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As we have recently witnessed, terrorists can be attacked and stopped before they can cause harm; individuals and countries can be defended; and societies can take steps to bolster their resilience when they are successfully attacked, as on occasion they inevitably will be.
But its benefits will not be fully realized unless governments take steps to empower the forces of change, ensure that the massive positive externalities are internalized, and minimize the negative impacts.
In this context, taking the steps needed to upgrade economic systems, including infrastructure in the US and the incomplete union in Europe, or to meet historical challenges like the refugee crisis, seems all but impossible.
That might well change if governments took simple steps like allocating more funding on a project basis and organizing contests.
But the case for small steps guided by market mechanisms is strong.
If both of these steps were taken, then there would be a case for some loans from the IMF, World Bank, and other official agencies, but on a much smaller scale than what the IMF has arranged.
Investing so much time and effort on an election will mean nothing if the West is unprepared to follow up on the result, whatever it may be – and with whatever steps are required.
The EU needs to consider the next steps forward for Ukraine, to keep it on the path of reform and toward a better future.
Small steps in the right direction now can make a significant difference.
The only practical approach is to take small, sequential steps, starting with debt pooling.
Twitter may now be taking more aggressive steps to promote Internet freedom abroad.
Only a broad coalition could defeat Kohl and it was essential that it should not spell out any detail or any concrete steps.
Upon entry, they will become members of the European Central Bank, which means that the new members are expected to take active steps towards fulfilling the necessary conditions for future admission into the eurozone.
The IMF’s decision was in response to the Pakistani government’s failure to take promised steps to increase its abysmal tax-to-GDP ratio, which stands at less that 10%, one of the lowest levels in the emerging world.
Partly as a result of that agreement, the Balkan countries have taken major steps forward.
The authorities are taking steps to correct their mistakes, especially with the decision to form a banking union and the outright monetary transactions program, which would allow unlimited intervention by the European Central Bank in the sovereign-bond market.
That could be a turning point, provided it is adequately reinforced with additional steps toward greater integration.
Germany remains willing to do the minimum – and nothing more – to hold the euro together, and the EU’s recent steps have merely reinforced German resistance to further concessions.
Still, important steps taken by governments toward banning export subsidies show that progress is still possible.
But generational change need not be accompanied by economic reform and steps towards political liberalization – witness North Korea under Kim Il Sung’s son, Kim Jong Il.
Even before the crisis, the G-8 countries were not taking serious steps to meet their pledges to Africa.
But reinventing NATO is a long-term process, and will necessarily occur in small steps.
The alliance’s main goal must be to ensure that they are steps forward.
These steps on their own, however, will not be enough.
In the meantime, steps must be taken to work around Russia’s exclusion from the G-8.
Other countries, however, have taken steps to make remittance transfers possible via mobile phones.
President Umaru Yar’Adua has taken concrete steps to tackle elite-level corruption in Nigeria, and appears to have made progress toward a comprehensive peace agreement with the Delta rebels.
Their aim will be to establish tangible steps that firms can take to begin changing the way business is done – and rebuilding public confidence in capitalism.
If South Korea is to avoid Japan’s fate, it must take steps to reduce its household and corporate debt.
In fact, though Trump attempted to portray his strategy as a stark break from those of his immediate predecessors, many of the steps he announced have been tried already.
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