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Unfortunately, there may be little hope of strengthening global financial governance as long as implementation and enforcement of rules remain at the national level.
Domestic financial reforms will focus on strengthening policy coordination and moving toward market-determined interest rates and exchange-rate flexibility.
India – as well as Pakistan – has a great deal to gain from strengthening Southwest Asian trade, energy, and investment ties.
Meanwhile, China is quickly strengthening its own economic ties in Asia, the Pacific, and Latin America through its “one belt, one road” policy, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the New Development Bank (formerly known as the BRICS bank), and its own regional free-trade proposal to rival the TPP.
While state and local government cutbacks in spending and employment are ending as the recovery boosts their tax revenues, the fiscal drag at the federal level is strengthening.
Indeed, an increasingly assertive China has proven a diplomatic boon for the US in strengthening and expanding its Asian security relationships.
The ability to refinance government debt and keep costs down is essential to strengthening public finances and boosting GDP growth.
With pro-reform forces strengthening their position in the new parliament, the government has two choices.
As for the nuclear issue, Japan’s policy toward North Korea should continue to emphasize solidifying ties with the US and strengthening cooperation with China, South Korea, and Russia, making every effort to promote early resumption of the six-party talks.
By 1933, the services balance was strengthening as well.
This type of regional coordination might also enhance the bargaining power of the countries involved, strengthening their global voice.
The term “supply side” is intended to distinguish these new policies from the traditional demand-side measures of easy money and a slightly larger fiscal deficit that are already aimed at strengthening economic activity.
The story of Vaca Muerta should serve as a warning to these and other countries considering shale gas as a means of strengthening their economies and advancing a low-carbon energy transition.
The answer depends crucially on how each country and the international community respond to key policy challenges: addressing global imbalances through macroeconomic policies and long-overdue reform; meeting the costs of aging populations; strengthening defenses against economic and financial crises; and delivering on the pressing imperatives of poverty reduction.
If leaders of the world’s two most powerful countries differ fundamentally in their approach to international relations, what are the prospects for strengthening cooperation globally?
Moreover, significant sector-specific reforms are needed even in some Central European and Baltic countries, particularly in sustainable energy and energy efficiency, transport, and the financial sector, where regulatory and supervisory regimes require strengthening, financing of small and medium-sized firms needs to be improved, and local capital markets must be developed.
But, apart from strengthening civil society and the habits of freedom, these disciplines yield bottom-line benefits as well.
A high-level group on border and transport security is at work, and links between member states' police chiefs are strengthening.
But it also suggests that maintaining the current siege would merely punish a peace-loving population while strengthening the grip of its worst elements on society and public life.
In foreign and security policy, New Power, New Responsibility proposes strengthening the role of the EU High Representative and the role of the European Action Service.
What is needed is visionary leadership at the local level, with municipal governments identifying infrastructure projects that promote entrepreneurship, increase their cities’ competitiveness, and promote regional development by strengthening urban-rural connectivity.
Finally, strengthening competition throughout the economy requires broad support.
Abe has placed particular emphasis on strengthening Japan’s alliance with the Unites States, which had atrophied as a result of the DPJ government’s feckless behavior (relations with China deteriorated as well).
Abe’s diplomatic whirlwind is aimed at strengthening ties with countries that share this commitment, as well as Japan’s other values, including human rights and democracy.
But, despite all our progress in strengthening fisheries’ management domestically, we lack the ability to police our vast waters.
Here, the EU summit in December was an important step forward in terms of deepening political union and strengthening governance among the eurozone’s member states.
This phrase – “No to everything” – is how Mario Draghi, the European Central Bank president, recently described the standard German response to all economic initiatives aimed at strengthening Europe.
Rather than collaborating with Europe and Japan and strengthening the World Trade Organization to counter China’s mercantilism, he has decided to go it alone, attacking even his closest allies in what threatens to escalate into a full-blown trade war that will hurt everyone, not least American industry and consumers.
Investment in equipment – the key to strengthening productive capital in the tradable-goods sector – has generally suffered even more.
The doves got massive liquidity, but, with the economy now strengthening, the hawks are insisting on bringing QE to an end.
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