The key element of that agenda is to maintain employment growth.

This is a formidable some would say unrealistically ambitious agenda. But it is the agenda Europe needs to complete to make its monetary union work.

Engineering such an agenda is not an overwhelming challenge.

This agenda would bring immense relief to the financial markets.

This agenda goes to the heart of improving human dignity and maintaining sustainable development.

This agenda might seem selfish, though understandable from the point of view of an oil billionaire.

Many contend that the agenda is being driven by knuckle dragging climate change deniers.

The magnitude of this agenda must be seen against the region s depressing legacy.

Reform of the global reserve system must be part of that broader agenda.

They are part and parcel of a broader agenda, some elements of which are visible in the ongoing Syrian crisis.

An agenda that powerful corporate interests would rather stifle might be a bitter pill for world leaders, but it is one that they should swallow sooner rather than later.

A groundswell of new international initiatives will soon emerge to move this agenda forward.

While it assumes predictable financial flows, such predictability can be spurious.

So what needs to be done in Addis and beyond to take this agenda forward?

Protesters in Quetta had a single point agenda

Is this agenda feasible in America today? To be sure, one would have to mend the broken political system first.

What emerging markets can add to this agenda is, to put it charitably, unclear.

Over the last year, the government has been pursuing this agenda, which is already showing some early results.

The not so good news is that these new democratic powers do not necessarily share the Old West s political agenda.

The good news is that Cyprus s newly elected president, Nicos Anastasiades, may be open to such an agenda.

Finally, partnerships will figure prominently on the agenda in Chicago.

Every Latin American leader except Cuba s 32 altogether will attend to discuss an ambitious agenda of regional cooperation.

The agenda is long, but it is hardly a secret.

Finally, political leaders must consistently pursue this agenda at the international, regional, national, and local levels.

If successfully implemented, this agenda is likely to reverse global savings and consumption patterns that have underpinned large imbalances in recent years.

Obviously, we need more political support for that agenda.

For that reason, it must place sustainable development at the forefront of the global agenda.

To this common agenda, the Europeans should add Africa, climate change, and reform of the United Nations and the world trading system.

Maybe, just maybe, Obama s recent address marks not only the end of this destructive agenda, but also the start of a new era.

This agenda emphasizes intercultural communication as the best way to break down prejudices and negative clichés on both sides.

Unfortunately, the proposed health agenda seems to ignore this trend.

We must make progress on this agenda.

The competition of ideas appears to be confined to al Qaeda s jihadi agenda.

Second, ensure integration rather than merely coordination of economic factors into the political and security agenda.

The legislature should have a greater say in setting the nation s agenda.

This agenda would bring immense relief to the financial markets. Equally important, it would change Europe s political dynamics from negative to positive.

The new agenda must also include a strong economic component.

Palestine would then be relegated to an obscure corner of the international agenda.

Financial reforms should top the agenda, beginning with interest rate liberalization.

Indeed, there is profound uncertainty about whether and when these imperatives will move to the center of the agenda.

The MDGs helped to ensure that these issues did not disappear from the policy agenda, and, partly as a result, there has been progress in at least the first two areas.

These groups hoped to involve women in public life to overcome traditional roles and practices as well as the constraints relegating women's rights to secondary status on the political agenda.

The former would exacerbate the country s slowdown, and neither change is in the cards.

Speaking about her lifetime efforts to put women s empowerment on the international agenda, she added, It s time to put youth empowerment there as well.

But the focus on agriculture diverted attention from a far broader agenda that could have been pursued in ways that would have benefited both North and the South.