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Gillard proved herself to be a highly competent transactional politician: ruthless in grabbing the ascendancy when Rudd seemed to be faltering in the polls; highly effective in negotiating with cross-benchers to keep her minority government alive; and successful in gaining huge local and international attention for her passionate parliamentary assault on her opponents’ perceived misogyny.
Abbott’s nemesis, Turnbull, now Prime Minister, stands in sharp contrast: sophisticated, highly successful in his past lives as a journalist, lawyer, and investment banker, and very popular – across party lines – with the electorate.
It will also identify better ways to ensure that development aid reaches the poor, taking lessons from successful programs such as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria.
A successful climate agreement next December should reaffirm the two-degree cap on warming; include national “decarbonization” commitments up to 2030 and deep-decarbonization “pathways” (or plans) up to 2050; launch a massive global effort by both governments and businesses to improve the operating performance of low-carbon energy technologies; and provide large-scale and reliable financial help to poorer countries as they face climate challenges.
In the latter scenario, the change would be delivered either by a part of the mainstream political class that breaks ranks, or through a successful challenge by a political outsider, whether National Front leader Marine Le Pen on the right or Jean-Luc Mélenchon’s Left Front.
And yet this is the same process that produces economic growth; all successful developing countries have gone through it.
The most successful countries are those where employers and employees feel bound to a common fate.
And, when it comes to boosting a country’s long-term prospects, the most successful initiatives often take time to produce visible results.
But ambitious climate targets, as Germany and other successful European economies have shown, are not the problem.
Chinese President Hu Jintao’s subsequent official visit to Washington in January 2011 was successful, but many Chinese editorialists complained that the US was trying to “contain” China and prevent its peaceful rise.
The prize is a fitting measure of the role that the UN now plays and must continue to play in promoting a successful and peaceful globalization.
If successful, it could help reinvigorate international trust and cooperation.
Throughout Europe, we have seen the alarming growth of extreme nationalist parties, running counter to the Enlightenment values that have made Europe so successful.
Given the strength and territorial concentration of Iraq’s Shia, Sunni, and Kurdish communities, any successful Iraqi government must find ways to rule the country through inter-communal consensus.
More importantly, the lobbying of the quasi-governmental mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would not have been so successful without the idea of the “ownership society.”
It would rather attribute low inflation to successful inflation targeting, and the Great Moderation that it presumably spawned.
If MIC25 is successful, the US will have a depleted economic and political future.
There may come a moment when even the most authoritative of voices begins to be out of tune, when a revered and outwardly successful structure starts to outlive its own vision and necessity.
Successful deployment of hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) technology in Xinjiang suggests that China, like America, will soon be able to draw on its own reserves of shale energy.
Like it or not, the world’s best option is to ensure that the next three and a half years are as successful – or at least as resistant to disaster – as possible.
Internationalizing the “strong hand” model across the region will incite the gangs to spread to Nicaragua and Costa Rica, which have so far been successful in preventing gang violence.
Finally, though successful companies must constantly innovate, they should not be afraid to imitate.
A successful summit requires member governments to reaffirm – and expand upon – commitments in four areas.
But this successful performance, together with high growth rates from 2004 to 2010, seems to have led to an unhealthy level of self-satisfaction among observers and policymakers in some countries.
Add low taxes and a double-taxation convention with Russia, and it is no surprise that Cyprus’s business model –serving as an international center for services and trade – has been successful.
If Merkel had wanted the agreement reached in Brussels, the outcome would have marked the beginning of a fundamental revision of the eurozone’s crisis policy – and thus an expression of successful statesmanship.
With public perception a crucial factor in winning the war, and the Taliban poised to launch a large military initiative next spring, failure to adopt a successful local strategy could signify the last chance the international community will have to build a secure and stable Afghanistan.
But a successful strategy – one that responds to Afghanistan’s extreme poverty crisis –requires that the international community reverse course on crop eradication.
Eradication will never be successful in Afghanistan, because it destroys the single crop that will grow in the south’s harsh climate – and thus serves as the main source of income to millions of people.
But for such a system to be successful, the extreme poverty in the south of the country must first be our top priority.
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