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With nearly 900 million chronically hungry people around the globe, the Summit presents an opportunity to reverse the collapse of financial assistance for food production to poor countries.
The good news is that much can be done to reverse this trend.
And, if a post-American world entails greater risk of chaos and its consequences than hope for a new, stable order – a risk that affects Europe in particular – then perhaps Europe should reverse course on its apparent determination to dismantle itself.
North Korea would halt all nuclear and missile tests (easily verifiable); while that would not reverse the North’s nuclear status, it would slow the development of its arsenal.
The safe assumption is that it will kiss good bye to any thought of further financial opening or restructuring and, instead, move sharply into reverse.
Income growth has stalled since the 2008 financial crisis and “even a return to strong GDP growth may not” reverse the trend.
(Whether this change will be enough to reverse problematic demographic trends remains a topic of heated debate.)
And reducing the deficit by 3% a year would reverse the debt trajectory and bring it back to where it was in the decades before the recession.
Neither of the presidential candidates has indicated either a plan or an inclination to reverse the projected rise in the national debt.
To reverse this trend, Sweden needs radical reforms, with lower income taxes and opportunities for small companies to grow.
Can Sweden reverse this negative trend and avoid becoming a second Uruguay?
The demotic Europe, exemplified by the UK Independence Party, which helped spearhead Brexit, is like Monnet in reverse, taking diplomatic compromises like the TTIP or the association agreement with Ukraine, and intentionally politicizing them.
Indeed, not only do judges’ decisions support the system, but the reverse is also true: patriarchy has become the driving force of the law.
Previous downturns were caused by the central bank’s efforts to reverse or prevent inflation by hiking short-term interest rates.
With China now working to reverse the growth in its greenhouse-gas emissions, other developing countries will find it increasingly hard to argue against controlling their own emissions.
They were swept out of power by hardliners who used the country’s jittery sense of security – accentuated by the presence of tens of thousands of American troops in neighboring countries – as a pretext to rig elections, stifle dissent, and reverse political and social freedoms.
That will reverse some of the dollar’s recent gains and shield growth and inflation from downside risks.
Germany, for example, is in a strong position to implement a reverse income policy, given its huge current-account surplus, though there would undoubtedly be major political barriers.
And, despite the increasing blowback from state-aided militancy, the generals remain too wedded to sponsoring terrorist groups that are under United Nations sanctions – including Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and the Haqqani network – to reverse course.
If excessively high real interest rates are undermining the domestic demand that China needs to reverse the economic slowdown, one naturally wonders why the government does not take steps to lower them.
Thus, instead of investing in the energy industry – the lifeblood of the economy – in order to reverse declining output, the Kremlin is devoting its energy to a presidential commission to “counteract attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia’s interests.”
(In the reverse, inflationary case, the interest will cost him less.)
In East Asia, North Korea withdrew from the NPT after using it to disguise its weapons program, and China, America, Japan, Russia, and South Korea are trying to persuade Kim Jong Il’s regime to reverse course.
But the lesson from this experience is not that countries should attempt to reverse financial integration – to do so would be both unfeasible and unwise – but that they should reduce its risks.
They will promise to reverse the explosive monetary and fiscal expansion of the past two years, to do it neither too soon nor too late, and to do it in a coordinated way.
The US Federal Reserve’s Ben Bernanke, the Bank of England’s Mervyn King, and the European Central Bank’s Jean-Claude Trichet will each decide when and how to reverse their expansionary monetary policies.
In every respect, conditions in Burma are among the direst of any country in the world, and it will take decades, if not generations, to reverse current downward trends and create a foundation for a sustainable and viable democratic government and a prosperous society.
Twenty five years after the exodus from Vietnam, a reverse exodus is taking place.
Those of us who passionately believe in the Court and its achievements must speak out now to persuade the protagonists of misguided reforms to reverse course.
The situation was the reverse of Britain.
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