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In fact, the eurozone will contract in the first half of next year – and probably in the second half, because of the deficit-cutting policies now being pursued – placing further pressure on banks and sovereigns.
For example, registering property in Greece is more difficult than in Djibouti; enforcing a contract in Italy takes roughly three times as long as it does in Vietnam; and starting a business in Spain takes roughly 3.5 times longer than in Azerbaijan.
But for people who are 50 or older, the termination of a work contract all too often leads to prolonged joblessness.
But the employers also quickly learned that the best kind of employment contract is one that offers employee not just a fixed contract, but also the possibility of a bonus, a sort of gift for good performance that is outside of any contract provisions.
Thus, a sort of free gift exchange between employer and employee emerged from these experiments, not any rigid or formulaic employment contract.
What is needed now are new social and regulatory policies, often global in nature, that embody a new social contract for the twenty-first century.
But none of this was enough to restore the confidence of international investors, who were not convinced that the government could service its debt in the face of mounting social resistance and an economy that continued to contract.
Like other respiratory infections, SARS may be easier to contract, more severe, or both, during winter.
The same month, however, one of China’s largest oil companies concluded a drilling contract with Norway’s Statoil, clearly signaling that diplomatic tensions would not stop business.
Rather, they simply refused to renew his contract when it expired.
Traditionally, contract manufacturers in China are scattered and fiercely competitive.
In Germany the highest court decided that to the use of a contract, or the formation of associations on the basis of contract, for the purpose of eliminating competition was compatible with the law, it was compatible with the freedom to compete.
Although projecting concrete figures is a sterile exercise in these worrisome times, most analysts predict that Colombia’s economic performance this year will be inferior to Peru’s, but similar to Chile’s and Brazil’s and better than that of Argentina, Venezuela, and Mexico, a country expected to contract by more than 2%.
That contract in Arab countries started to erode at the turn of the century, when governments with inflated budgets and bloated bureaucracies could no longer provide an adequate supply of basic services such as health care and education, create a sufficient number of jobs, or sustain food and fuel subsidies.
But, despite diminished state benefits, most leaders have continued to insist that their countries’ people uphold their end of the contract by not participating meaningfully in public life.
In today’s perfect storm of declining oil prices and closed political systems, a new wave of protest could well emerge, particularly where governments have not recognized that the end of rentierism marks the end of the old social contract.
Tunisia is the one country where a new social contract has begun to replace rentierism.
How can women's rights be universal when, in some societies, marriage is seen not as a contract between two individuals but as an alliance between lineages, and when the permissible behavior of women is central to a society's perception of familial honor?
Dependence on aid undermines the implicit contract between citizens and their government, according to which politicians must keep taxpayers satisfied in order to stay in office.
Indeed, one reason for this is that, on the opening day of the Russia-EU Summit in Yekaterinburg on June 4, Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed that his country will honor its contract with Syria to deliver S-300 surface-to-air missiles.
And those running for public office under the M5S banner must sign a contract promising to pay fines if they violate party principles.
Instead, the US needs to restore its social contract so that its workers have a fair shot at sharing in the gains generated by global openness and automation.
This is why a strong social contract was established during the post-war period of liberalization in the West.
Over the last two decades, this situation has changed dramatically: globalization has continued, but the social contract has been torn up.
The Portuguese economy is now expected to contract by 1% in 2013.
And, without that, all it has is a recession strategy that makes austerity and reform self-defeating, because, if output continues to contract, deficit and debt ratios will continue to rise to unsustainable levels.
The most important steps they can take to foster renminbi internationalization are to strengthen domestic financial markets, modernize regulation, and streamline contract enforcement.
The multiplication of assassinations of political opponents and economic rivals, the mafia practice of contract murders, cannot be seen as signs of a regained stability.
At the same time, Europe seems incapable of upholding the social contract that underpinned its post-war economic boom.
While the government made signing up to Aadhaar voluntary, it is effectively mandatory for anyone who needs to access government services, open a bank account, or obtain a mobile phone contract.
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