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Given the need for inclusive cooperation, adapting and strengthening a rules-based and ethical global governance system is crucial to securing long-term peace and progress.
For the countries of Eastern Europe, the growing influx of capital and know-how is a major force in strengthening their growth potential.
Gutierrez, following CONAIE's lead, has called the FTAA "suicide" and proposes strengthening ties with the Andean Community and with Brazil and Venezuela, who are also skeptical of the FTAA.
The effects will likely reverberate through each country’s domestic politics, strengthening forces that favor disintegration.
Other foreign-policy issues cry out for serious discussion and debate: addressing absolute poverty and pandemics in the global South; strengthening global governance, including undermanned and outmoded United Nations structures; international cooperation on the rising number of natural disasters; and rethinking Afghanistan/Pakistan with the understanding that Pakistan is far larger and one angry mob away from a loose nuke – and therefore should not be reduced to the role of a supporting actor in Afghanistan’s travails.
For starters, the balance of power between France and Germany will probably now shift a bit toward the former, given that the French economy is strengthening, and will be positioned for renewed growth after Macron’s promised reforms.
By the same token, the MHP is not likely to be a natural partner for any large-scale democratic reforms aimed at strengthening fundamental freedoms.
Such a policy would put US private saving to important use in fighting global poverty, while strengthening the US industrial base.
New EU programs should mainly aim at strengthening the specific capacities of Tunisia, Egypt, and others, and seek opportunities that benefit both sides of the Mediterranean.
This can be achieved either by significantly strengthening democratic deliberation and accountability at the EU level, or by increasing the autonomy of the member states to set economic policy.
They require strengthening those governments of the modern left, or those of the center or center-right threatened by the old-fashioned left, and simultaneously making it clear to the latter that there is a price to be paid for violating the basic tenets of democracy, respect for human rights, and the rule of law.
Despite talk of strengthening regional cooperation, a framework for dealing with migration remains an elusive prospect.
There are better ways to enhance stability, from strengthening prudential supervision to taxing and controlling destabilizing capital flows and letting the exchange rate adjust.
Not much, in terms of productive investment, strengthening education, or maintaining essential infrastructure.
Not allowing the necessary consolidation is weakening credit markets, not strengthening them.
So Colombia has focused on strengthening its economy.
For non-US banks, governments, and any other entity that had borrowed in dollars, the strengthening greenback created repayment difficulties.
To help the region meet the myriad challenges it faces, the international community should pursue a three-pronged approach: first by strengthening Middle Eastern countries’ governing institutions and putting them on a path toward self-sufficiency; second, by committing unconditionally to preserve and respect the region’s nation-state system; and third, by launching a concerted effort to end the violence in the region and create the conditions for new political processes to get off the ground.
A better approach would include strengthening the IMF’s multilateral surveillance role.
The US must consider partnering with Turkish civil society in this regard, serving the cause of strengthening democracy both in Turkey and its neighborhood.
And yet, for all the talk of streamlining and strengthening Europe’s defense capabilities, little of significance has been accomplished.
This is particularly relevant where the government has access to a wider range of information than the private sector, strengthening its ability to optimize its investments.
On the preventive front, countless lives can be saved by simple actions such as flood-proofing coastlines, or strengthening earthquake codes for hospitals and schools.
The best method of strengthening Ahmadinejad, however, appears to be to threaten the country and the regime as a whole.
In recent years, it has been strengthening, especially in Poland.
And it must do so as part of the system of global governance, strengthening its cooperation with other multilateral organizations, in particular those in the United Nations system and regional and subregional development banks.
In fact, bolstering growth might have been the primary motivation for the country’s political leaders, even as the PBOC remained focused on advancing the longer-term objective of strengthening the market’s role in determining the exchange rate.
But, while strengthening such programs should be a high priority, we should not lose sight of how well middle-income families have actually done over the past few decades.
As China takes a long-term strategic approach to strengthening its hold over the South China Sea (and, increasingly, beyond), the US is focused solely on the prospect of all-out war.
First, by strengthening the three basic pillars without which development cannot germinate or opportunities flourish: a stable, vital, and participatory political democracy; a social market economy that is free, competitive, and open to the world; and a strong state that is effective in the fight against poverty and in promoting greater equality of opportunities.
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