Willingness
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If the price for France's continued
willingness
to act as a major promoter of European integration is a handful of nuclear tests, it is a price worth paying.
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.
Using this figure as a rough indicator of
willingness
to pay for proper measurement and monitoring suggests that the post-2015 goals should include just four targets.
While America’s “war on terror” demands a stronger emphasis on security, the NSA’s activities expose an alarming
willingness
to violate the privacy of millions of individuals – including in allied countries, whose constitutions and sovereignty have also been breached.
Yet global cooperation means the
willingness
to reach agreements with other countries, not simply to make unilateral demands of them.
America’s military presence in Europe will be gradually reduced, as will its
willingness
to take the lead in international crises – even those affecting Europe’s interests.
None of these actions suggest a
willingness
to make the North Korean regime pay the price it deserves for its provocations.
Indeed, given its lack of confidence in China’s readiness and
willingness
to keep the North in check, South Korea is now seeking even deeper defensive ties with the US, as well as enhancing its political and defense cooperation with Japan.
But Puerto Rico’s problem is a lack of capacity to pay, not a lack of
willingness.
Their radical ideology is obvious, and their
willingness
to forgive the casualties and suffering of a long and brutal conflict is unknown.
The agreement would include a land corridor connecting Gaza and the West Bank; a divided Jerusalem with guaranteed access for all to religious sites;Palestinians’ renunciation of the right of return;Israel’s
willingness
to dismantle settlements outside the agreed borders; and recognition of both states across the Middle East.
China’s recent
willingness
to reopen a dialogue with envoys of the Dalai Lama, and improvement in its relations with Taiwan demonstrate that there is room for creating a more positive environment.
As is true of other global problems, much depends on the capacity and
willingness
of the most powerful national governments to find ways to act collectively.
China’s
willingness
to arm and defend African dictators, even in the teeth of UN sanctions, as in Libya, undermines its claim to a “peaceful rise.”
This means that Arab governments, led by Egypt and Jordan, but including Saudi Arabia and other members of the Arab League, must publicly declare their
willingness
to support a peace that is based on coexistence with Israel.
For Latin America, a fresh start and a different tone would be enough, because a
willingness
to engage the world instead of shunning it would at least constitute progress.
Here, the
willingness
of nuclear powers to implement their commitment to disarmament, as agreed in the NPT, is of prime importance.
Although the Trump administration has continued to send mixed signals about its
willingness
to uphold American commitments, the US has nonetheless delivered on former President Barack Obama’s pledge to strengthen NATO’s military posture in the Baltics and Poland.
And while Russia has not yet expressed a
willingness
to cede control of the Ukraine-Russia border, nor made progress in talks with the US, Putin surely knows that the status quo is unsustainable.
Those criteria must include the parties’
willingness
to allow humanitarian aid to flow to all Syrian civilians under their control and an end to war crimes and crimes against humanity, including systematic targeting of medical personnel, starvation of populations under siege, and executions of war prisoners.
Absent the
willingness
of large developing countries to run trade surpluses and high savings rates relative to investment, the asset bubble in the US – leading to a rise in domestic consumption and a fall in the savings rate – would have triggered inflation and higher interest rates.
Our
willingness
to spend money seems to be much greater for war than for peaceful and preventative solutions to the great problems facing humanity, and especially facing the poorest of the poor.
Nothing else ultimately explains lenders’ immense willingness, in the boom up to 2006, to lower their credit standards on home mortgages, regulators’
willingness
to let them do it, rating agencies’
willingness
to rate mortgage securities highly, and investors’
willingness
to gobble them up.
But the
willingness
of China’s new leadership to initiate another round of growth-securing stimulus depends on what rate of GDP growth Li can tolerate.
In fact, ECB President Mario Draghi signaled a
willingness
to expand his institution’s balance sheet by a massive €1 trillion ($1.25 trillion).
Finally, by demonstrating a
willingness
to print money, the Fed hopes to increase inflationary expectations from their current low levels.
But it will depend on favorable, pro-European election outcomes in France and Germany, and on European leaders’
willingness
to compromise and take calculated short-term risks.
And the United States has displayed no
willingness
to renounce its anachronistic privilege of nominating the World Bank’s president.
Another factor that will shape the process of technological upgrading in developing countries is global firms’
willingness
to invest.
In fact, negative policy rates may hurt bank profitability and thus banks’
willingness
to extend credit.
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