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Unless barriers to entering the formal economy are removed and women are presented with options that enable them to realize their full potential, Africa’s socioeconomic development will continue to be impeded.
And Halutz failed to present the civilian leadership with the full panoply of military options at the army’s disposal.
The demoi-crats win support because their vision tends to reinforce the status quo and leaves nearly all options open.
Political leaders in the P-6 have run out of domestic-policy options, but they have a window of opportunity to change the external environment.
Girls know that there are options to an unacceptable way of life: women are increasingly demanding more from life than what custom ordains.
But rather than insist as a matter of principle on operating the fuel cycle independently under national sovereignty, Iran could engage the Saudis about their idea of a regional joint venture, or explore different options of multilateral consortia with other countries.
Trump’s abrogation of the JCPOA has left Iran with two options, neither of them good.
In addition, more securitization, easier online trading, and other financial market developments in recent years have facilitated greater speculative investments, especially in commodity futures and options markets, including those affecting food.
He decides to sell options on the S&P event.
He then sells 100 million covered options, which fetch ten cents on the dollar and thus net $10 million.
He parks this $10 million in Treasury bills, too, and sells another 10 million options.
The fund grosses $11 million from the sale of the options plus 4% on $110 million in Treasury bills, which represents a handsome 15.4% return before expenses.
Without other options, Ms. Watanabe took a long-term unpaid leave of absence (which her company typically does not grant to women) to study for an MBA in America.
Initial reaction among the US, the UK, and France was almost contemptuous: one could almost hear their leaders sneering, “These countries would want all of those delaying and spoiling options, wouldn’t they.”
Even without such constraints, it is only prudent for fiscal policymakers to keep their options open.
Big data can multiply our options while filtering out things we don’t want to see, but there is something to be said for discovering that 11th book through pure serendipity.
Finally, policymakers are running out of options.
While some funding for expanding surgical services could come from taxation, health-care providers should also explore innovative financing options – such as “social justice models,” whereby people pay according to their means.
Not only are fixed salaries revealed, but so are bonuses, fees for serving on boards of directors, returns on stock options, pension packages, and other perks, such as corporate jets or chauffeur-driven cars.
In June, Antoine Zacharias, chairman and CEO of Vincy, France’s biggest public concessions and construction company, was obliged to resign when a majority of the board of directors judged his remuneration to be outrageous: €4.3 million in salary, a €13 million retirement bonus, a €2.2 million pension, and an estimated €173 million in stock options.
Should laws governing stock options be reformed?
Stock options, too, often stir passionate criticism.
But, for some managers, stock options have created an incentive to inflate profits and hide losses, thereby enriching themselves artificially while jeopardizing their companies and other shareholders.
A bill proposed by former Prime Minister Edouard Balladur seeks to eliminate perverse incentives by barring corporate officers from exercising their stock options until they leave the company.
Jacques Chirac, more cautiously, stated that stock options should be legally “encadrés” (framed).
Others suggest broadening the scope of stock options to include more employees.
Some Socialists are more radical, advocating, as Laurent Fabius recently did, the suppression of stock options.
As in the oil and gas sector – where tapping unconventional sources, such as shale and tar sands, has proved a game changer – the water sector must adopt all unconventional options, including recycling wastewater and desalinating ocean and brackish waters.
Governments and citizens thus have a rich set of options – such as diversity quotas, automatic voter registration, and online referenda – for addressing democratic deficiencies.
Although some US officials remain skeptical about these capabilities, they appreciate that Congress might not ratify a START Treaty that included formal limitations on these options.
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