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In my judgment, the authorities have a three-month window during which they could still correct their mistakes and reverse current trends.
Two faculty members severed ties with the center, and a petition to reverse the decision has gathered nearly 4,000 signatures.
The goal is not to prevent developing countries’ growth-related emissions, but to slow their rise and eventually reverse them as these countries become richer.
Don’t let the renminbi depreciate, it wrote, for four reasons: depreciation might provoke a currency war in Asia;China’s companies are awash in dollar-denominated debt; depreciation might lead to renewed US charges of currency manipulation; and depreciation might reverse China’s progress in making the renminbi an international reserve currency.
During his presidency, Dmitri Medvedev pledged to reverse the mid-2000s expansion of state-owned companies and privatize all “non-strategic” firms.
Rather, the demand for a right of return amounts to an effort to reverse the consequences of their defeat in 1948, when the Arab world went to war to prevent the state of Israel from being born.
As the economist Mark Cooper has put it, nuclear power is actually undergoing a “renaissance in reverse.”
But new restrictions on Web-based news media, such as those in Jordan, threaten to reverse the progress that the Internet has enabled.
He launched a series of legal proceedings to evict Palestinian families from their homes in Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrach neighborhood and elsewhere, and established a fund (backed by donations from wealthy, right-wing Americans) to buy land from Palestinians in order to give it to Israelis – sort of a racist Robin Hood in reverse.
Until we reverse the trend of declining multilateralism, governments’ ability to respond to global challenges will not improve.
In other words, if the world economy is to perform at potential – which can mean growth rates of, say, 2.5-3% in the US and Europe, together with 5-6% growth in the emerging economies – we need to reverse some of today’s most powerful trends.
Even if America were to reverse its current policies and reduce its domestic agricultural subsidies--just one reason that Latin Americans view the FTAA as rank hypocrisy--a focus on export-oriented agriculture in Ecuador tends to favor large landowners over small farmers, shifting income from the poor to the rich.
Indeed, with instability and violence plaguing much of North Africa and the Middle East, the decline in armed conflict since World War II seems to have slowed – and could even reverse.
If successfully implemented, this agenda is likely to reverse global savings and consumption patterns that have underpinned large imbalances in recent years.
They told him that Soviet atomic bombs could be used to reverse the course of major rivers, allowing water to be redirected toward agriculture, rather than being “wasted” by flowing into the Arctic Sea.
It would reverse the pattern whereby Europe relies on repressive regimes to supply it with oil and gas and guard its borders against migrants.
In other words, financial markets are responding to environment-related risks and opportunities, but far too slowly to halt, let alone reverse, the potentially catastrophic damage being wrought by human activity.
The West’s effort to cement its Cold War victory was no less predictable than Russia’s effort to reverse it.
If, however, the slightest doubt about the OMT’s effectiveness arises, the expectation game will shift into reverse, and both countries’ bonds will quickly come under attack.
The European Commission demanded that I reverse it: after all, these salaries went to functionaries selected by EU bureaucrats – people they considered their own.
Whatever one thinks about the war in Iraq, the US presence there has helped Lebanon to ward off Syrian efforts to reverse its withdrawal, as well as Arab efforts to compel the Lebanese to compromise with a regime that loathes Lebanese sovereignty.
The ECB need not reverse course completely, but it could declare victory in the fight against deflation and start exiting its emergency policies.
That simply leaves a core of determined opponents in place who will work diligently (and often successfully) to reverse the change.
To revive growth, the ECB needs to stop raising interest rates and reverse course.
Once the Great Recession began, this process operated in reverse, unwinding the excesses.
And the reverse is true for the Chinese, German, and Japanese current-account surpluses.
Individuals may have come to value future consumption, in retirement, over current consumption – the reverse of the traditional relationship.
These automatic effects should soon begin to reverse as economic activity recovers, but there is much debate, including at the G-8 and G-20 meetings, over whether the discretionary stimulus should be extended or ended, repeated or reversed.
To reverse this trend, we must allow medical students to train in world-class clinical settings, while encouraging them to return to practice in their home countries.
Of course, this could very well reverse much of what has been achieved in terms of financial integration.
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