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After all, the first-ever association agreement in 1954 was designed to foster cooperation between the European Coal and Steel Community and the United Kingdom, following the latter’s retreat from formal treaty negotiations.
It is taught in formal and informal school settings worldwide.
If such a contingent-capital structure had been in place before the crisis, troubled banks would have been recapitalized by the contingent debt holders while avoiding the complications and legal posturing inevitable in formal bankruptcy.
And yet there is considerable reason to hope not only for formal handshakes and bilateral meetings among Northeast Asia’s “Big Three” leaders, but also for substantive discussions aimed at lowering tensions in the region.
In Mumbai, a large proportion of them are Muslims who were denied space in the formal economy and have developed strong vested interests over the past 50 years.
In order to enhance their livelihoods’ stability and profitability further, pastoralists need to be integrated into the formal economy.
Similarly, Mexico’s National Savings and Financial Services Bank has helped to strengthen savings and credit institutions that serve millions of rural residents who would otherwise have been relegated to the margins of the formal financial sector.
Behind the formal structures of a once-functioning democracy is a political system run by corporate interests with the cynical aims of cutting taxes on the rich, selling weapons, and polluting with impunity.
Nonetheless, China's stake in the outcome of the current crisis is big enough to make it a party to a wide range of exchanges, formal and informal, bilateral and multilateral--all with the objective of promoting change without upheaval on the Korean peninsula.
Decisions concerning both the multi-year framework and annual budgets should be taken by majority voting in the Council and Parliament, based on a formal proposal by the Commission, leaving decisions about the overall resource ceiling to the Council of Ministers and member states.
But over the last decade and a half, the Parliament has worked hard to secure more power, elbowing its way into the formal legislative process, securing for itself oversight authority, and even inserting itself into the process of selecting the European Commission president.
China has also summoned Indian Ambassador Vijay Gokhale to register a formal protest.
But they did not go well, bolstering those who declare “enough,” and prompting the question of whether the US president alone – even under the facade of congressional authorizations rather than formal declarations of war – ought to bear the war-making responsibility.
Here, it is important to note that whereas formal rules can be altered quickly, informal cultural norms are difficult to change in the short run.
New formal rules can conflict with established norms, causing bureaucratic incentives to become distorted, with adverse effects on institutional behavior and performance.
But 2.5 billion people worldwide still lack access to formal banking services, credit facilities, or savings instruments.
Bringing this largely ignored “missing market” into the formal financial system would enrich and strengthen the global economy.
In some countries, as much as 90% of the population lacks access to the formal financial system.
But improving access to the formal financial sector is a unique challenge that cannot be tackled with foreign aid or government handouts.
However, people throughout the developing world frequently lack proper identification, a fixed address, or a formal employer.
Zuma, who spent his youth herding cattle and only gained formal education while in the notorious Robben Island prison with Mandela, is refreshingly aware that Africa’s biggest problem is its inequalities, not its global marginalization.
In an economic slowdown, the country’s severe crime problem might only worsen; so might unemployment, which already tops 20% in the formal economy.
In this context, South Korea’s move to involve the WTO – and the risk to China’s international reputation that a formal dispute would imply – may have focused Chinese leaders’ minds concerning the risks of escalation.
So, even though central banks aren’t willing to give up on their formal 2% inflation target, they are willing to prolong the timeline for achieving it, as they have already done time and again, effectively conceding that inflation may stay low for longer.
Between 2010 and 2012, the center-left PASOK was in government, doing whatever it took to preserve Greece’s membership of the euro and ward off formal default.
In frontline states, money is needed to provide refugees with formal employment opportunities, health care, and education.
The extremists propagating this violence have networks of outreach to young people and know the power of education, whether formal or informal.
While the specter of unemployment haunts all Nigerians, with only 10% of the nearly six million young people who enter the labor market each year managing to secure a formal-sector job, the problem is much worse for women, who account for only one-third of those who find a formal job.
Long-term joblessness and youth unemployment remain far too high, with skills erosion, reduced mobility, and a growing opportunity gap relative to formal educational attainment risking lasting damage in the aftermath of the Great Recession.
But they rejected demands for formal acceptance of legal liability.
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