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We have traditionally distinguished in human-rights conventions between (mandatory) civil and political rights, such as the right to habeas corpus, from (aspirational) economic rights, because the latter require resources.
The key task now is not so much to bury communism's remnants as to overcome the corrupt and inept bureaucratic/oligarchic state in which bureaucrats are simultaneously entrepreneurs and politicians, and in which obeying the law is not mandatory but somehow negotiable.
Why not abolish mandatory retirement and let people decide how long they want to work?
Abandoning mandatory retirement and opening employment opportunities to people who are able to work at older ages would reduce the burden of an increasing number of pensioners and enable a desirable redistribution of work across generations.
While they managed to reduce their budget deficits below the mandatory limit of 3% of GDP to gain eurozone membership, public debt remained above 100% of GDP in both countries – much higher than the 60%-of-GDP cap set by eurozone rules.
To do that, it wants China to eliminate subsidies, mandatory technology transfer, and other forms of “cheating”; level the playing field for foreign investors in the Chinese market; and even adopt more Western-style governance practices.
In this context, the imposition of mandatory quarantines on travelers from Ebola-affected countries was an obvious policy failure – just as they were when authorities tried to contain the Black Death of 1350 in Europe or the Plague of London in 1665.
Indeed, not even the imminent threat of financial meltdown could convince any member of Cyprus’s parliament to accept the mandatory levy on individual bank deposits.
In January, the BOJ went further and introduced negative deposit rates on commercial banks’ mandatory reserves, which markets interpreted as a confusing act of desperation.
In short, rigorous stress testing of eurozone banks (followed by mandatory recapitalization) would require much less public funding than would continuing to extend blanket guarantees to everybody.
It was believed at the time that formalized rules – imposing mandatory limits on deficits, debt, and inflation – would be enough.
The UK has implemented an increase in the mandatory minimum wage, and some US states, led by California, will soon follow.
Italy and Spain would then be able to refinance their debt at close to the ECB’s deposit rate, which is currently 1% on mandatory reserves and 25 basis points on excess-reserve accounts.
Effective monetary finance therefore requires central banks to impose mandatory non-interest-bearing reserve requirements.
Doing so is entirely compatible with raising policy interest rates when appropriate, because the central bank can pay zero interest on mandatory reserves, while paying the policy interest rate on additional reserves.
This was the objective set by the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, which requested that the publication of multinational oil companies' payments to governments be made mandatory.
These concerns have driven Russia to demand that the US sign a binding treaty that limits the speed, location, and capabilities of its missile defenses and includes mandatory transparency provisions – even as Russian officials acknowledge that the US Senate would never ratify such a treaty.
Moreover, the mandatory 20% foreign exchange cover stipulated in the convention signed with France in 1962 now stands at 110%.
The propiska (a mandatory residence permit), one old communist way of keeping an eye on all citizens of the USSR, ceased to exist with the adoption of the new Russian constitution in 1993.
A mandatory SOS alert system would give passengers and drivers a means to call for help, regardless of whether they were carrying a mobile phone.
Tax incentives are employed to stimulate use, as are mandatory blending requirements.
Most people just pay off their mortgage, make the mandatory contributions to their state or private pension (if they have one), and keep some money for short-run contingencies.
But the government is loath to consider a mandatory saving plan.
Besides the lawyers legitimating the deeds, psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors (whose presence was mandatory at any session), and scholars also regularly provided moral, legal, or philosophical justifications.
The Pakistani government’s third move to tame the military was the announcement that Justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, the Supreme Court’s second most senior judge, would succeed Chaudhry, who was reinstated in 2009, after his mandatory retirement this year.
In particular, governments must invest in nutrition through budgets, introduce mandatory fortification of staple foods, curb “junk food,” and improve quality control.
Reports of yellow fever infection in non-immunized travelers returning from a country where vaccination against the disease is mandatory highlights the need to reinforce the implementation of vaccination requirements.
This is why almost every advanced country has mandatory social security and health insurance programs.
Clearly, establishing mandatory social security and health insurance programs, and a social safety net for the poor, has helped hedge the most fundamental risks that people face.
They should use markets, rather than state guarantees, and while they should not be mandatory, they must be designed in accordance with humans' psychological limitations, so that people will use them.
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