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He repeatedly spoke of building a robust civil society, arguing that political parties will degenerate into sects if they are closed to influence from below.
Privatization, opening up closed markets and professions, promoting entrepreneurship, and eliminating public-sector waste should proceed at a fast pace over the next few months.
According to tripartite agreements between the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, four of the largest camps in Pakistan are to be closed and all Afghans living there repatriated.
One camp – Katcha Ghari is already closed and in 2008, only the biggest of the remaining camps – Jalozai, which once had 110,000 inhabitants – would be closed.
Citizens and countries alike become “ungovernable” when they see themselves as passive instruments of decisions taken by a closed elite that rules by transforming them into a mute “mass”.
Instead, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act closed off American markets and provoked other countries into a spiral of retaliatory trade measures.
That same year he sat next to East Germany’s leader Erich Honecker in Helsinki while signing the “Final Act” of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe – a major breakthrough for détente policy and in opening the closed societies of the USSR and Warsaw Pact.
Fourth, the combination of a dollar squeeze and protectionism spells big trouble for developing countries, with the possible exception of some relatively closed economies such as Brazil, Russia, and India, whose development strategies are less reliant on free trade and foreign financing.
Even in the Stalin era – when the economy was much more closed than in Czarist times – industrialization required the import of Western capital and knowhow.
Today, factories have to be closed down all over, because usually there are too many in the same branch, and specialization is too limited.
A window of opportunity opened at the beginning of Bush’s first term, and closed shut after the terrorist attacks of September 2001.
Today, it is clear that fundamentalists and their supporters are completely closed off to even the most elaborate theological refutation of their views, even when produced by distinguished religious authorities.
After the Soviet Union gained sovereignty over the enclave in 1946 it was closed to the outside world till 1989.
If Africa’s employment gap is to be closed, agribusinesses must find ways to recruit younger hands.
Like Hungary, post-communist Romania has struggled to increase transparency and honesty in what was once one of the world’s most closed societies.
Furthermore, it seems likely that many of the short-term effects of the demonetization could persist – and intensify – in the longer term, with closed businesses unable to reopen.
For fear of catching the disease, schools were closed, with students and teachers staying at home.
While Brazil’s income gap has closed slightly since then – as has Mexico’s and Thailand’s – South Africa’s has not.
As in the past, the top EU jobs will be distributed as part of a package deal, negotiated behind closed doors by the member states’ national leaders.
The European Union is neither closed nor static; it is a living organism.
That 25-percentage-point gap could be closed by making mobile banking and digital wallets a reality.
But a gender gap will also have to be closed: worldwide, about 200 million fewer women than men have mobile phones or Internet access.
In this national crisis, Mexico’s people have closed ranks, collaborated, and showed that they are capable of working together to achieve common goals in the public interest.
In order to survive, the world’s most centralized and closed economy will have to open up.
With the border closed under Israeli blockade for more than two years, levels of poverty, unemployment, and despair have grown, with young men increasingly interested in joining the global jihad as it comes to Gaza.
Under that order, the rest of the world has closed much of the vast technological, educational, and infrastructural gap with the US.
With policymaking fully nontransparent and reduced to a very closed circle, and implementation delegated to an unaccountable bureaucracy, the inevitable result of Putin’s political model was pervasive corruption.
That is why closed societies monitor their citizens’ sexual lives.
For this reason, closed and closing societies have always feared sexual liberationists, and have sought to link political dissidence with sexual anarchy.
For all the dire warnings that the window for a two-state solution is rapidly closing (or has already closed), it is the solution itself that is the problem.
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