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After participating in the nuclear-security summit in South Korea at the end of March, he went to Tehran to urge Iran’s leaders to make a deal during the next
round
of nuclear talks between Iran and the United Nations Security Council’s five permanent members (Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States) plus Germany.
All of these negative trends were symbolized by Jean-Marie Le Pen’s success in reaching the second
round
of the 2002 presidential election.
The Trump administration has just followed through on this recommendation, unleashing another
round
of tariffs on China – and prompting immediate retaliation.
The Return of Currency WarsNEW YORK – The recent decision by the Bank of Japan to increase the scope of its quantitative easing is a signal that another
round
of currency wars may be under way.
With political constraints in Germany and elsewhere preventing further strengthening of fiscally-based firewalls, the ECB now plans to provide another
round
of large-scale financing to Spain and Italy (with more bond purchases).
The move was little noticed, but, in some ways, it was as important as the World Trade Organization’s decision that the current
round
of trade negotiations be devoted to development.
Unfortunately, the trade negotiators who framed the intellectual-property agreement of the Uruguay trade
round
of the early 1990’s (TRIP’s) were either unaware of all of this, or more likely, uninterested.
But, while the participants represented only a limited part of the electorate, 2.6 million voted in the first round, and more than three million in the subsequent run-off between the two top candidates, confirming broad public acceptance of the process as legitimate and valuable.
Likewise, in the first
round
of France’s presidential elections last month, extremist parties from the right and left won more than 30% of the vote.
In these countries, the government at any given time represents whichever side won the latest
round
in an ongoing culture war.
In the first
round
of the presidential election this spring, the nativist campaigns of Marine Le Pen, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and Nicolas Dupont-Aignan collectively won 46% of the vote – almost as much as the UK’s “Leave” campaign.
In a recent review of the economics literature, one of the World Bank’s leading modelers, Professor Kym Anderson, showed that the long-run benefits from even a modestly successful Doha
round
of world trade talks would be vast.
The survey also showed that although China's government ruled out universal suffrage in the 2007 and 2008 elections, over 40% of respondents still wanted democracy by then, with nearly 20% more wanting it by the next
round
of elections in 2011 and 2012.
In the last
round
of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks eight years ago, it was clear that a deal with Syria would automatically pave the way to a settlement with Lebanon, and an end to Hezbollah’s threat to Israel’s northern border.
“In strategy,” he argued, “the longest way
round
is often the shortest way there.”
The super-rich have received
round
after
round
of tax cuts and special tax breaks, easy credits from central banks, and exceptional gains from technologies that are boosting profits while lowering unskilled workers’ wages.
In principle, the Fed could launch another
round
of quantitative easing.
In March 1999, I went to the headquarters of the World Trade Organization in Geneva to call for a development
round
to redress these imbalances.
Two years ago, I was asked by the Commonwealth, a diverse group of mostly ex-British colonies, countries from both the North and the South, to prepare a study of what a true development
round
would look like.
Many of the issues that it has addressed should never have been on the agenda of a genuine development round, and many issues that should have been on the agenda have not been.
To be sure, the great achievement of the Uruguay
round
was the establishment of a basic rule of law in international trade.
To be sure, as welcome as these results may be, we should not allow them to blind us to the message of the first
round
of balloting, in which the FN finished first in six of the country’s 13 regions.
But in the second round, fear was Le Pen’s undoing.
China’s Monetary SterilizationBEIJING – Not long after the United States Federal Reserve Board announced its second
round
of “quantitative easing” (known as QE2), the People’s Bank of China (PBC), China’s central bank, announced two increases of 0.5 percentage points in the required reserve ratio (RRR) of bank deposits.
But there are far better uses of the public’s money, including another
round
of stimulus.
With yet another
round
of talks on the horizon – new United Nations-led discussions are scheduled to begin this week in Geneva – it’s worth asking why the conflict has been so intractable.
The Hamas VetoGAZA CITY – The resumption of direct peace talks between the Palestinians and Israelis has broken 20 months of stalemate, and marked the entry of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into this
round
of diplomacy.
If the talks collapse, US foreign policy in the Middle East would be further discredited, and nothing would remain to keep the parties from launching another
round
of conflict.
Will you advocate a development
round
that emphasizes liberalization of labor markets more than capital markets, elimination of non-tariff barriers that keep developing countries’ goods out of advanced industrial countries, and abolition of so-called “escalating tariffs,” which impede development?
TRIPs, the intellectual property provisions of the Uruguay round, were designed to reduce access to generic medicines – and they succeeded.
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