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As a neighboring country, India would face disturbing consequences if they returned to power in Afghanistan, as would Iran, which would not sit idly by if sectarian strife intensified and the Shia became
targets
of a resurgent Taliban.
It is during the war after the war that the occupier’s inferiority is revealed, with constant reinforcements increasing the number of
targets
for the insurgents far more quickly than the occupier can adapt to the changing battlefield.
Simply put, in order to anchor inflation expectations effectively, inflation
targets
must be realistic.
In March, Chinese authorities reported that the country was already exceeding official
targets
for energy efficiency, carbon intensity, and the share of clean energy sources.
Three older missiles, launched in his presence, failed to reach their
targets
on Kamchatka.
And in the Middle East, the Islamic State (ISIS) virulently rejects modernity – and
targets
societies that embrace it.
The Finnish author Sofi Oksanen once observed that Russia’s information warfare works because its
targets
are often willing participants.
This implies the end of the Kyoto Protocol model, which, like the Doha model, is based on a detailed agenda, established according to specific and ambitious targets, with all relevant actors then compelled to negotiate each topic.
Even economies experiencing more robust economic growth will miss their targets: inflation in the United States will not reach 1.5% this year, and China’s rate reached a five-year low of 1.4% last November.
But the government continues to miss its fiscal targets, more because of the global slowdown than through any fault of its own.
Creditors can agree to relax Greece’s fiscal
targets.
This stance reflects the Fed’s dual mandate, according to which monetary policy
targets
maximum employment consistent with price stability.
But the credibility needed to anchor expectations is difficult – sometimes even impossible – to achieve when two
targets
are being pursued simultaneously.
And some donors – such as France, Germany, and the European Investment Bank – are lobbying the OECD Development Assistance Committee to count unsubsidized loans as official development assistance to enable them to meet their ODA
targets.
How would it be decided whether these
targets
had been met?
But perhaps the most important factor behind our dramatic health-care gains has been the national equity agenda, which sets
targets
for supporting the needy and tracks progress toward meeting them.
Every government should be setting
targets
aimed explicitly at narrowing education disparities – linked to gender, wealth, and the rural-urban divide – and aligning their budgets with those
targets.
The
targets
range from police stations and liquor stores in the Caucasus to mainstream Muslim clerics in Tatarstan to ordinary people elsewhere in Russia.
In the US and Europe, there is also little sign of an economic calamity resulting from central banks’ failure to reach their inflation
targets.
But they remain committed to pursuing their inflation targets, convinced that even a slight bout of deflation could initiate a downward spiral, with falling demand causing prices to decline further.
Price growth is well below
targets
and declining in many countries.
Neither can spend its way out of crisis if they want to meet the qualification targets, and public patience with the governments of President Chirac and Chancellor Kohl, both committed to monetary union, is strained.
One might even add a fifth generation, in which technologies like drones and offensive cyber tactics allow soldiers to remain a continent away from their civilian
targets.
These
targets
may be ambitious, but they are entirely achievable.
Such cooperation should extend beyond emissions-reduction
targets
to technology transfer, knowledge sharing, and economic opportunity.
The problem for the CPC is that SOEs play a vital role in sustaining one-party rule, as they are used both to reward loyalists and to facilitate government intervention on behalf of official macroeconomic
targets.
They can set
targets
for recruitment and retention levels; initiate affirmative searches to meet those targets; introduce mentorship programs and diversity training to attract, retain, and promote women; and establish transparent salary bands to help track and reduce gender pay gaps.
Instead, they have actively worked to block efforts to mitigate climate change at the national and international levels, including by funding climate-change deniers and lobbying against renewable-energy
targets
and successful instruments like feed-in tariffs.
So the FPC would wield instruments such as capital ratios or loan-to-value ratios to manage liquidity, and placing two instruments for two
targets
– liquidity and inflation – within the BOE would ensure coordination.
But what if the two
targets
are in conflict?
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