The creation of an appropriate enabling environment (including technical and institutional capacities) is key to such sustainable transition.

The key theoretical point in the transition to a debt fueled economy was the redefinition of uncertainty as risk.

As a result, Turkey, not Iran, is on track to become this century s key Middle Eastern power.

And, while today s main risk is the yen, in a couple months it could be something completely different.

The main objectives of decentralization have been to provide flexibility to regional governments, allowing them to manage their own affairs as part of the democratization process.

Economic theory is not sufficiently developed to predict major turning points based on first principles or mathematical models.

There may be some savings to be realized as the Investment Management Service is in the process of changing to one global custodian to replace the master record keeper and three regional custodians.

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Because almost all major actors on the international stage are redefining their roles in response to this tectonic shift, Europe must do the same.

Parliamentary supremacy, one of the key issues in any country s democratization, appears to be at hand in Kuwait.

The Techno Political Transformation

This discursive turn within feminist analysis reflects the turn within political science as a whole.

From Cuba and in Caracas, he makes a show of governing, and he puts the transition in context The only transition here, one that we must accelerate and consolidate, is the transition to the socialist model.

China s renminbi is internationalizing, but its share of global payments remains relatively small, with the dollar retaining its role as the world s main reserve currency.

Putin s Tipping Point?

China s Turning Point

Fourth, military transformation.

The Transition to Sustainability

Turning Point at Chernobyl

The Digital Transformation of Europe

East Asia s Turning Point

The first turning point is political.

The Ayatollahs Tipping Point

Pakistan s Tipping Point

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Success in drawing up the new constitution will be the definitive turning point for Iraq's stability and the entire process of democratic change.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

The transformation reflects both necessity and design.

Mexico Breaking Good?

That shift is understandable.

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This is termed a criterion shift.

There is growing evidence that the stress of transition is the leading cause of death, even above big killers in postcommunist Russia such as alcohol, murder, and AIDS.

The first is privatization.

To support this shift, much is required.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

That shift, however, has now come into view.

The Shift Towards Services, New York and Geneva, 2004.

The current trend is toward decentralization.

Urbanization also became a major concern. Urban areas grew at the expense of rural areas. Consequently slum areas and communities multiplied rapidly, which exacerbated a number of social problems.

But if a shift across America s racial divide is not truly revolutionary, then what is?

China s shift has been dramatic.

Incompetence during a political transition has a high price.

Governments must galvanize this transformation.

The signs of this shift are profound, even spectacular.