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It is important, too, that aid target the areas where it is most needed.
These donor countries have also pledged to meet a UN target of spending at least 0.15% of their gross national income on development assistance to the least-developed countries.
Given slow growth, high unemployment (which has fallen only because discouraged workers are leaving the labor force), and inflation well below the Fed’s target, this is no time to start constraining liquidity.
The unanticipated slowdown made it impossible for Germany to meet the target.
Thus France cannot meet the Pact's deficit target.
The Stability Pact is too crude and technocratic: a 3% deficit target enforced by Brussels bureaucrats cannot bind real-life politicians.
Most economists believe that central banks should only target inflation, which means cutting interest rates only when the economy slows down and inflation falls--which is precisely what the ECB has been doing.
These countries’ investment-promotion agencies – indeed, those of all countries, including developed ones – should increasingly target firms in China to lure them to their shores.
By definition, this target would be country-specific.
In the past, OPEC, and Saudi Arabia in particular, would stabilize the oil market by cutting production when prices fell too low and increasing output when prices rose too high, relative to OPEC’s price target.
Member states need to introduce reforms aimed at achieving a 2% annual growth target, as agreed earlier this year by finance ministers.
Apart from a World Bank presentation for a possible pilot infrastructure program, there is little to suggest how the 2% target could be met over the medium term.
What struck me on both occasions was the sustained, and evidently successful, attempt to reach out to the two target groups upon whom the future of science and technology will depend.
The other target audience consists of younger children, whose openness and inborn curiosity have not yet been stifled by formal schooling.
That is why any comprehensive approach to restoring the advanced countries’ economic and financial vibrancy must target the proper revival of private credit flows.
Germany has been an attractive target for external-deficit countries in Europe and beyond.
Chile sets a target for its cyclically-adjusted fiscal balance – that is, the balance that emerges after accounting for the deviations in commodity prices and domestic output from their trends.
Expansionary monetary policy is expected to inject liquidity into the Japanese economy until inflation hits the Bank of Japan’s 2% target, while expansionary fiscal policy is expected to continue until economic recovery takes hold.
For example, it would be useful for programs to monitor how many people with high blood pressure have been diagnosed and placed on treatment, what proportion of those on treatment have achieved blood-pressure control, and what treatment level would be required to reduce premature deaths by the desired target.
Today, in contrast, the problem is the opposite, namely the inability of central banks to raise inflation to target levels.
Today’s populists, of whatever political stripe, increasingly target not just the same potential supporters, but the enemies as well.
Over the next five years, establishment figures may well coalesce around failing policies, giving Le Pen the perfect target for the National Front’s 2022 presidential campaign.
By contrast, a capital-adequacy target of 7% and a CO2 target of 550 ppm would demonstrate policymakers’ willingness to place a higher priority on short-term gains – even if that means allowing another financial crisis or global warming’s long-term economic and human consequences to manifest themselves.
There are two contradictory forces that could keep inflation significantly above its 2% target not only this year and next year, but even in 2013.
Thus, inflation has been above the BOE’s target throughout the recovery from the financial crisis of 2008.
And, according to Sentance, it could stay above that target for the BOE’s two-year medium-term forecast window.
And, as he also warns, if inflation remains above the BOE’s target for another two years, abrupt and sharp monetary tightening would undermine the recovery – and could damage the credibility of the BOE itself.
The target of halving hunger, for example, may be missed – though not by much.
In fact, Snowden’s warning that “any NSA analyst, at any time, can target anyone, from a federal judge to the president” suggests that NSA head Keith Alexander – dubbed “Emperor Alexander” – could already be more powerful than Obama.
DFCU Bank in Uganda, for example, has built a successful portfolio of business loans, leases, and mortgages that target women entrepreneurs.
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