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Last Taxi to EuropeROME – The contrast between Europe’s resistance to Uber and America’s warmer reception for the ride-sharing service highlights once again how European regulatory structures, in principle designed to protect consumers, end up protecting entrenched suppliers and stifling innovation.
In short, IT enables the creation of barriers to market entry, and then encourages leading firms to become further entrenched.
The official discourse is entrenched in statism and centralism, with growing disregard for democratic principles and procedures.
The precise reasons vary from country to country – but many of them stem from entrenched cultural norms that prevent women from reaching their full potential.
Aside from the retreat of democracy in Russia, China – now the world’s oldest autocracy – is demonstrating that when authoritarianism is entrenched, a marketplace of goods and services can stymie the marketplace of political ideas.
Despite years of failing to improve income distribution or to create real jobs, investment, and livable wages, the dictatorship of macroeconomics remains entrenched.
Unfettered, it can assist in the fight against entrenched corruption.
With the eurozone stuck in a seemingly never-ending recession, the idea that growth-enhancing investment is crucial for a sustainable recovery has become deeply entrenched in public discourse.
A company that allows disregard for ethics to become entrenched risks paying a steep price – as do its investors.
Like it or not, that is an inevitable result of the deeply entrenched codependent relationship between the world’s two largest economies.
The US model of political identity, shaped by a legacy of immigration and voluntary cultural integration, cannot be simply transposed to Europe, where distinct traditions, cultures, and attitudes are so deeply entrenched.
In the United Kingdom, Member of Parliament David Lammy described Oxford and Cambridge as “fiefdoms of entrenched privilege” because of the many students they admit from private schools.
The policy response, however, required preventing these shocks from becoming entrenched in medium to long-term inflation expectations.
The government is fighting at least two wars simultaneously – taking on a deeply entrenched oligarchy, while trying to fend off its hostile eastern neighbor.
In practice, these subsidies – and the politics that makes them possible – are firmly entrenched.
Entrenched patterns of impunity will take decades to overcome.
Unless change comes soon, the foreign-exchange regime and capital controls on which the model relies will become too deeply entrenched, and the window of opportunity for adjustment will be missed.
Regardless of how it turns out, one thing is clear: violent jihadism is now an entrenched feature of the Arab political landscape.
But the regional struggle for mastery between Iran and Saudi Arabia (with Israel as a third actor) could prove to be all the more dangerous, given the prevailing – and deeply entrenched – mindset of traditional power politics.
Multiculturalism in Britain has entrenched almost self-contained Muslim communities and turned Islam into a badge of identity to counteract exclusion.
Though some surveys suggest that Germany’s culture of restraint is not as entrenched as many believe, a new poll conducted for the Munich Security Report finds that only 34% of Germans think that their country should become more engaged in international crises.
That is a lesson that China needs to learn far more quickly than some members of its entrenched elite will find comfortable.
The MILF was not deterred by the popular overthrow of Marcos’s 20-year dictatorship in 1986, following the assassination of the opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr.Nor did the establishment of democracy – now deeply entrenched – inspire the group’s leaders to reconsider their approach.
But the bureaucracy and its privileged networks benefited most, and a second, non-market source of inequality – endemic official corruption – became entrenched.
China’s naval expansion is the product of a deeply entrenched sense of vulnerability, uncertainty about how other powers will react to its rise, and a growing range of threats to its overseas interests.
Its entrenched political and economic networks are deeply corrupt.
But, in the decades since, the Arab world’s rulers, regimes, and practices seemed to have remained firmly entrenched.
Democracy, prosperity, and peace all seemed firmly entrenched.
Improving the lot of the world’s poorest people as much as possible means navigating powerful forces, entrenched habits, and, most important, severe financial, temporal, and human-capital constraints.
Unlike in the past, when Chinese Internet users passively received information, years of exposure to concepts such as human rights and democracy have emboldened them to challenge entrenched yet dubious views, even if it means iconoclasm.
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