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The common currency’s purpose is to ensure monetary stability in markets that are financially integrated – a situation that, it is assumed, is good for growth.
For starters, businesses need purpose.
As a recent report by Deloitte points out, companies should be able to articulate a clear purpose that is connected to a wider social, environmental, or even economic goal.
That purpose can act as a compass for the business, influencing its organizational culture and values, and guiding stakeholders’ individual and collective behavior.
Of course, a sense of purpose alone won’t drive the private sector to shift investment toward sustainability.
The formula of cutting, taxing, and investing is not a popular one in America’s current political climate, and can be implemented only through the emergence of a broadly shared sense of sacrifice and purpose.
When I served as NATO Secretary General from 2009 to 2014, we repeatedly emphasized that the purpose was to defend Alliance members from threats originating outside the Euro-Atlantic area.
And it will eliminate not only the West’s remaining moral authority, but also the sense of purpose that animates NATO.
This re-nationalization has not been justified ideologically, but rather cynically: the purpose is simply to generate corrupt revenues for top Kremlin officials.
Ross got it right again this week, when he said:“I think that the real purpose and the real need that we have in this country for banks is to make loans particularly to small business and to individuals.
I think they’ve kind of lost track of that purpose.”
Indeed, another reason for the war was America’s internal divisions over what it represents as a nation – its purpose and meaning to the rest of the world.
The purpose of central-bank independence has always been to enable monetary policy to focus on maintaining price stability, without being subject to political pressure.
The second test, more subjective and tricky to apply – and therefore not decisive in itself – is whether the primary purpose of any proposed military action is to halt or avert the threat to civilians.
Even more succinctly, could not today’s crisis of responsibility and accountability for the world as a whole and for its future be the logical consequence of the modern concept of the world as controlled by scientifically identifiable laws, formulated for God-knows- what purpose -- that is, a concept which does not question or seek the deeper meaning of existence and renounces any and all metaphysics?
Start from the basic point of departure -- that this world and our existence are not a freak chance of nature having little meaning but are part of a mysterious, yet integral, act whose sources, direction and purpose are difficult for us to perceive in their entirety.
Leaders who overcome fear and frustration, embrace the ambition of others, and possess a strong character and sense of purpose are likely to build diverse teams whose members share an identity and common goals but still represent themselves authentically.
For nearly 100 years, first the British empire and then the US manipulated Middle Eastern governments, launched coups, bought puppet regimes, and supported wars, with the main purpose of controlling the region’s oil flows.
In his new book Tailspin, the journalist Steven Brill argues that US institutions are no longer fit for purpose, because they protect only the few and leave the rest vulnerable to predatory behavior in the name of the free market.
With a strong sense of national identity, Palestinians boasted that they had a clear unifying purpose: ending the Israeli occupation and establishing an independent and democratic state.
The agenda appears straightforward, but “Paris III” has acquired a barely concealed political purpose: to bolster the government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora in the face of a powerful domestic challenge led by Hezbollah, and by extension to curb the influence of Hezbollah’s regional backers, Syria and Iran.
But from this low bearing comes a high purpose.
But homo economicus was never intended to be used for forecasting; its real purpose is to make it easier to distinguish between market failures and mental failures.
Putin’s Russia also went to great lengths, in the words of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to carry out “fraud and deceit for the purpose of interfering with the US political and electoral processes, including the presidential election of 2016.”
Europe must be reinvented for this purpose, and broadening the EMU’s reach is the right place to start.
"Such is their extreme desire to return to their homes," Machiavelli wrote, apropos of Ahmad Chalabi and the Iraqi National Congress, "that they naturally believe many things that are not true, and add many others on purpose; so that, with what they really believe and what they say they believe, they fill you with hopes..."The most terrifying aspect of the Bush administration's foreign policy is the motivating theory of the world that underlies it.
The Tokyo they inhabit must not be dotted with white-elephant structures that served a single purpose in 2020, only to mar the skyline for years and decades after.
My team will conduct a careful forensic review of contracts already signed in preparation for the Games, with our purpose being to put the interests of Tokyo’s citizens and the athletes who will compete here first.
But if their inclusion of Russia is to serve a useful purpose, they must also reaffirm the values that unite them.
The democratic establishment, they assert, cannot be trusted to fulfill this purpose, as it is too busy protecting the wealthy – a habit that globalization has only intensified.
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