Willingness
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The New Old Generation GapROME – A
willingness
to embrace change represents one of the main differences between affluent but aging societies and poor, younger ones.
And then there is the growing gap between global challenges such as how to govern cyberspace, and the
willingness
of governments to work together to address them.
While no one doubts the
willingness
of Iraqi judges to try their former "head of state" in a national court, the novelty of such an effort and its political implications suggest some type of international participation for the sake of competence and, most of all, impartiality.
When the pilot of the presidential plane (ironically, again, Soviet made) was advised not to land in the thick fog, either he, or perhaps even the president himself, may have mistrusted the Russians’
willingness
to give honest advice.
Following the meeting, Myanmar showed
willingness
to grant humanitarian access and to keep the ASEAN members informed.
A working summit would demonstrate a
willingness
at the highest echelons to resolve in principle the major obstacles standing in the way of an agreement.
Such examples of bilateral nuclear-security cooperation, along with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s nuclear-security peer-review service, highlight a promising point: a
willingness
to work together on nuclear-materials security need not compromise sensitive information.
Exaggeration also wears out the public’s
willingness
to tackle global warming.
On the question of refugees, Western countries should take in as many as their populations can assimilate, demonstrating a
willingness
to make good on the universal values they profess for both moral and political reasons.
Although the higher level of household saving will limit the rise in US interest rates, it will not change the fact that the combination of large future fiscal deficits and foreign lenders’ reduced
willingness
to buy US securities will lead to both a lower dollar and higher US interest rates.
New Arab leaders will struggle mightily with the public’s rising expectations, and their
willingness
to get behind a peace process will take a backseat to that struggle.
Having ruled out a grand coalition with either the anti-establishment Five Star Movement or former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right party, Bersani will depend on senators’
willingness
to support specific measures.
Such efforts must include a
willingness
to engage the public in discussions on science-based issues, a desire to lobby the government for support, and, perhaps most importantly, a commitment to pursue research that focuses on critical social and economic problems -- that is, agendas that allow scientists to help their nations build stronger and more sustainable societies.
The
willingness
of others to cooperate depends in part on their own self-interest, but also on the attractiveness of American positions.
The hope is that greater flexibility would also translate into a greater
willingness
to hire in an economic upturn.
The Chinese government’s uncertain ability – or
willingness
– to rein in debt is apparent in its contradictory commitment to implement major structural reforms while maintaining 7.5% annual GDP growth.
They are a threat to all, especially in times of high capital mobility, when governments rely too much on foreign lenders’ apparent
willingness
to provide funds and find themselves in dire straits when capital inflows stop.
The belief that terrorism cannot be eradicated assumes that the ability to tolerate terrorist attacks – to “ride out the storm” – is greater than the
willingness
of terrorists to persist, or even escalate the attacks.
While true, it is not clear that a
willingness
to tolerate the freedom of others, which democracy requires, is equally widespread.
That is testimony to most US legislators’ common sense and to their
willingness
to compromise in order to avoid doing serious harm to the country they serve – until now, that is.
Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have now both expressed a
willingness
to meet, in Moscow or in some other location yet to be determined.
I sense a growing
willingness
to forego the benefits of innovation – not least financial innovation – in exchange for a slower pace of change, which is assumed to be more controllable.
But the IMF also hinted at a
willingness
to be flexible, conceding that, because the SDR is fundamentally a reserve asset, the currencies that underpin it need only to be available in “sufficiently liquid and deep markets.”
And the determinant of that flexibility and ability to adapt lies in political institutions and their
willingness
to challenge interest groups, mediate social conflicts, and maintain the rule of law.
This is a crucial issue for all countries – not only major potential exporters such as China, but also smaller countries in Africa and elsewhere that are seeking to benefit from their
willingness
to go green.
Nonetheless, the
willingness
of large numbers of people to stand up (or sit in) for their right to be heard, despite the imminent possibility of violent repression, announces to their fellow citizens and the world that something has gone very wrong.
In the meantime, Americans can only hope that their national elected representatives show an equal
willingness
to face up to and take responsibility for their failures, pettiness, and insistence on putting partisanship ahead of the country’s manifest and urgent needs.
Moreover, the European Central Bank has shown
willingness
to buy government (and private) bonds if it judges that the functioning of the market has been impaired.
Money will have to fall from the proverbial helicopter before Germany shows any
willingness
to reduce its surplus.
This effort, she knew, requires a
willingness
to achieve one’s goals in stages, however imperfect.
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