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Finally, the corruption that was endemic in Qaddafi’s regime endures, with ministry officials accepting bribes, for example, in exchange for contracts.
People entering the labor market are increasingly finding only short-term or temporary contracts; often, they are forced to take informal work or emigrate for a job.
Though he vowed “severe punishment” if the Saudis did indeed kill Khashoggi, he refused to countenance canceling military contracts, instead lamenting what their loss would mean for American jobs.
Indeed, for the next five to ten years, Russia will be able to fulfill its gas contracts in Europe only by monopolizing exports of gas to Europe from Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
In 2006 and 2007, Peru’s housing minister used government advertising contracts to tilt coverage of his ministry and himself in national newspapers.
Some officials even require journalists to sign contracts mandating favorable coverage of government activities.
To achieve the second goal – making Mexico a place where modern companies thrive – Mexico needs not only to remove obstacles such as restrictive zoning, which limit the growth of modern stores; it also must improve the overall business environment and ensure that contracts can be enforced.
Another is to leverage connections in order to secure no-bid contracts or to purchase state assets for a pittance.
The bulk of Mexican workers remain employed in “informal” firms – especially firms in which employees are not on salaried contracts – where productivity is a fraction of the level in large, modern firms that are integrated into the world economy.
If implemented properly, the reforms will create a more efficient system for the creation and enforcement of contracts, ease the path for market entrants, and strengthen the application of China’s competition laws.
The value of India’s arms contracts with US firms exceeds that of American military aid to any country except Israel.
We must replace our current system of contracts and conditions of service, which are dysfunctional and demoralizing.
Griesa idiosyncratically reinterpreted the pari passu, or equal treatment, clause in the debt contracts to mean that “vulture” funds refusing to participate in the earlier debt exchange should receive not 30 but 100 cents on the dollar.
Investors could agree to insert language into bond contracts that leaves no room for vulture funds.
Retired people need life annuities – contracts that offer a stable income stream for as long as they live – to insure against the risk of outliving their wealth.
If everyone is affected by longevity risk in the same way, then no matter what the price of a longevity bond, everyone should logically want to be on the same side of the contracts – all buyers at one price, all issuers at another.
For now, the Saudi economy relies heavily on low-wage and low-productivity foreign workers on limited contracts; indeed, such workers hold more than half the jobs in the country.
Only by answering such questions can we determine which values we must protect and preserve in the coming AI age, as we rethink the basic concepts and terms of our social contracts, including the national and international institutions that have allowed inequality and insecurity to proliferate.
Thailand’s Old Boys Club – generals-turned-politicians, political parties backed by tycoons with an eye on fat government contracts, and that unnameable hereditary institution whose only agenda is to maintain its longevity – has misgoverned the country for the past half-century.
Indeed, subsidiaries where managers hold shares through their children and other relatives – say, the huge construction company Stroitransgaz which has billion-dollar contracts with Gazprom – are created regularly and shareholders seem powerless to stop such practices.
In some cases, one can orchestrate a complex network simply with carefully specified contracts.
At the other end of the spectrum, many labor-force participants are on temporary contracts, work for small firms, or are self-employed.
Markets can function only within an institutional and legal framework that includes property rights, enforcement of contracts, quality and information controls, and many other rules to govern transactions.
European universities are generally based on three misguided principles: taxpayers rather than students pay for university education; faculty appointments are governed by public sector contracts and university procedures are often centralized and almost always inflexible; salaries amongst teachers tend to be equalized as well as teaching quality amongst universities.
Also, the private nature of contracts between an American university and its professors creates healthy competition for talent and a flexible and efficient market for scientists.
At the very least, it renders non-viable all debt restructurings under the standard debt contracts.
Once upon a time, such contracts were enforced by armed intervention, as Mexico, Venezuela, Egypt, and a host of other countries learned at great cost in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Countries would be well advised not to include pari passu clauses in future debt contracts, at least without specifying more fully what is intended.
Such contracts should also include collective-action clauses, which make it impossible for vulture funds to hold up debt restructuring.
They employ fighting men of their own, to be sure, but the black-suited men come from a world of contracts, treaties, and big government.
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