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Since at least 2003, South Africa has regularly ranked in the top five African recipients of outward
direct
investment from China, with Chinese ODI continuing to rise, even as South Africa’s economic growth has declined.
Such a move would put Ukraine’s strategic network of gas pipelines under
direct
Russian control, and, as Tymoshenko, now the opposition leader, has noted, would be tantamount to the “full absorption of Ukraine by Russia.”
If politicians in Western democracies continue to promote policies that erode the boundaries of the nation-state, they will be voted out of office by working- and middle-class citizens who are in
direct
competition with low-skilled workers in the developing world.
By this approach, his finding that wealth grew faster than incomes makes perfect sense – it is a
direct
consequence of falling interest rates.
One key to this rebound was that, in contrast to the 1930s, the global economy maintained existing conditions: trade barriers remained low, as did restrictions on foreign
direct
investment, and cross-border exchange continued to spread with the Internet.
Foreign
direct
investment.
Nowadays, the country's communist leaders acted as if they believed that disclosing SARS would risk tarnishing China's "economic miracle" and driving away foreign
direct
investment--some $50 billion last year, or 80% of all FDI made in Asia.
Even as China’s leaders seek to deepen ties with a variety of countries, including the US, American policymakers view South Korea’s pursuit of closer ties with China as a
direct
threat to their country’s regional primacy.
Handing power back to the masses through
direct
democracy may well be these parties’ most revolutionary proposition.
Diplomacy is win-win;
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democracy is zero-sum.
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votes on issues like trade rules or immigration policy will gut Europe’s representative democracy, just as
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votes on membership threaten to gut the EU itself.
India has a strong relationship with Iran, underpinned by long-standing cultural, social, political, and economic ties, with India now funding an overhaul of the Iranian port of Chabahar, which will give it
direct
access to Afghanistan.
An isolationist Trump administration may see the wide oceans to its east and west, and think that increasingly ambitious powers such as Russia, China, and Iran pose no
direct
threat to the homeland.
To its credit, the British electoral system at least establishes a more or less
direct
relationship between MPs and the people who vote for them.
Furthermore, attracting more
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investment is crucial, given that capital inflows, while recovering, remain 30% below their pre-crisis level; with outflows exceeding inflows, Italy has become a net capital exporter.
Rather, North Korea’s aim was to postpone the six-party talks as long as possible in order to force
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bilateral negotiations with the US, in which it would presumably extract energy assistance and other aid while demanding a security guarantee for “Dear Leader” Kim Jong-il.
Campaign contributions and lobbying that lead to rapid privatizations of utilities – before appropriate regulatory frameworks are in place, and in a manner that produces only a few bidders – can impede development, even without
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kickbacks to government officials.
Withdrawing from the War on DrugsGENEVA –Switzerland’s
direct
democracy allows citizens who have gathered enough petition signatures to challenge government policies and laws in nationwide referenda.
Health professionals took the lead in a campaign to press the government – through the mechanisms of
direct
democracy – to shift its focus from arresting and punishing drug users toward public-health policies that are based on scientific evidence of what works.
Direct
democracy will not reestablish people's confidence in their political representatives.
Brunner subsequently denied the
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link and dissociated himself from public claims that his group had identified a ‘gene for aggression’.
The authors, primarily a French group headed by Olivier Cases, described mouse pups showing “trembling, difficulty in righting, and fearfulness...frantic running and falling over..(disturbed) sleep...propensity to bite the experimenter...hunched posture...”Of all these features of disturbed development the authors chose only to highlight aggression in their paper’s title, and to conclude their account by claiming that these results “support the idea that the particularly aggressive behavior of the few known human males lacking MAOA ...is a more
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consequence of MAO deficiency.”
The only way to test these hypotheses is via
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US-Iran dialogue.
France Goes to HollandePARIS – France has now conducted its ninth presidential election under
direct
universal suffrage.
This is plausible, since neighbors are the biggest
direct
losers when instability spills across borders.
By placing purchasing power in the hands of those who need it most,
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monetary financing of public spending would also help to improve inclusiveness in economies where inequality is rising fast.
Such horror is the
direct
result of the systematic manner in which the Pakistani military establishment has reared jihadist militants since the 1980s as an instrument of state policy against India and Afghanistan.
A direct, unqualified assertion about the benefits of free trade has now been transformed into a statement adorned by all kinds of ifs and buts.
The talks will be direct, will follow a brief and precise thematic agenda, and will be conducted within a defined time horizon.
The US, meanwhile, should end
direct
military strikes in the area, even if these are conducted with the knowledge and cooperation of Pakistan’s military.
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