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And such a target can be established.
As well as happily receiving requests from individual social, political or military representatives within the target areas, the USAID-sponsored program invited NGOs to submit their own proposals.
And achieving Trump’s target would be even more likely if his administration suddenly became more coherent (which could indeed require a miracle).
But even if the US hits the 3% target, it might not be the panacea the Trump hopes it will be.
This makes BPO an easy target for populists, which is unfortunate because what developed countries really need is a flexible workforce.
While Bill made business deals with some shady international figures, Hillary made a lot of her fortune by giving speeches to Wall Street firms, the main target of public wrath for causing the Great Recession of 2008.
This provided an ideal target for Sanders, who singled out the fact that Clinton earned $675,000 for three speeches she gave to Goldman Sachs.
Refusing to consider any amount of monetary financing, and continuing to adhere to a strict inflation target, would have been much more difficult to justify.
America’s reluctance to target areas of weakness or fragility leaves the impression externally that QE2’s real goal is to weaken the dollar.
When the yield on German government bonds falls to 2%, which is negative in real terms, German savers must redouble their efforts to achieve a certain target for retirement income.
Indeed, the Fed decided to delay raising interest rates partly because US policymakers expect dollar appreciation, by lowering import prices, to undermine their ability to meet their 2% inflation target.
Enacted in 2012, amid nationwide protests against rigged elections, it has been used most often to target journalists and bloggers.
To target online publications, including blogs, Russia has imposed new regulations on Internet use.
But if such a system is to work, general agreement would need to exist about what constitutes a fair target for each country.
Whenever you are about to miss a target, just move the deadline.
The only justification for such a long list is that every government could claim to have attained at least one target – a trophy to exhibit at home.
The government of a country hit by a positive shock could attain a target even without having done anything to achieve it.
One such target is skilled migration.
The Turks claim they have audio and video revealing his death, and Senator Lindsey Graham warned, “If it did happen there would be hell to pay,” while Senator Benjamin Cardin has threatened to target sanctions at senior Saudi officials.
Following attacks in Paris, Brussels, London, Nice, and Berlin – not to mention Madrid in 2004 – the choice of Barcelona as a target should come as no surprise.
The recent knife attack in Finland, carried out by a Moroccan teen, underscores the reality that a country need not play a major role in the coalition against ISIS in Syria and Iraq to become a target; it is enough to be an open European society.
Of course, some nations do better: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg all exceed the United Nations target of allocating the equivalent of 0.7% of gross national income in foreign aid.
After all, Iraq was an easy target in the first Gulf War precisely because it had abandoned its nuclear program, and possessed no weapons of mass destruction.
The Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of achieving universal primary education was expected to reach its target this year; it has not.
A property tax or a local surcharge on personal income taxes would target those who most benefit from urban living.
The Kyoto Protocol allows countries to meet their target reductions of CO2 emissions by substituting bio-fuels for fossil fuels.
After all, cervical cancer tends to target the most vulnerable in particular, such as women infected with HIV.
Moreover, there is no penalty if a country fails to meet its “nationally determined” target.
The rule of thumb for monetary policymakers has long been that if inflation is below official target ranges, short-term interest rates should be set at a level that spurs spending and investment.
If central banks keep missing these rather narrow marks (“below, but close to 2%”), they end up in an expectations trap, whereby markets expect them to dispense ever higher doses of monetary medicine in a frantic attempt to reach their target.
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