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These ambitious targets – ranging from halving extreme poverty and reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters to achieving universal primary schooling and halting (and beginning to reverse) the spread of HIV/AIDS – are supposed to be met by the end of 2015.
The ECB’s Battle against Central BankingBERKELEY – When the European Central Bank announced its program of government-bond purchases, it let financial markets know that it thoroughly disliked the idea, was not fully committed to it, and would reverse the policy as soon as it could.
Digital Mirror does the reverse.
But now, with the Japanese experiencing a period of domestic political uncertainty, and North Korea’s nuclear tests and missile launches increasing their anxiety, will Japan reverse its long-standing decision not to seek a national nuclear-deterrent capability?
And the biggest problem here is accounting for possible reverse causality.
It is possible, Ramey argues, that their results could reflect a different sort of reverse causality if governments are more likely to respond to high public-debt levels with austerity programs when they have reason to believe that economic conditions could make the debt burden especially worrisome.
It must be used to move Europe farther along the road of integration, lest the Union begin to reverse course.
This disturbing development – a byproduct of the failed “global war on drugs” – threatens to reverse recent economic and social gains in our region.
Globalization was successful because it forced countries to remove regulations; but the process does not work in reverse.
A less permissive US approach toward Pakistan is not only likely to contribute to South Asia’s security; it can also help to reverse deteriorating security conditions in Afghanistan, where America remains mired in its longest-ever war.
Since the late 1980’s, Brazil has begun to deindustrialize, a process which recent growth has done little to stop or reverse.
For when he becomes president in February, Kim Dae Jung will have no choice but to reverse his campaign commitments to achieve full employment, which would have required more state intervention, because he also promised to fully implement the agreement with the IMF.
And it is still a pressing question today, now that the Fed is winding down its asset purchases, causing capital flows to reverse and leaving many EMDCs high and dry.
Indeed, today’s Russia avowedly seeks to reverse the post-Soviet order in Europe that emerged after 1989/1990, at least in parts of its neighborhood, while the Europeans and the West want to maintain it at all costs.
That, combined with slow progress on financial-sector reform, makes it likely that risk-aversion will prevail, which could slow, if not reverse, financial globalization, and probably lead to slower growth in many countries.
If anything, these gaps narrowed and began to reverse.
Special programs to induce prostitutes to use condoms have helped to reverse the epidemic in Thailand; similar approaches are needed in Africa.
In the wake of the communist takeover in 1949, Mao Zedong and other political leaders hoped to reverse China’s backwardness quickly, adopting a big push to build advanced capital-intensive industries.
Similarly, Democrats should reverse the change to the estate tax contained in the Republican tax law, which raises to about $22 million the amount a married couple can pass, free of estate or gift taxes, to their heirs.
And yet only 38% say they would like to see Abe reverse course and repeal the legislation.
Obama will need firmly to support Pakistan’s fragile elected government as it tries to gain control over the army and intelligence apparatus and thus reverse decades of support for militants.
Worse, EU integration has gone into reverse, with member states seeking to insulate themselves from the outside world, rather than trying to export their shared values.
Emerging-market currencies weakened on fears that capital flows from the US would reverse direction.
Conversely, authorities who announce that they have “permanently” increased the monetary base via OMF could in future reverse this “permanent” increase by running fiscal surpluses and withdrawing money from circulation if the stimulus turned out to be greater than appropriate.
Applying such requirements would not reverse the increase in the monetary base, but it would constrain its stimulative effect to the originally intended level.
But the trend in concentration will reverse about a decade from now, owing to the size and growth rates of India and China, which together account for almost 40% of the world’s population.
By Tuesday he had to reverse himself and provide an $85billion loan to AIG on punitive terms.
They have invested too much political capital in their failed policies to attempt to reverse course.
First and foremost, deregulation of labor markets and social benefits is going to go into reverse or, at least, into the slow lane.
The only way to reverse the trend is to recapture the spirit of solidarity that animated the European project from the start.
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