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The most promising areas for international cooperation today most likely concern problems posed for states by third parties such as criminals and terrorists.
In early April, the BOJ announced plans to unleash the most aggressive bond-buying program of all, promising to inject $1.4 trillion into the economy over the next two years in order to meet an inflation target of 2%.
As a promising playwright in the 1960s, he was certainly very “political,” focusing on the absurdity of the regime.
This promising trend reveals itself in generational comparisons of global opinion polls.
Two recent books – Identity Economics by Nobel laureate George Akerlof and Rachel Kranton and The Moral Economy by Sam Bowles – indicate that a quiet revolution is challenging the foundations of the dismal science, promising radical changes in how we view many aspects of organizations, public policy, and even social life.
They are doing this by promising to keep short-term rates low; maintaining large portfolios of private and government bonds; and, in Europe and Japan, continuing to engage in large-scale asset purchases.
The Euro has experienced a hard but promising start.
But only two policies are particularly promising for such a “Pact for America”: federal infrastructure spending and corporate-tax reform.
The Ifo survey has reported positive results in recent months, although the data were more promising in December than in January.
But there have been some promising recent developments.
Three promising tracks will have to materialize rapidly.
But, with climate negotiators promising to deliver the global agreement that they could not deliver in Copenhagen in 2009, the December 2015 summit in Paris is almost certain to be another debacle.
The other, more promising scenario involves a fundamental shift in how the problem of climate change is understood, and thus in how potential solutions are framed.
They must offer voters a realistic economic program that is market-friendly and open to international trade, while promising tangible benefits to the poorer 60-70% of the population who are understandably frustrated with their lack of economic progress.
But there are promising signs that, over time, the advanced countries’ difficulties will trigger a healthy, if belated, shift in Asia’s development strategy, with China leading the way.
The journalist Martin Woolacott describes Myanmar as a “halfway house between military and civilian rule,” observing that the country’s generals have been promising to complete the transition to democracy for several years now, yet remain unwilling to allow Suu Kyi to run for President.
The recent slowdown in the growth of health-care spending is a promising sign that America’s budgetary tradeoffs may turn out to be less difficult than expected.
The G8 leaders' commitment to increase support for polio eradication in Africa is promising.
Some recent therapeutic possibilities include the co-infusion of haptoglobin with hemoglobin in circulation or with vitamin C – additives that hold promising implications for the development of safe and effective blood substitutes.
For example, a decade ago, contracts promising a steady supply of Argentine gas at pre-set prices led Chile to spend billions refitting its power stations.
At last September’s United Nations meeting, after promising to add $10 billion by 2030 to what began as a $2 billion investment fund for the least developed countries, Xi reiterated China’s view that it is now on par with the United States in terms of providing international aid and investment.
The garment industry does need to reform; but, for the time being, if women and girls are not to suffer needlessly again, promising to eradicate child labor may not be the right answer.
Iran certainly regarded the meeting as a propaganda opportunity, promising wide media coverage at a time when it was in the eye of a diplomatic hurricane.
Whereas Sarkozy views nuclear power as a promising source of “renewable” energy, Germany remains adamantly opposed to it – a policy that Chancellor Angela Merkel placed at the top of her agenda during Germany’s EU presidency in 2007.
Next-generation pharmacies represent a promising step toward that goal.
The International Monetary Fund could provide these funds, as it did previously, with the EU promising to match the IMF’s contribution.
The main problem is that a shift of this magnitude risks undermining hard-won central bank credibility; after all, central banks have been promising to deliver 2% inflation for a couple of decades now, and that level is deeply embedded in long-term financial contracts.
Another promising approach is exemplified by Johannesburg’s Vulindlel’ eJozi program, which aims to eliminate barriers to entry-level employment for young people by providing skills like digital literacy.
That would be the functional equivalent of a tax hike on beleaguered American families – hardly the solution that US politicians are promising.
One promising attempt to correct this imbalance is the proposal for a Health Impact Fund that Thomas Pogge, director of the Global Justice Program at Yale, and Aidan Hollis, an economist at the University of Calgary, launched seven years ago.
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