Catching Up at Different Speeds

Rapprochement with the outside world would help.

Of course, economic convergence is a long term business.

Not necessarily, but it is a mutual approximation.

But interest rate convergence caused economic divergence.

Over time, this stimulated ever greater economic convergence.

But rapprochement between France and the US should not hide other realities.

For example, he said that he would not kow tow to the US or visit Washington just for the sake of a photo opportunity He also promised to continue President Kim Dae Jung's Sunshine policy of engagement with the North.

The forces of globalization that were liberated by the fall of Communism have created a better world, with rapid economic convergence and shrinking inequality.

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, that de facto US China alliance ended, and a China Russia rapprochement began.

Historical experience shows that migration is the fastest way to bring about a convergence in living standards.

It contained some of the new elements introduced in Black Tie White Noise , and also signalled a move towards alternative rock.

She described their meeting by saying, I don't know if it was exactly love at first sight, but it was pretty close.

The rapprochement between Iran and its negotiating partners on the core nuclear issue is obvious.

As I have argued before, convergence of emerging countries real average incomes, in the aggregate, with advanced countries incomes is likely to continue into the 2020 s.

Moreover, as calls for harmonization increase, policies converge across the globe.

Turkish diplomacy has thus become a well calibrated balancing act, moving closer to European positions in the Middle East, but eager to maintain close relations with the US.

Turkey, which for nearly two decades has proclaimed its support for Azerbaijan, publicly conditioned rapprochement with Armenia on Armenian concessions to Azerbaijan.

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq.

If rapprochement with the West can be achieved, the removal of the international sanctions stemming from the nuclear program would give a tremendous boost to Rouhani s economic policy.

Christians, Muslims and animists live in perfect harmony thanks to a century old tradition of humorous relationship .

As the advanced economies recover, however weakly, the growth differential is likely to narrow again, perhaps to about two percentage points, which still implies steady convergence at a decent pace.

Given the ironic reversal of globalization fears, Kipling is still right convergence has continued to elude East and West.

ISTANBUL Will the recent rapprochement between the United States and Syria mark a new era in Syria s international standing?

There is bound to be more convergence down the road, when he decides to define Israel s real, not ideological, red lines.

This question has faced the EU from its beginning, and until now member governments answered it by proceeding at the pace of the most reluctant.

Smooth convergence of risk premiums for inflation, exchange rates, and, perhaps most importantly, debt default with those prevailing in the eurozone are crucial for alleviating possible shocks to the financial system.

It justified Turkey s policy vis à vis the Kurdish Regional Government in Northern Iraq, its involvement in Bosnia and in Kosovo, its rapprochement with Syria, and also its attempt to mediate between Syria and Israel.

In these circumstances, a US attack on Syria would almost certainly dash any hope of a US Iran rapprochement for years to come.

LONDON The European Central Bank s recently announced policy of bond buying, what it calls outright monetary transactions (OMTs) marks a convergence of European central banks with their Anglo Saxon counterparts.

That rapprochement was possible because Taiwan s then newly elected vice president was given permission by China to attend the forum, where he was able to meet informally with President Hu.

Will the crisis lead to nationalistic and selfish attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic, stymieing the long awaited rapprochement, if not a full reconciliation?

In the second, brighter scenario, rapid convergence to advanced economy income levels continues, supported by a focus on two priorities, detailed in a new IMF report.

A convergence of interests and a profoundly emotional attitude to Israel s story and to the Jewish narrative since the Holocaust have been the motive forces behind what is perhaps one of the most intriguing alliances in international relations.

The most interesting development is that we can now see increasing convergence in the regulatory philosophies and toolkits in Beijing, London, and New York. Until the recent near implosion of Western capitalism, the North Atlantic authorities thought that the end of financial history had been reached.

Given the precision required to operate on an organ as delicate as the brain, the convergence of mechanical technologies with the art of surgery catalyzed progress in the field.

The most interesting development is that we can now see increasing convergence in the regulatory philosophies and toolkits in Beijing, London, and New York.

South Korea s evolving foreign policy also may involve moving closer to China, as Korean nationalists join the Chinese in resisting Japan s rival claims to potential hydrocarbon deposits in the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan.

Several of the Sunni ruled Gulf monarchies view Syria s crisis and the prospect of Assad s demise as an opportunity to compensate for Iraq s rapprochement with Iran following the fall of Saddam Hussein s Sunni regime and the emergence of a Shia led government.

Germany and other hawkish northern Europeans are right to insist that Greece adhere to its commitments on structural reform, so that economic convergence with the rest of the eurozone can occur one day.

11. Stresses that the rapprochement of the South Eastern European States with the European Union will favourably influence the security, political and economic situation in the region, as well as good neighbourly relations among the States

German endorsement of a European and Euro Atlantic choice for Ukraine might well have been enough to swing the election for her, but instead it was held against a background of resignation, that Europe didn't want Ukraine and rapprochement with Russia was paramount.

The accession countries are already highly integrated with the EU economy, with pronounced cyclical convergence between the accession countries and the EMU countries.

12. Also stresses that the rapprochement of the South Eastern European States with the European Union will favourably influence the security, political and economic situation in the region, as well as good neighbourly relations among the States

13. Also stresses that the rapprochement of the South Eastern European States with the European Union will favourably influence the security, political and economic situation in the region, as well as good neighbourly relations among the States