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The obvious answer is that we do not have time;Chapter 11 procedures are generally long and complex, and the current crisis has reached a point where time is of the essence.
That was a tragic missed opportunity, for a US-Soviet agreement, reached in what was still an essentially binary international system, might have had truly global meaning.
All the nuclear-weapon-free zones that were created in the last decades – for example, by the Tlatelolco Treaty for Latin America or the Treaty of Rarotonga for the South Pacific – were made possible by understandings that were reached freely by regional powers in an atmosphere of multilateral confidence.
Since then, the stock market has reached record heights, commodity prices have recovered, and forecasts of US economic growth keep rising.
The good news is that services are now growing faster than any other sector, having reached 48% of GDP in 2014 (thus surpassing the end-2015 target of 47% well ahead of schedule).
Our ESDP missions have taken us as far afield as Aceh, Indonesia, where we monitored the peace agreement reached after the 2004 tsunami, following decades of civil war.
As a member of the International Quartet, the EU is deeply engaged at diplomatic level in the Middle East Peace Process and the moment an agreement is reached between the Israelis and Palestinians we will be ready to help implement it on the ground.
The Grassroots of Climate ChangePARIS – The climate-change agreement reached here on December 12 was a rich victory for diplomacy.
This is a clear signal that the carbon era has reached a turning point; as a result, there will be more investment in renewable energy.
There are several reasons why the equilibrium interest rate could have reached negative territory.
Support for EU membership within the pre-enlargement EU-15 remains where it was in the mid-1990’s (and below the peak reached in 1990), while support for the euro is no higher now than it was in 1997.
Cambodia, too, seemed like it had reached a political breakthrough after the opposition coalition nearly won the 2013 general election.
President George W. Bush’s Iraqi patient now seems to have reached that point.
Once an agreement with the EU is reached, it will be up to May to get it through Parliament.
In 2002-2012, growth in private-sector investment averaged around 20%; by the end of last year, it amounted to just 10%, and from January to August of this year, it reached just 2.1%, including a stunning 1.2% contraction in July.
This is clearly not sustainable – a point that former Director of the International Monetary Fund's Europe Department Reza Moghadam recognized when he recently called for writing off half of Greece's debt, provided an agreement can be reached on credible growth-enhancing structural reforms.
Practically all developing countries’ reserves are invested in developed countries’ assets, leading to an increasing net transfer of resources from the developing to the developed world, which, according to UNDESA estimates, reached $720 billion in 2007 alone.
If negotiations stall, financial and liquidity stress, resulting from Greece’ inability to borrow at current interest rates – ten-year bond yields have reached 9.5 % – will weaken the fiscal position and banking system further.
And now the crisis has reached the southern shore of the Mediterranean, in the form of a revolution in Tunisia and a political showdown in Lebanon that has once again brought the country to the verge of war and disaster.
Since September 2010, Russia has experienced a substantial net capital outflow, which reached $85 billion (4.5% of GDP) in 2011.
Poland and Hungary have reached that frequency.
The most recent precedent was the bipartisan agreement reached earlier this year on another fiscal issue that threatened to disrupt the normal functioning of government: the absence of a formally approved budget for this year.
At the recent climate conference meeting (COP 22) in Marrakesh, attention focused on the various ways a Trump administration might kill the climate agreement reached at COP 21 in Paris last year.
Sovereign Debt at Square OneCAMBRIDGE – Argentina and its bankers have been barred from making payments to fulfill debt-restructuring agreements reached with the country’s creditors, unless the 7% of creditors who rejected the agreements are paid in full – a judgment that is likely to stick, now that the US Supreme Court has upheld it.
When Social Security began to pay benefits in 1940, only 55% of men (at the time, few women qualified for full benefits) reached age 65.
Under President Bill Clinton, the US budget was balanced, because baby boomers had reached their prime earning years, when their Medicare and Social Security payments more than covered these programs’ costs.
But the CBO also warned that in 2011, when the baby boomers (whose leading edge reached 65 that year) began to retire, Medicare and Social Security costs would surge, while pay-ins would decline.
Last year, the value of drugs produced in Afghanistan – the world’s largest supplier of opiates – is estimated to have reached up to 25% of GDP.
When urging a colleague to come to the meeting, one committee member noted that if somebody were to catch cold, a completely different decision might be reached.
Yet more than half of us are likely to reject the conclusion reached by Diamond and Saez.
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