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The regime’s resistance to formal in loco visits by UN and OAS bodies and special rapporteurs has not stopped them from producing such reports and substantiating their findings by other means.
These uncertainties, indeed, led the Forum to avoid acknowledging a formal right to water in its final resolution.
According Russia more formal recognition as a great power might help EU and US efforts to engage its leaders in a serious security dialogue.
But unlike, say, the French, the Dutch have responded to their past excesses with a series of policies designed to promote a return to work in the formal labor market.
Five billion of the world’s 7.3 billion people hold their tangible and intangible assets outside of the formal legal system; these assets cannot be invested or create surplus value, nor can they serve as collateral for loans or as identification for accessing public services.
Japan, for example, has close ties with Southeast Asian countries but no formal security relationships with them.
Much of the work of global governance will rely on formal and informal networks.
This would have to be a formal arrangement, designed to allow for day-to-day dialogue and consultation and capable of establishing a tradition of close security cooperation.
Moreover, handshakes were exchanged by the two countries’ foreign ministers, when John Kerry and Javad Zarif, joined by the European Union’s top diplomat, Catherine Ashton, held a formal meeting to organize the upcoming nuclear negotiations in Geneva.
The formal rejection of the Iran-EU nuclear agreement in February 2005 was an unintended gift to Iran’s hardliners, led by Ahmadinejad.
But if countries still want the option of referenda, they should impose formal rules that help to ensure that politicians cannot use them to dodge difficult decisions.
But, beyond formal treaties, normative constraints on states also include codes of conduct, conventional state practices, and widely shared expectations of proper behavior among a group (which create a common law).
For Singapore’s founding father, education went beyond formal schooling.
Formal decision-making power is of course another matter.
North Korea has been pressing for a declaration of the end of war, an aspirational statement that would signal a common desire to replace the armistice that has existed since the Korean War ended 65 years ago with a formal peace treaty.
That would not constitute official abandonment of the euro, but, over time, the difference could become more formal than real.
Also, his formal role is limited to helping the Palestinians sort out their economic and political affairs, not trying to negotiate a peace settlement – a task reserved for US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice.
Add to that exchange-rate appreciation and rising minimum-wage floors – not to mention public-sector disbursements indexed to the latter – and Brazil enjoyed a virtuous domestic cycle featuring positive feedback loops between demand for services and formal employment.
In fact, the field repels all but connoisseurs of fanciful formal models.
There is no formal model in his great book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money.
All efforts to reform the Security Council’s structure – even an end to prohibiting immediate re-election of non-permanent members, which would enable continuous engagement, if not formal permanent membership – have ground to a halt.
The Council needs to devote less rhetoric and more formal process to conflict and crisis prevention, with improved early-warning and briefing mechanisms.
The latest example is the decision by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government, just re-elected by a razor-thin margin, to deny former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd the formal nomination he needed to join the race to be the next UN Secretary-General.
But a substantial proportion of cognitively capable people do not respond well to formal education and, even for those who do, it is inadequate to provide the insider knowledge and wide-ranging experience needed to adapt, much less innovate, in a dynamic labor market.
Of course, no such intervention will, or should, be approved in practice unless it is seen as satisfying several moral or prudential criteria, which, though not yet adopted by the UN as formal benchmarks, have been the subject of much international debate and acceptance over the last decade.
The World Bank’s latest figures on individuals’ bank accounts, to be released next spring, are expected to show that the number of people holding accounts at banks or other formal financial institutions has grown.
At the moment, some two billion adults remain excluded from formal financial services.
With bank accounts, budding entrepreneurs can establish their creditworthiness and tap responsible, formal lenders.
For the 61 million children who are out of primary school, formal education is beyond reach.
In the United States, while the formal unemployment rate has fallen, large-scale failures in terms of inclusiveness have fueled disenchantment – on both the left and the right – at growth patterns and policies that seem to benefit those at the top disproportionately.
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