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All of this has serious implications for the five-year review conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), scheduled to begin in New York in late April.
The nuclear-armed states can and should make serious commitments to dramatic further reductions in the size of their arsenals; hold the number of weapons physically deployed and ready for immediate launch to an absolute minimum; and change their strategic doctrines to limit the role and salience of nuclear weapons, ideally by committing to “no first use.”
The ongoing sequencing of the genomes of malaria, the tubercle bacillus, leprosy, hepatitis viruses and HIV raises serious hopes of better vaccines in the future.
India, Brazil, China and several other developing countries also have serious research and development efforts in biotechnology.
Then, suddenly serious, and accompanied by a man whom I notice for the first time and who turns out to be J.
China has historically approached broad-scale relief of troubled assets through three channels – capital injections, asset-management companies (AMCs), and the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) – all of which have serious downsides.
If we are actually serious about grand promises to keep global temperature rises below 2ºC, we obviously need to find ways of making this cheaper.
As this approach facilitates the rise of global super-firms, it creates serious problems for labor markets and societies, because it destroys mid-level jobs based on old skills faster than comparable jobs based on new skills can be created.
Equally serious, it contributes to shocking levels of income inequality, with a few households not only enjoying massive wealth, but also wielding considerable political influence.
What is really needed are serious and sustained negotiations among interested international powers (let’s call them a “contact group”) on a viable political outcome.
But, while the authorities relied on this approach in 1999, the last time they were faced with a serious bad-loan problem, running the money printing press is not compatible with officials’ other stated goal: a stable exchange rate.
And it risks the most serious rupture in the Sino-American relationship since 1989.
Needless to say, such an outcome would spell serious trouble for America’s already-contentious deficit-and-debt debate.
First, the G20 needs to get serious about accelerating work on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.
But his mercurial ways make it plausible that he may find it politically advantageous to strike a serious bargain on the nuclear issue.
For China, the risk will be highest if it sticks with the timeworn recipe of unbalanced manufacturing- and construction-led growth, which has created such serious sustainability problems.
Germany’s political elite are in an uproar, and serious voices advocate splitting the eurozone into northern and southern tiers, with France relegated to the latter.
More fundamentally, the mentioning of Aceh in this Nobel citation raises serious questions about the mental maps used by the Nobel Prize Committee in making these awards.
If China is serious about elevating the SDR to reserve-currency status, it should take steps to create a liquid market in SDR claims.
If the international community is serious about the SDR as an international currency, it will have to empower the IMF to do likewise.
First, gold prices tend to spike when there are serious economic, financial, and geopolitical risks in the global economy.
So far, the only serious candidates to emerge for a Société Générale takeover are two French banks, Credit Agricole and BNP Paribas.
Today, however, the British economy is facing serious risks.
Exchange-rate fluctuations pose a serious short-term challenge for monetary policy, given the potential of the resulting price changes to spur inflation.
At a time when the EU is confronting many serious challenges, the last thing it needed was protracted and awkward negotiations on the changes to the terms of UK membership that Cameron’s government demanded.
Worse still, they have made no serious attempt to identify why their earlier predictions have had to be revised.
There are serious risks.
Bhutan’s Buddhist tradition understands happiness not as attachment to goods and services, but as the result of the serious work of inner reflection and compassion toward others.
Bhutan has embarked on such a serious journey.
The other looming danger is a growth crisis – a threat that has become increasingly serious.
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