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Fortunately, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government recognized this risk, and took steps to protect local farmers, including in negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement (which Trump has now rejected).
If these three steps – an ECB bond-buying program to hold down sovereign interest rates, concrete progress on establishing a real economic union, and realistic revision of current adjustment programs – could be achieved as a package, the resources that the ECB would need to use for its bond purchases would drop, because credibility would be restored.
Third, discussions are being held to prepare the next steps, namely how to arrange the resolution of failed banks and support for ailing ones.
We are investigating what business insights and policy steps made such successes possible.
The People’s Bank of China has joined with UNEP to identify practical steps to ensure “green” financial-market reform, and the Bank of England (BoE) has initiated a prudential review of the systemic risks posed by climate change to the United Kingdom’s insurance sector.
On two fronts, Kaufman has – against long odds – actually managed to make substantial steps.
More than a hundred countries have taken steps down this path; in the process, they have revealed important opportunities and strategies to accelerate progress toward the goal of health for all.
If we know that the earth is warming, but are uncertain about how fast and with what effects on climates worldwide, what are the most urgent steps that we should take to address it?
There are steps policymakers can take to accelerate progress, but, until the next generation grows up, real progress will have to wait.
Since President Xi Jinping launched his anti-corruption campaign in 2012, China’s overall economic performance has not improved, partly owing to local officials’ increased reluctance to take bold steps to boost growth.
Overtaking Germany and Japan, however, will require bolder steps, especially regarding education, health, and economic policy.
The emergence of the G-20 as the primary forum of international cooperation and the peer-review process agreed in Pittsburghare steps in the right direction.
Prior to this, a number of other steps were taken to strengthen transparency in public life: enacting new anti-corruption rules, eliminating patronage in government contracts or civil-servant jobs, and making ongoing debates more open to the public.
Throughout the long years of this bloody tragedy, we have tried to inch our way to a settlement through confidence-building measures or, in the case of the long dead “Road Map,” through pushing both parties to take parallel steps towards an agreement.
I urge other governments to take similar steps.
Second, pursuant to its obligations under the Geneva Convention, the US must immediately take steps to protect the lives and freedoms of Iraqi civilians.
It could conceivably make an equally rapid transition to a post-industrial, sustainable, harmonious society – if it takes certain crucial steps.
Such slowness is ultimately self-defeating, because it leads into a cul-de-sac from which only dramatic steps provide an escape.
One of the most basic steps we can take to overcome what Francis calls “the globalization of indifference” is to come together in support of decisive, measurable action against NTDs.
Reenergizing the talks will require renewed focus on taking steps to achieve their ends.
What they have in common are committed leaders who have taken proactive steps to ensure progress.
The same kind of national self-interest that is driving the Chinese to stimulate domestic spending was at work when the G-20 leaders met in London in April 2009 and agreed to take steps to stimulate their economies.
That, in turn, fuels the perception that responsibility lies with the German government, which is seen as unwilling to take the steps needed to strengthen domestic demand – even as it prohibits the periphery governments from spending more themselves.
As was the case with computer-aided design and manufacturing, it is easier to run a 3-D printer than to master all the steps needed to make the same part the traditional way.
Today, they are increasingly taking steps to remove subsidies, introduce market prices, and increase efficiency – policies that are more typically associated with energy-importing countries.
The speed of economic recovery would largely reflect the extent to which these steps are taken.
Even so, some simple steps can be taken to prevent price gouging, while maintaining incentives for innovation.
The G-20 could not agree on coordinated fiscal stimulus or concrete steps towards banking reform.
The task now is to persuade Palestinians and Israelis to begin the process, to start taking steps to improve the situation on the ground so that they can tackle more far_reaching matters at the negotiating table.
The establishment of a more inclusive Iraqi government – enabled by the common sense and coordinated efforts of actors within and outside of the country – is also a positive sign, as are steps toward resolving disagreements between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the central authorities in Baghdad.
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