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Some activists and government officials get the relationship between strong IP protection and economic growth backwards, claiming that IP rights are an obstacle to development, and thus should not be enforced until after countries achieve high-income status.
To achieve the second goal – making Mexico a place where modern companies thrive – Mexico needs not only to remove obstacles such as restrictive zoning, which limit the growth of modern stores; it also must improve the overall business environment and ensure that contracts can be enforced.
And, in the past, assistance has been accompanied by extensive “conditions,” some of which enforced contractionary monetary and fiscal policies – just the opposite of what is needed now – and imposed financial deregulation, which was among the root causes of the crisis.
The only thing they would like less are obligations whose terms were enforced by courts as easy to manipulate as Argentina’s.
Rules do exist, but they need to be clearer and more specific, effectively enforced, and implemented across national borders.
Once upon a time, such contracts were enforced by armed intervention, as Mexico, Venezuela, Egypt, and a host of other countries learned at great cost in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Trump’s tax and spending plans will sharply reverse the budget consolidation enforced by Congress on Barack Obama’s administration, and household borrowing will expand dramatically if Trump fulfills his promise to reverse the bank regulations imposed after the 2008 financial crisis.
Improved environmental policies mean that most of today’s forests are still standing and no-fishing zones are widely established and enforced.
In its present form, this document recapitulates all kinds of rights which EU citizens already enjoy under existing laws; it is not intended to confer any new rights, and it cannot be enforced in the European Court of Justice.
By contrast, the Treaty of Versailles, too harsh to be honored and too weak to be enforced, paved the way for World War II.
In the 1970s, for example, Czechoslovakia, like other Communist states, was a dreary, oppressive, joyless place, where mediocre party hacks set the tone, and creativity was stifled under a blanket of enforced conformism.
If budget targets were strictly enforced by bailout monitors, which seems unlikely, this improvement in conditions for private borrowers could easily compensate for any modest tightening of fiscal policy.
It is not the only one: the rule of law, enforced by an independent judiciary, and competitive elections held at regular intervals are no less important.
Unlike formal rules, such as laws, these informal strictures do not need to be enforced because in principle, in every democracy (including illiberal ones), politicians only do what people allow them to do.
But without the rule of law, businesses lose confidence that contracts and private-property rights will be enforced or independently arbitrated, and the economy cannot sustain strong long-term growth.
The international legal gold standard is a treaty, a binding document that can be enforced by courts and arbitration tribunals.
Instead of accepting that “love” cannot be enforced and must be won, Hong Kong’s over-zealous “patriots” cannot wait to show their loyalty by trying to mandate primitive propaganda.
Many recall the dark days when American society enforced racial segregation.
A key contributor to this technological transformation was a mandatory EU technical standard enforced in 1987.
When it was over, America established and enforced a century-long system of apartheid.
Laws exist to protect children from hazardous conditions in many occupations, but they are seldom enforced.
Both states and markets work well only when adequately enforced legal rules provide the necessary certainty.
The code of conduct on the field – where we expect players to give their all under clear rules that are swiftly enforced by independent referees – is fundamentally the same as what we expect from governing bodies off the field.
The Stability Pact is too crude and technocratic: a 3% deficit target enforced by Brussels bureaucrats cannot bind real-life politicians.
While states once enforced their rights at the expense of others, they now transfer their rights in favor of others.
It claims to own the rights to any test for the presence of the two critical genes associated with breast cancer – and has ruthlessly enforced that right, though their test is inferior to one that Yale University was willing to provide at much lower cost.
The aim of welfare capitalism was explicitly to provide people an income – typically through pooled compulsory insurance – during enforced interruptions of work.
An enforced template of international law is essential – one with which all state and non-state actors must comply.
But (there is always a “but”) if any of these measures are to work, they must be enforced as widely, consistently, and strictly as possible.
Though it is universally accepted and enforced in most countries, money laundering remains rampant.
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