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For example, Bernanke explained that the Fed’s plan would be akin to a driver easing pressure on the gas pedal – not stepping on the brakes – as the car accelerates.
What Newman did not realize was that he would, yet again, be stepping into a war zone.
So it is worth stepping back and recognizing that many indicators point to a world that is improving.
As one Indian family described their visit to McDonald’s, it was stepping out for “a slice of America.”
As former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates put it shortly before stepping down, any adviser recommending such action “should have his head examined.”
At the same time that Russia is stepping up its aggression in eastern Ukraine, US President Donald Trump is waging a trade war against China, and could expand it to the EU (which he has deemed a “foe”).
To be sure, in April, the US Department of State warned that Russia, along with China and Iran, was stepping up its disinformation efforts in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis.
The good news is that international and regional institutions are already stepping up, in a big way.
While young activists around the world are stepping up to show what true climate leadership looks like, politicians are barely taking note.
Today, however, we see corporations stepping up in response to the global health crisis.
If anything, debt-service requirements will push countries to pursue export revenues at any cost, including by cutting corners on climate-resilient infrastructure and stepping up their own fossil-fuel use and extraction of resources.
Making matters worse, Xi attempted to capitalize on the pandemic, first by hoarding medical products – a market China dominates – and then by stepping up aggressive expansionism, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region.
But eurozone member states cannot rely on a national central bank stepping in to monetize national public debts.
Without the stepping stone of secondary school, the progress made over the past year will be short-lived.
Central banks, at least, are stepping up to the challenge.
Globally and at the country level, we desperately need to do everything possible to accelerate the development of a safe and effective vaccine, while in the meantime stepping up collective efforts to deploy the diagnostic and therapeutic tools necessary to keep the health crisis under control.
The World Bank Group is supporting countries in achieving this goal in important areas, including the removal of discriminatory laws, investment to close gender gaps, broadening access to finance, and stepping up efforts to prevent gender-based violence.
“[T]he two countries are stepping in to try to influence the presidential election as it enters its final two weeks,” concluded the New York Times.
As United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein put it before stepping down last year, “When these leaders undermine human rights, and human rights law […] they are eroding the structures which can ensure the safety of their people – pitching their societies backwards into violence, destruction, exploitation, and disaster.”
But under Trump, with his unilateral and erratic trade wars, America’s competitors and even its allies are now stepping up efforts to knock the dollar off its pedestal and develop an alternative reserve currency.
In what was probably also scripted, the press conferences included “journalists” stepping up to ask questions – and then being revealed to be ordinary Russians who had been duped by corrupt officials.
Central banks have been stepping in and leveraging their balance sheets in times of crisis ever since.
Meanwhile, China has been stepping into the breach, paying lip service to global governance but primarily seeking to develop its bilateral relationships.
Clearly, the private sector is stepping up.
Stepping up efforts to ensure food security for all is essential to preventing the COVID-19 crisis from becoming a humanitarian calamity, and that objective is above all an imperative for policymakers.
True, individual countries are stepping up their assistance efforts.
At a minimum, the corporate contributions made so far undoubtedly represent a new commitment from an industry that I have long criticized for not stepping up.
Moreover, with China having accounted for fully 37% of the cumulative growth in world GDP since 2008 and no other economy stepping up to fill the void, the risk of outright global recession in the first half of 2020 seems like a distinct possibility.
To be sure, some donor countries are stepping up to the challenge of protecting SRHR.
The international community is stepping up to help Africa fight the pandemic.
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