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It is time for India’s leaders to recognize the positive role that IP can play in fostering growth and improving citizens’ wellbeing.
The reality is that IP protection is an economic engine that developing-country citizens should not have to forego.
But the US-led military invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were not the whole of it; many countries also ramped up monitoring and policing of domestic media and ordinary citizens.
A report in 2010 revealed that foreign citizens made up more than three-quarters of all the subjects in clinical trials conducted by US firms and researchers.
If NATO members, Afghanistan’s government and citizens, and, by many accounts, the insurgents, can all agree that there is no military solution to ending the conflict, it is high time to consider and support a comprehensive political process.
Peacemaking in Liberia, Nepal, Ireland, and elsewhere confirms the necessity of this approach, given such groups’ key role in shaping and monitoring the content of a political process, with real consequences for those who violate its guarantees of citizens’ rights.
Most European leaders are not as practiced in the art of deception as the Bush administration; they have greater difficulty hiding the numbers from their citizens.
Popular opposition to the Iraq war made it impossible for Mexico and Chile to give into American pressure at the United Nations to endorse the invasion; the citizens of these countries were proven right.
In the US, President Ronald Reagan signed legislation in 1988 apologizing for the internment of more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans during WWII, an overwhelming majority of whom were US citizens.
Beijing and Shanghai are almost overwhelming in their scale and energy, lined with shimmering skyscrapers, adorned with bright neon lights, and teeming with increasingly cosmopolitan citizens.
In a monarchy, a king may have the power to forgive citizens’ crimes virtually without limit.
A week earlier, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported excruciating details of Syria’s humanitarian crisis, including citizens under fire from all sides, sustained government barrel-bomb attacks, and shortages of food and medicine.
It also has obligations to its neighbors, to the world community (not to support terrorism, for example), and to its citizens.
Much has been done to improve security at nuclear facilities in recent years, but governments must do more to protect their citizens from the risks of catastrophic nuclear terrorism.
The most visible concession he was able to obtain in negotiations with the EU’s other 27 member states is an agreement to limit access to social benefits for citizens residing in a country different from their own.
Meanwhile, in the United States, the controversy over government spying on its citizens seems to have died down, mostly because people are now convinced that their government will only look at the really bad guys.
(For comparison, Poland has 35 million citizens and per capita income of $13,000, while Germany has 85 million citizens and per capita income of $41,000.)
This is the case for the EU today, which helps member countries get the most beneficial deals for their own citizens, not at the expense of global partnerships, but in order to establish the best basis for such partnerships.
And European citizens have shown remarkable resilience in the face of major blows to their living standards.
While the EU will not restore trust in all governing institutions overnight, strong action to restore growth, expand opportunity, protect citizens, improve efficiency, and build the economic infrastructure of the future will make it part of the solution, weakening the perception that it is part of the problem.
Meanwhile, citizens wonder why they share this currency, whether it makes sense, and if agreement can be reached on its future.
Either the eurozone’s members find agreement on an agenda of governance and political reforms that will turn the currency union into an engine of prosperity, or they will stumble repeatedly from dispute to crisis, until citizens lose patience or markets lose trust.
When these shifts occur, leadership plays a crucial role, by providing citizens with an alternative vision, based on common values, that all stakeholders can support.
China’s people and government are especially dismayed by the Mekong killings, which seemed to demonstrate, once again, the government’s inability to protect its citizens from being murdered abroad, despite the country’s newfound global status.
Many Chinese were disquieted by their government’s decision to evacuate China’s citizens from Libya, and would have preferred a bolder effort to protect the countries’ commercial assets there.
This is a grave misconception, and also underestimates the gravity of the choices we face as business people and citizens.
Sovereignty was no longer based solely on power, but increasingly on law and respect for the rights of citizens.
This would enable China to continue its ascent toward high-income status, improving the wellbeing of millions of its citizens along the way.
The crisis has not yet manifested itself to most citizens of the West in the appalling, ground-shaking way of 1929.
While some have denounced such bans, many citizens support them.
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