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When defined well, including by specifying a short period for the prospective shift to being fully operational, such programs can serve as a catalyst and conduit for relaxing a binding constraint on growth and financial viability.
But translating prospective goals into actions at the country level will not be feasible without measurable and meaningful indicators to guide policy and measure progress.
Likewise, the China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank – which the US views as a Chinese tool for challenging the existing international order – continues to attract such faraway prospective members as Canada, which applied to join in August.
Hence the incentives of the NDB’s prospective creditors and borrowers are happily aligned.
But here the interests of prospective borrowers and lenders are not obviously compatible.
For example: the seller of a car may know more about his car than the buyer; the buyer of insurance may know more about his prospects of having an accident (such as how he drives) than the seller; a worker may know more about his ability than a prospective employer; a borrower may know more about his prospects for repaying a loan than the lender.
The capital account is for buying or building durable assets that give a prospective future return.
Moreover, the Commission’s €50 billion estimate surely overstates the prospective receipts.
Early warning systems are pointing to a prospective famine in 2018.
From their perspective, Germany’s decision over the last three years to permit actual and prospective transfers just large enough to prevent financial meltdown will somehow be enough to enable the eurozone finally to begin to recover from a half-decade of recession and stagnation.
But the fact is that these transfers – that is, European Stability Mechanism-financed bailout programs and the European Central Bank’s prospective “outright monetary transactions” (OMT) bond-buying scheme – can do little more than fend off collapse.
Meanwhile, there is similar danger from the other side of the aisle, because any prospective CDU-AfD coalition would have to rely on Die Linke (the Left Party), some of whose leading members effectively want the same thing as the AfD: closer relations with Russia and looser or no integration with the West.
Prospective students can use this information to gain a far more accurate picture of their future prospects.
Before enrolling in an academic or vocational program, prospective students should research job-placement rates and learn how and how often the institution interacts with employers.
And that means that current stock-market valuations, which imply prospective returns of 4% or 5% above inflation, are still attractive.
If taken seriously, these rules will accomplish nothing, except to force migrants and their prospective employers to find other ways to each other.
For example, E-Corp-owned colleges might be required to provide prospective students with the graduation rate, average student-debt levels, and the average starting salaries of students with similar academic records and educational goals.
The prospective EU enlargement in the Western Balkans further complicates the problem.
They are thus able not only to strengthen their market position in their core activities, but also to develop innovative capabilities in new areas, by taking over smaller competitors, whether actual or prospective.
Despite efforts to cut expenditures and boost tax receipts, current and prospective obligations (including pension liabilities) far exceed any feasible increase in government revenues.
When the EFSF was created, it was assumed that the only problem was to ensure financing for the government deficits of the four prospective problem countries (Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain).
While this might sound like an excerpt from a Monty Python sketch, it raises an important issue: should there be limits as to what prospective citizens are tested for?
But the preceding savagery of Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian ethnic cleansing, in that first phase of the Balkan tragedy, and the lily-livered impotence of the EU, had been so shocking and so shameful for the Europeans, that when they saw President Slobodan Milosevic embarking on an even more outrageous process of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, with the prospective death or displacement of tens or hundreds of thousands of Albanian Kosovars, they were compelled, almost willy nilly, to intervene more forcefully this time round.
Business executives – often from the construction industry – who stand to gain from the Games’ preparation usually lead a prospective city’s bidding process.
Initially, the Commission gave the German government free rein, but instead of assisting Opel, Berlin sought to protect German jobs by supporting Magna, the prospective Canadian-Russian buyer, even though this placed Opel’s Belgian and British workforces at risk of job losses.
Also vital to the new strategy are two prospective modern-day Silk Roads: an overland route through Central Asia to the Black Sea and a “Maritime Silk Road” by which shipping will pass from the South China Sea, through the Strait of Malacca, across the Indian Ocean to East Africa, and from there through the Red Sea into the eastern Mediterranean.
By the mid-2000’s, Summers argued at a recent International Monetary Fund conference, the average prospective return on new investment in the United States had fallen below any feasible reduction in the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate.
Ukraine, a country of 47 million people, has seen itself as a prospective EU candidate since 2004, when the Orange Revolution forced the country’s rulers to respect election rules.
Any dinner party in media circles in New York or Washington features journalists jauntily showing prospective employers their goods, or trading favors with each other, by disclosing classified information.
Our idea was that, just as the prospect of an imminent hanging concentrates the mind, the deadline and prospective death of the Doha Round would galvanize the world’s statesmen behind completing the last mile of the marathon.
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