America s current budget negotiations should focus on achieving a credible long term decline in the national debt, while protecting economic expansion in the near term.

One is his long term focus.

Iran's near term political future remains unclear.

Governments will not sacrifice near and medium term economic growth for long term environmental benefits.

As a result, Iran's near term political prospects appear ominous.

Price deflation is far more likely in the near term.

Moreover, infrastructure investment not only creates jobs in the near term, but also promotes long term competitiveness.

Such principles can lead to the identification of both near term precautionary actions and medium term initiatives.

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To avoid rewards for short term performance and focus on long term results, pay structures need to be re designed.

Even when enacted, their near term effects on job creation would be minimal.

So the near term outlook for the US economy is weak at best.

In the near term, at least, cash transfers seem to be the best option.

At the same time, tax laws have been revised to make investors wealthier in the near term, discouraging long term investment in research.

In the compact form, the corrector plate is located at or near the focus of the primary mirror.

Rather than focus on quick policy fixes, Europe s leaders need to pursue long term solutions.

The UNICEF role in emergencies should increasingly focus on planning, short term response, medium term coordination, and long term support for the transition from an emergency to a development programme.

In the very near term, certainly indeed, interest rates could still fall further. Over the longer term, however, this situation is definitely not stable.

To some extent, this is understandable, given the focus on short term liquidity and capital flows.

Each country should focus on what it needs to do to achieve sustained long term growth.

The World Food Programme has begun to shift the focus of its programme from short term emergency response to medium term emergency preparedness and recovery.

In fact, evidence shows that building cities right generates near term benefits, while reducing the longer term costs associated with sprawl, congestion, pollution, and climate change.

These issues can be addressed only through systemic reform over the medium term, while the recovery effort should remain the global priority in the near term.

The World Bank balanced ongoing emergency efforts with a renewed focus on a medium term development agenda.

The G 20 will not achieve growth and stability without a renewed focus on long term debt reduction.

TOKYO Shinzo Abe s second term as Japan s prime minister began with a laser like focus on economic revitalization.

Is this extraordinary situation stable? In the very near term, certainly indeed, interest rates could still fall further.

Indeed, in January, the IMF revised its near term outlook for eurozone growth downward, to 0.2 in 2013.

Thus, nothing dramatic will happen to the RMB exchange rate in the near term unless something dramatic happens.

To establish such a system would require the commitment of significant resources in the near and long term.

So, while bringing down short term T bill rates to near zero has failed, the hope is that bringing down longer term interest rates will spur the economy.

While aimed at reducing long term environmental damage, cap and trade policies could produce significant harmful economic effects in the near term that would continue into the future.

Part of the problem is blinkered decision making. EU leaders focus narrowly on limiting short term financial and political costs, rather than thinking strategically about broader longer term consequences.

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That trend will continue and increase in the near term as Iraqi security forces become more and more capable.

The sustained focus of the media on him, to the point of near saturation, focused world attention on the Palestinian Question once again.

Don t look to central banks most are likely to manage the near term risks to inflation and growth reasonably well.

This led to a plan to keep short term interest rates near zero until late 2014, as well as to massive quantitative easing, followed by Operation Twist, in which the Fed substitutes short term Treasuries for long term bonds.

There is a perennial temptation to focus on even to overemphasize the short term, tactical drivers of commodity price movements, at the expense of giving longer term, structural factors their due.

The Voorburg Group confirmed its objective, focus and scope and adopted a series of measures to develop the working agenda for the near future.

Nonetheless, Europe needs to be much more generous in permanently writing down debt and, even more urgently, in reducing short term repayment flows. The first is necessary to reduce long term uncertainty the second is essential to facilitate near term growth.

With this as our starting point, it is clear that a narrow focus on short term carbon emission cuts is flawed.

Additional resources should be attracted through implementation of the strategic long term vision statement, with its strong focus on poverty alleviation.

While we must focus on those long term objectives, we must also not lose sight of the imperatives of our time.