Recent financial reforms are part of policy makers' efforts to channel those savings out of unregulated investment products and speculative real estate.
FRANKFURT -- Higher-than-expected demand for cash from the European Central Bank on Thursday signaled that many banks were still unable to get the funds they needed on the open market, setting back policy makers' efforts to take banks off life support.
This "should support policy makers' efforts to engineer a soft landing" through a combination of monetary tightening policies and pro-consumption measures, as well as changes to social welfare programs.
Despite policy makers' efforts to promote alternative energy, impose emission controls on cars, and enforce tough energy-efficiency standards for buildings, the relentlessly rising curve of CO2 output does not show the slightest downward turn.
A coalition of more than a dozen American advocacy groups said it would send a letter on Monday to senior Obama administration officials, seeking a meeting to ensure that American policy makers' efforts in Europe "are not averse to the views expressed by the president".
But while China is a negligible market for the true behemoths that remain fairly popular in the United States, like the Chevrolet Tahoe and the Lincoln Navigator, the upward creep in vehicle size in China toward midsize cars and S.U.V.'s is complicating policy makers' efforts to limit total oil use.
If all the Apple patents are included -including the "user experience" patents that the company has previously insisted it would not license - it could undermine the iPhone makers efforts to permanently ban the sale of products that copy its technology.
"If they get this 10% they are well on their way," said George Tye, a lobbyist representing an influential coalition of insurance companies that, together with consumer groups, favor air bags and oppose the auto makers' efforts.
The results can inform policy makers' efforts to develop and implement new tobacco control policies.
However women in the Philippines continue to report barriers to sexual and reproductive health services, and there is limited empirical evidence available to inform policy makers' efforts to respond.
