Vij Ramachandran and I offer some other ideas for short-to-medium term policies that the U.S. and other rich-country governments could adopt to help mitigate another food price crisis, especially if the weather continues to impede production.
"Our focus needs to shift from crisis management to delivering and implementing sound medium-term policies".
"Our focus needs to shift from crisis management to delivering and implementing sound medium-term policies," Mr. Dijsselbloem said in his letter to ministers.
In its semiannual Global Financial Stability Report, which has been released in phases, the fund said that developing medium-term policies to deal with fiscal deficits was the "the most daunting challenge facing governments in the near term".
Then there is the still-controversial question of Lord Ashcroft, the party's deputy chairman, who has not revealed where he pays his tax.But Bagehot suspects that one big reason why the public is unconvinced by the Tory message, indeed why some Tories seem to be themselves, is the gap where their positive medium-term policies should be.
It is likely also that member states will be asked for further contributions when the space ministers of Europe meet in November to set the agency's medium-term policies and budgets.
Short-term policies that promote car-pooling and ride sharing and medium-term policies that increase the cost of driving and promote public transport (such as transit oriented development, walkable neighborhood design, and parking pricing/restraint in city centers) help stabilize carbon emissions over the long term.
Although OECD countries generally favour long-term policies of national self-sufficiency to sustain their physician workforce, such policies usually co-exist with short-term or medium-term policies to attract foreign physicians.
Although OECD countries generally favour long-term policies of national self-sufficiency to sustain their physician workforce, such policies usually co-exist with short-term or medium-term policies to attract physicians from abroad, on a temporary or permanent basis.
With the recovery emerging, a key medium-term policy challenge for the global economy is how to achieve a more stable distribution of demand across economies.
Following close behind recent unhelpful media coverage of onshore wind policy, this policy proposal will undermine investor confidence in the entire UK renewable energy sector, by removing at a stroke the short and medium-term policy certainty required for major project investments.
