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China and India achieved this partly by strengthening institutions and pursuing policies that supported strong, relatively inclusive growth.
They ranged from actively pursuing zero-sum power politics aimed at dominating the hemisphere and beyond, to engaging strategically with the US and other partners in Asia to sustain and enhance the existing rules-based international order.
The problem is not institutional relationships between the two organizations, except in the important but narrow case of Turkey and Cyprus, which remain bent on pursuing their bilateral feud without regard to the real risks to the personnel of their allies and partners deployed in Afghanistan and Kosovo.
The International Maritime Organization is pursuing similar goals for shipping.
Indeed, the eurozone, the UK, the US, and Japan are all pursuing varying degrees of fiscal austerity and consolidation.
Officials should recommit to pursuing green growth and funnel investments into climate-resilient projects.
In addition to pursuing their own environmental policies, state and local governments can also resist or undermine federal policies.
Under federalism – whether cooperative or “uncooperative” – it is often assumed that state and local governments are pursuing the same goals.
As it stands, some governments and academics are uncomfortable with the fact that MFIs, which are supposed to be providing a public good by advancing financial inclusiveness, are pursuing profits.
ARPA-E, by contrast, has been pursuing technological innovation in the purest sense: “creating new ways of doing” things.
Only then can it legitimately claim to be pursuing a “united and strong Africa.”
Workers carrying out routine tasks like data processing are increasingly likely to be replaced by machines; but those pursuing more creative endeavors are more likely to experience increases in productivity.
The need for such real-time measurement became apparent over the last 15 years, when the world was pursuing the Millennium Development Goals.
The Kremlin is pursuing military adventures in Eastern Ukraine and Syria, and though these conflicts are limited in scope, one wonders if the country can really afford them.
Pursuing this agenda is essential to China’s long-term financial and economic health.
By pursuing fiscal reform one sector at a time, Zhao left room for local governments to form alliances with SOEs, which provided subsidies to local bodies and enabled them to withhold income from the central government.
According to Xi, countries should “refrain from pursuing their own interests at the expense of others.”
The logic of pursuing Kony closely resembles that of the recent NATO-led intervention in Libya.
Civilians may not be targeted; the principle of proportionality requires the avoidance of excessive force in pursuing a legitimate military objective; and prisoners must be treated humanely.
More recently, one can also see developing-economy companies pursuing the same corporate-governance strategies as firms in developed countries.
Emerging countries can enhance their resilience to fluctuations in global interest rates by pursuing sound fiscal and monetary policies, continuing necessary structural reforms, and strengthening their financial systems.
Many small island states, such as Tuvalu, are setting an important example by rapidly pursuing the goal of carbon-neutrality.
But, instead of consistently pursuing either strategy, Varoufakis veered between defiance and conciliation, losing credibility both ways.
Quite simply, he thought that America could go it alone in pursuing his foreign policy because no one could stop him.
But, of course, China still needs to find a way to cope with capital outflows, while pursuing the structural reforms that are needed to place its economy on a sustainable long-term growth path.
As we recently argued, the key will be to maintain an annual growth rate of roughly 6.5%, while pursuing a multifaceted short-term stabilization plan that aims to stimulate job creation to offset the losses from restructuring inefficient industries and eliminating excess capacity.
As recent bitter experience has shown, China’s government cannot continue to stimulate the economy by pursuing debt-financed investments.
Meanwhile, international sanctions are unlikely to dissuade Iran’s government from pursuing nuclear weapons, while a preventive strike by Israel – which would not sit idly by when Iranian nuclear forces become operational – or by the US, would encourage terrorist attacks against their populations.
If Britain insists on pursuing a purist definition of sovereignty, it will find only grief and isolation.
The pharmaceutical firms pursuing tougher patent rules, the banks pushing for unfettered access to foreign markets, or the multinationals seeking special arbitration tribunals have no greater regard for the public interest than the protectionists do.
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