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

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

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.

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.

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

Short Term Talk, Long Term Cost

Short term Recommendations

Short term studies

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.

But the ANC government will still have to focus on short term measures and patronage in order to shore up its electoral support.

Short term (2005 2006)

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 policy has short term and long term objectives.

Short term indicators for services

European leaders continued focus on the long run at the expense of short term imperatives may indeed be the death knell for their single currency.

Maybe this allows him to focus more on long term fundamentals and thus to make investments that may not perform well in the short run.

Let me conclude by saying that terrorist financing is not a short term policy with short term goals.

Short term considerations will not suffice.

One is his long term focus.

First, governments must balance long term goals with short term achievements.

In the advanced economies, in particular, a sharper focus on long term debt reduction, rather than short term fiscal austerity, is needed, along with structural reforms to labor, product, or financial markets, depending on the country.

This will not be a short term crisis, so we cannot think only in the short term in formulating our response.

Today s short term crisis does not materially alter their long term prospects.

In the short term, Syria and its neighbors are already paying the price of America s inability to focus on anything other than domestic politics since Obama s re election.

In short, policies are becoming more unconventional, not less, with little clarity about short term effects, unintended consequences, and long term impacts.

This approach too often sacrifices long term essential objectives to short term concerns.

Are Stock Markets Really Becoming More Short Term?

The ability to appreciate the long term earnings potential of Silicon Valley and firms like Apple, Amazon, and Facebook suggests that more is going on in the US stock market than a relentless focus on short term financial performance.

Negotiating new instruments is time consuming and difficult, and it diverts valuable resources and focus from the implementation of specific measures that will have practical results in the short term.

The outrageous increases in financial executives remuneration in recent years, which cannot be attributed to increased productivity, have exacerbated the financial sector s focus on the short term, while worsening its risk exposure in the longer term, thereby exacerbating systemic vulnerability.

Thus, while there are short term memory components to working memory models, the concept of short term memory is distinct from these more hypothetical concepts.

In short, the Kyoto agreement meant lots of short term pain for little long run gain.

He said no to many short term marital relationships.

In fact, America s short term advantages pose the biggest obstacle to its long term outlook.

A successful long term strategy cannot be seen as a succession of short term fixes.

This raises long term well being all around, but exacerbates short term inequalities and frictions.

The typical bank is capitalized with equity, long term debt, short term debt, and deposits.

To achieve sustained growth, a balance between short term and long term objectives must be struck.

This could generate financial strains over the medium term and protectionist pressures in the short term.

Shortsighted politicians like Bush often skimp on long term investments in favor of short term advantage.

Second, both countries must find the right metric to balance short term and long term interests.

Standards implementation remains the road map for the short term but also for the long term.

In other words, they assume that after the initial study determining the short term sigma level, the long term Cpk value will turn out to be 0.5 less than the short term Cpk value.

It is therefore dangerous to extrapolate from short term trends.

In the short term, time may be on Russia s side.