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If Putin has similar designs, he would begin with Crimea’s annexation – now seemingly a done deal – followed by a
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military presence in eastern Ukraine (where Russian troops are massing at the border), and possibly some kind of partition in the longer term.
The Lee family has less than 5%
direct
ownership of Samsung Electronics, but holds a 31.1% stake in Samsung C&T, the group’s de facto holding company, which owns a 4.3% stake in Samsung Electronics and a 19.3% stake in Samsung Life Insurance.
His government then illegally annexed Crimea and is fighting an increasingly brutal guerrilla war in eastern Ukraine, through proxies and, it now appears,
direct
engagement of Russian forces.
JERUSALEM – The imminent resumption in Washington of
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Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is good news.
Meanwhile, a prolonged and excessive reliance on monetary policy, including
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central-bank involvement in market activities, has distorted asset prices and contributed to resource misallocation.
Many developing countries have made progress since the 1990’s in shifting from dollar-denominated debt toward foreign
direct
investment and other types of capital inflows, or in paying down their liabilities altogether.
In Arizona, citizens can, by gathering a sufficient number of signatures, put a proposed law to a
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popular vote.
In recent years, shrewd creditor lawyers have argued that investment treaties give bondholders the same rights as foreign
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investors, and have smuggled sovereign-debt cases into international arbitration proceedings wherever they have found investment treaties with broad, open-ended definitions.
Moreover, many of the treaties provide investors with
direct
access to arbitration.
That said, India has relied much less on foreign
direct
investment than China, and has even exported FDI to OECD countries.
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spending on private contractors’ services now consumes roughly 70% of the annual US intelligence budget (estimated at around $70 billion).
Russia viewed the plan – which President Barack Obama went through with last year – as a
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threat, and a sign that calls for closer ties should be regarded with caution.
The problems facing the country were not the result of politicians acting in bad faith or of an ill-informed or ignorant citizenry; they were a
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consequence of an ill-suited political structure.
In addition to the
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economic losses, because the pigs were no longer available to consume much of the garbage produced in Cairo, the numbers of rodents rose to fearsome levels.
The announcement comes less than a month before the ECB takes over
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supervision of some 130 banks, representing more than 80% of eurozone bank assets, leaving only smaller national banks under the jurisdiction of local supervisory agencies.
If the ECB is the eurozone’s lender of last resort, Europe’s leaders agreed, it must have
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knowledge of its potential clients’ balance sheets.
India has invested $150 million in a gas exploration deal off the Arakan coast of Myanmar, and India’s state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation and Gas Authority of India Ltd. have taken a 30% stake in two offshore gas fields in
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competition with PetroChina, which has also been given a stake.
The movement’s members thus viewed the debate over cram schools as a
direct
challenge to their influence.
Another possibility would be to establish a multilateral mechanism for financing the
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legal empowerment of citizens worldwide.
The Asian centers are catching up, as one would expect, but they are hardly
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competitors for business that would otherwise be done in London.
Equally important, unlike other East Asian economies during their early take-off stages, the expansion of China’s export sector in the last decade has not been closely linked to the development of its domestic non-trade sector, because the expansion has been fueled mainly by foreign
direct
investment (FDI).
And why, despite international pressure and domestic desire, did he not appoint a successor to the ailing Crown Prince Sultan, for the tradition of the Saudi kings is to have not only the
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but the second in line to the throne known?
Other
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investments were also stopped by Congress on the pretext of national security.
Although such threats are outside of scientists’
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control, improved communication with political leaders and the public could help to reduce misinformation and bolster confidence in science.
United Nations data show that India’s stock of foreign
direct
investment (FDI) was equivalent to just 11.8% of its GDP from 2010 to 2012 – far lower than the developing-economy average of roughly 30%.
The government would “do away with the distinction between different types of foreign investments, especially between foreign portfolio investments and foreign
direct
investments, and replace them with composite caps."
Foreign
direct
investment, on the other hand, is far more stable and driven by domestic fundamentals.
The deal with the vulture funds was supposed to reduce the cost of financing and boost investor confidence, thereby attracting inflows of foreign
direct
investment (FDI).
But this created a gap in the government’s balance sheet between
direct
payments and the savings from the cut in subsidies.
Demands for reform are now focused on introducing
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presidential elections with two or more contenders, and limiting presidents to two consecutive terms in office.
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