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Given the opacity surrounding admission to these highly selective institutions (where the acceptance rate typically is as low as around 8%), it is impossible to tell whether princelings get in on the basis of merit or family background.
Since 1989, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been pursuing a two-pronged strategy: selective repression that targets organized political opposition and co-optation of new social elites (the intelligentsia, professionals, and private entrepreneurs).
At the same time, selective repression can contain social frustrations and discontent only temporarily.
The promise of selective price controls sweetens the deal.
In Europe’s highly taxed economies, better tax compliance or selective revenue measures can produce only a small amount of additional tax revenue without undermining growth.
Selective protection, credit subsidies, state-owned enterprises, domestic-content rules, and technology-transfer requirements have all played a role in making China the manufacturing powerhouse that it is.
The initial critical reaction on the part of several Arab governments to Hezbollah’s kidnapping of Israeli soldiers is a sign that such criticism is possible, as are selective comments by a number of Muslim religious leaders.
Small cuts are usually delivered evenly, aggravating all public services, while deep cuts have to be selective and structural.
Policymakers can then be more selective when it comes to restructuring in slower-growing regions and cities where a single company dominates the local economy.
In this model, the government, while continuing to benefit from the international market, retains power over the economy’s “commanding heights” through strict control over the financial sector, restrictive government procurement policies, guidance for research and development in the energy sector, and selective curbs on imports of goods and services.
In this context, selective capital controls and careful reserve management can help to stabilize the balance of payments and ensure that the terms of trade do not change too fast to be offset by productivity growth.
Viewed from this perspective, selective interventions, such as a proposed ban on internal combustion engines after 2030, would thus be counterproductive.
When I was teaching at the National School of Administration in the 1980s, I saw the “happy few” who had passed the school’s highly selective entry exams being awarded their own cars and personal drivers.
By substituting imports with domestic production, relying on government planning to target priority sectors, and implementing selective trade protection (for example, by imposing tariffs, quotas, and import licensing), they attempted to accelerate their transitions from raw-materials suppliers to manufacturing-based economies.
As a result, a protracted series of confusing legal battles and selective defaults looms.
Aside from supporting selective immigration, Republican officials have sought to prevent likely Democratic voters from registering.
Humans have been altering animals and plants through selective breeding for millennia; but, because these changes typically reduce the capacity for survival and reproduction in the wild, they do not spread to wild populations.
In fact, such selective sanctions could be more effective in influencing Russian policy than the more generalized economic restrictions, as they provide an explicit and tangible warning to Russian elites that their impunity ends at the country’s borders.
With selective intensification, cure rates began to increase steadily.
In principle, this is an argument for humanitarian intervention in selective situations.
The eurozone must allow for selective default on sovereign debt, with the ECB acting as a lender of last resort for solvent governments.
The International Monetary Fund, which now supports selective imposition of capital controls, seems unconcerned: the rupee, its annual review concludes, is fairly valued.
(That battle is highly selective.
Of course, in their respective judgments on Russia and China, the West – and Europeans in particular – may be demonstrating selective emotions.
But selective responses to the actions of dictatorships can be problematic and counterproductive.
The record exists on many nodes within the network, making it resistant to central control or “censorship” – a term used frequently by cryptocurrencies’ founders, traders, and observers, precisely because so many of them are concerned about selective alteration of records.
Health and agriculture will be considered only on a highly selective basis.
In the coming year and beyond, however, Mexico must count on a more difficult external environment as credit becomes far more selective and the US economy slows down.
Admittedly, the new account makes only selective use of primary sources, quite a few of which have not been declassified in their entirety.
The Commission's selective draft, they argue is unconstitutional because it allows the large majority of eligible young men to escape conscription.
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