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Countries who try to keep their economies growing too fast for too long, using drastic steps such as large tax cuts or highly expansionary monetary policies, frequently end up in a financial mess that takes years to clean up.
The next steps are up to the Chinese users themselves.
Against this background, it is encouraging that the announcement of Vision 2030 has been followed rapidly by the implementation of some initial and notable steps.
Some prominent Nigerians have also suggested that if the electoral crisis is not resolved before Obasanjo steps down on May 29, the chief justice should take over as interim president and organize new elections.
In downgrading EU enlargement as a formal policy priority, the Commission is preparing itself to take other important steps.
Finally, and more important than any of these individual steps, the leaders of Europe have to take up the challenge and really start making the case for the larger Europe to their publics, east and west of the velvet curtain.
In the meantime, some obvious steps should be taken.
German politicians bear the important democratic responsibility of reinforcing this realization and advocating the steps needed to avert a catastrophe.
Chinese auto firms are being encouraged to produce hybrid cars, and the government is warning foreign auto companies that it will take steps to reduce their market share if they don’t conform.
The government is taking quick steps to de-monopolize the economy and break the nexus between economic and political power that characterized the previous government.
And concerted steps must be taken to achieve greater income equality.
While Germany’s dramatic change of course from last year’s open-border, open-arms policy was perhaps inevitable, it is unclear whether the government’s recent steps will take the wind out of the far right’s sails.
If excessively high real interest rates are undermining the domestic demand that China needs to reverse the economic slowdown, one naturally wonders why the government does not take steps to lower them.
As they leave the clinic and head home, they have already taken steps to improve not just their child’s health, but also his or her educational prospects and long-term future.
It involves three steps: raise money from the globally rich, do not deal with governments, and transfers funds in cash to the poor.
Moreover, the upcoming pension reform caps 18 months of significant steps toward fiscal consolidation that have improved the effectiveness of public spending while financing our priorities: education, the transition to a less carbon-intensive economy, employment, health care, and security.
The core of the plan consists of four interrelated steps:(1) The European Union takes control of the customs services of the participating countries.
A number of other steps would be necessary: credit facilities for reconstruction and investment; technical assistance for establishing the rule of law; support for education, management training, independent media and civil society.
But it is the four interrelated steps outlined above that hold out a prospect for a better future.
States possessing weapons should take special steps to reduce the prospect of their use.
The weapons should be used to help preserve the independence of all states, rather than for imperial aggrandizement, and steps should be taken to reduce arsenals as political conditions permit.
Volcker took radical steps to deal with it, hiking short-term interest rates so high that he created a major recession.
In order to succeed, they must look beyond the reconstruction of any single province, and plan, in concrete, practical steps, for the development of the region as a whole.
Of course, some positive steps have been taken.
Yet steps to protect investors can be taken.
Fortunately, however, the long-term trend seems to be toward inclusion, even if the UK takes a couple of steps backward today.
Germany Steps UpWASHINGTON, DC – Since the start of his first administration, US President Barack Obama has repeated a simple mantra concerning other countries: “With power comes responsibility.”
But, by not referring to Gauck’s speech, he missed an opportunity to underline the success of one of Obama’s key foreign-policy tenets: as the US steps back from its role as global policeman and focuses more on diplomacy than force, other countries must step up.
The US economy began to emerge from its recession in the second half of 2009, thanks largely to aggressive monetary policy and steps to stabilize the financial system.
In the long term, Sino-Russian relations will depend largely on whether Russia overcomes its current stagnation and, among other steps, starts to develop the vast water and other resources of the Trans-Baikal region.
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