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During elections, politicians invariably make promises, including those of tax cuts.
China’s rush to build more dams promises to roil relations across Asia, fostering greater competition for water and impeding the already slow progress toward institutionalizing regional cooperation and integration.
But it also promises to nurture the creative ferment in which great science thrives.
But few people took those promises seriously.
A recommendation last year by the World Health Organization’s Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization promises to boost vaccines’ cost-effectiveness further, by calling for just two doses of the HPV vaccine, rather than the three doses previously thought to be required.
China’s leaders, for their part, would be showcasing their credibility and governing capacity, finally quieting the chorus of naysayers who had doubted the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the sincerity of its promises to Hong Kong.
Unlike dictatorship, democracy promises citizens a vote, not happiness.
The poor will lose, because populists have no hope of restoring manufacturing jobs, despite their promises.
Since Iran is the enemy (remember George W. Bush’s “axis of evil”?), it is better to deal with a president who talks and acts like a crazy thug, than with a reasonable-sounding figure who promises reforms.
McCain’s solution seems to be more of Bush’s policies – tax cuts for the rich plus promises to curb public spending.
In a statement seemingly directed at the US, he continued, “We should honor promises and abide by rules.
Reagan won the presidency on promises to rebuild US power, which he claimed had been declining precipitously.
In any case, the RMB’s path to becoming a truly international currency promises to be a bumpy one.
At the same time, it has not preserved its ability to entice customers with promises of safe, sophisticated money management.
That is understandable: the upstarts thoroughly defeated the Democrats at the polls, often with outsize populist promises.
What makes these economies function is not a policeman protecting every shop window, but rather people’s trust, fairness, and fellow-feeling to honor promises and obey the prevailing rules.
Political parties appear far removed from citizen demands, beset by internal divisions, incapable of addressing deep-rooted inequality and lawlessness, and prone to populist or authoritarian leadership that promises quick fixes to entrenched problems.
An opposition party may voice aspirations, make promises, and even dream a little; but a government party cannot remain in some imaginary world or theoretical system.
And the dreamier an opposition party’s promises are, the bigger the challenge of narrowing the gap with reality if, like Syriza, it actually wins an election and comes to power.
More important, with the clock ticking on default (which could come as early as July), the Greek authorities need to persuade their partners through action, not promises.
The promises to care for the poor and disadvantaged that are being made by all the candidates will turn out to be as empty as all the other rhetoric about justice and equality that Bolivians have heard in their long, sad history.
Measuring the Next Global Development GoalsCOPENHAGEN – At the start of the twenty-first century, the international community made some smart and simple promises with the so-called Millennium Development Goals.
Trump promises that Kim “will truly regret it” and “regret it fast” if he follows through on that threat, or issues another.
Though Trump has backed away from some of his more radical campaign promises, he is unlikely to drop his “America first” approach; as a result, the US may be about to break decisively with the universalism and global engagement that has characterized the last 70 years.
At the moment, however, the US is offering Turkey – and the region – only incoherence and more empty promises.
Indeed, part of international investors’ attraction to countries like Vietnam and China is not simply that wages are low, but that the absence of democratic rights promises to lock in cheap labor for years to come.
But their promises are modest, relative to what is actually needed, and doubts about whether they will be fulfilled persist.
In this they are not entirely dissimilar from the totalitarian leaders of fascist movements, who likewise built on popular frustration to pursue an essentially destructive purpose in the name of anti-modern beliefs and promises.
As a result, promises to achieve universal primary education are consistently deferred.
Among other measures, they must keep their promises to increase aid and make it more effective by reducing bureaucratic delays, speeding disbursements and better aligning programs with African priorities.
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