Strong currencies make strong countries, a senior United States policymaker used to say.

You are a senior decision maker perhaps the Secretary of the Treasury or a key adviser to the US president for this is the level at which the plug must be pulled.

CAMBRIDGE Suppose that the world s leading policymakers were to meet again in Bretton Woods, New Hamp shire, to design a new global economic order.

Indeed, the twentieth century was shaped by three summer crises, whose seriousness was heightened in each case by the absence of major policymakers, who were on vacation.

One high ranking policymaker noted in mid July, This is truly shocking We understand politics, but your government s continued recklessness is astonishing.

Policymakers have offered prescriptions for solving it.

Policymakers can respond in three ways.

Policymakers must seize this chance.

So policymakers are facing difficult challenges.

Instead, senior officials in Europe think and talk like US policymakers did three years ago.

Such claims by senior policymakers are hardly unique to the UK but they are false and misleading.

Kampala s decision makers decided to protect the area.

Few decision makers seem aware of this.

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 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.

Summer crises are a familiar feature of European history and of financial history. Indeed, the twentieth century was shaped by three summer crises, whose seriousness was heightened in each case by the absence of major policymakers, who were on vacation.

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.

Strong currencies make strong countries, a senior United States policymaker used to say. Many emerging country exporters, struggling to retain customers in the wobbly US and European markets, feel otherwise.

Poland is making its own direct contribution, above all by helping senior Burmese decision makers, opposition leaders, and business representatives to understand the technology of transition that is, the sequencing of technical reforms, which has helped to make Poland one of Europe s healthiest economies today.

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.

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

For now, policymakers across the Americas are tiptoeing towards the obvious.

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

Fortunately, German policymakers have indicated that they understand this logic.

Policymakers need the fiscal and monetary space to move in this direction.

Conditional cash transfers are another option for Latin American policy makers to consider.

At the same time, policymakers are looking more and more nervously for an exit strategy.