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Even after the international community adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, the fossil-fuel industry managed to block meaningful progress – to the point that, if serious action is not taken soon, the entire process could unravel.
This approach, also adopted by Italy, contributes to reducing costs and increasing the overall volume of funds for beneficiaries.
All other local banks have adopted the same approach, severely restricting access to financial services for households and entrepreneurs.
The years 1985 to 2000 were the era in which development was to be financed by private lending to countries that adopted the market-friendly and market-conforming policies that were supposed to lead to high returns and rapid growth.
Immediately following the coup, the European Union adopted an ambivalent position toward it.
State-compelled lending has been adopted in the past, and not just in the central planning systems of communist economies.
Before a new policy – say, a trade agreement – is adopted, beneficiaries have an incentive to promise compensation.
While the US presidential election is not particularly focused on policy at the moment, the campaign will soon end, at which point people will govern and policies will be adopted.
Proportional representation, widely adopted in Europe in the first decades of the 20th century, was never embraced by the US because it is a system that would allow black representatives to be elected regularly.
It has been essentially (though not explicitly) adopted by major central banks, including the US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, and the Swiss National Bank.
Adopted in 2009 by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the PSMA requires parties to implement stricter controls on foreign-flagged fishing vessels.
The object of their contention is the much-debated “shareholders’ access to proxy” rule, adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in August to address the fundamental lack of accountability of corporate boards.
The G-8 could end the suffering of the world's poorest billion people if it adopted realistic measures to solve their problems.
Adopted by the UN just a year before Trump’s election, the SDGs will require that countries cooperate on crucial global targets related to climate change, poverty, public health, and much else.
But the harsh tone publicly adopted by President Barack Obama’s administration raised serious concerns among some in Abe’s government who question Obama’s commitment to the alliance and suspect that he was using the Yasukuni issue as a pretext to signal a weakening of America’s defense commitment.
In 1994, he introduced a flat personal-income tax, a policy that most Eastern European countries have since adopted.
Despite being a low-income region, India and other South Asian countries have adopted the growth patterns of middle- to high-income countries.
Over time, the Soviet press adopted the English term, referring to disidenty.
In defiance of the UN conventions, some countries have adopted more pragmatic approaches to dealing with drug use and HIV.
The BoE and the ECB have since adopted similar measures.
It is significant that this policy was adopted before Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech in August, in which he announced his tentative plans for quantitative easing.
RCV has already been adopted by a number of American cities and the state of Maine, and one hopes it will continue to spread in the years ahead.
How to Pay a BankerCAMBRIDGE – The United States’ Federal Reserve Board recently adopted a policy under which bank supervisors, the guardians of the financial system’s safety and soundness, would review the compensation structures of bank executives.
The US Constitution’s Second Amendment, which guarantees the right to keep and bear arms, was adopted in 1791, when citizens who had rebelled against the British monarchy thought they needed to protect themselves, if called upon, against an oppressive state.
At the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit in New York, UN member countries formally adopted an ambitious new global agenda.
This partly explains both the hostile stance toward QE adopted in the German financial press and the over-indebted periphery countries’ increasingly desperate calls for more action by the ECB.
Since April 1990, when the EU Parliament, with no significant opposition, adopted the first two directives on the use and release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), public opinion has grown increasingly suspicious and hostile.
The eight MDGs were adopted in the year 2000, when leaders meeting at the United Nations agreed to cut extreme poverty and hunger by half, fight disease, improve water safety and sanitation, expand education, and empower girls and women.
That was the aim in 2001, when the United Nations adopted the Millennium Development Goals.
The 18th amendment to the constitution, adopted in 2010, does precisely that, but implementation is being delayed by parties that prefer a highly centralized political structure.
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