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But Europe should also reflect on its own practices, including trade policy, where the EU works systematically to unbalance the global trade regime against developing countries, despite promising that those imbalances would be corrected in the current
round
of trade negotiations.
Animals with big
round
eyes, like baby seals, arouse more empathy than chickens, on whom we inflict vastly more suffering.
The eurozone faces the specter of another
round
of stagnation;Japan has slipped into recession; and the United States, despite relatively strong performance in the latter part of 2014, has raised concerns worldwide with its exit from quantitative easing.
All of this implies much stronger support from OECD countries, especially the US, for a successful conclusion of the Doha WTO trade
round.
There have been a few signs of a potential rapprochement between Russia and the West, but disagreements over Syria loom large, especially after Russia supported an advance on rebel-held Aleppo by the Syrian government, which brought a rapid end to the latest
round
of peace talks in Geneva.
But the EU also substantially missed out on the
round
of digital entrepreneurship that began in the 1990s, and it is not generally at the forefront of this sector currently – so few people in the US are rushing to follow its example.
Negotiators will gather for another
round
of UN talks on September 28 in Bangkok, and we are considering a smaller meeting of major emitting and most vulnerable nations in November.
(In France, moreover, the far-right National Front, led by Marine Le Pen, showed its strength in the first
round
of December’s regional elections, though it eventually failed to win any).
The US, or Obama at any rate, seems to be moving in the right direction, despite the
round
of applause that greeted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s uncompromising speech before the US Congress last spring.
She currently leads in polls for the first
round
of the presidential election next April.
But, with debt still unsustainable, the next
round
of Greek default could well make Argentina’s look positively Teutonic in its orderliness.
While the first, justified
round
of expansionary policies caused GDP to increase by more than 7% in 2010, growth quickly returned to lower levels.
The government was then compelled to implement another
round
of stimulus policies in 2012-2014, which included a sizable package of tax exemptions, local-content requirements, and credit expansion via transfers of public debt to state-owned banks.
Given structural factors, however, the main outcome of this second
round
of stimulus was fiscal deterioration.
In the past six months, the current
round
of the US dollar cycle entered stage three.
The anti-globalization protests in Seattle in 1999, at what was supposed to be the inauguration of a new
round
of trade talks, called attention to the failures of globalization and the international institutions and agreements that govern it.
The trade negotiations that followed were different – at least in principle, they were supposed to be a development round, to make up for some of the deficiencies highlighted by protesters – and the International Monetary Fund subsequently undertook significant reforms.
A run-off between the two women, following the October 5th first round, seems inevitable, as opinion polls give neither close to 50% of the vote.
Though pundits have been wrong about almost everything so far in this
round
of violence, the best current assessment of the overall military situation is that the acute phase of the crisis is past.
The US economy needs a second
round
of fiscal stimulus in the short term to make up for low private demand, together with a credible long-term fiscal-consolidation program.
But, while Medvedev’s victory in the first
round
of voting appears assured, the important questions will arise after the ballots are counted.
Meanwhile, there has been virtually no progress in restarting the Doha
round
of global trade reforms.
I saw this first-hand in Kazan last June, when Russia played Mexico in the qualifying
round
for the Confederations Cup semifinals.
In 2010, the Fed began hinting at a second
round
of quantitative easing, or QE2.
Little wonder, then, that the latest release of the closely followed minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting points to a divided body, whose members anticipate divergent paths for monetary policy, with some expecting further accommodation and others expecting a
round
of tightening.
But the Korean Peninsula is likely to experience a new
round
of turbulence soon.
That is why US Secretary of State John Kerry is talking to the Russians, the Saudis, and the Turks to build support for a new
round
of international talks.
At home, political infighting underlies the two greatest risks: failure to reach a deal to raise the debt ceiling and an additional
round
of fiscal contraction that stymies economic growth.
Brazil's Watershed ElectionOn October 6th, Brazil will hold its first
round
presidential elections in a vote that is seen as a referendum on President Fernando H. Cardoso's eight years in power.
Much depends on his adversary in the second
round.
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