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If they do not follow through on their intentions, promises, and commitments, access to information and instant communication is such that empty promises simply will no longer persuade most people.
But unless protagonists are sure that announcements, campaign promises, and peace agreements will give rise to clear, purposeful action, they should think twice before opening their mouths.
Sri Lanka’s Chinese ElectionNEW DELHI – Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election this month promises to shape not only the country’s political future, but also geopolitics in the wider Indian Ocean region, a global center of trade and energy flows that accounts for half of the world’s container traffic and 70% of its petroleum shipments.
In the recent election campaign, the PDP, unable to point to concrete achievements, simply made new promises.
Unlike the American President, who may seek votes to support his policies even from the opposing party in Congress, a German Chancellor promises not to govern by seeking the votes of opposition party members.
After decades of pushing the costs of today’s expenditures and promises onto future generations, that bit of family wisdom appears - at long last - to be influencing government policy.
Why?Government promises made today but doled out tomorrow, such as social security payments, do not show up in annual budgets.
They blame the president for the dead and wounded on both sides and consider him incapable of changing his ways or his policies, despite his promises.
The EITI may not be a catchy acronym, but in concert with civil society efforts such as Publish What You Pay, it promises to do a lot more good in the world than most.
People seeking the country’s highest office should know how to balance the political imperative of winning votes with a sense of responsibility for the feasibility of – and reasoning behind – their policy promises.
Moreover, many of Trump’s campaign promises – building a Mexico-funded wall on America’s southern border, bringing back lost manufacturing jobs, deporting millions of illegal immigrants – are patently impossible to implement.
Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in 2012, was right when he called Trump “a phony, a fraud,” a candidate whose promises are “worthless.”
This has to be one of the most sobering lessons from this past year: outrageous lies and hollow promises can win even the most consequential elections.
And adhering to basic norms of decency – facts can be massaged, but not manufactured, and promises must be plausible, if vague – can lose them.
This promises to strengthen the independence of the court system at the local level.
By requiring governments to increase their own investments in education as a condition for receiving donor funds, the IFFEd promises to create $4 worth of additional education resources for every $1 donated.
The artificial tanning industry promises that ultraviolet radiation from their machines causes less damage than natural sunlight.
Technological change promises even faster trading speeds in the near future.
Populism is not only about promises to give more to more people; but, without those promises, all of the cultural elements of populism would look merely outdated and reactionary.
According to this logic, as borrowing costs rise, populist governments will not be able to deliver on their rash promises, and sanity and orthodoxy will eventually return.
George W. Bush failed to honor his anti-Chinese protectionist campaign promises of 2000, as did Bill Clinton throughout his presidency.
As for the EU itself, she promises to follow in the UK’s footsteps, renegotiating the terms of her country’s membership, and then calling a referendum on the agreement.
To support those objectives, Le Pen promises to increase French defense spending to 3% of GDP (the NATO target is 2%), while making it clear to voters that none of that spending would support stabilization missions in Africa.
This means that he will be accountable to and dependent on those who raised him to power, not in a symbolic sense, but in the quite real sense of fulfilling promises and facing sanctions if he does not.
This transformation promises not only to benefit the environment, but also to create new sources of economic growth and employment opportunities.
And the vague slogans that its leaders are currently offering will likely be viewed as hollow promises.
Obama must still fulfill his promises to celebrate with Palestinians their full membership of the UN this fall and to draw down its forces in Afghanistan.
Tol strikingly shows that grand promises of drastic, immediate carbon cuts – reminiscent of the call for 80% reductions by mid-century that some politicians and lobbyists make – are an incredibly expensive way of doing very little good.
If we are actually serious about grand promises to keep global temperature rises below 2ºC, we obviously need to find ways of making this cheaper.
If one is willing to traverse the boundary of the unknown, one should pursue the course that promises the greatest potential impact.
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