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Indeed, with the main exception of France, the euro does not seem to have been a blessing for the countries that adopted it.
The countries that adopted the euro had poor labor-market institutions, bloated pension systems, high taxes on labor income, and inefficient service sectors in the late 1990’s, and they still do now.
At the root of America’s economic problems are measures adopted early in Bush’s first term.
PRINCETON – Last month, the United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution condemning “defamation of religion” as a human rights violation.
In the US, Alexander Hamilton famously negotiated the federal assumption of states’ debt in 1790, but many states behaved badly in the early nineteenth century, with multiple bankruptcies, until they adopted laws or amendments to their constitutions requiring balanced budgets.
Such a policy was adopted in the aftermath of the 1973 war, when America offered $200 million annually for wheat procurement.
After the Millennium Development GoalsCAMBRIDGE – In 2000, 189 countries collectively adopted the United Nations Millennium Declaration, which evolved into a set of concrete targets called the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
As long ago as the period following World War I, countries that adopted an independent monetary policy recovered faster than those that remained locked into the gold standard.
Decisions on sanctions will be streamlined by a “reverse majority rule,” under which a European Commission recommendation for decision is considered adopted unless rejected by a majority of the member states’ ministers.
But can a system that has sustained 30 years of hyper-growth really be worse than those systems adopted in Japan and the Four Tigers?
Under the SDG framework, the UN has adopted 169 development targets that come into force this year.
In his book Lombard Street, Walter Bagehot quoted Jeremiah Harman, the governor of the Bank of England in the 1825-1826 crisis:“We lent...by every possible means and in modes we had never adopted before; we took in stock on security, we purchased exchequer bills, we made advances on exchequer bills, we not only discounted outright, but we made advances on the deposit of bills of exchange to an immense amount, in short, by every possible means consistent with the safety of the Bank, and we were not on some cases over-nice.
Buhari, whose running mate is a Christian, has toned down his support for Shari'ah, the strict Islamic legal system adopted by 12 northern states over the past three years.
The credibility of both the WTO and the newly adopted SDGs will be on the line in Nairobi.
Adopted globally in 1992 as part of the United Nations Rio Convention on sustainable development, and later incorporated into one of the European Union’s founding treaties, the precautionary principle states that a lack of certainty cannot be a basis for failing to protect human health or the environment.
Second, “we” are the international community: the almost 200 members of the United Nations that in 2015 adopted the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris climate agreement.
Following NATO’s intervention, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1244, placing Kosovo under UN administration.
Fourteen other states have adopted those standards, which therefore cover 40% of the US population.
Moreover, by using a Chinese workforce to build dams and other projects abroad – a practice that runs counter to its own “localization” requirement, adopted in 2006 – China reinforces a perception that it is engaged in exploitative practices.
This list was broadened in 1974 to include any 60 members of the National Assembly or the Senate, thus allowing the opposition to submit the laws adopted through parliamentary majority to some examination of their constitutionality.
In a nod to the importance of the councils to realizing change at the most local level, the World Bank and its partners have adopted a highly innovative program that channels rural development aid through the councils, which have been empowered to decide how the funds will be spent.
Last month, the Afghan leadership finally adopted – albeit half-heartedly – a transitional justice plan that could remove from power the biggest war criminals who have consolidated their grip on the country over the past five years.
The uniting factor was that each had adopted unsustainable policies that required corrective action.
On bank re-capitalizations, some countries adopted the more punitive approach of quasi-nationalization, while others lent public bailout funds on very advantageous terms, linking re-capitalization to the development of credit or the restriction of dividends.
Adopted because of the climate panic, bio-fuels were supposed to reduce CO2 emissions.
In that time, we have created the United Nations, adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and discussed endlessly governments’ “responsibility to protect” their citizens.
The Congress seemed to demonstrate three main points: Fatah has moved toward peace with Israel; it has adopted democratic procedures; and a new generation, or even a specific group called the Young Guard, has assumed leadership.
To that end, many distressed companies have been forced to clean up their balance sheets under a new bankruptcy code that was adopted in December 2016, and more companies are likely to follow suit this year.
Indian ICT firms adopted exemplary governance standards, were listed on international stock exchanges, and thrived in the global marketplace.
The austerity plans being adopted by governments in much of Europe and elsewhere around the world, and the curtailment of consumption expenditure by individuals as well, threaten to produce a global recession.
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