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Whether that
target
is 1.8% or 2%, or whether it is surrounded by a range, is less important.
Equally unclear is why Khodorkovsky, the oligarch who has gone the farthest in making his business modern and transparent, the
target
of attack?
For example, the Fed could follow the Bank of Japan’s recent move to
target
the ten-year interest rate instead of the very short-term one it usually focuses on.
The other approach, first analyzed by Fed economists in the mid-1990s, would be to raise the
target
inflation rate from 2% to 4%.
Several central banks, including the Fed, have considered moving to a higher inflation
target.
A third shortcoming is that, after an adjustment period, wages and contracts are more likely to adjust more frequently than they would with a 2% inflation target, making monetary policy less effective.
There may not be enough time before the next deep recession to lay the groundwork for effective negative-interest-rate policy or to phase in a higher inflation
target.
(Full disclosure: As Editor of The Economist, I was the
target
of two libel suits by Berlusconi.)
The Case Against Helicopter MoneyMUNICH – Despite years of expansionary monetary policy, the European Central Bank has failed to push inflation back up to its
target
of “below but close to 2%.”
China’s growth rate may be lower than 7% this year, but I do not believe that it will end up very far from the government’s
target
of “about 7%.”
Of course, it’s not hard to imagine that Russian hackers did find a way into the Democratic National Committee’s servers, or those used by Hillary Clinton’s campaign, as part of espionage efforts that
target
government, corporate, and political organizations of all kinds.
In early 2012, in his speech to the annual People’s Congress, Premier Wen Jiabao, explaining why the government’s indicative
target
for economic growth in 2012 was 7.5%, pointed out that the purpose was “to guide people in all sectors to focus their work on accelerating the transformation of the pattern of economic development and making economic development more sustainable and efficient.”
In fact, in order to create adequate space for changing the GDP-centered growth pattern, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan set an indicative
target
of 7% annual average GDP growth in 2010-2015.
For many years, the government has maintained an implicit minimum growth
target
of 8% per year, which was considered necessary to create ten million new jobs annually.
Al Qaeda affiliates will
target
US regional interests in the hope that the blame falls on Iran and its militant proxies – providing a pretext for US military confrontation.
One can understand why religious extremists like Al-Qaeda and Taliban would
target
her, and the government claims that it is impossible to defend against a suicide attack.
He also hopes to sign and implement the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, which China initiated several years ago to counter the now-defunct Trans-Pacific Partnership, next year (an overly ambitious
target
unlikely to be achieved, owing to the complexities of multi-party trade deals).
Inflation targeting was best known as a rule that instructed central banks to set – and try their best to attain – a
target
range for the annual rate of change of the consumer price index (CPI).
There were also proponents of flexible inflation targeting, who held that it was fine to put some weight on real GDP growth in the short run, so long as there was a clear longer-term
target
for CPI inflation.
Italy recently adopted harsh “emergency” decrees that
target
migrants by making undocumented entry and residence a criminal offense.
In France, Nicolas Sarkozy’s government has tried to regain popularity with the working class by deporting Roma migrants, a
target
of widespread hatred and ethnic attacks.
NATO’s focus is on external security risks, while the SCO’s members
target
security issues within their own territories.
Of the 27 completed projects that have reported to date, only one has failed to achieve its
target
and pay a return to its investors.
Without this price floor, Australia could cheaply fulfill its entire national reduction
target
by simply importing credits, thereby failing to encourage domestic investment in green technology.
The US is seen by many Iraqis as a colonial occupier, and is therefore the
target
of attack not only by loyalists of Saddam Hussein, but by Iraqi nationalists of various sorts, as well as by Arab fighters from neighboring countries.
The oil fields in the South do not have enough electricity to operate at capacity because the power grid is also the
target
of repeated bombings.
First, major advances in our knowledge of genomics – specifically, the way diseases manifest and develop in the body at the genetic level – are improving our ability to
target
illness at each stage and improve the patient experience.
Given their strategic location, Sinai jihadis could easily be used by larger terrorist networks to
target
strategically vital locations, such as the Suez Canal.
The government’s
target
now is to lift ten million people out of poverty annually.
This is not to say that China will not be able to meet its 2020
target.
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