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Over the last 12 years, her Worker’s Party (PT) has delivered the country’s strongest per capita GDP growth in more than three decades; reduced income inequality with an extensive system of social transfers that reaches one-third of Brazilian households; and reduced formal unemployment to a record-low 4.5%.
And yet, formal pronouncements aside, if China’s leadership is to meet growing popular demands and quell rising discontent, it will have to commit itself to the rule of law in fact.
A key recommendation is the creation of national “youth guarantee schemes,” which would ensure that all citizens under 25 can obtain a job, an apprenticeship, or a traineeship within four months of leaving formal education or becoming jobless.
Closer or more formal association with the UK would bring absolutely nothing to this table.
It is equally hard to see US leaders devoting time and energy to attending Commonwealth Heads of Government meetings, which is essentially what any formal Anglosphere structure would amount to, not least given that the Commonwealth last had any discernible impact on any major international issue decades ago, in the fight against apartheid.
Although the United States does not have a formal inflation target, financial markets understand that the Fed aims for an inflation rate close to 2%.
Instead, the US stresses to foreign governments that an effective global trading system requires not only the removal of formal trade barriers, but also the absence of policies aimed at causing currency values that promote large trade surpluses.
In short, Google is changing expectations about what people can know – even in the United States, where formal censorship is absent, but government obfuscation, opaque corporations, and the like are not.
In downgrading EU enlargement as a formal policy priority, the Commission is preparing itself to take other important steps.
Formal accession to the European Union would signal the completion of the modernization process.
Last month, after nearly two years of exploratory conversations, formal peace talks were initiated in Oslo, Norway.
As a result, formal and informal links between the new Turkish political élite and the Arab world have been easier to forge.
Brezhnev’s model resembled a bad marriage, exhausted of love or respect, in which the spouses constantly cheat, take advantage of each other, and grab each other’s property, though the powerful husband occasionally reminds his wife that he is boss and demands at least a formal pledge of loyalty – or else.
Unless barriers to entering the formal economy are removed and women are presented with options that enable them to realize their full potential, Africa’s socioeconomic development will continue to be impeded.
Are the days of organizing international relations according to traditional, formal law over?
At the supranational level, the new European Commission is pursuing its goal of “better regulation” using as little formal lawmaking as possible, focusing instead on recommendations, codes of conduct, and guidelines.
In this context, ensuring that formal rule-making remains a viable option internationally will require some adjustments.
Finding ways to adapt formal legal processes to today’s complex global environment is a key challenge for 2015.
And there has been almost no formal cooperation among them, with each bargaining separately with Germany and the European Central Bank.
The legal protections of workers in India’s formal sector exceed those of most developed countries, as well as China, with mandated requirements rising as the number of employees increases.
I had expected Thinley to open the conference with a formal welcome, and then return to his office.
The solution that was eventually adopted was considered brilliant at the time, because it avoided formal default by any of the big Latin American borrowers (though Brazil briefly defaulted five years later, in 1987).
But over the same period, the number of jobs available for people with the least formal education is anticipated to decline, by around 12 million.
The Israel Lobby’s Gay-Rights HypocrisyLONDON – One of the few liberal victories in a conservative age in the United States has been the formal acceptance of homosexuality.
But no formal claims were made by any state.
Indeed, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak has used the occasion to demand a formal apology for the war from the Japanese emperor, and financial compensation for Korean women who were forced to serve Japanese soldiers in military brothels during the war.
In Pakistan, for example, nearly 20 million children are not enrolled in formal education, while seven million are out of school in Bangladesh, 2.3 million in Mozambique, 1.8 million in Ghana, and 1.6 million in Cameroon.
De-politicization of surveillance is best achieved by creating an independent body, whether formal or informal, while stricter and more binding rules must include a stronger link between deficit and debt criteria.
Recognizing that some “frictional” poverty will inevitably persist over the next two decades, the World Bank’s formal target is to reduce the percentage of people living below the poverty line – defined as daily consumption of less than $1.25 (in purchasing-power-parity terms) per person – to less than 3%.
The Republicans didn’t have formal control of the House, but Reagan effectively had a working majority, because numerous Democrats from the South voted with them.
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