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The deal struck by the US and Russia triggered widespread relief in most Western capitals, where political leaders simply are not prepared for military intervention, even if Syria’s government is killing its own people with poison gas (on this score, the agreement amounts to a confession by Assad).
Together with debt relief, these policies have resulted in low levels of public debt, relatively sound financial systems, and – most important – rising living standards.
Chronic pain is difficult to treat; even the most effective medications provide only modest relief to a minority of patients.
In an era of instant access, people often expect immediate relief from symptoms, which is difficult to achieve when it comes to chronic pain.
This fuels misconceptions and, in many cases, gives people false hope about the kind of relief they can expect from a particular drug or treatment.
Thus, serious reforms and deep debt relief need to go hand in hand.
With the promise of deep debt relief for Greece and a rapprochement between Greece and Germany, economic confidence will return.
To ensure such an outcome, debt relief and tough reforms should be phased in over time, according to an agreed schedule, with each party following through on its commitments, as long as the other does, as well.
All parties will explore six elements of a deal that North Korea is seeking: a peace treaty to replace the 1953 armistice, comprehensive sanctions relief, an end to US-South Korea military exercises, diplomatic recognition, acceptance of North Korean space activities, and nuclear energy assistance.
They expanded a system of workhouses and poor relief for the destitute, built up municipal water and sewage systems, municipalized police forces, and oversaw public investment in landmarks that are still with us, such as the Thames Embankment and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In Nepal, microfinance is supporting disaster relief and preparedness, crop diversification, and improved access to irrigation.
But the Japanese preacher was not wrong to claim that people – especially, as he put it to his congregation, buttoned-up Japanese and Singaporeans – sometimes need a relief from everyday conformity.
The harsh reality – thrown into stark relief by the Japanese disaster – is that we do not yet have the luxury of dumping coal, gas, and nuclear power.
It is high time for a conversation on debt relief for the entire eurozone periphery.
It also provides relief from the bean-counting rigidity that comes from policing every dollar that a contractor spends.
The Next Gas Crisis AwaitsEurope’s sigh of relief at the supposed end of the dispute between Russia and Ukraine over gas pricing was audible here in Kyiv.
Such a policy response would have to include pro-growth structural reforms (such as higher infrastructure investment, a tax overhaul, and labor retooling), more responsive fiscal policy, relief for pockets of excessive indebtedness, and improved global coordination.
While citizens with so-called “below-poverty-line” cards are eligible for government relief, surveys show that about half of the poor do not have the card – while about one-third of the non-poor do.
Basic incomes are no panacea; but for overworked developing-country citizens living in extreme poverty, they would certainly be a relief.
Considering the damage Japan's disastrous macroeconomic performance has done to Asia and the world, along with the apparent inability of the Japanese to enjoy spending money on themselves, perhaps Japan’s government should unilaterally transfer bundles of yen to other Asian countries, or to poor countries everywhere, for development projects and relief of poverty, requiring only that these yen be spent in Japan.
Tramadol is a prescription opioid available in the United Kingdom for pain relief.
Plummer’s case thus highlights a broader misfortune: that so many citizens of developing countries are denied effective pain relief by governments in the grip of opiophobia.
The fiscal buffers from past oil revenues can provide the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with short-term relief.
While a slowdown in the pace of reform might bring temporary relief, it would almost certainly reverse Spain’s hard-won achievements.
It is a relief that the US finally has a president who can act, and what he has been doing will make a big difference.
Germany Will Lose if Macron FailsFRANKFURT – When Emmanuel Macron won the French presidential election, many Germans breathed a loud sigh of relief.
Their suffering was covered up by the communist regime, making it impossible to organize relief efforts.
The inability to organize rapid relief is killing tens of thousands more.
The key challenge is to support these five sectors in order to combine short-term relief with long-term reconstruction and development.
The Decline of the West RevisitedLONDON – The terrorist slaughter in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty-first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up.
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