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In this sense, Russia and China now exercise de facto control over the formal international legality of the use of force.
Finance ministers and central banks frequently urged wage moderation, with many countries even introducing formal policies governing wages and prices.
He insisted on a formal process.
It is almost 700 pages long (including the notes), and, though Piketty does not spend much time on formal theory, he is not beyond sprinkling an occasional equation or Greek letters throughout the text.
The US and India need not be formal allies for their relationship to have the desired effect on Chinese strategic calculations.
There is little formal education for new entrepreneurs, and only a handful of networks support start-ups.
In the Gulf States, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, and Tunisia, government jobs account for an unsustainably high 60-80% of formal employment.
It was standard pre-modern practice to overcome such differences with a formal disputation.
But, when he is sworn in on May 7, he will retake formal charge of a country whose politics – even Putin’s own political future – has turned unpredictable.
Most legal terms and concepts are embodied in preexisting legal systems, whether informal or formal.
Countries that developed their formal legal order internally develop more effective legal institutions than those who rely - or were forced to rely - on legal transplants.
May’s promise to pursue an exit deal and a trade deal simultaneously – and both within two years of the formal start of the withdrawal process (which she aims to initiate by the end of March) – is similarly unrealistic.
Indeed, because VAT is a tax on the formal sector--the new factories, banks, and so forth that pay regular salaries and whose incomes and expenditures can easily be traced (as distinct from those of the cash-based street vendors, village enterprises, and poor farmers)--VAT impedes development.
But it is the formal sector that produces higher value-added manufactured goods that compete with developed countries.
And yet, while Mexico has relatively strong formal land and property rights for indigenous peoples and local communities, those rights have yet to be integrated with other regulations – hindering any kind of economic development.
Refah's followers would probably try to form another party with a similar mandate but without the formal symbols or language of an Islamist movement.
Such a merging of Hamas with the established Palestinian political organizations would signify Hamas’s formal acceptance of a two-state solution, and would mark an important step in transforming the movement.
Eight years later, the Korean War also ended without a formal peace treaty, leaving behind a divided and heavily armed peninsula.
Programs offering skilled workers a chance to earn certifications based on their work experience would allow for, say, uncertified electricians to find formal employment in robotics.
Those lucky men and women who have formal jobs (less than 40%) often have “side hustles” through which they sell their time, expertise, network, or ideas to others in an effort to hedge against an uncertain labor market.
A key difference, however, is that in emerging economies flexible networks of individuals or small businesses take the place of formal employers.
The 2017 Economic Survey in Kenya showed that the Jua Kali generated 747,300 jobs the previous year, whereas the formal sector added only 85,600.
Gig economy platforms that provide small jobs without benefits or career progression can supplement income and buffer other employment, but they do not add up to the security and advancement opportunities of a formal job.
The formal name of the panel was “Silicon Envy: Will Europe ever build the next new media giant?”
German Chancellor Angela Merkel did not announce her ideas for eurozone reform in a formal speech or in a statement before her peers.
When the US military sought to showcase the fact that a filmmaker was at work in occupied Iraq, Rasheed was swept to a formal dinner in one of Saddam's former palaces in the Green Zone, attended by senior US officials and military contractors – an invitation that one would not want to receive, and would not be able to turn down.
To the extent that human capital involves character traits and varieties of “know-how” that are transmitted within the realms of the family and the community, rather than by formal education, it becomes both methodologically elusive and difficult to manipulate by public policy.
The United Kingdom will soon leave the European Union, with or without a formal exit agreement.
In my new book The Republic of Beliefs, I show that the essence of his argument can be given formal structure using elementary game theory.
Over the years it did not revise the Constitution in a formal way but, instead, expanded its meaning by re-interpreting critical clauses.
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