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Action must be taken to ensure that all workers receive a living wage; more progressive tax systems must be introduced; governments must increase spending on public services; policymaking must be more transparent; and financial regulations must be strengthened.
Eventually, with a strengthened legislature and a more constrained presidency, the Constitutional Court, too, would begin to change.
Given what is at stake, we believe this guidance should go further, and that research reviews should be strengthened.
What happened next, of course, was that the dollar strengthened sharply, as investors, desperate for liquidity, fled into US Treasury securities.
Strengthened by promises of support from the US and China, Pakistan’s military commanders ordered pre-emptive air strikes against India on December 3, 1971.
This reform represents a victory for multilateralism that demonstrates ownership of how Fund surveillance will be strengthened and members’ willingness to live up to their responsibilities in the process.
This strengthened Hamas, contributing to Hamas’s electoral victory.
If Israel had accepted the results of the election, that might have strengthened the more moderate political wing.
Recent events strengthened this fear.
Risk management has been greatly strengthened.
So while financial regulation has been materially strengthened, which is clearly the most important thing, its implementation remains in the hands of a patchwork quilt of national agencies.
Moreover, social safety nets should be created or strengthened, in order to help safeguard the middle class from negative shocks and boost consumption growth (which continues to be hampered by precautionary saving).
Sovereign interest-rate spreads have been well-behaved, the euro has strengthened, and equity markets have risen robustly.
Euroskeptic and nationalist parties, not to mention some on the extreme left, would be strengthened across the EU.
Moreover, deterrence should be strengthened by bolstering NATO and further arming Ukraine.
His paper explores how the development program could be strengthened through greater attention to accountability measures and a renewed focus on mentorship.
This claim was strengthened in early September, when, for the second time, Kenya’s parliament approved a motion to withdraw from the Rome Statute, which established the ICC.
Japan’s persistent current-account surpluses should have strengthened its net international asset positions.
Because when India allows its pravasis to feel at home, India itself is strengthened.
While the prospects for elaborate new trade agreements have suffered, the information revolution has strengthened global supply chains and, unlike in the 1930s (or even the 1980s), there has not been a reversion to protectionism.
Through the so-called Four Modernizations, the crucial sectors of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology were strengthened.
The International Monetary Fund’s role as independent arbiter of sound macroeconomic policy and guardian against competitive currency devaluation ought to be strengthened.
Global financial stability, too, can be strengthened within the existing framework.
Globalization has strengthened the ability of capital to flow to wherever investment promises the highest returns; likewise, competitive manufactured products from low-wage economies will flow in the other direction.
To enable individuals to prepare to cover the associated deductibles and copayments, health savings accounts – funds which are not subject to income tax at the time of deposit, and can be used tax-free at any time to cover qualified medical expenses – should be expanded and strengthened.
Reform thus strengthened the chaebols’ internal capital market and weakened the banks’ role as monitors of corporate behavior.
By contrast, partnerships are strengthened if companies and governments recognize their shared interest in durable, mutually beneficial contracts that ensure stable revenue streams from projects.
The resolution’s failure not only exposed the international community’s lack of resolve in confronting the Assad regime (indeed, many commentators believe that the vetoed resolution did more harm than good); it also strengthened Chinese-Russian cooperation – precisely what US diplomats in 1972 had sought to weaken.
Although Zeid did not seek a second term because of what he called pressure to curb his candor, the standards he set strengthened the UN’s reputation as a global defender of human rights.
The rest of the world’s net investment position strengthened by $3 trillion during this period, owing mainly to the commodity boom, which faded as China slowed.
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