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The US and other advanced countries have been pushing for much smaller changes, to be recommended by the OECD, the advanced countries’ club.
Some hope reason will prevail at least to some extent, particularly given that markets are now pushing the green transition.
But, again, it makes no sense to insist that Europe become more self-sufficient while at the same time pushing it to become more dependent on American-made arms, equipment, and technology.
Furthermore, Russia and China are pushing back against traditional Western dominance in multilateral institutions.
Taken to its extreme, America’s accusations risk pushing the world’s two largest economies down the slippery slope of trade frictions, protectionism, or something even worse.
Pushing for a bilateral investment treaty that relaxes caps on foreign ownership in both countries would be an important step in that direction.
By contrast, viewing China as an opportunity underscores the need for America to undertake its own rebalancing – rebuilding US competitiveness and pushing for a meaningful share of China’s coming boom in domestic demand.
President Xi Jinping faces the politically risky task of pushing the CCP’s reform agenda against fierce opposition while the economy slows.
Have the government borrow and spend, thereby pulling people out of unemployment and pushing up capacity utilization to normal levels.
So the Treasury’s report is good news, especially because, without Treasury support, the House of Representatives may well stop pushing for this change.
The Bush administration, predictably, is pushing for new and tougher sanctions, based on an implied warning in the earlier UN Resolution, and arguing, as it did in the run-up to the invasion in Iraq, that the UN’s credibility is at stake.
In the medium term, help to Spain will merely reinforce the link between the sovereign and the banks’ problems, causing even greater fragmentation in the European banking market and pushing Spain closer to potential insolvency by increasing its debt burden.
To encourage China to take the lead in fostering national reconciliation in Burma, the international community must convince China that pushing for reform and change can be a win-win proposition.
But the FCTC’s work is not done, and governments are now pushing for legal liability to be a part of national-level corporate-accountability frameworks.
And yet the trend is moving forward, since the demands of society are clearly awakened and are pushing even the reluctant governments forward.
To continue with the privatization of the natural monopolies that will give a criminal and corrupt elite another chance to fill their pockets, may require extinguishing even the vestiges of democracy that existed under Yeltsin, thus pushing Russia on the way to a “liberal dictatorship.”
But pushing them to the fringes of society or locking them up in ever increasing numbers will not solve the problem.
For example, though the recent reduction in the corporate-tax rate was necessary to encourage economic growth and attract investment, it seems to many Japanese to be a questionable move at a time when the consumption-tax rate has been increased and measures to address deflation are pushing up prices.
Third, the nuclear deal with Iran, despite facing continued scrutiny in Iran and the US, has raised hopes that the country could play an important role in pushing for a political solution in Syria.
Partial productivity gains in non-tradable activities are ultimately self-limiting, because individual service activities cannot expand without turning their terms of trade against themselves – pushing down their own prices (and profitability).
To be fair, Trump chose a moderate, when many in his party were pushing for an extremist.
After years of service to the Assad dynasty, Hezbollah is now working to recover its domestic legitimacy, even pushing for the return of Saad Hariri, the Sunni leader of the anti-Iranian March 14 Alliance, to his post as prime minister.
Many EU members fear that Sarkozy’s government will again break French budget promises, as his demands for growth-boosting tax cuts imply pushing back the deadline for eliminating France’s deficit until 2012.
Indeed, there is growing evidence that it is pushing Syrian refugees back across the border.
You cannot proclaim your impotence in the face of empty state coffers after pushing through useless and costly tax breaks for the richest.
EU leaders must make a clear commitment to do what it takes to address the refugee crisis – even if that means pushing through measures, such as expanded options for legal migration, that are neither expedient nor popular.
Instead of pushing their agenda forward among Egyptians, they focused on the wrong enemy, spending invaluable time organizing rallies against the army.
In Southern Africa, the Southern African Development Community, after a shaky start, is pushing ahead with joint projects, of which transport infrastructure, a blight on much intra-African commerce, is a central theme.
East African countries are also pushing integration projects ahead, and appear to have learned from past failures in the region, which were the result of hastily constructed, inappropriate, and overly ambitious structures.
In the interwar Great Depression, the economist Irving Fisher accurately described the process of debt deflation, in which lenders, worried by the deterioration of their asset quality, called in their loans, pushing borrowers to liquidate assets.
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