In the rarefied world of EU economic policy-making, this is an increasingly lively debate, I can report.

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If indeed it does, then biodiversity should increasingly become a priority issue in economic policy-making and business strategies.

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Yet the progressive economic policy-making coming out of Washington today rests on the futile attempt to escape the corporate cycle of life that lies at the heart of capitalism.

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Something like this already exists in economic policy-making.

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The reserve currency will be there to bail out sloppy economic policy-making, and Republicans like Toomey will continue to capitulate to the idea that the global bond market thinks Washington is doing a good job.

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"The primacy of the Budget as the main focus of fiscal and economic policy making should be re-established, " the MPs said.

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Economic crises may not lead to good policy-making, but at least they demand a do-no-harm standard.

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Estrada replaced Espiritu as finance secretary with the well-regarded Jose Pardo, who had held the trade and industry portfolio, named a six-man Economic Coordinating Council of top officials to bring badly-needed coherence and momentum to policy-making, and recruited five business elder statesmen as senior advisers.

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He has rapidly mastered the art of making populist points during debates on high economic and financial policy - and as PPS, (parliamentary bag carrier) to his Leader, Ed Miliband, he is already close to the leadership.

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Congress has often been controlled by a different party to the presidency, making mid-term elections less of a referendum on economic policy.

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It would involve making Soviet structural reform -- political, economic, military, foreign policy -- a necessary precondition to future U.S. aid.

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Under their single European monetary policy, euro-zone countries have already agreed to limit their budget deficits and to respect broad guidelines in making economic policy.

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