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The rule of law is absent, and much more effort is spent on extortion and rent collection than production.
A fully functioning legal system and – perhaps more importantly – the mentality associated with the rule of law are often absent, or primitive, in most developing countries.
Clear rights and obligations must therefore be carefully worked out at the start of an investment, something that has been all but absent previously.
Unhappily, that quality has been agonizingly absent from Middle East diplomacy for almost as long as anyone can remember.
Indeed, this ideological divide is likely to become more defined in the coming years, as the independence of central banks around the world is threatened by new rules and regulations; as China – and, more generally, Asia – export inflation (reflected in US import prices); as protectionism rises, hitting free trade hard; and as new productivity-enhancing innovations, such as the Internet, remain absent.
Here Bush is conspicuously absent without leave (AWOL in military jargon).
The effort might induce a financial backlash in the future, but BNP’s problems emerged when effective sanctions were at the forefront of policymakers’ minds – and, one suspects, not absent from prosecutors’ minds.
Bosses believe women employees may be absent more frequently due to pregnancy or the illness of a child.
But, in order to move from aspiration to implementation, Europeans must muster the unity of purpose that so far has been conspicuously absent in EU energy policy.
After five years of an average annual economic growth of 9%, economic claims are strikingly absent, as are all socialist and even social demands.
And, absent a tectonic shift in growth dynamics and policies, we may well see more of it in the next few years in Europe – specifically, in France, Italy, and Germany.
A visitor in Cuba finds many ready to complain, but the palpable fear and visceral hatred rampant in El Salvador and Chile in the 1980's is absent in today's Cuba.
Casual racism – disparaging remarks made about other ethnic and national groups around the workplace, or over the bar or the family dinner table (as I can well remember growing up in the 1950’s) – had become much less prevalent in Australian private life, and certainly wholly absent from public life, by the 1990’s.
Relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia could hardly be worse, absent direct military confrontation.
Common sense, however, is often absent in policymaking.
Higher capital ratios are required today and, absent a credible sovereign safety net, in the future.
In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know – even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation, opaque corporations, and the like are not.
While we do not know what might have happened were policies different, one can easily imagine that, absent quantitative easing in the United States, Europe, and Japan, those economies would have been mired in a deflationary post-crisis landscape akin to that of the 1930s.
Absent this helping hand from the exchange rate, all southern European rebalancing will need to take place internally through domestic deflation, which in turn risks jeopardizing their return to public-debt sustainability.
And the international community is absent as well.
Only in the Czech Republic are elections nowadays fought between Western-style liberals and Western-style social democrats, with postcommunists (reformed or not) largely absent from the political scene.
Absent such a response again, the field will be left wide open for populists and far-right groups, who will lead the world – as they always have – to deeper division and more frequent conflict.
The captured uranium was not weapons-grade; international inspectors removed all sensitive material from Iraq following the 1991 Gulf War (which is why it was absent when the United States invaded in 2003).
From the ruins of another empire, Russia's, I would add: There is nothing more conspicuous than an absent monument.
Such a monument is also notably absent from the vicinity of the Kremlin.
So, absent any sense of vision — maybe that comes after the election — we’re back to trade that dominates what discussion there is of Latin America in the campaign.
Absent serious reform, both are on tract to go into deep hibernation as the Bank for International Settlements did for forty years prior to its recent resurgence.
All of this will require an update of the legal categorizations of migrants, as well as burden-sharing within the EU, which is glaringly absent at the moment.
She will continue to emphasize close relations with France because there is no alternative;Britain, absent from the euro zone and the Schengen border regime, remains the odd man-in of the EU.
In most developing countries, educators don’t even know how many children with disabilities are absent from school, let alone what those who do attend might need in the classroom.
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