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In the process, we may understand that we vote because that is what citizens ought to do, and we excel at our jobs because we strive for respect and self-realization, not just a raise.
Yet the two countries share similar national development goals:increasing their citizens’ prosperity, narrowing social inequities, and addressing environmental sustainability.
Though they may not be perfect – and, unfortunately, the countries that ratify them do not always achieve the targets – they have led to the creation of institutional processes that encourage countries to meet their promises and embolden citizens to hold governments accountable.
India’s democracy imposes no narrow conformities on its citizens.
In all countries with comparable data, adults with lower literacy skills are far more likely to report poor health, have less trust in their fellow citizens, and perceive themselves as objects – rather than actors – in the political process.
Before investing hundreds of billions of dollars more in failing military operations, the Obama administration should re-think its policy and lay out a viable strategy to US citizens and the world.
We have to define the sustainability of growth in ways that create an attractive narrative for our citizens.
Despite these straightforward declarations of regret, some governments and citizens continue to demand more, giving the impression that nothing a Japanese leader says or does will convince them of the country’s remorse.
Against this background, it is perhaps unsurprising that Hamas managed to compel most Israelis living in areas adjacent to Gaza to flee, with many Israelis accusing their government of failing to protect its citizens adequately.
The people inhabiting these enclaves are theoretically Indian citizens, but they lack the rights and privileges that their counterparts elsewhere in India enjoy.
Otherwise, they will become citizens of Bangladesh.
For 20 years, I have been wrong: West European polities have remained stable despite the exclusion of a large proportion of citizens from meaningful participation in much of economic life.
Rather than accept a more pluralistic political regime, both the Colorados and Liberals flagrantly disregarded their responsibilities as democratically elected representatives, and are gambling with Paraguay’s economic and political stability at the expense of its citizens.
Its history has seen many coups, tens of thousands of people missing, a war with Great Britain, bouts of hyperinflation, a brutal economic crisis, default on foreign debt, and its most vulnerable citizens going hungry.
This is why the result of the Danish referendum should be taken as a warning that great efforts must be made to convince Europe’s citizens of the Euro’s political importance – and of the importance of enlarging the Union.
He has enlisted an unprecedented 15,000 volunteers (mostly young) and has raised – again unprecedented for Russia – $1.5 million dollars from 8,000 Russian citizens to finance his campaign.
Thus, Navalny’s growing support in Moscow is good news not only for Russian citizens, but also for those who invest in Russia.
The Kenyan authorities, eager to please the US, were tempted to hand over Kenyan citizens on the slightest encouragement.
Examples of this new approach include technology companies such as Omada Health, which delivers customized online health coaching at home for people at risk of diabetes; social enterprises, such as the Grameen Bank, which is building low-cost primary care systems on the back of its microlending networks; and the One Million Community Health Worker Campaign, which teaches ordinary citizens how to provide care in their own communities, based on lessons learned from similar models in Ethiopia, Rwanda, and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Not surprisingly, those who viewed themselves as national citizens greatly outnumbered those who regarded themselves as world citizens.
Five years after the uprisings erupted, Arab citizens have little – in some cases, even less – voice in running their countries’ affairs.
Consider the uprisings in Europe in 1848, in which citizens protested against authoritarian, feudal systems and the lack of economic opportunity.
A similar process is unfolding gradually in the Arab world, with citizens (especially young people) who lack trust in their governments seeking alternative sources of information and new ways to survive economically.
Other countries in the region will have to follow suit and reform their economic systems, or face the wrath of their increasingly disgruntled citizens.
These elements are vital to enable countries to offer their citizens an adequate quality of life.
A vast majority of Pakistan’s citizens deeply resent America’s presence and influence in their country.
That means that it must not sacrifice its citizens’ interests to those of the French agricultural lobbies or to the Commission’s financing needs.
Today’s eurozone is beset by an unprecedented degree of rejection – on economic, financial, political, and social grounds – by citizens in a growing number of countries.
The nation-state, the classic provider of security and basic wellbeing in exchange for citizens’ loyalty, is under threat – both at home and as the fundamental unit of international affairs.
And, in much of the West, states adhere to models of welfare provision that increasingly disappoint their citizens and are often unaffordable.
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