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With so many former military officers serving in Trump’s cabinet or as advisers, even as Trump cozies up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and anchors an informal alliance of dictators and authoritarians around the world, it is likely that the US will spend more money on weapons that don’t work to use against enemies that don’t exist.
Putin’s Trump CardNEW YORK – At his annual year-end press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin was as informal, audacious, and offensive as his favorite American presidential candidate, Donald Trump.
Relationships were governed not by legal norms, but by informal understandings and a clear distinction between those inside and outside the common mentality.
Redressing the problems of high unemployment and large informal sectors – where almost half of all goods and services are produced – is perhaps the region’s most urgent policy challenge, particularly because most investment and growth by domestic firms is related to high commodity prices, which do little to create new jobs.
This informal web is being engineered not only to keep its rivals from coalescing or gaining privileged influence, but also to restrain the actions of China’s local partners so as to dampen tension anywhere it might flare up.
But some pushback conceivably could be warranted if the advanced economies – which have already created an informal contact group of “China losers,” including representatives of the European Union, Japan, and the United States – are right that China has been engaging in unfair trading practices.
In short, even if China’s non-tariff barriers (both formal and informal) remain high, they are lower than in the past.
At any time in history, the debt-to-annual-GDP ratio (including informal debts) would vastly exceed 100%.
If Latin America does not change, it may increasingly look like Africa--a region of weak states with large informal economies and widespread poverty.
And its large informal economy is absorbing many refugees as workers.
In particular, the influx of Venezuelan labor has put significant downward pressure on wages in Colombia’s informal sector (including agriculture, services, and small manufacturing business) – and just when the government was hoping to raise the minimum wage.
Indeed, in formal and informal ways, Islam is increasingly interpreted in a manner that brings it closer to the central values of British democracy.
The best way to do that would be to forgo “strategic patience” and begin informal contact with the North to probe Kim’s intentions.
In emerging economies, SMEs account for as much as 45% of employment and up to 33% of GDP – and these numbers are significantly higher when informal SMEs are included.
Unfortunately, SME owners generally have trouble securing bank loans, and instead must turn to informal lending and alternative funding sources to support their businesses.
According to the World Bank, 50% of formal SMEs lack access to formal credit, and the total credit gap for both formal and informal SMEs is as high as $2.6 trillion worldwide.
Restoring Trust in LeadershipDAVOS – As is often the case, informal conversations at the World Economic Forum’s just-completed annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, inevitably alluded to the Edelman Trust Barometer, an annual poll of public confidence in business, media, government, and nongovernmental organizations.
Meanwhile, young Africans are largely working in the informal economy, where they enter into ad hoc arrangements that lie beyond the purview of government regulation and taxation.
Bringing the picture into sharper focus through improved data collection does not mean simply imitating the labor-tracking methods used in OECD countries, where the informal economy does not account for such a high share of employment.
Instead, African governments, with the help of private-sector actors, must develop methods for understanding how the informal economy works and how it can be improved.
Such skills enable young people to move not only out of the informal sector, but also out of undesirable formal jobs, such as in South Africa’s private-security industry, which employs more than 412,000 people.
But to maximize the effectiveness of efforts to provide those skills and opportunities, not to mention ensuring that those who remain in the informal sector are not invisible, initiatives aimed directly at improving data collection are also needed.
For example, we can support informal activities, such as waste recycling, that give low-skill young people a chance to earn money.
And yet criminal networks – entrenched relationships between legal and illegal agents engaged in organized criminal activities – continue to play a large role in these countries’ formal and informal economies and political institutions, rending the social fabric and threatening further progress.
The UN estimates that there are more than 65 million forcibly displaced people in the world today, and that more refugees live in formal and informal encampments than ever before.
The first step is to identify its main causes which, in my opinion, reside in a society's shared values and patterns of behaviour, its so-called informal rules.
Unlike formal rules, such as laws, these informal strictures do not need to be enforced because in principle, in every democracy (including illiberal ones), politicians only do what people allow them to do.
In the postcommunist democracies, however, these informal societal values and principles are only dimly perceived, if they are perceived at all, by a majority of the population.
Moreover, Doing Business helps to break down barriers – particularly in developing countries – that can discourage the establishment of small and medium-size enterprises, provide opportunities for corruption, and drive small business owners to the informal sector.
This includes ensuring that teachers have the tools they need to take full advantage of information and communication technology (ICT), which is not being used widely, despite its potential to ensure broad access to lifelong learning through formal and informal channels.
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