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Economic progress is important and can greatly improve the quality of life, but only if it is pursued in line with other goals.
Over the past year, the US has returned to Uzbekistan – no soldiers this time, just new supply routes to keep the Afghan war going – and is apparently implementing the same military-centric policy that it pursued before 2005.
It has pursued manifestly expansionist territorial claims, most notably in the South China Sea, and shown a clear determination to resist the indefinite continuation of American dominance in the region.
Third, in response to slower growth and lower inflation (owing partly to lower commodity prices), the world’s major central banks pursued another round of unconventional monetary easing: lower policy rates, forward guidance, quantitative easing (QE), and credit easing.
Rather than helping Greece to overcome its crisis, the austerity policies pursued since May 2010 have plunged it into a deep recession that perpetuates fiscal deficits and aggravates financial uncertainty.
In fact, the eurozone will contract in the first half of next year – and probably in the second half, because of the deficit-cutting policies now being pursued – placing further pressure on banks and sovereigns.
Traditionally, its governments have pursued expansionary policies during economic booms and tightened their belts in downturns.
Workers belonging to each caste pursued a wide variety of occupations, although agriculture provided the bulk of employment.
The EU’s institution-building efforts pursued over the last few years have stalled.
In the meantime, the search for technical solutions to the euro’s woes must be pursued.
And herein lies the most important principle that must guide eurozone governance reform: changes must be pursued alongside political reforms that strengthen the legitimacy of decisions involving risk sharing among countries.
Some people argue that Russia reformed "too fast," that it should have adopted a gradualist reform strategy, something like that pursued by China.
Thus, Americans pursued their self-interest, but in a way that was “rightly understood.”
While clinical trials of the most promising drugs and vaccines need to be pursued, we also need to go back to the drawing board and develop entirely new tactics.
The reason EFTA failed to take hold is instructive: It was based only on economic interests and pursued no further idea.
But if the Fed has only one effective instrument – interest rates – its two goals of economic and financial stability cannot be pursued simultaneously.
All of this suggests that the “soft austerity” pursued in many eurozone countries may have been the right choice after all.
But the expansionary monetary policies that advanced-country central banks pursued after the crisis made a bad situation worse.
Price liberalization, stabilization, and privatization were pursued since 1992 with varying degrees of commitment.
While internationalization of the RMB is necessary (and inevitable), it should be guided by market principles and pursued in a cautious manner.
The US has consistently pursued a grand strategy “focused on acquiring and maintaining preeminent power over various rivals,” they wrote, and “primacy ought to remain the central objective of US grand strategy in the twenty-first century.”
To jump-start progress, all NPT signatories should re-affirm that the Treaty's provisions are mutually reinforcing and must be pursued jointly and faithfully.
Over the last decade we moved from complete aversion to the idea of reform to a policy of mutant reforms pursued for corrupt motives, to the gradual adaptation of legitimate Western practices.
This would be true even if the UK pursued a prepackaged arrangement such as membership in the European Economic Area or the EU Customs Union; it will be all the more true if the UK seeks a “bespoke” deal, as May has indicated she will.
Governments eventually pursued revolutionary reforms of labor laws and other social-welfare measures.
But Mexico withdrew the stimulus promptly as its economy recovered, and has pursued a tighter fiscal policy than Brazil in the years since.
Like most policies of the perestroika era, this was another goal pursued by the Soviet leadership in a way unconnected to economic reality.
And China, North Korea’s most important ally and only financial backer, has pursued an increasingly successful modernization policy.
Within this mechanism, countries that pursued reckless fiscal policies could be gradually excluded from the system by lowering their Blue Bond allocation.
This is the approach successfully pursued by Korea, whose steel producers do not face a tariff, because they are reducing their exports by charging higher prices and can thus expect much higher profits.
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