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Japan is raising its
minimum
wage only slightly faster than inflation.
These participants argued that specific legal duties, such as the right to a
minimum
wage and the right to vocational training, are more effective than the vague extension of anti-discrimination law to cover poverty as such.
Refugees like Shabbir faced a
minimum
of nine months before their first encounter with any official who would receive their asylum application.
That is why we propose that all countries agree on a
minimum
corporate-tax rate of at least 15-25%.
They will have to force change, starting with agreed
minimum
corporate-tax rates at the regional level.
They can also take advantage of a system – already in place in Brazil – that establishes a
minimum
taxable income for local corporate affiliates, based on the gross margins of different types of transactions.
In order to achieve this, certain
minimum
conditions must be met.
Its weakness is somewhat surprising: real incomes are up, and the coalition government that came to power last year has introduced a series of generous welfare measures, including a large increase in the
minimum
wage, a reduction of the retirement age, and a special top-up pension for women with children.
Labor standards,
minimum
wages, and unions are part of the solution, as they were in countries that developed successfully.
How can Israel’s preferred Palestinian leaders, Abbas and PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, be left with any credible capacity to negotiate if talks cannot begin until, as Israel insists, they retreat on their
minimum
condition of a settlement freeze in the Occupied Territories?
Speaking at the United Nations plenary meeting this September, Kan said that his government seeks to achieve a “society in which human suffering is reduced a minimum.”
If a tightening of margin and
minimum
capital requirements does not deflate a bubble, regulators can tighten some more.
Regulations should be kept to the
minimum
necessary to maintain stability.
But it is possible to argue that all of this merely postponed the day when the expected rate of return to capital would fall below the
minimum
rate of interest acceptable to savers, which would happen as capital became more abundant relative to population.
These majorities are often constituted by complex coalitions of three or more parties that concur on a
minimum
program.
For starters, countries should limit when they can be called (say, only with regard to constitutional amendments), establish a
minimum
threshold for turnout, and require a supermajority.
During the nomination campaign, he managed to pull her somewhat to the left on trade, the
minimum
wage, and mass incarceration.
Ensuring that the ACA would remain in place for some
minimum
fixed term, rather than leaving it vulnerable to immediate repeal by Donald Trump’s administration, might have enabled a more fundamental transformation of America’s flawed health-care system, including through improvements to “Obamacare” itself.
Since then, this remarkable young woman from rural Malawi has helped to persuade her government to raise the
minimum
age of marriage across her country, and is blazing a trail for girls that we all should follow.
Last month, Memory’s efforts – along with those of thousands of others – paid off, when Malawi’s government enacted a new law that sets the
minimum
age for marriage at 18.Memory’s achievement is an important one.
Governments need to adopt legislation that sets 18 as the
minimum
age for marriage – leaving no room for exceptions such as traditional practices or parental consent.
Resolving such conflicts requires, at a minimum, some baseline rules of the game, which can be developed and implemented only on a multilateral basis, not in the unilateral way that China demands.
Remedying them calls for a
minimum
of federalism and commensurate democratic legitimacy – and thus for greater openness to institutional adaptation.
Governments could also facilitate unionization to give workers more bargaining power, substantially raise
minimum
wages, and create employment, for example, through government jobs programs, as the United States did during the 1930s.
Indeed, few countries currently provide comprehensive social protection, as defined by ILO Convention 102 (the instrument establishing internationally-agreed
minimum
social-security standards).
Government scholarship recipients are obliged to serve in the public sector for a
minimum
of two years for every one year of study.
In 2004, for example, Guangdong Province had to raise the mandatory
minimum
wage by as much as 20% to attract workers from other regions.
To hire and retain skilled workers, many foreign-invested enterprises routinely pay above the
minimum
wage.
At a minimum, Bitcoin would need a more solid institutional foundation; and broad acceptance of it would require much greater clarity concerning regulatory and supervisory approaches.
The current arrangements governing the euro are here to stay, because Germany will always do the bare
minimum
to preserve the common currency – and because the markets and the European authorities would punish any other country that challenged these arrangements.
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