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They also dismantled tariffs and quotas on imports faster than their World Trade Organization obligations required.
A necessary step is to abandon convertibility and let the peso float, while transforming outstanding obligations to pesos so as to prevent the devaluation from wrecking the balance sheets of local banks and corporations.
A particularly telling example is the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars of the early nineteenth century, when a string of exhausted states defaulted on their obligations.
Among Bachelet’s top challenges will be persuading the US Congress to block efforts by the Trump administration to withhold funds from her agency in violation of US treaty obligations.
Fisher's criticism, however, was even more devastating--and more relevant to Japan's current circumstances: as prices fall, debtors, whose obligations are fixed in nominal terms (that is, in terms of yen) find it increasingly difficult to repay what they owe.
He was establishing a democratic civil state where people were equal in rights and obligations.
The developed nations promised to pay reparations for their past sins at the Rio de Janeiro summit in 1992 but kept deferring their obligations by negotiating.
The most contentious point here is whether the British economy is held back in some way by red tape imposed by Brussels or by European treaty obligations.
The third risk is that industrial policies run afoul of international commitments and obligations.
At the same time, they should focus on those IP measures that run the least risk of clashing with international obligations: regulatory facilitation rather than restrictions, investment in infrastructure rather than in specific economic activities, and fiscal incentives that are accessible to all.
If the combined effect of steep losses in equity markets and rising dependency ratios cause pension funds to struggle to meet their obligations, it will be up to governments to provide safety nets – if they can.
That “money-for-influence” governance structure indirectly impairs the Fund’s capacity to criticize its most important members’ economies (let alone police compliance with their obligations).
Despite past refusal by America’s Congress to fund programs to further the rule of law in China, recent US legislation authorizes modest efforts to provide assistance to increase China’s capacity to meet its obligations as a WTO member.
At some point, these countries may well choose to default on their external obligations rather than endure the pain.
The alternative – “renting” insurance from multilateral bodies like the IMF – would demand fulfillment of certain reform obligations.
When a final decision was announced in 2017, nearly a decade after the initial grievances were aired, the arbitration panel decided against the US, but not because Guatemala lived up to its labor rights obligations under its own laws.
Nonetheless, it is in clear violation of its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, as determined by the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is charged with monitoring the treaty.
It would finance the purchases by issuing European Treasury bills – joint and several obligations of the member countries – and pass on the benefit of cheap financing to the countries concerned.
As a result, there are now numerous overlapping protections for pharmaceutical companies that are very difficult for most developing countries to contest, and that often pit their global obligations against their domestic obligations to protect their citizens’ lives and health.
For starters, NATO should build on its “open door policy,” which states that NATO would welcome any European country capable of fulfilling the commitments and obligations of membership, to institutionalize further its relationships in Eastern Europe.
The P5 have obligations under the UN Charter, as well as international humanitarian and human rights law, not to undermine the effectiveness of the UN or that body of law.
The US has multiple alliance obligations – with Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, and Thailand – which are needed, in part, to deter North Korean aggression.
In some cases, they even conflict with countries’ obligations under the Bretton Woods Articles of Agreement.
The repeated rejection by the US Congress of a much more limited set of reforms – which was approved by most other countries in 2010-12, imposes no incremental financial obligations on the US, and implies no reduction in America’s voting power or influence – is a case in point.
The roles and obligations of the Self-Defense Forces must gradually shift and diversify, and their zone of action broadened.
Japan's laws are primed for this change, because the obligations of the Self-Defense Forces are relatively clear in these circumstances.
Nor are the Self-Defense Forces' operations and obligations any longer restricted to Japanese territory and the adjacent seas.
On March 15, the UN committee declared that Tanzania had violated its international human-rights obligations.
Emerging economies counter that their per capita incomes remain far lower than those of their developed counterparts, and insist that addressing their enormous development challenges demands flexibility in terms of their trade obligations.
The sense of keeping one’s obligations and commitments to other allies, upon whom one’s own security ultimately depends, is a powerful motive for equitable burden-sharing.
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