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Fining, threatening, or even jailing informal currency traders have not been particularly successful.
So we should do more to provide seed capital for education start-ups like Catalyst, which can then help to scale up successful pilot programs.
A successful central bank is more like a hedgehog; it knows one big thing – that it must remain focused on low inflation.
But what must have rankled the Chinese Communist Party most was that the colonial power had been so successful in building, with China’s own people in Hong Kong, a hugely prosperous and contented city – one that became a magnet for many Chinese men, women, and children.
After independence, African and Asian countries pursued massive and largely successful initiatives to raise basic education and literacy.
Partly because of the patronizing pampering afforded the Chinese by the developed world, and partly because of China’s relentless, but successful, manipulation of world opinion, China has long been treated as being ”exceptional” when it comes to its international behavior.
By and large, the most successful bankers in recent years have been exactly the types of experts Trump seems to avoid.
A second “must” for a successful twenty-first-century export strategy is a focus on services, which have been largely ignored in the government’s negotiations with the EU.
The most successful example of such integration is, of course, the EU.
Thus argued John Connally, then-US Secretary of the Treasury, in 1971, in his successful bid to convince President Richard Nixon that the time had come to punish Europe by pulling the plug from the Bretton Woods system.
Instead, successful political systems have had to create an alternative invisible hand – a system that decentralizes the power to identify problems, propose solutions, and monitor performance, such that decisions are made with much more information.
The belief that the surge was successful is especially dangerous because the Afghanistan war is going so poorly.
And, more to the point, they were successful: their eventual assassination of Conrad of Montferrat led directly to the political collapse of the Crusader coalition and the defeat of Richard the Lionheart of England.
There are highly successful large industrial enterprises, most of them politically well connected, and tiny mom-and-pop businesses that are vestiges of a lost country.
But the panoply of small and medium-size enterprises that make Germany and Spain entrepreneurial and economically successful is almost entirely missing in France.
Iraq’s prospects for emerging as a successful country at peace with itself and its neighbors also would be much improved.
A global free-trade agreement – such as a successful conclusion to the stalled Doha Development Round – would likely lift another 160 million people out of poverty.
Countries should draw on the example of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, a successful program of collaboration on nuclear security among the United States, Russia, and ex-Soviet states.
That is why Kazakhstan sought the chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation (OSCE) in Europe, which it obtained in 2010, and pursued a difficult but ultimately successful campaign to become a non-permanent UN Security Council member in 2017-2018.
One successful UNESCO initiative is the creation of multipurpose community telecenters throughout the developing world, providing communication and information facilities – phone, fax, Internet, computers, audio-visual equipment – for a wide range of community uses.
New advances in machine learning and biological anthropology are shedding light on how learning happens and what makes a learning process successful.
We humans are wired to imitate others, and we especially prefer to imitate the most successful among us.
This makes evolutionary sense, as the features of the successful are more likely to be related to their success than those of others.
To improve, you can start by imitating what successful companies do, without a good theory of why.
Kadima’s success is due to Sharon’s main innovation in Israeli politics: the successful unilateral disengagement from Gaza.
Intense negotiations with Libya, particularly by Europe, had been going on for more than a year, but were not successful, because Libya’s ruler, Colonel Khadafi, did not trust his interlocutors.
Poor, dictatorial, marginalized from Europe, Spain's experience during the last quarter- century is one of history's most successful transition stories, as it became a prosperous, thriving democracy and ceased being a major exporter of brains.
Such improvements are the ultimate test of a successful society.
Controlling Cyber ConflictLAS VEGAS – When cyber-security professionals were polled recently at their annual BlackHat conference in Las Vegas, 60% said they expected the United States to suffer a successful attack against its critical infrastructure in the next two years.
Consider eBay, a wonderful and mostly successful melding of the online and offline worlds.
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