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This means that aid must be conditional on
binding
commitments from the recipients to respect rights, protect human-rights defenders, and ensure that new projects are not causing or contributing to abuses against indigenous peoples, such as forced evictions or labor-rights violations.
Building on the Geneva Conventions on the laws of war and similar
binding
agreements, global rules were first institutionalized with the establishment of the United Nations.
These three measures, if applied to all banks, would eliminate the need for special rules governing liquidity or funding (which would remain open to supervisory review, but not to
binding
constraints).
Free movement of skilled labor could be accompanied by
binding
international requirements that migrants from poor countries spend, say, one year in five working in their countries of origin.
Moreover, the EU must make clear that accession ultimately will be based on merit, and that target dates are aspirational, not
binding.
Private investors will need to agree to
binding
rules protecting social, environmental, human, and gender rights.
Although this infrastructure is financed mainly by individual EU member states using their own funds, the TEN-T is
binding
and marks out the priority projects for each member.
Despite a nominally
binding
ceasefire, the situation remains uncertain and subject to rapid escalation, especially in light of Russia’s new military incursions in Donbas.
First, the Declaration calls on policymakers responsible for crafting the comprehensive climate agreement to be adopted in Paris to come to “an equitable and
binding
conclusion.”
Some developing-country leaders may be displeased for another reason: the figure of $100 billion in finance from rich countries does not appear in the legally
binding
body of the agreement.
This requires moving away from the broad governance agenda and focusing on reforms of specific institutions in order to target
binding
constraints on growth.
Poor countries suffer from a multitude of growth constraints, and effective reforms address the most
binding
among them.
Poor governance may, in general, be the
binding
constraint in Zimbabwe and a few other countries, but it was not in China, Vietnam, or Cambodia – countries that are growing rapidly despite poor governance – and it most surely is not in Ethiopia, South Africa, El Salvador, Mexico, or Brazil.
It is not necessary, because what really works in practice is removing successive
binding
constraints, whether they are supply incentives in agriculture, infrastructure bottlenecks, or high credit costs.
Suppose, for example, that we identify macroeconomic instability as the
binding
constraint in a particular economy.
Similarly, central bank independence may be a great idea when monetary instability is the
binding
constraint, but it will backfire where the real challenge is poor competitiveness.
It can also be good for growth when it is targeted at
binding
constraints.
By enshrining them in the Constitution, these fundamental rights and principles become legally binding, and citizens will have greater scope for bringing appeals to the Court of Justice.
By means of a
binding
UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.
As subjugating and ahistorical as those relationships were, much of the world accepted the
binding
of “Eastern Europe” to the Soviet Union as a logical state of affairs, one in keeping with the world order that emerged at the close of WWII.
But making a promise legally
binding
is only the first step towards fulfilling it, and in this respect there is still much work to be done.
What matters at any point in time is to alleviate a society’s immediate
binding
constraints – another reason why different policies are needed for different places.
But it was clearly stated that last June’s referendum on Britain’s European Union membership was merely consultative and not
binding
on parliament.
The EU has long insisted that a legally
binding
divorce settlement must be concluded before there can be any discussion of future UK-EU relations.
But there has been disagreement over the translation of this into legally
binding
language.
Yet the Irish government has insisted that every detail of the backstop be nailed down and included in the legally
binding
withdrawal treaty.
She pointed out that the Fed does indeed have the authority it needs, that the Basel agreements are not binding, and that, in any event, “strong regulatory standards enhance the stability of the US financial system” and promote the competitiveness of financial firms.
This is why the European Parliament voted across party and national lines in November against lifting the ban until the EU Code of Conduct is made
binding.
Because of a lack of empirical evidence, it is too early to say that these obstacles are
binding
constraints.
First, countries did not view their sovereign debt as a
binding
constraint, and instead pursued investment and potential growth.
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