Given what ails us, additional monetary policy measures are poor substitutes for more powerful pro-growth policies.
These policy measures include strategies for better addressing the need of TVET teachers and instructors.
Ignoring or minimizing counterfactual leads to extreme conclusions about economic policy measures and to crippling political polarization.
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Policy measures that did some good, but not as much as hoped for or needed are rejected as total failures.
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He also recommends redistributive policy measures to ensure that growth remains inclusive or generate many of the rich who drive illicit flows.
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Under these terms, the last thing we want to do is adopt policy measures that lead to arrangements that will lower productivity.
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Among economists, there is a widespread consensus about the necessary policy measures.
It emphasizes to take relevant policy measures, create well planned programmes and sustained allocations to ensure that effective learning opportunities are provided to those without learning competencies.
In short, the FOMC will probably not announce further policy measures today despite the plunge in stocks for fear of pouring fuel on the fire.
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Unprecedented efforts by central bankers around the world to stabilize financial systems with easy money policies and other untested policy measures have fueled strong rebounds.
He said it could introduce the next Budget process and make clear how specific policy measures announced in the following months tied in with long-term objectives.
Plainly, open markets, like other policy measures, exact a price.
British officials also have memories of being tricked over opt-outs: in the mid-1990s they secured an exemption from the social chapter, a shopping list of labour and social-policy measures.
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That would produce faster growth in broad money (for example, M1 or M2) and easier credit conditions, which could ultimately result in inflationary pressures unless we adopt countervailing policy measures.
Nomura Securities economist Zhiwei Zhang said to expect policy measures similar to those used in 2008 (consumer good subsidies, infrastructure projects) as well as further action on public housing.
"German resistance to direct and indirect policy measures on the part of the ECB to lower Spanish and Italian bond yields has risen over the past several months, " he said.
Furthermore, wide and viable energy policy measures in which the whole Japanese society would participate, in a responsible and devoted manner, over sustainable consumption, are essential for the future of Japan.
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For the next 20 years, using flashy names like Fiscal Structural Reform Act, Emergency Employment Measures and Policy Measures of Economic Rebirth, the government cut taxes, increased spending and borrowed money to finance itself.
In any event, the fiscal conservatism implied by National's centre-right ideology means that the new government will seek to present most of its policy measures as having a long-term benefit for productivity and competitiveness.
Its strong fiscal position, receding inflation and expansionary policy measures should ensure a soft economic landing, but it needs to expedite its effort to diversify the source of growth and strengthen structural reforms for inclusive growth.
"Euro Area members of the G-20 will take all necessary policy measures to safeguard the integrity and stability of the area, improve the functioning of financial markets and break the feedback loop between sovereigns and banks, " they said.
"We believe that the government will react to this weaker-than-expected GDP growth rate by introducing more policy measures to boost lending, speed up project starts, encourage consumption, and support property sales, " Jun Ma, Deutsche Bank greater China chief economist said.
Beijing may adopt other policy measures to support economic activity, such as opening up more strategic industries (eg, railway, power and telecom, and services) to private investment, providing special assistance to small and midsized enterprises and export companies, and, possibly, offering specific consumer spending subsidies.
To curtail illicit flows he suggests the government should: (i) ensure that the rule of law is applied fairly and swiftly, (ii) strengthen regulatory and legal institutions (iii) adopt policy measures to improve both public and corporate governance such as improving tax compliance and collection.
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The Programme aims to provide Parties with a network of experts on the cultural and creative industries in Africa, who can support their ongoing efforts to effectively implement the 2005 Convention through targeted policy measures that foster the development of the cultural and creative industries at the national as well as the regional levels.
And far from dallying, the Fund has been in constant dialogue with the government during much of the last year, and even since the default on Brady bonds in September has offered financial support, provided Ecuador carried out agreed-upon policy measures and was making good-faith efforts to reach a collaborative agreement with its creditors.
Although he doesn't officially take up the reins of office until his inauguration on January 20, 2009, Obama and his economic team -- including nominee Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and nominee Chief of the National Economic Council Larry Summers -- have already outlined an ambitious raft of policy measures designed to kick-start the flagging U.S. economy.
Many do expect Draghi to announce some fresh, significant monetary policy stimulus measures.
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The Bank of Japan announced more monetary policy stimulus measures Tuesday, but the move was expected by the market place and Asian markets were little moved.
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Last year the defence ministry adopted a new policy that measures the army's success by the number of guerrilla captures or desertions, rather than the body count.
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