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The electorate’s desire for change and fear of continuing slow growth, which pushed the Republicans to their victory in this week’s mid-term congressional election, will invariably prompt discussion about new policy options designed to raise growth, employment, and incomes.
Such leverage could in turn prompt a downstream state to build up its military capacity to help counterbalance this disadvantage.
Poor countries would receive prompt and predictable financing for agricultural inputs from a single account, rather than from dozens of distinct and fragmented donors.
With the world already facing anemic growth and low levels of investment, any adequate damage-control plan must include prompt resolution of the new rules of the game for Britain and its relationship with the EU.
While there is arguably a genuine possibility that the recent protests in Tibet will prompt the authorities to change course, early signs are not promising.
Moreover, the US and its allies understand that failure to take serious action might prompt Israel to launch its own unilateral military offensive.
Some members of South Korea’s governing conservative Saenuri Party now openly call for the acquistion of nuclear weapons, believing that this will deter a North Korean attack and prompt China to increase pressure on its client to roll back its weapons programs.
If his treatment is prolonged, he might try governing with rotating vice-presidents, and, if a prompt cure or prolonged treatment are not possible and elections are postponed, an uncertain transition would be hastened.
In such a scenario, the US engine could sputter, causing the entire global economy to suffer, especially if these economic challenges prompt the Trump administration to implement protectionist measures.
This would optimize relationships between parent and subsidiary companies and prompt a shift from the simple production model of the past to a model characterized by integrated services and global operations.
The cooperative movement can prompt us to think in new, inspired ways.
Some experts have suggested that hardline opposition to the ban treaty could prompt a backlash from countries that have grown disillusioned with the NPT, leading to widespread withdrawal from the 1968 treaty.
America’s fiscal challenges ought to prompt a re-evaluation.
In order to rebuild the policy arsenal for the inevitable next crisis or recession, a prompt and methodical restoration of monetary policy to pre-crisis settings is far preferable.
Critics contend that a missile defense system will prompt Russia to refuse to reduce nuclear weapons and China to build more.
That will, of course, prompt cynics to ask: “What about the other 80%?”
The World Bank and major creditors could convene a creditor summit to agree to terms for a prompt debt write-off.
These sobering prospects should prompt all involved to seek a peaceful resolution.
The reason that politicians and corporate managers alike hate CDSs is precisely because CDS rates are so useful and so prompt in exposing their mistakes.
But central banks today are not necessarily following optimal policies – a variety of domestic constraints, including dysfunctional domestic politics, may prompt more aggressive policies than are strictly warranted or useful.
Chang’s execution was thus a straightforward challenge to Chinese President Xi Jinping – a move that, under normal circumstances, would prompt China to suspend, or at least reduce, its support for North Korea.
But these policies did not automatically prompt the expected--and urgently needed--private investment.
But, until then, Macron’s controversial proposals – which, to be sure, some 79% of French people favor, according to a recent poll – will at least prompt citizens to start thinking in stark terms about an issue that touches the very foundation of Western democracy.
Another is whether they invest the money prudently, thereby enabling prompt repayment.
Similarly, letting people compare their energy use with that of their peers could prompt them to save hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs each year, to say nothing of reducing carbon emissions.
Bad macro news can be good for markets, because a prompt policy response alone can boost asset prices.
Empathy alone does not necessarily prompt pro-social behavior; empathizing with the suffering of another may not drive you to help that person.
Or they can prompt a sudden run on the banks, causing the financial system to implode.
There seems to be a Catch-22 at work here: introducing the common currency may prompt foreign investment, although this will depend on the ability of the new members to lower their public finance deficits.
But the recent discovery of massive natural-resource deposits in Kenya and elsewhere should prompt officials to rethink this goal.
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