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As commentators focus almost exclusively on the economic impact of the euro crisis and the European Central Bank’s increasing authority to resolve it, they are missing the first steps in a crucial complementary development.
Institutional change requires a long, tedious, and modest implementation of multiple small steps, in which the correct sequencing of reform is crucial.
Neither event is earth shattering, but, taken together, these two steps mean that a new system of international justice is working.
Today, something similar could very well happen to the young Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (widely known as MBS), as he takes steps to modernize his country.
These are positive steps toward emancipating the Kingdom from the more oppressive elements of Wahhabism.
In particular, Europe’s politicians are balking at steps that would implicate taxpayers directly.
Political leaders were forced by global markets to take unpalatable steps to reinforce the monetary union, only to realize that one feature of the problem – bank and market interdependence – also pointed to a solution, and will likely drive more reforms.
Taking steps to integrate the banking union and European capital markets further may not be sufficient to ensure the euro’s long-term survival; but doing so is necessary.
Life expectancy is now higher than in the United States, and is increasing, while Americans, having chosen not to take the steps needed to improve the wellbeing of ordinary citizens, are dying sooner.
Pragmatic steps to clarify the FSB’s mandate and enhance its operational effectiveness can and should be taken.
Here, too, the World Bank Group is taking steps to help.
The Risk TsunamiNEW YORK – It is time for the G-20 to take seriously its mandate to agree on steps to stabilize the global economy and launch it on a more sustainable pattern of growth.
Sanctions will not impress Putin (he and his cronies are isolating Russia economically and financially more effectively than most sanctions could); peaceful yet tangible political steps within Europe will.
Puerto Rico needs private-sector investment, which requires taking three steps.
To attract that support, some steps towards freedom of the press have been taken, but censorship remains strict.
Likewise, this month the magazine Vanity Fair published a hagiographic behind-the-scenes look at the steps that Obama and his team took in the run-up to the raid.
Given the obvious benefits of a flourishing and rapidly expanding private sector, China’s government should take steps to ensure that such firms – especially the small and medium-size enterprises that so often are crowded out of credit markets – can access the capital they need to expand.
Governments should be taking some basic steps.
Nonetheless, steps can be taken to prevent political deadlock in budget negotiations, while increasing the budget’s flexibility so that it can be used to stimulate growth.
But for the aam aadmi – the common man in whose name every party claims to speak – these debates pale in significance beside the major steps taken to build a social safety net in a country where everyone had been expected to fend for himself.
At the top of the steps stood General Kiszczak, the same man who, as Minister of Internal Affairs, held me in jail only a little more than two years earlier, and against whom I had written a series of articles, smuggled from jail and published in the West, in which I did not mince words to express what I thought about him.
These steps may very well ensure that XDR-TB does not engulf the advances made in the past century in the global fight against TB.
By contrast, a better measure of economic performance might show that steps taken to improve the environment are good for the economy.
As a result, the appropriateness of small steps should be assessed from a perspective covering at least the next 10-15 years.
China has taken significant steps in the direction of currency internationalization, but its policy system remains very domestically oriented.
But concrete steps leading to government transparency and accountability, such as inquiries into oil wealth and state expenditures, or serious investigation of crimes against humanity, were all beyond his will and imagination.
But governments should play it safe by starting to take more steps now to cushion, soften, and shorten the period of high unemployment and slow or negative growth that now looks very likely.
Such a move would alleviate anxiety in the short term, thereby giving Europeans the opportunity to regroup in preparation for future steps toward a more integrated Europe and a more resilient euro.
To this end, eurozone leaders must take three key steps.
And if he indeed steps down, whom will he groom as his replacement?
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