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Voters are given their formal right of democratic choice, but are denied its substance.
A survey three years ago suggested that 80% of Taiwan’s 25 million people would support a formal declaration of independence, provided that it did not prompt a Chinese invasion.
So does the disturbing continuity between the absence of legality prior to the occupation and now, under the formal authority of the occupying powers.
Formal League of Nations mandates and other instruments of hegemony were exercised to ensure British and French power over oil, ports, shipping lanes, and local leaders’ foreign policies.
The power to reinstate the US’s formal veto power would lie entirely in the hands of Congress – making it unlikely that another four years would pass before the matter is finally resolved.
Failed states of south eastern Europe are being transformed into formal or informal protectorates implying deep involvement of Europe in the creation of security for the whole region.
Hunting Tigers in ChinaCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – In the boldest move yet since President Xi Jinping launched his anti-corruption campaign, China has announced the start of a formal investigation into “serious disciplinary violations” by one of the Chinese Communist Party’s most senior figures, Zhou Yongkang.
But the defeated have typically retired quietly, and never faced formal corruption charges.
Without a critical press, Latin America’s undeniable advances toward real democracy – development of an informed, empowered citizenry and governments respectful of the legitimate boundaries of power – will be endangered, even as formal electoral trappings become more routine.
But conditions encouraging more small companies to join the formal, modern economy can be created.
Each set of researchers adopted a standardized approach and studied proposals as diverse as linking farmers to the international carbon market, improving rice production, setting up flood warning systems, creating paid paternity leave to get more women into the formal workforce, and teaching young children in their native language of Creole instead of French.
He seems to belong to an era when France considered Europe a "French formal garden."
The cumulative growth of employment between 1998 and 2013 in the informal sector was a whopping 115%, compared to 6% in the formal economy.
For capital, cumulative growth was 134% for the informal sector and 9% for the formal sector.
Firms and workers in the formal sector must pay for health insurance, pensions, and other employee benefits.
But, because workers undervalue these benefits, the result is pure tax on formal employment.
The result is that formal employment is unwittingly penalized, whereas informal employment is subsidized.
In the end, the effects of efficiency-minded reforms have been offset by factors – social insurance policies and market imperfections – that systematically channel too many resources to informal firms and create obstacles to formal firms.
Mexico and Brazil have launched formal consultation processes, too.
A recent survey of telecommunications regulatory agencies conducted by The World Bank found that 23 of the 38 poor countries that responded require ISPs to obtain formal regulatory approval before they are allowed to operate.
The first is enjoyed by Western Union, which controls up to 90% of the total formal transfer volume within Africa’s 16-member Franc Zone.
To the extent that an institutional approach was taken, however, it was largely taken outside the framework of formal institutions such as the United Nations.
Emerging countries offer the example of blatant inequality between employees in the formal sector – companies like Petrobras in Brazil and Infosys in India – and those who work in the informal economy.
But, beyond formal talks, he could also try to engage with the North by reviving inter-Korean cooperation on health or environmental issues, which fall outside the scope of international sanctions.
All of this will have far-reaching effects in the years and decades ahead, ranging from the realignment of formal and informal alliances and the militarization of security arrangements to possible – and long-discussed – adjustments in the international governance system.
Regardless of formal legal frameworks, barriers to effective audits prevent the monitoring of financial flows to and within the police and internal security agencies.
Moreover, such institutions are often able to absorb formal anti-corruption training and yet continue with business as usual.
Some people call for the cyber equivalent of formal arms-control treaties.
Rather, it will require the development of an entirely new curriculum that gives the next generation of technologists, engineers, scientists, and mathematicians the formal foundations – including shared vocabulary and intellectual frameworks – for considering the macro effects of their actions on society.
The 28-page agreement that will allow formal coalition talks to proceed is overly detailed, technocratic, unambitious, and lacks vision.
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