Shift
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Africa’s
shift
toward regional integration encourages competitiveness by distributing more effectively production factors – such as inputs and equipment – and by allowing greater labor mobility.
This represents a dramatic
shift
from the past.
The government also could start aggressively pushing a
shift
to electric vehicles.
We live in an age of complexity, and sound leadership in the Middle East, as everywhere around the world, calls for a wholesale
shift
in how we think about collaborative engagement for the future.
There are signs that such a
shift
in mindset is underway.
The report includes specific recommendations on matters such as how to
shift
to low-carbon systems; but it presents them against the backdrop of broader priorities, such as the SDGs.
Even after the global economy began to recover, governments channeled their resources toward dubious and uncoordinated schemes to support energy production and consumption, rather than effective investments aimed at driving a
shift
toward more sustainable energy systems.
The paradigm of international security that had long dominated Japan's defense thinking had shifted and policymakers realized that they had to
shift
with it.
All of this underscores the need to
shift
from a strategy of war to one of sustainable development, especially by the US and Europe.
One country that will not benefit from this
shift
in labor-intensive manufacturing is the US, which lost its comparative advantage for such products a half-century ago.
However, because prices of goods from these economies are higher, a
shift
in US imports would cut the bilateral deficit with China, but cause its deficits with these countries to rise.
In fact, whereas economic growth in Latin America is often perceived as being very unequal – which explains the
shift
to the left – recent United Nations data puts the region in first place among all developing-country areas.
Governments are right to worry about the fate of Chernobyl-affected territories, but the way forward will require fresh thinking and bold decisions, particularly a
shift
in priorities from paying paltry benefits to millions to targeted spending that helps to promote jobs and economic growth.
The other, more promising scenario involves a fundamental
shift
in how the problem of climate change is understood, and thus in how potential solutions are framed.
In order to ensure this outcome, the EU must begin preparing a Plan B that accounts for the coming climate-policy paradigm
shift.
Tax cuts and interest-rate normalization, I expected, would
shift
the mix toward looser fiscal and tighter monetary policies, the combination that drove up the dollar in the Reagan-Volcker years.
New tariffs that made imports more costly and that shifted demand toward domestic goods would require offsetting effects in a near-full-employment economy in order to
shift
demand back to foreign sources.
The ongoing squabble represents a significant
shift
in Li’s relationship with China’s government.
The participation of Under Secretary of State William Burns in the European dialogue with Iran, together with plans to station American diplomats in Teheran for the first time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, represents a momentous
shift
in America’s policy, and also an indication to Israel to refrain from a military strike.
Since counter-terrorism measures were increased in Europe, the United States, and Canada, there has been a clear
shift
in attacks against US interests to the Middle East and Asia.
Terrorists will inevitably
shift
to softer targets.
What began as a strategic
shift
to an area of the world replete with long-term US interests has become – even to many anxious Americans – an exercise in picking new fights with a country of 1.3 billion people undergoing painful internal transformations of its own.
This
shift
toward multiple policy objectives inevitably reduces central-bank independence.
In addition, the moderation of inflationary pressure as a result of slower growth and cooling global commodity markets will allow Chinese and other Asian policymakers to
shift
their focus from containing economic overheating to rebalancing growth.
But there are promising signs that, over time, the advanced countries’ difficulties will trigger a healthy, if belated,
shift
in Asia’s development strategy, with China leading the way.
While Europeans have reason to criticize Russia’s shortcomings, they should also recognize that only two decades ago, Russia’s political, economic, social, and legal systems underwent a fundamental shift, which significantly affected its people’s psychology, self-perception, and behavior.
The country’s dramatic
shift
from the nearly quarter-century effort to get the bomb marks a remarkable proliferation reversal – and sanctions played a key role.
Because the financial crisis has lowered greenhouse-gas emissions, the -20% reduction target set before the crisis is no longer challenging enough to catalyze a structural
shift
in the European economy.
The Sino-Indian Water DivideNEW DELHI – As China and India gain economic heft, they are drawing ever more international attention at the time of an ongoing global
shift
of power to Asia.
The general
shift
from defined-benefit pension plans to defined-contribution plans meant that employees felt the effect of rising share prices directly in their own personal accounts.
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