that the Republican tax package will, if enacted, deliver on its promise of increased investment, output, productivity, and wages over the coming decade.
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