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In both cases, these workers lose the opportunity for engagement and personal development that most legitimate jobs provide.
For example, the seemingly benign Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, viewed by many of its supporters as a legitimate form of non-violent resistance, has continued to gain ground.
To be sure, governance that is effective, legitimate, and responsive provides untold benefits, especially when compared to the alternative: inefficient governance, cronyism, and corruption.
As long as banks can make a profit from trading, they will continue to expand derivatives in excess of any legitimate hedging demands from non-banks, creating redundant products whose only function is to make profits for their inventors and sellers.
And only democracy could defuse conflict by giving dissent a legitimate means of expression.
As for liberalization, China is committed to implementing policies to open up further its markets to trade and foreign investment, while protecting the legitimate rights and interests of foreign investors.
But the definition of FDI protectionism can become more complicated, because measures taken in the interest of legitimate public policy objectives – for example, protecting national security or increasing FDI’s contribution to the host economy – are not necessarily instances of it, even if they make the foreign-investment climate less hospitable.
In some of these cases, legitimate public-policy objectives may well be involved.
Fortunately, China’s monetary authority has already noticed the subtlety of the distinction between legitimate demand for RMB-denominated assets and hot money.
Yet it revealed, at the same time, the limited effect of international protests directed against legitimate governments: the protests aimed at stopping the tests; however, if they were successful, it would have endanger the very progress it has produced.
The group now considers these legitimate targets.
For starters, Leviathan – that is, the state’s monopoly on the legitimate use of force – has reduced conflict and increased personal security.
It also risks exposing the IMF to even heavier political pressure, accentuating legitimate questions about the uniformity of its treatment of member countries.
For example, countries’ national interest in maintaining their sovereignty, controlling their borders, and enforcing their domestic laws must be balanced against migrants’ human rights, their legitimate desire to improve their lives, and societies’ need for immigrants and increased diversity.
Yet they find it perfectly legitimate to carry on.
European efforts to induce Teheran to renounce its nuclear designs by addressing Iran’s legitimate security concerns and offering important opportunities for economic and social betterment cannot be successful without active US support.
Over the last decade we moved from complete aversion to the idea of reform to a policy of mutant reforms pursued for corrupt motives, to the gradual adaptation of legitimate Western practices.
As Prime Minister, Mr Barak will have a difficult agenda before him: going back to the Oslo agreements, which signify the historical compromise between Israel and the PLO; negotiating a territorial agreement with the Palestinians which will have to balance between their legitimate rights and Israel's security concerns; not letting extremist terrorism derail a peace process which is supported by a large majority of both peoples; finding a mutually acceptable formula for the difficult problem of Jerusalem.
Every user, in principle, has a legitimate claim to being a de facto shareholder.
But addressing such shortcomings by ostracizing legitimate religious-political options merely reinforces jihadist recruiters’ argument that violence is the only way to secure reform.
And, indeed, Islamist parties, including the Muslim Brotherhood, are engaged in legitimate political activities in several countries – activities that have often driven them to moderate their views.
To many in the West, it is clear that the Egyptian military has removed a democratically elected government and is now repressing a legitimate political party, killing its supporters and imprisoning its leaders.
Nevertheless, international monetary reform remains a legitimate aspiration.
Crime rates are falling, the public infrastructure revolutionized, corruption curtailed, and a sense of legitimate, transparent authority is being established.
There are legitimate concerns that Israel might use the withdrawal of US troops as a pretext to intensify its attacks on Iran and Hezbollah in Syria – a decision that could escalate into all-out regional conflict, one that draws in the US, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, Iran’s main rival for regional hegemony.
However, America also believes that rolling back popular support for Islamic fundamentalism in the long term requires a legitimate democratic government.
But market fundamentalism also inspired dangerous intellectual fallacies: that financial markets are always rational and efficient; that central banks must simply target inflation and not concern themselves with financial stability and unemployment; that the only legitimate role of fiscal policy is to balance budgets, not stabilize economic growth.
The main targets – jobs, growth, and research – are considered legitimate from the standpoint of fairness when described in general terms.
If we want Europe to be more legitimate, we must explain how to tie these two dimensions of power.
By the early 1970s, just about every country fell in line with the People’s Republic’s demand that it alone be recognized as the legitimate sovereign government of China.
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