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Skeptics also point out that Latin America already went through a
round
of industrial policy in the 1960’s and 1970’s, with results that were mediocre at best.
Tax hikes for high-income earners and large property owners would help to finance these expenditures, while increases in the minimum wage would
round
out income redistribution efforts.
Successful implementation of another
round
of far-reaching reform depends on it.
An independent centrist standing in his first election, Macron saw off the established parties’ candidates in the first
round
two weeks ago and won nearly two-thirds of the vote in the runoff against the far-right National Front’s Marine Le Pen.
In the first round, only half of the electorate voted for broadly pro-EU candidates, while the other half backed candidates, from either the far left or the far right, who loathe the EU in its current form.
Like Chirac – who faced Le Pen’s father, Jean-Marie, in the second
round
in 2002 – Macron won the runoff by a landslide not because he swept French voters off their feet, but because many could not bring themselves to vote for the National Front.
And though Le Pen did worse than expected, her 34% share in the second
round
was nearly double that of her father in 2002.
Admission of new members will repeat the positive experience of the last enlargement
round.
Beyond fending off this latest
round
of exasperating claims, Rwanda is involved in the DRC crisis in one other concrete way.
If the US is serious about “fair” trade, they say, the new administration will need, for example, to deal with the unfairness of agricultural subsidies, which led to the collapse of the Doha
round
of World Trade Organization talks.
The rift has only widened with every
round
of failed negotiations.
The fact that China and Russia joined the most recent
round
of sanctions had made the radicals’ position less tenable.
Still, if Ghuneim takes over as the PA’s and Fatah’s leader, which could happen next year, a breakdown of negotiations with Israel and a new
round
of fighting would not be surprising.
But there is little chance that such an agreement will emerge from the current
round
of talks.
In lieu of such an approach by the Trump administration, China should consider launching a new
round
of WTO negotiations in cooperation with Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Mexico, and New Zealand.
Moreover, Israelis and people close to Hezbollah in Lebanon are talking about “another round,” while many pundits in the Middle East believe that a limited war could unblock a stagnant political situation.
Yet, despite their rhetorical commitments to completing the Doha round, neither the US nor any other economic power has done much to move it forward.
In the US and elsewhere, the Doha
round
has sparked widespread opposition from workers and trade unions, and has elicited only tepid support from the wider public.
With the Europeans, simultaneous pursuit of an “enhanced transatlantic market” would make a new US-EU Doha initiative on agriculture more attractive to both sides, as it would aim at reducing additional barriers to transatlantic trade that are not covered in the multilateral
round.
In his final campaign rally before the first
round
of the presidential election, Nicolas Sarkozy stood in front of a banner proclaiming “la France forte,” or strong France.
The current (Doha)
round
of global trade negotiations is behind schedule; the next session, to be held in Hong Kong, is only months away.
With Dzokhar Tsarnaev in custody and his brother dead, the next
round
of stories reported on alleged “sleeper cells” and planned attacks that had been thwarted by America’s security services.
If Bush or his successor wants to ensure that the next
round
of talks fails, that will be easy enough.
The next few weeks could bring a reduction in tensions, as the US, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, China, and Russia go through another
round
of attempts to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons or the capacity to produce them.
Restarting the Doha
round
of trade negotiations with a more manageable agenda – and one focused on the poorer and more vulnerable developing countries – would be a good way to revive progress on trade.
Another
round
of so-called “quantitative easing” by monetary authorities may not occur as inflation is rising – albeit slowly – in most advanced economies.
Sometimes people are so confident about the robustness of globalization that they assume that it can't be reversed: but this is exactly what each
round
of financial and economic turbulence threatens.
But the risk-sharing inherent to Islamic finance made such instruments more resistant to the first
round
of financial contagion that hit in 2008.
For example, in 2012, the Socialists obtained nearly 50% of the seats in the National Assembly, despite having won only 29% of the vote in the first
round.
The right-wing RPR-UDF coalition did even better in 1993, when it won 38.5% of the vote in the first
round
but obtained an astonishing 82% of the seats.
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