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Countries like Brazil did not take advantage of the recovery from 2010 to 2014 to strengthen their budgets, and are now in a difficult position.
That is why Ukraine's external partners must also help to strengthen the country's defensive capabilities.
Policy reform should aim to promote market transparency, improve risk management, and strengthen effective supervision and regulations.
If India is to succeed, it will have to deepen regional and domestic demand, strengthen its macroeconomic institutions, and join in the fight for an open global system.
Countries like Kuwait and Qatar have already established macro-fiscal units, which they are working to strengthen.
Currently, the Chinese Twittersphere has three prominent features: First, as China’s rulers strengthen their censorship efforts, Twitter has become highly politicized.
They reaffirmed their deference for each other’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, and reached agreements on major strategic issues, including efforts to strengthen cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region and in multilateral institutions, and to respond jointly to regional and global challenges to peace and stability, for example, on the Korean Peninsula.
As the three major global powers, China, the EU, and the US must strengthen their cooperation, and must work with the rest of the world to face the complex international issues that challenge us all.
On the contrary, some are likely to strengthen.
Second, we need to strengthen domestic education systems so that governments see themselves as the guarantor of accessible, quality schools for their citizens, rather than abdicating that role to outside development agencies.
The alternative to dismantling the EU is to strengthen it – to pool the debt and create a European treasury.
For starters, affluent northern Europeans have to be convinced that it is in their interest to strengthen the EU, as it certainly is.
The big question is whether the US can strengthen revenue in an appropriate manner that is consistent with renewed economic growth.
If the Obama administration succeeds in forcing India to strengthen its patent laws, the change would harm not only India and other developing countries; it would also enshrine a grossly corrupt and inefficient patent system in the US, in which companies increase their profits by driving out the competition – both at home and abroad.
Second, in order to strengthen judicial independence, the resolution includes a call “to explore the establishment of judicial jurisdiction systems that are suitably separated from administrative areas.”
In the political realm, the resolution includes measures to strengthen China’s so-called “consultative democracy.”
Ideally, major powers would support efforts to strengthen the IMF.
If, in addition to dealing effectively with the risks of Grexit and Brexit, the EU can strengthen its unity and determination in addressing the Ukraine crisis and confronting today’s revisionist Russia, it will have succeeded in fending off today’s existential threats.
African leaders need to root out graft, make the governance of energy utilities – some of which have been centers of corruption and inefficiency – more transparent, strengthen regulations, and increase public spending on energy infrastructure.
And assuming that prosperity is shared equitably, they will also strengthen stability at home.
Adaptation programs help strengthen climate resilience.
Bachelet has also vowed to reform the tax system to reduce inequality, strengthen the state’s role in the pension system, and improve the quality and coverage of the health-care system.
Soon after the crisis erupted, the G-20 countries embraced massive stimulus packages, unconventional monetary policies in the advanced economies, and major institutional efforts, such as the Dodd-Frank financial-reform legislation in the United States and the Basel III initiative to strengthen banking standards.
But it would strengthen raters’ positive incentives to compete with one another to produce accurate ratings, and to pursue innovations and improvements that enable raters to achieve that far more socially beneficial goal.
In terms of priorities, it is arguably more important for G-20 governments to strengthen the core systems that enable global flows than it is to address strictly economic issues.
Asian states should also strengthen Asia-Pacific regional structures like APEC and the ASEAN Regional Forum in order to ensure stronger collaboration on issues of regional and global concern.
Both sources of demand are likely to strengthen in 2013.
This would avoid a Lula-Serra run-off and strengthen Lula's governing coalition should he assume the presidency.
The lesson is clear: The muscle-flexing rise of a world power can strengthen the strategic relevance and role of a power in relative decline.
One answer to this challenge is to strengthen domestic capital markets.
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