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Rather, by making Asia a more effective and united actor, new regional trade and financial measures would complement and strengthen current arrangements.
The EU, for its part, should be generous with respect to the timeframe for withdrawal, new trade regulations, and any transitional arrangements that could soften the impact of the separation.
Its weaknesses today mainly reflect flawed policies and institutional arrangements.
And it is biased toward universal recipes – “model” institutional arrangements, “best practices,” rules of thumb, and so forth.
It needs tangible, institutionalized arrangements that will assure a skeptical Israeli public and make a return of hostilities difficult.
So, because Asia lacks such institutional arrangements, personal diplomacy of the type that the Boao Forum represents, like the annual global winter gathering at Davos, remains vitally important.
Four years later, at the Second Conference on Financing for Development, in Doha, Qatar, policymakers acknowledged that more needed to be done in tax matters, and asked ECOSOC to consider strengthening institutional arrangements.
That would mean a veto in high politics, independence for the army’s budget and vast economic empire, legal immunity from prosecution on charges stemming from corruption or repression, and constitutional prerogatives to guarantee these arrangements.
In the Middle East, such arrangements could foster new forms of inter-ethnic cooperation.
The modern political spectrum is an artifact of the seating arrangements at the French National Assembly after the revolution of 1789.
The first development is the decline of alternative trade arrangements.
When dealing with the EU, member states usually aim for arrangements and regulations that ensure cooperation within agreed-upon frameworks.
The April agreement goes further by establishing a power-sharing arrangement in northern Kosovo that is designed to bolster local self-government through an association of Serb-majority municipalities while providing new arrangements for policing and the judiciary.
In terms of security, Georgia aspires to NATO membership;Armenia is a member of the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization; and Azerbaijan maintains strong security arrangements with Turkey and Israel, while purchasing modern military hardware from Russia.
“Our administration,” he said, is “lawfully exiting or renegotiating outdated or harmful treaties, trade agreements, and other international arrangements that don’t serve our sovereign interests, or the interests of our allies.”
Other officials advocate replacing multilateral trade deals with “fair and balanced” bilateral arrangements.
Whatever one calls these arrangements, for 70 years it has been US foreign policy to defend them.
Finally, new regional arrangements, as well as specific projects, will require diversified funding sources.
That is why every functioning society has regulatory bodies that set the rules of competition, monetary and fiscal institutions that perform stabilizing functions, and social insurance schemes, transfer policies, and other social arrangements that bring market outcomes into conformity with a society’s preferences regarding the distribution of risks and rewards.
Creating supranational institutions adequate to the task would require not only a willingness to give up national sovereignty but a considerable degree of convergence in national preferences regarding what constitutes a desirable set of social arrangements.
Market fundamentalism spawned a series of myths and half-truths: that freeing up international markets was the surest way to global prosperity; that free capital flows would allocate resources efficiently around the globe; that international financial markets would "discipline" governments to adopt more sound monetary and fiscal policies; and that all of this could happen without significant inequities, economic instability, or disruptions to domestic social arrangements.
Indeed, workers in companies with inclusive profit-sharing and employee-ownership programs typically receive significantly higher wages than workers in comparable companies without such arrangements.
From a policy perspective, much more can be done to encourage firms to create broad-based profit-sharing arrangements.
In recent arms-control negotiations, however, Russian policymakers have rejected informal arrangements, insisting that the US negotiate formal, legally binding treaties.
This would be analogous to US arrangements under which the federal government provides partial funding for state-administered unemployment insurance.
The life of women under such traditional arrangements tended to be tightly circumscribed.
Other countries could learn much from the DPJ’s attempt to alter a status quo of political arrangements that has had half a century to form and consolidate.
We do not know what Deng’s desired set of economic arrangements for a system of “socialism with Chinese characteristics” was, and, in all likelihood, he did not know, either.
After all, other arrangements for allocating labor appear to involve more domination and alienation than the labor market, which offers people opportunities, not constraints.
Market arrangements have a larger meritocratic component than the alternatives, and they encourage positive-sum entrepreneurship, making it easier to do well by doing good.
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