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Putin can surround ordinary Russians with the uninterrupted message that theirs is a modern economy on par with leading global powers.
Sanusi did ordinary Nigerians a favor by highlighting the NNPC’s malfeasance.
Indeed, one of the main reasons why certain tasks are given to governments, rather than left to the private sector, is that ordinary market mechanisms do not work in the case of so-called “public goods” because the market cannot determine the optimal level of their supply.
Ordinary Europeans long trusted elites with the business of democracy – and often even seemed to prefer unelected elites.
In turn, the government encouraged the idea that ordinary citizens had legal rights as a way to ensure social stability, check petty corruption, and channel social grievances through a party-controlled mechanism.
The new property law won’t be the breakthrough for rights protection that the government claims it is until it is matched by increased access to justice for ordinary citizens.
The government is fortunate to have my lawyer friend’s faith in the legal system, but now it must earn ordinary citizens’ trust by enacting reforms.
Indeed, the economy has mostly boomed under his stewardship - another reason ordinary Russians like him.
The URF leaders ran an electoral campaign that seemed to revel in their distance from ordinary Russians.
Austerity vs. EuropeMADRID – It is now increasingly clear that what started in late 2008 is no ordinary economic slump.
Nor is there any sign that political ideology has made a return among ordinary people.
But, in August 1991, ordinary Muscovites stood their ground.
But ordinary Russians’ sudden, unexpected defense of their newfound freedoms, together with the putschists’ sheer incompetence, defeated the effort to restore totalitarian rule.
The West’s gain, however, continues to cause enormous discomfort for ordinary Russians.
Electricity, the automobile, airplane, air conditioning, and household appliances altered the way that ordinary people live in fundamental ways.
Private-sector actors and ordinary citizens can also help.
This is particularly true of the repo markets, which provide the equivalent services for professional investors – banks and large corporations – that ordinary bank deposits provide for individuals and small firms.
Perhaps ordinary citizens always knew that when they sold houses for real gains, ultimately they were profiting at someone else’s expense.
Ultimately, the EU will prevail, because ordinary Poles will quickly realize that their country’s independence makes no sense without the EU and NATO.
It is, of course, to be hoped that new governments in these countries, and other Arab leaders, will better address ordinary people’s grievances.
Moreover, ordinary Russians are becoming allergic to liberal democracy, because liberal technocrats have consistently served as window dressing for an illiberal Kremlin regime.
Z. A. Bhutto’s legacy was empowerment of the impoverished and defense of ordinary people’s rights amid feudalistic politics and military rule.
This is hardly an issue for ordinary Germans, because religion plays almost no role in German public life (so long as the religion in queston is not Islam).
Violence must give way to security for inhabitants; lawlessness and political exclusion must give way to the rule of law and participatory government; ethnic, religious, or class/caste polarization must give way to national reconciliation; and ruined war economies must be transformed into functioning market economies that enable ordinary people to support themselves.
Similarly, albeit less radically, ordinary citizens comprise two-thirds of Ireland’s Constitutional Convention.
If, as I believe, US policymakers genuinely want to strengthen the economy, they are in a good position to do so, benefiting not just the stock market, but ordinary Americans as well.
States and territories will also need to bring their tax systems into line with federal law, especially if they are currently taxing capital gains as ordinary income, as California does.
For the Kremlin’s occupants, it is a matter of life and death that countries that were once part of the Soviet Union but chose a different model of development – Ukraine being the chief example – should never become attractive to ordinary Russians.
The first, the US Census Bureau’s annual income and poverty report, shows that, despite the economy’s supposed recovery from the Great Recession, ordinary Americans’ incomes continue to stagnate.
They must serve ordinary citizens and address their problems.
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