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Sceptics fear that now that the collective financial threat is perceived, rightly or wrongly, to be manageable, the Pittsburgh Summit will result in a weak compromise that reflects divergent national interests rather than a sense of urgency about tackling climate change, chronic poverty and ineffective global governance.
As Foshan has proved, cities have a unique capacity to support growth – including by fostering competition, advancing innovation, and phasing out obsolete industries – while addressing social challenges, tackling pollution, and creating a labor force that can cope with technological disruption.
But if we remove these ideological blinders and focus on costs and benefits, we can identify the best ways of tackling crime and violence.
Tackling individual youth issues one-on-one might not only be too little too late, but also is unlikely to be effective in a “war zone.”
Here, especially, ASEAN members must respond to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, tackling issues such as harmonization of rules governing the use of data.
At the Copenhagen climate summit last December, don’t forget, a deal of sorts was cobbled together by the US and the emerging economies over the EU’s head, even though Europe had the most advanced set of proposals on tackling climate change.
The European Union and other developed countries are already intent on tackling the problem of global food security, and could easily tailor their own schemes to become part of this wider program.
While the world made major gains in tackling hunger and expanding access to drinking water, it did not significantly improve upon what could have been expected relative to 1990s trends.
That kind of multi-stakeholder process is essential for tackling the complex challenges of sustainable development and the fight against poverty, hunger, and disease.
Unfortunately, unlike Western countries, we cannot afford to wait until our per capita annual GDP reaches $10,000 before tackling our environmental problems.
It is high time, Francis argued, that EU leaders shed their dozy image, recognize the strategic challenges that Europe faces, and forge a clear policy for tackling them.
Hollande is the incumbent, but his performance has been disappointing on nearly all fronts, especially when it comes to tackling unemployment.
Jonathan appears to be incapable of tackling the official corruption that, as the US report emphasized, pervades all sectors, from the police to the courts.
In 1989, Jacques Delors, the eighth president of the European Commission, described it as a way to reconcile the need for “a European power capable of tackling the problems of our age” with “the absolute necessity to preserve our roots in the shape of our nations and regions.”
Forest conservation and management thus are crucial to tackling climate change.
In this context, tackling inequality will require fundamental changes to the way we manage our economies.
For the first time, the US is tackling the fundamental cause of the North Korea problem, rather than focusing on its symptoms.
Moreover, by tackling default risk, the OMT program created a new problem: private creditors, assured that the ECB would prevent governments from defaulting, were encouraged to lend with greater abandon.
Our commitment to tackling climate change is based on an understanding of the enormous health risks and costs that arise from inaction.
Costa Rica devotes significant resources to tackling problems like dengue fever and malaria because our people remain our most important asset.
But many lessons that were already known by the 1980s went unheeded for too long – such as the importance of tackling remote infection reservoirs and maintaining high immunization levels everywhere so that health systems aren’t overwhelmed.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were adopted by the UN in 2000 with the goal of tackling some of the most daunting development challenges: eradicating poverty and hunger; enrolling all children in school; turning the tide on HIV/AIDS, malaria, and TB; and reducing infant, child, and maternal mortality.
In fact, tackling the problems with Social Security and Medicare is the key to addressing what ails the middle class.
Examples include tackling innovation challenges related to delivering services in different markets, developing technology apps to optimize operations and cut costs, and producing prototypes for new products.
When confronted with these exaggerations, some of us say that they are for a good cause, and surely there is no harm done if the result is that we focus even more on tackling climate change.
We focus, for example, on global warming’s impact on malaria – which will be to put slightly more people at risk in 100 years – instead of tackling the half-billion people suffering from malaria today with prevention and treatment policies that are much cheaper and dramatically more effective than carbon reduction would be.
The typical approach to tackling inequality – redistributive tax-and-transfer fiscal policies – can be controversial and divisive, owing to perceived tradeoffs between economic growth and greater equality.
Even as the top-down approach to tackling climate change is breaking down, a new bottom-up approach is emerging.
But, as one of the top seven in the CCP hierarchy, he will still be able to weigh in on all important economic and financial matters, while assuming responsibility for tackling one of China’s toughest problems – corruption.
The UK's Financial Services Authority (rather the many regulated firms who meet its costs) benefits from the economies of scale that arise from the move to a single set of central support services; unified management; and a unified approach to standard_setting, authorization, supervision, enforcement, consumer education and tackling financial crime.
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