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Our longer-term goal is to strengthen these systems enough to reach all children in Mozambique with basic vaccines and other forms of health care.
In many places where the labor market remains out of balance, domestic action is required to strengthen economic potential and improve access to employment.
The first is cultural: to protect and strengthen the identity of the Scottish people.
Crucially, advanced and emerging economies must coordinate their policies, in order to foster confidence and strengthen growth.
Similarly, the more that recovery and sustained growth strengthen banks’ balance sheets, the less urgency policymakers feel to address structural shortcomings, such as the implicit guarantees enjoyed by state banks and municipal savings banks in Germany, and the problems of family-controlled banks like Banco Espirito Santo in Portugal.
That requires, first and foremost, efforts to strengthen and modernize institutions, guided by Western examples.
In the hands of a leader who possesses wisdom and good character, it can strengthen the rule of law.
Macroeconomic theory predicts that such policies will drive up interest rates, attract capital from abroad, and strengthen the dollar.
And its peer review mechanism is prodding individual countries to strengthen their regulatory institutions.
But if weak productivity growth persists – and with it subpar growth in wages and living standards – the recent populist backlash against free trade, globalization, migration, and market-oriented policies is likely to strengthen.
Behind this prediction is a widely shared assessment that the trends in Afghanistan (unlike in Iraq) are negative, and that the US must strengthen its military presence there and revise its strategy if the Taliban are not to gain the upper hand.
Regional associations not only enhance power and security; they also encourage and strengthen engagement with emerging powers outside of the neighborhood.
This was perhaps logical politically, but it made no economic sense: Europe’s huge domestic market is one of its main assets, and opportunities to strengthen it should not be squandered.
The combination of these factors will strengthen the position of the Commission President.
In this case, however, the victory of the extremist Hamas may strengthen not the extremists of Likud, but, surprisingly, the more moderate centrists of Kadima.
For all of the progress human society has made since the era of the Luddites, a simple truth persists: machines must strengthen, not weaken, our prospects for inclusive growth and broadly shared prosperity.
The authorities also need to strengthen regulatory capacity to ensure the safety of food, buildings, medicines and much else.
Just as the Bretton Woods framework restored order to the global economy after WWII, a new monetary framework, underpinned by a truly international currency, could strengthen much-needed economic and financial stability.
This must include incentives to stimulate private-sector investment – especially in new, environmentally-friendly technologies and labor-intensive economic activities – and collaborative industrial policy to strengthen economic diversification in developing countries.
Islamist terrorism can either undermine or strengthen this effort.
After Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan in 1949 to form the Republic of China in opposition to Mao's People's Republic, he sought to maintain his dictatorial regime but was made to recognize the importance of building Taiwan's economy so as to strengthen the island.
There was general agreement about confidence-building measures and the need to strengthen capacity.
Moreover, the increase in exports and the shift from imports to domestically produced goods and services would strengthen their economies, thereby reducing their fiscal deficits as tax revenues rose and transfers declined.
If the euro falls by 20-25%, bringing it close to parity with the dollar and weakening it to a similar extent against other currencies, the current-account deficits in Italy, Spain, and France would shrink and their economies would strengthen.
The risk now is that Trump’s demonization of India could derail a bipartisan effort, ongoing since 2000, to strengthen bilateral ties.
Moreover, to encourage this outcome, the coalition agreement promises that the government will “adopt new initiatives to strengthen and deepen the Common Foreign and Security Policy” after the EU summit in December 2013.
To this end, naval maneuvers, such as the annual US-India-Japan “Exercise Malabar,” are useful, as they strengthen military cooperation and reinforce maritime stability.
Advocates of this so-called “freeze for freeze” approach say that such a tradeoff is only fair: the North cannot be expected to suspend its efforts to strengthen its defensive capabilities if the US and South Korea are pursuing supposedly hostile military cooperation in its near-abroad.
But the discussion should focus on direct measures to impede and undermine the country’s inherently aggressive nuclear program – not to offer more concessions that will only strengthen a rogue regime’s hand.
While these efforts could not be more important, they must be backed by a longer-term strategy to strengthen these fragile countries’ defenses.
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