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Well, a lot of natural gas and a little bit of nuclear, for starters.

Some developing countries, especially in Africa, are late starters and their markets are relatively underdeveloped.

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But the resolution s genuinely groundbreaking objectives lie in other areas. For starters, the resolution includes two potentially game changing legal reforms.

Such a debt conversion program would offer five benefits. For starters, unlike the ECB s current quantitative easing, it would involve no debt monetization.

Documents SAICM.PREPCOM.3 INF 6 and INF 7 are thought starters on institutional aspects of implementing the strategic approach to international chemicals management.

So imagine a restaurant where we can have, like, Lady Gaga salads as starters. I mean, this would get teenagers to eat their vegetables, probably.

Guarding against blind spots takes careful thought, but executives and boards can put processes in place to protect against them. For starters, companies should diversify their talent pool.

For starters, there is no legal basis for his demand. Article 125 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union expressly forbids the mutualization of debt.

For starters, there is the convergence argument. As China grows, its increasing size, wealth, and urbanization will continue to stoke demand for energy, grains, minerals, and other resources.

For starters, the central or federal government should retain significant fiscal powers. It must be responsible not just for defense and foreign policy, but also for key economic policies.

For starters, services have been gaining ground worldwide, especially in developed economies. From 1970 to 2012, the GDP share of services in the OECD countries increased from 53 to 71 .

For starters, Chinese officials should be under no illusion that the country will be immune to financial contagion. A Grexit would hit European banks that hold peripheral eurozone countries sovereign bonds.

For starters, the Mediterranean Sea has been all but abandoned to human smugglers. The Mare Nostrum is gradually becoming the kind of vast and watery mass grave described by a faraway poet.

While the big players remain preoccupied with their internal changes, the region continues to smolder. The main question now is whether the leaders who emerge in November will be firefighters or fire starters.

For starters, Europe will exit recession, with the peripheral economies benefiting from the strongest relative improvement in growth prospects. Meanwhile, 3 annual GDP growth is no longer out of reach for the United States.

The impact of shale energy on South America is twofold. For starters, there is the potential for cheaper imports for those countries with no gas (Chile) or where local demand could exceed local supply (Brazil).

This structural shift has enormous practical significance. For starters, it means that not only NATO s military resources, but also its human capital and practical knowledge in combating many different kinds of threats are available globally.

For starters, it should monitor and restrain sensitive exports to avoid making the security situation more dangerous for the US. Even in trading terms, Europe has an interest in regional stability and secure sea lanes.

For starters, technology is making even many service jobs tradable, enabling them to be offshored to Asia and other emerging markets. And, eventually, technology will replace manufacturing and service jobs in emerging markets as well.

For starters, the licenses awarded to develop peatlands should be revoked, and concessions should be taken away from landholders if there are fires. Moreover, a moratorium on new forest clearing should be enforced through local communities.

This is a dangerous idea, for several reasons. For starters, the IMF s research and similar studies show that the likelihood of a bailout over the life of the bonds already issued by banks is indeed now lower.

For starters, assessing and implementing aid policy requires developing tools to gauge accurately where need is greatest. Economists have developed some useful indicators, but they are vastly less precise than politicians and the media seem to understand.

For starters, economics teaching and research is deeply embedded in an institutional structure that, as with any ideological movement, rewards orthodoxy and penalizes heresy. The great classics of economics, from Smith to Ricardo to Veblen, go untaught.

A similarly honest and modern approach can also secure Medicare, without large tax increases on middle income Americans. For starters, bipartisan proposals for premium support, with seniors receiving subsidies to purchase private health insurance, should be implemented.

For starters, bio fuel subsidies should be abolished. Ethanol subsidies, such as those paid to American corn farmers, do not accomplish policymakers avowed environmental goals, but do divert grain and thus help drive up world food prices.

For starters, China s impressive growth performance over the last three decades has given the world an economically successful example of what many call state capitalism. Brazil s development policies have also accorded a strong role to the state.

For starters, governments must recognize that central banks, however well they have served their economies, cannot go it alone. Complementary reforms are needed to maintain and improve the transmission channels of monetary policy and avoid adverse side effects.

More recently, however, three crucial developments have altered the environment in which Islamic extremists operate in Pakistan. For starters, in November 2013, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif appointed General Raheel Sharif as Chief of Staff of the Pakistani army.

That is a big problem. For starters, there is little or nothing that other EU governments can concede on the free movement of people, which is enshrined in the founding document of European integration, the 1957 Treaty of Rome.

For starters, growth and jobs are needed to support prosperity and social cohesion in the wake of the Great Recession that began in 2008. Six years after the eruption of the financial crisis, the recovery remains weak and uneven.

For starters, they could make a mid summer resolution to buck the trend. They might, for example, resist the Internet algorithm that suggests which book to buy or film to rent, based on what they read or watched previously.

For starters, digital protectionism should be as suspect as any other form of protectionism, albeit with exceptions for health, safety, and social solidarity. Technological sovereignty can easily be a pretext for insisting that citizens buy only homegrown tech products.

For starters, downplaying China s rise has practical benefits. It helps to be seen as a poor, developing country, not as an economic giant, because developed nations are expected to do more to combat major global challenges, like climate change.

For starters, it is important to recognize that the line needs to be clearly visible before extremist parties even arise. If the rule of law is to be upheld, democratic self defense must not appear ad hoc or arbitrary.

When the crisis in Syria erupted, nobody predicted how serious, protracted, and complex it would turn out to be. For starters, observers underestimated citizens' ever deepening sense of hopelessness, which has driven them to support jihadi groups or the Assad regime.

At the same time, the euro exchange rate the one mechanism whereby current policies could still make a difference cannot be pushed down much further. For starters, given the eurozone s huge trade surplus, doing so would incur strong international resistance.

For starters, Syriza and others argue that Greece's public debt, at a massive 170 of GDP, is unsustainable and must be cut. Given that the country's official debt constitutes the bulk of its overall public debt, the government wants it reduced.

For starters, by maintaining an undervalued real exchange rate, China has fallen into the so called dollar trap, boosting the US dollar s international importance at China s own expense. As time passes, the senselessness of this policy will become increasingly apparent.

For starters, population size is a source of power simply because large countries can take advantage of their greater human potential to shine in a broad array of disciplines. Countries with great demographic potential therefore inherently have great Olympic potential.

For starters, they are responsible for public capital expenditure, driving the improvement in China s physical infrastructure and yielding reasonable returns for private investors. This advances the objective of helping local businesses, particularly innovative small and medium size firms, to grow and thrive.

For starters, to ease some of the resource pressure, livestock producers should switch to water saving technologies, including drip irrigation. At the same time, governments and civil society groups should promote healthier diets that rely more on plant based proteins and calories.