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France is thought to have particularly cumbersome labor laws.
The best option is to better educate the unskilled, but this is a cumbersome, time-consuming process that offers no short-term solution.
As he put it in 1997, “As we move into a new century, the market-stabilizing private regulatory forces should gradually displace many cumbersome, increasingly ineffective government structures.”
Yet their solution – to reduce the role of the state and allow market forces to take over – is actually what fuels cumbersome bureaucratic expansion.
Among the obstacles to the growth of small firms are labor market regulations, the power of the trade unions, competition laws, a cumbersome bureaucracy, and last, but not least, an imperfect capital market.
Perhaps the single most effective contribution would be to establish less cumbersome means for asylum-seekers to reach safety.
The second imperative for boosting growth is the removal of excessively cumbersome government regulations.
Moreover, the overriding importance of personal networks helps to maintain – or even increases – socio-economic inequality and hinders inclusive growth, as do weak intellectual-property laws and cumbersome bureaucracies.
Each country would be forced back into a cumbersome system of sovereign states struggling for supremacy and constantly checking one another’s ambitions.
But democratic governments fear that these processes are too cumbersome, and would undercut the flexibility of the “multi-stakeholder” approach, which stresses the involvement of the private and non-profit sectors, as well as governments.
But this implies a complex and cumbersome approval process and the provision of high-quality collateral.
Given the divergent interests and problems facing different countries within the eurozone and the EU, together with cumbersome governance structures and the difficulty of treaty changes, this is the path of least resistance for elected leaders – and thus the one most likely to be followed.
But, as peripheral Europe can now attest, this is a cumbersome, painful, and politically unpopular form of economic adjustment.
But the global development community has been slower to benefit – not least because too much development data are still being collected using cumbersome approaches that lag behind today’s technological capabilities.
France’s full engagement will increase the pace of reform in NATO and make the alliance a tool better adapted to twenty-first-century crises by paring down its cumbersome bureaucracy.
Energy debates in the US, Australia, and other countries have centered so far on introducing a cumbersome cap-and-trade permit system.
Relying on the state’s most cumbersome institutions alone is not an effective strategy for protecting free speech on today’s digital communication networks.
Initially, the Germans and the French negotiated trilaterally, with the UK, in meetings that were slow, cumbersome, and unproductive.
Moreover, Putin’s policy of “de-offshoring” has imposed such cumbersome controls on the business leaders of the 1990s that most have sold off their assets in Russia and decamped to London or Monaco.
Any attempt by the United Kingdom to repatriate powers to Westminster is likely to be a drawn-out and cumbersome negotiation.
Lawsuits are apparently increasingly common, but they are notoriously cumbersome, and judges are not independent from factory bosses.
It holds out better prospects for success than the cumbersome United Nations negotiations.
Reducing inequality will require long-term, comprehensive solutions, such as fiscal-policy reforms that reward public investment in health and education without adding disincentives to an already cumbersome tax code.
G-20 summits are more cumbersome as a result, but that simply reflects the reality of the ongoing shift in economic power from West to East.
What makes the entrance negotiation invariably cumbersome and protracted, is the immense adaptation that new members must make to become truly integrated in the supranational body of laws and decision-procedures which are the essence of the EU.
But, if Morocco continues to engage in such activities, we will ensure that its efforts are as costly and cumbersome as possible, both for private companies and state actors.
India barely reformed its cumbersome trade and industrial regime before its economy took off in the 1980s.
But not all of the slowdown in productivity growth can be attributed to the cumbersome transition to a new technological era.
An argument is made, of course, that these hurdles mean nothing in practice: if obstacles to operating in the formal economy are too cumbersome, businesses simply go underground.
The main drawback of the consensus-building process is that it is slow and cumbersome, and there is a danger is that the Chinese leadership will not move fast enough to counteract the sudden drop in the global economy.
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