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Success also requires taking bold steps to tear down trade barriers and open the economy to investment from fast-growing countries like China and India.
Steps like fair, competitive, and transparent public-sector contracting procedures, and civil service, rather than political control over allocation of government advertising funds would go a long way, especially combined with good reporting, to protect the media against officials’ persistent temptation to control what the public may know.
Some companies, too, have been affected by QE and will need to take appropriate steps if such policies are maintained.
When I ask this question, I never get a coherent answer; so let me retrace Keynes’s steps.
The five countries negotiating with North Korea agreed to take steps of their own, including provision of specific amounts of fuel oil, in exchange for steps taken by the North.
When the North Koreans failed to take such steps, primarily in the form of refusing to agree to a verification regime, its interlocutors stopped providing fuel oil.
As is true of an exhausted athlete who needs to rebuild strength, it is never easy for a political leader to take tough reform steps under pressure.
But that is often the way that European integration proceeds: an incomplete step in one area later requires further steps in related areas.
The Assembly sought to fill this policy vacuum by outlining steps that her government must take to jump-start the economy.
Fortunately, many governments are taking steps to promote the online education revolution.
During the Obama years, there has been progress on other fronts – the small but significant steps that add up to strengthening the sinews of a relationship.
But China has been taking concerted steps to expand the use of the renminbi, including signing swap agreements with more than two dozen countries, actively encouraging offshore markets for renminbi deposits and bonds, and moving cautiously to open domestic capital markets.
Yet the first steps toward a new approach may already have been taken.
Even if we could do it, specialists warn against taking irreversible steps to turn them into the sex with which they identify.
First, David Ignatius of The Washington Post reported, on the basis of conversations with senior US officials, that agreement had already been reached on a number of steps Pakistan would take to reduce its dependence on nuclear weapons for deterrence.
That, in turn, depends on an economic recovery in the occupied territories and a belief that concrete steps toward a negotiated political solution are being taken.
US President Barack Obama should take the next steps, both with Iran and with other countries (including North Korea and Cuba).
Israel’s concern that the region will grow more hostile will become a self-fulfilling prophecy if new democracies see the Israeli government impeding steps toward a viable and just solution.
We did so after Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, where the challenge now is to push for political progress, including credible steps on human rights and democracy.
For the first time, a country in the region is matching its aspirations with the concrete steps needed to become a viable candidate for eventual membership in Euro-Atlantic institutions.
Keeping these promises will be significant steps towards restoring America’s image around the world.
These steps are necessary to answer some fundamental questions: What makes humans human?
These steps would require the IMF mission teams to become more diverse, bringing financial sector expertise in addition to the traditional macro and fiscal skills.
The first diplomatic reset, at the end of George H.W. Bush’s presidency, took major steps toward defusing the nuclear dangers resulting from the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The way to limit the competitive burden on US producers is, of course, by ensuring that other countries also require their companies to take steps to mitigate climate change, thereby keeping the playing field level.
As member states contemplate the next steps in the development of cyber norms, the answer may be to avoid putting too much of a burden on any one institution like the UNGGE.
We remain optimistic that others will continue to take the steps needed to end the scourge of rogue fishing and work together to regenerate ocean life globally.
But there are steps that can and must be taken to help bring about the needed shift.
Though the comparison is unfair, it is hard not to recall the old quip about the IMF’s relative, the United Nations: “When there is a dispute between two small nations, the UN steps in and the dispute disappears.
When there is a dispute between a small nation and a large nation, the UN steps in and the small nation disappears.
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