By analyzing the converging policies of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), China and India, the Article first demonstrates the status of the RCEP in Asian powers' contemporary FTA practice.
The battle for blue-collar voters in these crucial primary states has seen the rival candidates adopt some converging policies too, particularly over trade, where Clinton has joined Sanders in sounding increasingly sceptical of the deals championed by the current president and, before that, her husband.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] so swampedSIR – Britain's political parties may well be converging on policies that place further restrictions on immigration ("Undercounted and over here", November 3rd).
These fields are converging, and policy economics — particularly macroeconomic and international trade policy — increasingly includes a strong political component.
In a system governed by the logic of the median-voter theorem, one would expect to see the parties converging in policy terms to win the allegiance of voters in the centre.
With this "perfect storm" of converging dynamics, policy makers urgently need to understand all factors affecting our ability to meet universal access goals.
When these three streams converged, a policy window opened, allowing newborn hearing screening onto the political agenda and enabling the policy decision for its introduction.
In part, it was because the two camps converged on policy: the liberal left largely accepted that it had lost Clinton-era arguments over Nafta and welfare reform, the centrists mostly admitted that they'd been wrong about Iraq, and the two sides found common ground on health care, global warming and income inequality.
Advances in scientific discovery are converging with unparalleled policy and regulatory action for medical research.
The year 2015 provided a great opportunity for converging these global policy processes -- especially regarding the establishment of resilience: integrated approaches need to be taken in designing a global development agenda, for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and at the climate treaty aimed at in Paris.
In short, fiscal policies are converging rather than diverging.Much economic analysis of tax regimes focuses on the optimal system: the maximum marginal rate, the balance between taxes on consumption and income, the need to reduce loopholes and so on.
