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The additional funding will strengthen the WBG’s capacity to support development projects around the world.
Two important steps will be to strengthen the Economic and Social Council, and to ensure system-wide policy coherence and coordination.
To advance such efforts, it may be necessary for mid-level powers such as Japan, Canada, Australia, and Germany to strengthen ties with other like-minded mid-level countries that possess nuclear weapons and hold permanent seats on the UN Security Council, such as the United Kingdom and France, or with smaller nuclear powers without permanent Security Council seats, such as India.
These investments, in turn, would strengthen the private sector and economic growth.
Second, he assured his listeners that “we expect a moderate recovery to continue and indeed to strengthen.”
It may look counter-intuitive, but Europe's falling productivity and shrinking workforce signal even tougher times ahead and strengthen the case for an EU that is more efficient, as well as more democratically responsive.
Latin America’s Integration MuddleSANTIAGO – Regional integration is usually regarded as a way for countries to strengthen themselves.
Despite China’s official hard line, some Chinese environmental officials privately express alarm at run-away carbon emissions, and suggest that foreign green tariffs would actually strengthen their hand in domestic policy struggles over controlling greenhouse gases by helping to win political support for emissions cuts.
Many people advocate the simple expedient of “strengthening Abbas” as a moderate, but one cannot strengthen a wet noodle.
In fact, such sanctions can even serve to strengthen public support for the populists.
It is crucial that both institutions seize this opportunity to strengthen the EU’s response by making disclosure and compliance mandatory and extending coverage to include finished and semi-finished products.
China’s main priority should be to strengthen its legal institutions to protect property rights, while reducing state ownership and control of resources and large enterprises.
This was true of Thailand and South Korea, when both moved fast to strengthen their banking sectors after receiving IMF bailouts.
Was that world a worse and more dangerous one than today, where our main nuclear concerns are how to prevent proliferation and strengthen the treaty that has deterred it for the last generation?
The US dollar could strengthen much further, especially against emerging-market currencies, despite Trump’s stated desire to boost US exports.
Such forecasts underlie governments’ failure to take advantage of boom periods to strengthen their finances, including running budget surpluses.
Such a Chinese “Marshall Plan” could seek to strengthen developing countries’ capacity to absorb Chinese goods, or it could advance a broader development agenda.
Therefore, the Chinese are doing everything possible to strengthen their economic and political position in Russia, and to draw Russia into their sphere of influence.
Likewise, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), which just concluded its annual meeting, is in China’s eyes a tool of regional policy that helps strengthen China’s influence and control over Central Asia’s natural resources at the expense of Russia.
As 2012 comes to a close, it is in trouble, and every effort must be made to nurture and strengthen it.
But will American resources help to strengthen Pax Africana , or will American power simply turn it into a handmaiden of Pax Americana ?
It is an open question whether global economic growth will remain strong, strengthen further, or start to weaken.
But, if implemented correctly, sound regulation can strengthen countries’ growth capacity, while protecting citizens and improving their long-term living standards.
If a European pillar within NATO is needed to strengthen the Alliance, why not accept it?
To strengthen Russia’s position, Nicholas I looked to the Orthodox populations in the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire, with his naval minister, Alexander Menshikov, demanding in 1853 that Russia be named an official protector of the Ottoman Empire’s 12 million Orthodox citizens.
Such a scenario would reverse the gloomy demographic and economic trends in Russia’s eastern territories, and would strengthen Russia’s geopolitical position in the process.
It would also strengthen the European Parliament’s call for an independent international investigation of the murder of the Russian opposition political leader, former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, and bolster his family’s petition for an international investigation.
They have worked with Russian civil-society leaders to strengthen the country’s nongovernmental sector, a basic element of a functioning democracy.
The paradox is that while anxiety over China’s growing assertiveness has returned the US to the center of Asian geopolitics and enabled it to strengthen its security arrangements in the region, this has not led to action aimed at quelling China’s expansionary policies.
Investors traditionally flock to the dollar not simply because it is stable, but also because it tends to strengthen in a crisis, given that its issuer has impregnable defenses and possesses the deepest and most liquid financial markets in the world.
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