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Emerging-market economies will take some steps, including interest-rate cuts, to safeguard domestic growth.
But such steps, while notable, would prove insufficient to counter fully the slowdown emanating from the West; and it certainly would not materially change the outlook for the United States and Europe.
An ECB policy that artificially reduces their sovereign borrowing costs would make these steps even more politically difficult.
Individual governments should take the tough political steps needed to reduce the risk of a eurozone breakup, which would have very substantial financial costs for all – and not only its members.
Modest steps in that direction were taken during the IMF meetings in Singapore last September.
So India must “take steps that reduce social and economic inequalities, without hurting the process of growth and without reducing the incentives for individual enterprise and creativity.”
If America realizes these bold steps through purposeful public policies, as Obama outlined, the innovative science, new technology, and powerful demonstration effects that result will benefit countries around the world.
For its part, the Obama administration should take a number of steps to reaffirm its support for India’s rise, its democratic achievements, and its struggle for security.
One hopes that this month in Addis Ababa, they take credible steps in that direction.
As Japan takes unprecedented trade-liberalization steps in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations with the US and other economies in Asia and the Americas, and boosts its regional engagement, Europe must maintain its strong ties with the world’s third-largest national economy.
These steps, it is argued, have taken both sovereign-default risk and a banking crisis off the table.
With existing international arrangements remaining virtually static since the mid-twentieth century (even as non-Western economic powers and nontraditional challenges have emerged), the world needs more than the halfhearted and desultory steps taken thus far.
A number of steps would help ease the tension.
In some countries, including the United States, there are major political obstacles to taking even modest steps.
To implement his ambitious reform agenda, Xi has taken several steps to consolidate his personal and bureaucratic power.
But it is the president’s staff who guide the outcome and determines the next steps.
The US, Europe, and other countries, such as Japan, have taken significant steps to address illegal fishing.
Germany has been willing to provide emergency finance to debt-strapped eurozone members like Greece on the condition that they “put their houses in order” – cut social spending, sell off state assets, and take other steps to make themselves more competitive.
Moreover, the demand for such an allegiance is a renunciation of one of the most important steps in Europe’s development.
Indeed, some of Obama’s economic advisers counseled him that unless urgent steps were taken to stimulate the economy, there was a one-in-three chance of entering a full-scale depression.
Under his leadership Mexico took gigantic steps towards achieving stability, and becoming a more open and democratic society.
While reform loses prominence, steps are taken in the wrong direction.
Even Russia and Iran, his most vociferous supporters, have hinted that they could accept his departure if he steps down through negotiations, rather than being ousted by a popular revolt (and as long as the successor regime is friendly to them).
These leaders have taken steps to price carbon pollution and catalyze greener investment in their own countries and regions.
All of these actions are welcome; but we view them as being only initial steps.
The government has taken some positive steps: the air quality around Beijing, for example, has improved considerably this winter, thanks to efforts to shut down polluting factories and replace coal with natural gas for household heating.
Of course, these actions would be only important first steps.
Holding out prospects for eventual membership is important, but the EU must take decisive steps if admission is to become more than a mirage.
But steps can be taken now to help mitigate some of the problems associated with this business culture, such as a lack of availability of adequate risk capital for new entrepreneurs.
So it is no surprise that governments are usually reluctant to take even the smallest steps toward resolving such disputes.
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