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A multitude of small steps could help – such as giving pro-democracy movements the technology needed to evade autocrats, presenting digital media in a balanced way, and making political parties more responsive to their members.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel recently urged that all parties involved focus more on practical steps.
Public-health authorities throughout the region were providing actionable, up-to-date parasitological data, and taking clear steps to address the problem.
It is merely a first step toward a desired end – and entirely meaningless unless the second, third, and all subsequent necessary steps are taken.
Moreover, taking the first step starts the clock on others' trust and confidence that the next steps will in fact be taken, or else risks creating the false impression that the failure to achieve a particular goal reflects mistaken (or irrelevant) intentions, not inadequate execution.
And if the reforms are not implemented and growth fails to materialize, politicians are likely to blame QE, not their own failure to take all the other steps that must follow it on the path of economic recovery.
The first step – signing the agreement – represents the parties' commitment to take the necessary subsequent steps.
And China’s government must take steps to enable market forces to play a greater role in directing economic activity, including by reducing licensing and regulatory requirements in the private sector.
If he does take any steps in this direction, it will not be helpful to the US economy.
Such rapid, coordinated steps by 16 national central banks would have been unthinkable.
Soon after the crisis – when the US-Soviet relationship was at an all-time low – both superpowers decided that it was time to work across the divide, through small and concrete steps.
Likewise, the transparency and confidence-building mechanisms enshrined in the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s 2011 Vienna Document have grown increasingly ineffective, and Russia opposes the steps needed to modernize them.
Such steps must be carefully calibrated, as greater obligations, for example, could push market makers out of the market.
The EU has offered to play a facilitating role: we urge both leaderships to promptly seize this opportunity, with a view to their states’ further steps along the path towards the European family to which all Balkan countries naturally belong.
The cautious steps toward wage subsidies that her government has taken are mere window dressing and cannot be taken seriously.
Here, as in other areas of the reform plan, change is dangerous; but Xi has come to believe that pressing ahead is vitally important if China is to take the next crucial steps toward building a middle-class, digital-age economy.
And the government’s steps to tackle China’s heavily polluted air and water, a problem that officials can no longer ignore or explain away, will weigh on short-term growth as well.
Taken together, these steps address the core problems – the stigma associated in the past with IMF conditionality, the availability of early pre-crisis financing, and the overall size of rescue packages – that have sometimes diminished the effectiveness of the Fund’s role as a crisis lender.
Deadlines for these steps are all squeezed into the next ten months.
While a summit in Madrid will signal NATO’s opening to the East, it is not clear what steps will follow and when.
Though it is ultimately the Egyptian people who will decide the country’s fate, and whether it can finally take decisive steps towards more inclusive political institutions, this does not mean that outsiders can do nothing.
Businesses can commit to gender parity by taking several concrete steps.
China and Japan seem to be taking steps toward better relations, after a period of high tensions.
And the recent G-20 summit in Cannes produced no agreement on steps that might have helped to resolve the crisis.
Baby steps – improving their transparency in reporting, or agreeing on the meaning of technical terms like “strategic,” “deployed,” and “reserve” – will not begin to satisfy the many NPT countries that have been appalled by the recent re-emergence of Cold War mindsets and behavior.
The G20, which Germany now leads, could take many steps to address the crisis of inequality, but three are most important.
We urge them to take the necessary steps in Brussels next week to achieve that goal.
Those agendas included, for example, steps to increase capital accumulation, such as by forcing retirement saving; efforts to boost government effectiveness; and measures to encourage more competitive dynamics in the domestic market.
The roadmap calls upon the Palestinians to take steps that would bring violence to an end.
If China is serious about elevating the SDR to reserve-currency status, it should take steps to create a liquid market in SDR claims.
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