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They establish “reservations wages” or minimum wage demands against the private economy that employers are increasingly unwilling or unable to satisfy.
When governments pay people while they work, rather than for them not to work, as is the case today, welfare benefits imply no minimum wage demands.
Free and fair presidential and parliamentary elections have brought to power leaders who, by implementing radical reforms, are determined to realize voters’ demands for a modern economy and an end to corruption.
In America in the 1990's, the Clinton Administration fought demands by Republicans for a balanced budget amendment to the US constitution.
The premise of the green economic agenda is that we have reached the ecological limits of our current growth model, and that we will need to find ways of living that reduce demands on non-renewable sources of energy.
Personally, I cannot shake off the intuition that minds and sensibilities shaped by aesthetics, by their identification with fictions, by their enchantment with the past, may be inhibited from any active, concrete involvement in the anguish and demands of the present.
Renegotiating the treaty is out of the question, since doing so would open a Pandora’s Box of demands from everybody else.
This approach demands much higher capital buffers for banks.
Rather than going along with the new 8% reserve requirement adopted elsewhere, the SNB now demands equity capital equal to 19% of risk-weighted assets, of which 9% can be held in convertible capital, while 10% must be held in common equity.
The economists’ commonplace that a monetary union demands a fiscal union is only part of a much deeper truth about debt and obligation: debt is rarely sustainable if there is not some sense of communal or collective responsibility.
They are finding themselves forced to shift their own rhetoric and attitude in order to dampen their defense of policies viewed as pro-American or US-inspired, and to stiffen their resistance to Washington's demands and desires.
In many cases, American demands and desires are contrary to Latin interests, and should be resisted.
By so doing, Bush's team left America's friends in Latin America - no less than in Europe and elsewhere - in a hapless situation: rightly unable and unwilling to support the US march of folly, and understandably reluctant to poison hemispheric relations in general with the type of strident criticism that local public opinion demands.
The current regime in Syria, in its ruthless quest to remain in power, refuses to acknowledge peaceful protesters' demands for freedom and dignity.
If it did - and if it met those demands - Islamists would not be able to hijack the demonstrations.
But, with Japan’s political system mired in a protracted transition under a dysfunctional two-party regime, recent governments have been unstable and weak, unable to satisfy either side’s demands.
Made in China 2025 demands a similar response.
But, with the Kim regime terrified that economic liberalization would eventually provoke demands for greater political freedom, China’s influence over the regime is limited.
Reconciling these actors’ conflicting interests and demands concerning the full range of relevant issues would have been next to impossible.
Initial reactions to North Korea’s nuclear test were uniformly critical, culminating (thus far) in UN Security Council Resolution 1718, which condemns the test, demands that North Korea resume full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, and imposes a range of military, political, and economic sanctions.
Fifth, macroeconomic stability demands policy flexibility.
Sixth, the impact of technological change on inequality demands special attention.
The urgency of this situation demands that the bilateral relationship move beyond narrow discussions of Turkey’s accession to the EU.
Delaying a final solution in this way would provide time to verify Kosovo’s prospects of joining the EU and thus eventually sharing “sovereign authority” with other independent states, which could deflate Kosovars’ dangerously robust nationalistic demands.
A challenge of this scale and depth demands an unprecedented level of cooperation – between countries, between political parties, and between government, business, and citizens.
With the Obama administration focused on Afghanistan and Iran, the Kremlin hopes that a West in need of its cooperation will acquiesce in its demands.
The Japan Syndrome Comes to ChinaNEW YORK – China is now experiencing what Japan went through a generation ago: a marked slowdown in economic growth after demands by the United States that it restrict its exports.
This has become all the more true with figures like Trump actively working against its efforts and espousing deregulation at a time when the level of global economic interconnectedness demands just the opposite.
Specifically, it demands sovereign-debt mutualization through Eurobonds, and thus the elimination of eurozone countries’ fiscal sovereignty, and a full-fledged banking union with recapitalization authority and shared deposit insurance – a far cry from the arrangement that has been agreed.
It is a great pity that formal negotiations with Iran have been stalled since 2005 amid Western demands that Iran suspend all of its enrichment-related activities.
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