The Truth about NATO Burden Sharing

Totally fair burden sharing may not be possible, but a security organization like NATO undoubtedly allows us to come closer to it than any other approach.

What is a fair and equitable burden?

Greater burden sharing was a rote American demand.

We need to see more equal burden sharing.

Moreover, solving NATO s burden sharing problem is not enough.

Defense transformation is a key aspect of burden sharing.

No single measure can resolve the burden sharing problem.

The alternative is a poor intergenerational burden sharing choice.

This sort of arithmetic has the merit of giving some indications about burden sharing, but it has also been shown that burden sharing cannot be fully captured in graphs and spreadsheets. How does one decide what is a fair contribution from a country of 50 million people compared to a country with only four million?

We are doing our part in terms of burden sharing.

Burden sharing also implies that non G 8 donors should contribute.

One key issue is how to handle burden sharing among different donors.

(c) Acceptable burden sharing among donors and likely consensus among major contributors.

A formula for burden sharing would be needed that gradually increases domestic financing.

For too long, the debate has been framed around the concept of burden sharing.

The need for burden sharing, particularly between advanced and developing countries, will not magically disappear.

They worry about not only competence, but also the old transatlantic issue of burden sharing.

Instead of talking about economic equality, we will now talk about equal sharing of the burden .

A related issue is burden sharing among high and upper middle income countries contributions remain inequitable.

Further recognizes that more balanced burden sharing is essential to the long term financial sustainability of UNFPA.

And for that sharing activity to happen, we have to have well protected spaces of fair use.

Clearly, this concept implies burden sharing by all Asia Pacific countries to ensure the region s harmony and security.

But it would also be less easy to reject a call for greater burden sharing in the world.

Burden sharing is a sensitive issue, for both NATO and the international community, and passions sometimes run high.

The increased tax burden for all who are employed is analogous to the reduced hours in work sharing.

The current global refugee situation required an effective and equitable mechanism for ensuring international responsibility and burden sharing.

I hope the conference will help build momentum for greater international burden sharing for Iraq's political and economic reconstruction.

His delegation therefore welcomed the Convention Plus initiative, which aimed to resolve refugee issues through responsibility and burden sharing.

(g) Agreement on a just formula of wealth sharing, which will enable each State to have a fair share.

At the end of the day, a collective, burden sharing Europe is the only way out of the current crisis.

So far, the burden sharing challenge, along with naive and incomplete growth models, may have contributed to gridlock and inaction.

This pointed clearly to the scope for greater burden sharing across other groups in their funding of UNCTAD as well.

He asked the Special Rapporteur to explain what role countries of origin and host countries should play in burden sharing.

The Strategic Economic Dialogue sidestepped this disagreement on burden sharing and focused instead on what the two countries have in common.

It welcomed the conclusion adopted by the Executive Committee of UNHCR on international cooperation and burden and responsibility sharing, and hoped that it would help to ease the heavy burden imposed on developing countries.

First, devaluation would distribute the costs of rebalancing more evenly, making it easier to clear the burden sharing hurdle to deeper reforms.

Thus, NATO, developed a burden sharing mechanism to assess members manning commitments for critical operational activities relative to their gross national income.

Unfortunately, arguing over burden sharing creates more scope for delay, potentially undermining the efficacy of any wealth tax that might finally be instituted.

In this way burden sharing as addressed in financial institutions would require major adjustments before application to United Nations agencies, funds or programmes.

Both the total amount of each Replenishment and the burden sharing agreement among the Contributing Participants are subject to the political negotiating process.

In creating a regime for exploiting the seabed beyond national jurisdictions that provides for fair sharing of the resources, the Convention reflects the desire for a fair and equitable international economic order to control the oceans.

Shifting consumption to investment via tax increases is possible, but too problematic politically, with the burden sharing issue usually leading to impasse and inaction.

India was committed to working with the international community to address new and emerging challenges in a spirit of compassion, solidarity and burden sharing.

It was therefore necessary to strengthen international solidarity and to apply the principles of burden and responsibility sharing in order to find durable solutions.