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That activist had been framed by local authorities after he had denounced abuses by the local family planning authorities.
With little oversight from the central government, and no independent judiciary or a free press to hold them accountable, local authorities in rural areas are often a law unto themselves.
The central authorities have recognized the link between abuses, unrest, and the need to develop legal services for preventing the escalation of disputes.
Administrative restrictions on lawyers were tightened to discourage class action or multiple plaintiff suits – typically cases against arbitrary or corrupt government actions – and to facilitate local authorities’ intervention and control over cases.
Second, they overestimated the extent to which quantitative easing (QE) by the monetary authorities – that is, printing money – could counterbalance fiscal tightening.
And even if growth does last, they argue, the Chinese authorities will not allow Western businesses – or even Chinese businesses, according to ultra-pessimists – to benefit from it.
And the Chinese authorities are now scaling back the other major driver of their country’s growth, public-sector investment, as low-return projects seem to generate aggregate demand but prove unsustainable fairly quickly.
And the European authorities delayed important decisions on refugee policy in order to avoid a negative effect on the British referendum vote, thereby perpetuating scenes of chaos like the one in Calais.
The lack of adequate controls, moreover, created panic, affecting everyone: the local population, the authorities in charge of public safety, and the refugees themselves.
Unfortunately, the medical community is resisting the use of pharmacogenomic data in clinical practice, despite regulatory authorities’ recommendations for many drugs.
Suspicion is certainly the order of the day in the US, where the authorities have announced massive sanctions against two Russian tycoons, Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg, as part of an effort to punish the Kremlin for its alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
In an effort to stem the weakening of the exchange rate, the authorities have made it more difficult to convert RMB to dollars.
For that reason, the authorities viewed it as profoundly subversive.
He believed that lawlessness began with unorthodox kinds of musical entertainment, and advised the authorities to put a stop to such things.
(The Stones have already played in Shanghai, even though the Chinese authorities insisted on vetting their songs.)
They may pay lower taxes, or their competitors may be subject to raids by the authorities.
Moreover, the authorities have limited power to intercept vessels suspected of illegal activity.
The deal between Greece and the European authorities is actually a good one for both sides.
But, for the Chinese authorities, this movement reflects an unacceptable challenge to China’s sovereignty.
Pegged exchange rates had come under fatal speculative attack in many of these countries, whose authorities thus needed something new to anchor the public’s expectations concerning monetary policy.
The good news for Asia is that most of the region’s monetary authorities are, in fact, tightening policy.
In Jordan and Morocco, the authorities are facing a rising challenge in containing militant tendencies.
Waiting lists for medical and nursing services in Norway already seem endless, and school buildings are deteriorating - some have even been closed down by the public health authorities.
In the case of Greece, some investors and commentators may sympathize with the authorities’ contention that austerity measures have only hampered its recovery.
When these countries get into trouble, their authorities intervene forcefully.
But intervention requires that the authorities first have both the reserves and the will to abandon (at least temporarily) their hands-off commitment to a floating exchange rate.
But its effect across the Arab world has been profound, especially among a younger generation that has lost hope and respect for the region's secular authorities.
But a country’s authorities can prevent appreciation for a prolonged period of time by buying up foreign currency.
Alternatively, if the South Korean authorities decide to allocate quotas among firms, they will probably have to benchmark each firm’s allotment to its share of exports in the 2015-2017 period.
That will give firms all the more reason to lobby and otherwise pressure licensing authorities, further complicating the process, and raising the possibility of corruption.
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