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And America’s weakness, the growing dependence of European (especially German) exports on the Chinese market, and the enticements of the Far East more generally, will nurture a new and promising Eurasian perspective as Transatlanticism declines.
But promising more of the same is not the answer.
It remains to be seen whether the new French president will be able to embark on a more promising course.
Promising to spread the riches that they have made for themselves, they exploit the fantasies of those of us who have little and want more.
It is worth remembering that when Singapore achieved independence in the late 1960s, it was hardly a very promising place.
On-the-surface political stability and favourable investment laws may be in place, but in the absence of an effective judiciary or reliable security forces, committing capital to promising projects becomes that much more difficult.
There was other good news, also lost amid the recent tumult: the success of a heavily oversubscribed $2 billion Eurobond issue; the discovery of the first major oil and gas field in Kenya’s coastal waters and yet another in northwestern Turkana – promising to make the country a leading African exporter.
And, so far, the outlook does not look particularly promising.
The early returns are not promising.
One of the more promising recent initiatives is the Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition (CPLC), which brings together 30 governments and more than 180 businesses and strategic partners to put a value on carbon dioxide emissions.
Finally, some promising ideas have virtually never been tried at all: denominating bonds in oil prices instead of dollars, to protect against the risk of a price decline; choosing commodity-price targeting as an alternative to inflation targeting or exchange-rate targeting for anchoring monetary policy; and distributing oil revenues on a nationwide per capita basis, to ensure that they do not wind up in elites’ Swiss bank accounts.
Amid shifting global power dynamics, diminished political legitimacy, and disruptive technological change, it is more difficult than ever to devise promising solutions.
Sharing sovereignty with its fellow Europeans and exerting influence through European and Atlantic institutions remains Germany's most promising political strategy.
In theory, at least, China’s rapid growth, if it continues, offers southern Africa a highly promising economic opportunity, not least by underpinning commodity prices and thus boosting southern Africa’s terms of trade.
If the economic impact of China’s growing global importance on southern Africa is promising, but uncertain, what about the geopolitical implications?
Here, too, there are promising examples to emulate.
These losses include missed opportunities for breakthroughs in pharmaceuticals, foods, biologically-based materials and processes, and biological pest controllers like the promising one isolated by ICIPE.
At first sight, this might seem promising for markets, which most likely expect the ECJ to rubber-stamp the OMT program.
Our priorities seem skewed when climate policies promising a miniscule temperature impact will cost $1 trillion a year, while the World Food Program’s budget is 169 times lower, at $5.9 billion.
Again, Obama has both the background – with his family ties to Kenya – and a promising policy, to increase America’s foreign assistance to $50 billion by 2012, using the money to stabilize failing states and bring sustainable growth to Africa.
If serious ethical lapses occur, many consumers will no longer use the service, regardless of how promising the business model is.
But the long-term decline in the ratio of aid to GNP did not stop the rich world from promising time and again to reach 0.7% of GNP, including at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and the Copenhagen Summit on Social Development in 1995.
Moreover, the European Central Bank pledged to protect these countries from default free of charge through its “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) scheme – that is, by promising to purchase their sovereign debt on secondary markets – which functions roughly as Eurobonds would.
To make matters worse, the increase in welfare spending that the SNP is promising Scotland’s voters would have to be paid for primarily by taxpayers in England.
Renewable energy sources are promising, but they will not soon replace fossil fuels.
A more promising one lies beneath the permafrost of Prudhoe Bay, the big oil-producing region on the arctic coast of Alaska.
A domestic hydrate-production capability would serve a similar purpose, while perhaps promising a new era of global energy security.
Indeed, it is likely that Hu will steer clear of political reform in his message to the Congress, instead promising more “trickle-down” funds for social welfare and the poor.
The most promising mHealth project that I have seen, called Motech, focuses on maternal and child health in Ghana.
The interest rate on long-term bonds has been kept abnormally low in the past few years by the Federal Reserve’s “unconventional monetary policy” of buying massive amounts of Treasury bonds and other long-term assets – so-called quantitative easing (QE) – and promising to keep short-term rates low for a considerable period.
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