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Like many Nobel prizes, these awards recognize not only the seminal work undertaken by Kahneman and Smith, but also the schools of thought they help to lead.
Governments have undertaken a few privatizations with radical consequences for competition.
But it is a downright dangerous one when undertaken to benefit one man alone.
Making matters worse was that the war was undertaken without sufficient planning and preparation for what would come after.
The lesson of the Iraq War should not be that all armed interventions in the Middle East or elsewhere are to be avoided, but rather that they must only be undertaken when they are the best available strategy and when the results are likely to justify the costs.
And the Organization of American States has undertaken a scenario-planning process to consider the relative costs and benefits of all policy approaches.
The lending allows the necessary medium- and long-term spending cuts and tax increases to be undertaken at a more appropriate time.
They are sent to police forces around the world before any formal review is undertaken.
At present, export subsidies and support payments represent less than 1% of the European agricultural budget, and the EU has undertaken to eliminate them once it receives reciprocal undertakings from major food-exporting countries.
Indeed, American foreign policy’s “pivot to the Pacific” could not be undertaken without the US having first reinvigorated its relationships with Asia’s democracies.
But it also could not have been undertaken without Clinton’s resolve to make China part of the solution, rather than merely a target of recrimination or containment.
The upcoming election will render the public’s judgment on the success or failure of the austerity policies that have been undertaken.
A successor government in, say, Italy, would find it practically impossible to break any commitments undertaken by Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti’s current administration.
But if it does, Germany will be fully capable of honoring commitments she has undertaken in Nato and the EU.
In both countries, the decision to reverse protectionist policies was not the only reform undertaken, but it was an important component.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea, undertaken in open contempt of international law, has put European security back at the top of the global agenda, serving as a stark reminder that a free, cooperative, and peaceful Europe – the dream of countless Europeans since the 1950’s – remains a distant prospect.
Many kinds of pushback can be expected, not least the argument that the veto exists not to protect the P5’s interests, but to ensure unanimity of the major players (conspicuously missing in the UN’s ill-fated predecessor, the League of Nations) in any action undertaken, in order to maintain international peace and security.
No matter what desperate rescue efforts will be undertaken, they cannot hide the fact that the European Union has left the world stage as a serious foreign policy player for at least ten years (if not for much longer).
But significant challenges are likely to arise, the most daunting of which is the need for various seemingly disparate initiatives to be undertaken simultaneously, in a concerted and sustainable manner.
Russia accounts for just about a quarter of Ukraine's foreign-trade turnover;Third, a currency union should be undertaken with a large, differentiated economy with substantial financial depth.
The most important action that can be undertaken is to make continued assistance conditional on political and economic reform.
The political will to implement the commitments that governments have undertaken is still lacking.
Such projects, like those undertaken prior to the World Cup, look good.
Triumphant from the 2008 Olympic Games, its leaders have undertaken the most impressive infrastructure program in history, implemented a highly successful economic stimulus package, and now are moving into the forefront of green technology, renewable energy, and energy efficiency – the activities out of which the new global economy is certain to grow.
Thousands of Chinese convicts, for example, have been pressed into service on projects undertaken by state-run Chinese companies in Sri Lanka, a strategically important country for China as it seeks to enhance its regional position in the Indian Ocean.
Nor is there any political pressure to expand or even extend the anemic government stimulus measures that have been undertaken.
The most successful programs undertaken in the presence of a risk of a fiscal and/or external debt financing crisis were those – as in Mexico, Turkey, and Brazil – where a large amount of liquidity/financing support by the IMF beefed up an increasingly credible commitment to adjustment and reform.
That intervention – the largest that any central bank has ever undertaken – left the PBOC with little choice but to tighten capital controls substantially.
Symbolically, it means backing initial and significant efforts undertaken by others.
The worst situation imaginable is that it is not undertaken with an urgent and deep thoroughness, but that OECD inspired capital account opening does Then widespread bank failures with a dramatic impact on loan activity -- remember how Japan's entire financial system teetered just a few years ago! -- would make the situation even worse.
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