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With the rentier systems that governments have maintained for decades now at a breaking point, policymakers must begin the difficult, but not impossible, process of establishing new social contracts.
The first wave of Arab uprisings, which began in December 2010 and led to the 2011 Arab Spring, was a response to the breakdown of the old social contracts.
On September 2, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported on recent negotiations between the embattled Qaddafi regime and Chinese armaments companies with direct ties to China’s government for contracts worth $200 million.
Such contracts were in flagrant violation of the arms embargo instituted under UN Security Council Resolution 1970, which China approved.
But the law would make surrogacy contracts legally binding, requiring the mother to give up the baby even if she changes her mind.
For example, investors holding derivatives and repo contracts with a weakened financial institution can grab the firm’s assets ahead of – and at the expense of – its regular creditors, possibly sealing its fate, when, with a little extra time, the firm might have survived.
After all, such debts are contracts – that is, voluntary agreements – so creditors are just as responsible for them as debtors.
The very low interest rates that now prevail have driven investors to take excessive risks in order to achieve a higher current yield on their portfolios, often to meet return obligations set by pension and insurance contracts.
One sign of this is the hard bargain that President Xi Jinping struck in negotiating China’s recent huge gas contracts with Russia; another is that Chinese lending to Russia since the invasion of Crimea has actually declined.
In most countries, reforms have included extending the scope for temporary contracts.
Economically, easier recourse to temporary contracts gives firms more flexibility in adjusting to changing market conditions.
Firms are typically reluctant to keep workers on when their temporary contracts end, as this would imply giving them high employment protection.
Efficient production requires a division of labor among those who know about technology, marketing, finance, logistics, human-resource management, contracts, regulations, distribution, customer service, and much else.
More than a few eyebrows were raised after the ECB’s January Governing Council meeting, when Trichet threatened that the Bank would act “preemptively” if labor unions tried to embed higher energy and food prices into new contracts, risking a wage-price spiral.
Labor unions have long pointed with satisfaction at hard-won contracts that specified a defined-benefit pension for their members.
But this approach is hardly progressive, as the final holders of pensions, insurance contracts, and bank deposits are typically the beleaguered middle class and the elderly.
It is not in Hariri’s best interests, either; after all, such a conflict would deny his family’s construction companies the opportunity to win lavish contracts for rebuilding Syria.
Uncertainty about government contracts and various kinds of payments can have a broad impact on the economy.
The third change would eliminate a perverse rule, by which parties to CDM contracts can liquidate forests to buy replacement credits.
A second strategy for curbing the buildup of debt could be to introduce mortgage contracts that enable more risk sharing between borrowers and lenders, essentially acting as debt/equity hybrids.
In fact, according to the OECD’s indicators of employment protection, German and Dutch workers under permanent contracts enjoy even greater security than French workers do.
(Where the French system seems especially restrictive is with respect to temporary contracts.)
Towards the end of the 1990's, the large EU countries encouraged employment of less qualified workers through temporary work contracts.
In the case of large-scale projects, some host countries are raising questions about the contracts that define their relationship with TNC’s, and governments are reviewing such contracts because they believe (rightly or wrongly) that they did not get a fair deal.
The second group comprises listed companies whose depressed turnover jeopardizes their already diminished share value and their standing with banks, suppliers, and potential customers (all of which are reluctant to sign long-term contracts with an underperforming company).
It also requires the courage to step out of the world of pragmatic power and defend -- non-violently -- truth and justice wherever they are violated, whether or not profitable commercial contracts are placed at risk.
When Mubarak became president in 1981, parliament granted him the right to control all military contracts without legislative oversight.
Hedge funds and other “non-commercial” speculators have increased their long positions to an all-time high of 555,000 of the main oil contracts traded on the New York futures market, compared to the previous record of 548,000 contracts, set just before the oil price peaked at $120 in June 2014.
Will Morales renegotiate the laws and contracts governing Bolivia’s vast natural gas reserves, as his government is rightly committed to do, in a way that does not scare away urgently needed foreign investment?
Specifically, a variety of social contracts – for example, health-care and pension entitlements, as well as unemployment benefits – will come under greater strain.
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