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But the experts enlisted by the Copenhagen Consensus Center found one governance-related target that actually would do some good for each dollar spent: “By 2030, provide legal identity for all, including birth registration.”
But in many developing countries, achieving the measurable target of universal legal identity would make a real difference.
They can claim legal rights, including property rights, which are vital to allow individuals to prosper and the economy to grow.
We should work on specific, proven, and effective approaches such as providing legal identity for all.
Indeed, the FARC’s proposal – centered on protecting the rural farmers who make their living cultivating illicit crops, including by establishing a legal market for such crops – is relatively moderate.
For example, last February, the State Council announced plans to reform the hukou (household registration) system, which assigns legal residency according to a person’s place of birth.
British legal experts take pride in the fact that their country’s constitutional order evolved gradually over time, rather than through the kind of dramatic political ruptures that have shaped so much continental European history.
The defining moment of the Henrician Reformation came in April 1533, when the Parliament of England passed the Ecclesiastical Appeals Act, giving Henry the final word on all legal and religious questions.
TV-6 was exhausted, by legal assaults, into submission.
They thought that, in the end, Russia's legal code would protect them.
However, such legal guarantees of rights are often insufficient.
Wanting real citizenship for all meant that more had to be done than offering legal guarantees, information, or even financial support.
But, despite legal prohibitions, slavery proved remarkably resilient, with colonists using subterfuges such as debt peonage, “just wars” (which sanctioned enslavement of captured enemies as a more moral outcome than justified slaughter), and other tricks.
The implication is that the dwindling of slavery today and its potential further reduction may depend on market rather than legal incentives.
If they are legal, they often get a visa that allows them to work only for the sponsoring firm.
After public outcry at the possibility that she would acquire the legal status of French “First Lady,” the Macron administration published on the Elysée website a “Charter of Transparency Concerning the Wife of the Head of State,” confirming that she will receive no compensation or budget of her own.
The legal investigations now underway do not mark a showdown between Islamists and secularists, nor are they a campaign to discredit Turkey’s generals.
The most shocking feature of today’s corporate-tax-avoidance schemes is that they are legal.
Alas, those haircuts, while substantial, were too little, too late, and too toxic in terms of their financial and legal parameters.
Germany should be bold and use its leverage to offer a new contract to its eurozone partners: mutual guarantee of part of their public debt in exchange for strict debt limits and a new legal order in which a eurozone authority can veto an enacted budget even before it is implemented.
The country suffers a “lack of any legal protection for freedom of information, such as the confidentiality of journalists’ sources.”
By contrast, Scotland’s institutional landscape – schools and universities with their own curriculum and exam structures, a legal system with its own codes and rules, a church independent of the state, and a distinctive system of local government – were left untouched by the union.
Parliamentary committees advised by legal experts try too hard to get things right forever and forget their original intentions in the process.
Macron’s critics have enlisted the help of legal experts who argue that the laws already on the books are sufficient to contain fake news.
It also accounts for why important institutional differences persist among the advanced countries of North America, Western Europe, and Japan in areas such as the role of the public sector, the legal system, corporate governance, financial markets, labor markets, and social insurance.
Indeed, illegal immigration is larger when restrictions to legal migration are tight.
Illegal flows as a proportion of the population are about 25% larger in Europe than in the US; at the same time, legal flows are roughly 25% larger in the US than in Europe.
But national governments remain reluctant to delegate authority: in November 2004, the European Council accepted qualified majority voting on measures concerning illegal migration, but left restrictions on legal migration subject to unanimity rules, as if legal and illegal migration were not merely two sides of the same coin.
More laws – and better enforcement – are needed to reduce domestic violence against women, and to increase women’s bargaining power through broader property ownership, better access to legal and other support services, and greater freedom to leave marriages.
Such barriers are particularly pronounced in the US, where Congress oversees the legal framework within which federal regulatory agencies – such as the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration – operate.
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