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This would give the Council more space to consider an “outside” candidate (for example, Pascal Lamy, who is closer to the center left, or Christine Lagarde, who is closer to the center right, both of whom are extremely experienced European policymakers whose names have already been raised in the media).
The Fallen PharaohEgypt’s Kifaya Movement has raised the ante in its opposition to President Hosni Mubarak’s regime by issuing a massive report that dares to name names and detail corruption among the country’s leaders.
Salaries for all public servants, a majority of the national work force, were raised, as was the total number of public-sector jobs.
And on April 1, the minimum wage was raised.
Indeed, the empowerment of Iraq’s long-suppressed Shia has raised expectations among Saudi Arabia’s Shia that they, too, can gain first-class status.
The IFFIm, for its part, is an innovative loan facility that has already raised more than $5 billion, helped to immunize 640 million children, and saved more than nine million lives.
But even if all low- and lower-middle-income countries doubled their spending on education and raised their performance to that of top-quartile countries, there would still be a multi-billion-dollar financing hole.
The Remaking of the Middle EastJERUSALEM – The Middle East’s descent into extreme violence – with mass killings of Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators in Cairo followed closely by Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons in Syria’s civil war – has dashed the hopes raised by the Arab Spring in 2011.
The Global Partnership for Education (GPE) has raised less than 10% of what has gone into global health, and to date no significant innovative financing mechanisms have emerged.
All of these abuses are raised repeatedly at EU-China summits, to little or no avail.
Germany is Not VolkswagenMUNICH – The Volkswagen scandal has raised questions about the German model of production.
In the long run, however, we will have to answer the broader question that the eurozone’s various debt crises have raised: Is the social value of making finance cheap worth the days of reckoning for stricken debtors?
The gas tax should be raised , not lowered.
Given Chang’s pivotal role in steering North Korea’s moribund economy, his execution raised serious doubts about the regime’s stability – raising fears of the collapse of a dynasty that possesses weapons of mass destruction.
After the EU forced our government into submission, and following my resignation, those salaries were raised by up to 71% – the CEO’s annual pay was bumped to €220,000 ($235,000).
The development of modern, highly liquid financial markets has been one of the main benefits of the euro: in a few years, for instance, bank lending in Germany fell from 74% to 32% of the total funds raised by large German companies.
In Italy the share of bank lending as a percent of the total funds raised by big Italian companies fell from 75% to 50%--the difference being made up mostly by emissions of corporate bonds.
Freedom, Blasphemy, and ViolencePARIS – Violent attacks on US diplomatic outposts across North Africa and the Middle East have once again raised the question of how to respond when Americans and other Westerners engage in provocative expression that others consider blasphemous.
Inflation fear was already present before the new challenges of 2011 raised questions about long-term energy prices.
Unshackling ASEANSINGAPORE – As the Association of Southeast Asian Nations approaches its 50th anniversary next year, its failure to reach a consensus regarding Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea has raised concerns throughout the region.
Other parts of the Mittal dynasty have also raised eyebrows in West Africa.
That question is raised in Transnational Land Deals for Agriculture in the Global South, a report issued last year by the Land Matrix Partnership, a consortium of European research institutes and nongovernmental organizations.
This, however, only raised heckles from those who still see the group as a means to stare down the superpowers.
By running on a platform of “America first,” Trump has raised questions among America’s allies about the wisdom of continued reliance on the US.
Strong opposition on the part of the Bundesbank and many German academics, however, has raised questions about whether and how it could ever be used.
That increase would have raised the carbon price substantially, providing governments with revenue – reaching $375 per ton of carbon today – to apply to meeting fiscal priorities, all while cushioning the fall in gasoline prices caused by the steep decline in the price of crude.
Despite some setbacks, the process has raised hope of a permanent end to the 50-year conflict, which has displaced at least five million people and led to more than 200,000 deaths (an estimated 85% of them civilians), with 23,161 selective killings, 25,007 forced disappearances, 27,023 kidnappings, and 1,982 massacres.
And, according to an IMF study, population growth in the Middle East and North Africa between 1970 and 2000 has raised the annual rate of growth of output per effective consumer by about 0.5-0.6 percentage points.
The same question can be raised for members of religious groups and ethnic minorities, or even of certain social classes.
A recent report by Dalberg Global Development Advisors and the Open Society Initiative for West Africa estimates that from 2012 to 2018, ECOWAS governments could have raised up to $56 billion dollars in tax revenue, if they had put in place effective transfer-pricing regimes.
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