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With the ongoing reform of the interstate ICMS (a tax levied on the circulation of goods and services), investors will have greater legal clarity and security.
Despite this nostalgic policymaking, enactment by the Supreme Rada (Ukraine's Parliament) of civil, criminal, land, family and economic legal codes over the years was something of a near revolution.
The lesson of the US and other countries is that countries need three ingredients to combat corruption: a strong legal framework, committed leaders, and sustained public support.
But legal history shows just how duplicitous this global rash of legislation really is – and whose purposes it really serves.
It was legal, if frowned upon, for gay men to engage in all other forms of sexual intimacy.
None of this repression was implemented with the primary intention of giving legal expression to organic mid-Victorian homophobia.
For example, anti-gay laws passed in Egypt in 2004 were used as part of the legal arsenal in a much broader government crackdown.
However, given current European and American law, these claims require a novel legal underpinning in order to be valid and enforceable.
Donors would transfer their tissue to a charitable trust, and would collectively appoint a trustee, who would have legal fiduciary duties to use the tissue for the benefit of the public.
For this reason, it is dangerous to maintain the outdated legal concept according to which a company belongs only to its owners or shareholders.
They existed as the shadow economy and I will never forget a visit to an institute in Moscow in 1983, where I had long conversation on the structures and functions of the shadow economy in the Soviet Union and the difficulties that arose from the fact that as, officially, this shadow economy did not exist there were no legal framework within which it could function.
Thus shadow economy developed its own crude legal framework and executed it with rather through brutal means.
So this task, the definition of justice and social needs, is a task that has to be accomplished by the legal system, by law and government, and in doing so you harness the freedom of the market, but you do not eliminate it.
The legal and political issues associated with the competing territorial claims – and the marine and energy resources and navigation rights that go with them – are mind-bogglingly complex.
Third, Greece needs a sound and predictable legal system.
The McKinsey study used 15 indicators – including common measurements of economic equality, like wages and labor-force participation rates, as well as metrics for social, political, and legal equality – to assign “gender parity scores” to 95 countries, accounting for 97% of global GDP and 93% of the world’s women.
Forty of the countries studied still exhibit high or very high levels of gender inequality in most aspects of work – especially labor-force participation rates, wages, leadership positions, and unpaid care work – as well as in legal protections, political representation, and violence against women.
To achieve this, the McKinsey study recommends that governments, non-profits, and businesses emphasize progress in four key areas: education, legal rights, access to financial and digital services, and unpaid care work.
To reinforce such progress, legal provisions guaranteeing the rights of women as full members of society should be introduced or expanded.
While several countries established legal limits to control spending, deficits, and debt, in some cases –for example, Argentina, Ecuador, and Venezuela – such laws were not enforced.
Such an agenda includes simple measures, like reducing fees for visas, and more complex reforms, like allowing migrants to switch employers without penalty and increasing the proportion of migrants who enjoy legal protections and labor rights.
The tension between civil, legal, and political equality and the reality of economic and social inequality was noted as far back as the French Revolution.
Today, citizens inevitably use their civil, legal, and political rights to demand economic and social equality - or at least reduction of inequality.
But did these central banks have the legal authority to do so?
There may be a legal rationale for this neo-imperial elitism.
When I was a British cabinet minister and chairman of the Conservative Party, I had a legal adviser who was aptly named Mr. Maybe.
When I was taken to task for some infringement of administrative law or alleged excessive use of my legal powers, he would never be able to tell me how the courts would ultimately rule.
And there are legal and political obstacles to creating a true common backstop.
Even though 10% of US households with mortgages had already lost their homes, the pace of foreclosures appeared to be increasing – or would have, were it not for legal snafus that raised doubts about America’s vaunted “rule of law.”
But I also noted that there is no reason to think that, in the absence of the legislation, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under the Bush administration would have asserted sweeping new authority over derivatives and pointed to the legal certainty problem that career lawyers thought was important to address.
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