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Witness, for example, Ireland's veto of the institutional reforms adopted at the EU's Nice summit in December 2000 - reforms without which enlargement cannot go forward.
The country is in effect announcing that it is moving toward democratic institutional arrangements.
But we should not confuse these values with the other essential elements of progress, such as establishing liberalized trade regimes, creating institutional structures with a separation of powers, and rooting out corruption.
These are absolute necessities for democratic success, but they require longer-term development of institutional capacity.
Corruption, for example, may have cultural antecedents and is part and parcel of institutional weakness.
The Responsible Investor’s Guide to Climate ChangeNEW YORK – Around the world, institutional investors – including pension funds, insurance companies, philanthropic endowments, and universities – are grappling with the question of whether to divest from oil, gas, and coal companies.
Though no single institutional investor can make a significant difference, hundreds of large investors holding trillions of dollars of assets certainly can.
As active, engaged shareholders, institutional investors can use their ownership (and, in the case of large investors, their public voice) to help persuade companies to adopt climate-safe policies.
But Ecofin has not yet found the mechanism for doing so, because the current institutional arrangements do not provide one – although the Lisbon Treaty establishes a legal basis for it.
It is clear what is needed: more intrusive monitoring and institutional arrangements for conditional assistance.
Given the institutional paralysis built into Japan's political system, it is difficult to see who will undertake this task.
Tracing the precise consequences of policy measures or institutional reforms – and estimating when they might “pay off” – is hopelessly complex.
In Brazil, low savings and various institutional impediments keep interest rates high and investment low, while the educational system does not serve significant parts of the population well.
Europe brought democratic values, social solidarity, and, for all its current problems, the century’s most impressive feat of institutional engineering, the European Union.
Their own development experience makes countries like China, India, and Brazil resistant to market fundamentalism and natural advocates for institutional diversity and pragmatic experimentation.
The relatively low interest rates on both short-term and long-term bonds are now causing both individual investors and institutional fund managers to assume duration risk and credit-quality risk in the hope of achieving higher returns.
For example, while microfinance, a darling of many development organizations, gets much publicity and attracts numerous donors, critical issues, such as the need to build a regulatory and institutional framework that ensures legal security and allows microenterprises to flourish, are perceived as less attractive.
Mass production, large corporations, a continent_wide market, and electric power could not come to pass without institutional and legal changes that underlay the economic transformation.
What legal and institutional changes are needed now to make the economy flourish as the changes produced by computers take hold?
Most foreign observers miss the scale and depth of institutional and process innovation in this supply chain, which has managed (mostly) to protect property rights, reduce transaction costs, and minimize risks by aligning government services with market interests.
The Chinese miracle was engineered by institutional and process innovation at all levels of the government services supply chain.
The real challenge for Chinese officials is how to balance creativity and institutional innovation with order, thereby ensuring the integrity of all four of its economy’s pillars.
Today, as in the 1990’s, China is experiencing skyrocketing local-government and commercial-bank debt, rising fiscal and financial risk, uncertainty over institutional reform, and declining central-government revenue.
International stock exchanges remain of interest to large emerging-market companies, including SOEs, which may be unable to attract sufficient foreign institutional investors at home.
Leading international marketplaces are dominated by institutional investors, a growing share of which are passive index followers that lack incentives to invest in governance oversight.
With the expansion of passive investing set to continue, it is plausible that international institutional investors will have even less incentive to monitor governance in the long term.
But active institutional investors may also be unable to play a stewardship role.
The FCA proposal to give preferential treatment to SOEs clearly puts institutional investors at risk.
Institutional independence has allowed the central bank to conduct its monetary policy in a consistent manner, insulated from short-term political influences.
In developed economies, corporate profitability has been steadily rising, partly owing to “shareholder-primacy” strategies that focus on short-term decision-making, cost-cutting measures, and other forms of financial engineering encouraged by institutional investors.
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