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And women, once told that gender parity in the boardroom might be achieved within a generation, will benefit from quota legislation adopted in the past year in Italy, Germany, and France.
After World War II, the world adopted the Bretton Woods system, whereby countries maintained fixed exchange rates against the dollar, and capital was largely immobile at the international level.
Between 1991 and 2000, twelve Latin American countries adopted legislation requiring minimum percentages of women on the party lists used for the election of national legislators.
To address the dismal under-representation of women in Latin America’s legislatures, a series of reforms must be adopted, reforms that depend in part on a country’s existing electoral legislation.
In open-list systems, a 50% quota should be adopted.
In 1959, officials at the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) adopted most of these steps as part of their long-range plan.
Today, the diplomatic fallout from the Ukraine crisis threatens to undermine Resolution 2139, which was adopted unanimously two months ago on the coattails of the Sochi Olympics.
In her first term, Bachelet adopted draconian but fiscally responsible policies, generating huge government surpluses that were earmarked for an ambitious pension reform and a rainy-day sovereign wealth fund.
These guidelines have not yet been formally adopted by the General Assembly or the Security Council, and remain only background noise in current international debates.
While technology has always been transformative, its impact is now ubiquitous, with digital and mobile technologies being adopted at an unprecedented rate.
The Cardoso government adopted an "economic terrorism" strategy to help Serra.
They condemned developments in Chile, held hearings about the importance of promoting human rights, and adopted legislation – over President Gerald Ford’s veto – requiring that human-rights standards guide US foreign policy.
The recommendations should be adopted (though the report’s approval of full bans of films by the board is unacceptable).
Japan adopted a similar stance.
African countries adopted commodity boards for coffee and cocoa.
Where the Red Cross view, adopted by Kouchner’s former colleagues at Doctors Without Borders, insists that humanitarian action is a vital but limited activity that can be coherent and effective only if it understands its limitations, the Kouchner view is that humanitarian action can be a lever for changing the world.
In the 1950s and 1960s, for example, Toyota introduced more efficient production processes that were eventually adopted by the entire automobile industry.
A stimulus package of less-than-prudent fixed-asset investment, adopted in response to the 2008 global financial crisis, sustained 9% GDP growth for two years.
In 2007, the EIB adopted its first energy policy – “Clean Energy for Europe: A Reinforced EIB Contribution.”
That could mean weakening the president’s powers and reserving some domains for the army – at least until a new constitution is adopted.
Worse still, even as the G-20 talks about finding a “fix” for global imbalances, some of the policy changes that its members have adopted are arguably exacerbating them.
Turning to the international dimension, understanding better how policies adopted in one country spill over onto other economies is key.
The SDGs will succeed the Millennium Development Goals, which were adopted in 2000 and expire in 2015.
Since the mid-1990’s, many countries in Central and Eastern Europe have adopted the so-called three-pillar pension system, comprising a publicly managed, pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pillar; a privately managed, mandatory, defined-contribution pillar; and a supplementary, voluntary private pillar.
At the center of the first narrative, preferred by financial-sector executives, is the view that all necessary reforms have already been adopted (or soon will be).
The majority of observant Muslims are peaceful, and most Islamists today have adopted more moderate, democratic politics.
Finally, the economic policies preferred by the “winners” – and adopted under their influence – are usually far from beneficial for all.
The solution that was eventually adopted was considered brilliant at the time, because it avoided formal default by any of the big Latin American borrowers (though Brazil briefly defaulted five years later, in 1987).
The OECD adopted an excellent set of “Principles for Internet Policy Making” in 2011.
Such integration cannot be achieved on a unilateral basis but only by programs adopted by the host and donor countries in co-operation with each other; nor can it be achieved in conditions where there is complete political and administrative separation between the populations which places them under exclusive controls and fails to acknowledge the human needs of community and conviviality.
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