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While the West accepts that Russia wants to strengthen its infrastructure in the region to support its economic and security interests, the Kremlin’s military maneuvers there remain a sore point.
Moreover, Japan’s powerful agricultural interest groups, especially the Central Union of Agricultural Cooperatives, may strengthen their opposition to both a trilateral FTA with China and South Korea and the TPP with the US.
New efforts to boost accountability – vital to reinforce legitimacy – will strengthen the system further.
If implemented properly, the reforms will create a more efficient system for the creation and enforcement of contracts, ease the path for market entrants, and strengthen the application of China’s competition laws.
Indeed, it could help to boost competition, encourage innovation, strengthen the financial system, and expand access to capital.
This would augment savings options for an increasingly affluent population and strengthen support for long-term investment and development.
The Indian media are doing their part to strengthen the illusion of progress, latching onto the phrase “closest partners” in their acclaim for the agreement.
In this spirit of cooperation, the major multilateral development institutions – the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Islamic Development Bank, the United Nations, and the World Bank – have already begun to strengthen their joint efforts in producing and sharing development data.
These firms often benefit from intellectual-property monopolies, reinforced by free-trade agreements designed to strengthen corporate power.
Our two countries need to make every effort to strengthen our ties.
Adding these partners to the central pillar of the US-Japan alliance will strengthen stability throughout the region.
Many people view that mechanism as being intended to strengthen the power of the EU's big members to the detriment of small countries.
We should consider not only how to improve the ability of smallholder farmers to grow food; we also must strengthen their ability to participate in markets, while improving the way those markets function.
The German government has been all but reneging on its commitments to strengthen significantly public investment in infrastructure and education.
Chinese policymakers have been hoping to develop the renminbi’s role in international finance, in order to strengthen China’s geopolitical standing, since the 1990s.
To strengthen the Fund’s financial stability role, we propose action in three related areas.
The address also embraced social welfare (“The commitments we make to each other through Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security, these things do not sap our initiative, they strengthen us”) and the idea of fraternité (“preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action”).
But even this cautious attempt to strengthen accountability generated an irate reaction from the Business Roundtable.
Such a gesture would strengthen France both externally and in terms of the sentiments of its citizens of Algerian descent, whose difficulty in reconciling their dual identity has led some to turn to fundamentalist Islam.
Together with information, the possibility to invest their social benefits, rather than only consuming them, would strengthen their autonomy and freedom of choice.
Confidential company documents made available in late March suggest that Shell withheld vital information on the extent of the downward revaluation of its Nigerian reserves - by 1.5 billion barrels (60% of the country's total reserves) - because it wanted to strengthen Nigeria's hand in negotiating with OPEC to increase the country's production quota.
So a better balance is needed to mitigate the concerns of diverse social and political actors whose participation is needed to renew constitutional frameworks, strengthen the rule of law, and revive national identity and state institutions in a context of democratic transition.
Likewise, a Chinese government think tank worked with the World Bank to produce the China 2030report, which outlines the structural reforms needed to strengthen the foundations of the country’s market-based economy and create a climate of open innovation.
Best of all, mothers create new antibodies in real time, which help strengthen young immune systems.
More vigorous antitrust policies, or increased consumer ownership of data, could strengthen competition and, in the process, boost efficiency and improve income distribution.
But to strengthen a Ukraine plagued by corruption and cronyism, and heavily burdened by Russian aggression and destabilization, is no easy task.
As the IMF’s latest annual report on Russia’s economy points out, if the RCB continues to restrain the ruble’s appreciation for the sake of growth, the result will merely be higher inflation, which implies that the ruble would still strengthen in real terms, thereby damaging growth.
But if China can improve its energy efficiency, it will save money and strengthen its energy security.
Such a system can strengthen stability for unsteady times, in three vital ways.
Yet state and local governments are still trusted by most voters, and they have the power under the Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution to strengthen democratic institutions.
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