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But with annual budget deficits of $1 trillion and government debt heading toward 100% of GDP, a stimulus package would be politically difficult to enact.

The Kenyatta government could go a long way toward addressing the problem with one very practical measure: establishing and supporting an independent watchdog to audit hiring and promotion decisions in official agencies.

Appeasement toward the authoritarian regime in Russia can apparently be bought.

Groupon’s emergence is another step in the Internet’s move toward ever-greater efficiency and transparency.

By somehow reaching agreement on the territorial dispute between Japan and Russia, Yeltsin will move toward developing a strategic partnership with Japan.

Once confidence began to recover and market conditions stabilized, the East Asian economies shifted their monetary and fiscal policies toward expansion and embraced large-scale exchange-rate depreciation – efforts that enhanced their export competitiveness.

On the day of the Incheon visit, North Korea’s state news agency continued the bellicose and derogatory language toward South Korea and the US: “Lurking behind this is an ulterior design of the US to [prod more] zealously the South Korean puppet forces into escalating the confrontation with the DPRK in a bid to strain the situation to an extreme pitch and ignite [a] second Korean War.”

Rather, North Korea seems to be posing a non-existent united front in order to put pressure on the US to soften its stance toward the DPRK regarding its nuclear program and human-rights record, and to reconsider economic sanctions against the North.

The North may have wanted to emphasize that its friendliness toward the South should not be interpreted as weakness.

Or perhaps it was attempting to determine whether its overtures had led South Korea to soften its stance toward the DPRK.

Toward a Global Open SocietyNEW YORK: Start with the obvious: we live in a global economy.

I am told that economic theory has gone a long way toward recognizing and studying disequilibrium situations.

Markets do not operate in a vacuum and do not tend toward equilibrium.

For starters, the coherence of Europe’s policies toward Russia improved: the EU threatened to use the World Trade Organization’s dispute-settlement mechanism when the Kremlin announced new protectionist measures in late 2012.

Although the EU’s foreign policy toward Russia has become more effective, tensions have, if anything, grown – and may continue to do so.

Diabetes poses an especially grave threat to Mexico, where urbanization and other social changes are pushing people toward more sedentary lifestyles and triggering a surge in obesity-related diseases.

Toward a New Islamic Golden AgeSHARJAH – The Muslim world’s past contributions to science and education were extraordinary.

This presupposes that the Brothers reorganize themselves internally and find ways to distance themselves from more radical factions, and that they promote inclusive policies toward vulnerable groups and social minorities.

Increasingly, it appears plausible that this balance will partly shift away from the United States and its post-World War II allies and toward the new potential economic superpowers, China and India.

The answers to them will go a long way toward determining not only long-term relations between Washington and Paris, but between America and all of Europe.

The development of vast reserves of shale energy has moved America toward its long-sought goal of energy independence and reduced gas prices to record lows, contributing to the first glimmer of a manufacturing revival.

To be sure, though America’s policy toward Cuba has been one of the Cold War’s last vestiges, Obama’s move will not be a game changer in America’s competition with China and Russia to shape the new world order.

Indeed, predictions that Cuba might now shift toward a Chinese-style model of political autocracy and economic opening might be accurate only in the short term.

In the longer term, the end of the Castro era, together with improved relations with the US, is likely to bring about a repeat of Spain’s transition toward full-fledged liberal democracy after the fall of Francisco Franco.

In this context, curricula that have defined education for the last half-century must be rethought, with a view toward ensuring that workers are equipped with higher-level “meta-skills” that can be adapted easily to a broad array of industries.

In cases like Greece, the creditors’ passion for structural reforms might be better directed at home – particularly toward improving financial regulation.

Central banks frequently stress the limits of their powers, and bemoan lack of government progress toward “structural reform” – a catch-all phrase covering trade liberalization, labor- and product-market reforms, and measures to address medium-term fiscal challenges, such as pension age increases.

Nevertheless, a deeper shift in attitude toward growth has occurred, which is likely to make it a less important lodestar in the future – especially in rich countries.

Unfettered innovation and entrepreneurship are necessary for connecting the poor to the formal financial system; but, from a policy and development perspective, we need to shift our efforts toward improving the larger ecosystem to realize new fintech products’ full potential.

However, as talent shortages loom, the need to retain employees could tip the balance back toward greater investment in professional development.

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