LONDON The Greek debt problem has been poorly handled by Europe s decision makers.

The more pragmatically and creatively they act, the more quickly the world economy will recover.

Policymakers have offered prescriptions for solving it.

Policymakers can respond in three ways.

Policymakers must seize this chance.

So policymakers are facing difficult challenges.

Kampala s decision makers decided to protect the area.

Few decision makers seem aware of this.

Until last year, policymakers could always produce a new rabbit from their hat to reflate asset prices and trigger economic recovery.

But it is not just light bulbs that policymakers have tried to ban.

Israeli policymakers refuse to talk about the subject.

(d) Awareness was raised among decision makers and the public about the rights of migrants.

Summaries for decision makers will also be prepared.

This lack of sound models meant that economic policymakers and central bankers received no warning of what was to come.

I am not quite sure whether all Chinese policymakers are good students of modern economics.

In fact, when a country s economic growth is continuously above 9 , policymakers probably cannot be too cautious.

This is where a lot of policymakers get it wrong.

But China s decision makers should bear two things in mind.

This poses a dilemma for Chinese policymakers.

Have policymakers responded appropriately since then?

Policymakers cannot hide from that reality forever.

However, the ratio between male and female decision makers remains unbalanced.

Make no mistake policymakers track record on forecasting Greek economic performance during the crisis has been an embarrassment.

As they intervened, American policymakers consulted closely with their counterparts around the world, urging them to take supportive steps.

Until recently, the feeling of urgency that pervades European policymaking was almost entirely absent in the US.

Perhaps the first lesson for Western policymakers is that virtual enterprises run on a culture of trust.

Either the damage caused by the financial crisis was more serious than people realized, or the economic medicine prescribed was less efficacious than policymakers believed.

Policymakers are understandably reluctant to go down this road. Contracts are sacrosanct.

Second, new mechanisms are needed to energize policymakers and publics.

Sanctions give lawmakers and diplomats plenty to talk about.

Perhaps that would be enough to reassure everyone that policymakers current acquiescence in a prolonged slump was a horrible mistake that will not be repeated.

They have to do the best with what they have instead of wishing they could transform their society wholesale.

Finally, policymakers are running out of tools.

But in most economic analysis, the decision makers point of view is quite narrow.

Policymakers would be responsible only for guaranteeing the expanding system s safety.

The ECB s policymakers are not blind, merely shortsighted.

Policymakers need to follow through on their commitment to the peer review process.

Economists have been extraordinarily successful in conveying their message to policymakers even if ordinary people still regard imports with considerable suspicion.

But a financial crisis does not give policymakers the time that they once had to explain to voters why one step required another.

Despite stress tests, bailout funds, and continual meetings, a permanent workable fix has so far eluded European policymakers.

Contrary to recent charges, Turkey s foreign policymakers are not seeking to revive the Ottoman Empire.

Other bureaucratic decision makers, for their part, are increasingly constrained by requirements of transparency and disclosure.

I suspect that emerging market policymakers hearts are advocating the former.

The climate bomb is ticking, and there is a palpable sense of urgency among policymakers.

Nevertheless, the consensus is that US policymakers erred when