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But if Africa’s gender gap is ever to be closed, the unique obstacles that African women confront must become part of the global dialogue.
Second, OECD countries should keep their markets open, and open those that are closed – in agriculture (crucial to the sustained growth of emerging economies like Argentina, Brazil, and Indonesia) or in services (crucial for countries like India or Korea).
The loss of biodiversity has already closed promising new avenues of medical research.
The former is arguably the most closed, tyrannical, and militarized society in the world, with a long record of irresponsible exports of dangerous technologies.
Even in Japan, which has largely closed its borders to migrants, the need to find ways to cope with rapid population aging has lately been stimulating discussion of the issue.
At least one hundred older and smaller reactors will most likely be closed over the next 10-15 years.
The government has identified and closed a few of these Ponzi schemes.
Labor and many product markets remain closed, despite the urgent need to increase competition, lower production costs, and raise productivity.
For example, the Philippines is revamping its security strategy by enhancing cooperation with the United States – China’s counterweight in the region – only two decades after it closed two major American military installations, the naval base at Subic Bay and Clark Air Base.
By the time the exchange closed at 7:00 GMT that Tuesday, the Shanghai Composite Index had fallen 8.8% for the day – the biggest one-day fall in China in ten years.
In Singapore, the Straits Times Index was down 2.3% when the market closed.
In Sao Paolo, the Bovespa index was down by 6.6%, and in New York the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down by 3.3%, when those markets closed at 21:00 GMT.
Philosophy, which could teach them about the limits of the economic method, is a closed book.
But it will clearly be more dangerous for the regime if it does nothing than if it starts to open up what is now a closed and rotting system.
And the egregious loopholes in the global corporate-tax system should be closed, thereby boosting global corporate taxation by some $200 billion annually, if not more.
Until recently, politicians made most important decisions behind closed doors, surrounded by teams of expert advisers.
All critical decisions were taken well ahead of the Congress, behind closed doors, with very little input from outsiders.
One source, according to Bergson, is tribal and leads to a closed society whose members feel affinity for each other but fear or hostility towards others.
In response, armed groups seized checkpoints and closed the port of Aden.
Hundreds of factories have closed, driving up the unemployment rate to nearly 30%.
also was closed down, leaving one million registered users homeless.
Likewise, for a relatively large and closed economic system such as Europe, a weak euro provides moderate positive effects on growth and some moderate negative effects in terms of threatening inflation.
Unfortunately, not all are equally interested in open borders and close cooperation: Turkmenistan stands aside and Uzbekistan’s borders remain substantially closed.
But applying the static, linear, and closed analyses of conventional macroeconomics to open, non-linear, dynamic, and interconnected systems is bound to yield flawed results.
That system ended on August 15, 1971 when President Nixon, as part of a package of economic changes including wage and price ceilings, "closed the gold window," ie, he ended the commitment that the US had undertaken at Bretton Woods to buy and sell gold at $35 an ounce.
For starters, the gaps in existing health systems must be closed, so that all people have access to services for preventing, diagnosing, and treating TB.
Research demonstrates that gender quota legislation is more effective in ensuring the election of women when a closed party list voting system is used.
When combined with adequate enforcement of the quota legislation, closed lists guarantee a minimum level of women’s representation across all parties and districts.
For example, in Argentina, Costa Rica, and Mexico (where a closed list, placement mandates, and strict compliance are in force), there is an assurance that if a party wins three seats in a district, a women will occupy at least one of the seats.
But if these countries replace their open lists with closed lists, the percentage of women elected should, all else remaining equal, increase by around 10%.
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