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Now the World Food Program fears that another famine is looming – the country’s agricultural output will likely fall to 1.8 million tons of grain, far short of the 4.8 million tons needed to supply the meagre ration of 7ounces a day (half the daily allowance for those in UN refugee camps) ordinary North Koreans receive.
He accepted this risk as the price to be paid in order to improve the economic welfare of ordinary Chinese.
The result is a multiplication of weasel words that chill political and moral debate, and that create a widening gap between public language and what many ordinary people think.
Elites dismiss their opponents as empty-headed populists, and are accused, in turn, of being out of touch with the concerns of ordinary people.
For most ordinary people in places deemed unsuitable for self-government (Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Cambodia, soon Iraq), foreign administrators seem none too different from the rulers of the British Raj.
First, despite the heroic leadership of the Buddhist clergy and the pro-democracy community, almost 50 years of military misrule and terror tactics have worn down Burma’s people, who will likely find it hard to maintain their defiance without obvious splits among the ruling generals or widespread desertions among ordinary soldiers.
After all, ordinary soldiers take this risk, so why should political leaders – who can do much greater good or ill – be immune to it?
The violence began following an ordinary conflict between two small groups of young people over a taxi.
But the Kremlin still seems addicted to this means of buttressing its legitimacy among ordinary Russians.
To ordinary Nigerians, the fuel subsidy was the only advantage that they derived from the petrodollars that pour into the national treasury.
In another measure intended to improve the lives of ordinary Cubans, he has removed restrictions on acquiring computers, microwave ovens, and other appliances.
Ordinary citizens should become more alert to the signs of radicalization, and more educated on how to respond.
First, while some segments of services are tradable and are becoming more important in global commerce, these typically are highly skill-intensive sectors that employ comparatively few ordinary workers.
But few people – whether ordinary citizens or internationally oriented economists – recognize that our seemingly weak and ineffectual multilateral institutions are the world’s best hope for managing and democratizing the global market.
Yet many economists are as ambivalent about “global” rules and institutions as ordinary people are.
They thus provide a vehicle for ordinary people to lobby for fairer rules and policies, not only in their own countries but also in others.
Ultimately, as I argue in greater detail in a paper for the Global Citizens Foundation, ordinary people are better off with global institutions, notwithstanding their weakness relative to their most powerful sovereign members and their lack of legitimacy relative to their democratic members.
Ordinary Burmese well understand that their country’s democratic transition is the direct result of its recoil from China’s excessive demands on its natural resources.
Nor could it conduct credible negotiations with Israel or deliver necessary services to ordinary Palestinians.
A year after the Orange Revolution demonstrated ordinary Ukrainians’ fidelity to liberty, Yanukovych still evinces no faith in democracy, and the “single economic space” with Russia that he backs will strengthen the abusive oligarchic system and rule out liberalization.
Ordinary French people also have much to consider: our attitudes toward the market, our relations with the rest of Europe, and our views about the world beyond the EU’s borders.
A recent study found that taxing capital gains and dividends as ordinary income, subject to a maximum 28% rate on long-term capital gains (the pre-1997 rate), could finance a cut in the corporate-tax rate from 35% to 26%.
Indeed, if the US never acknowledges the specific strikes, how can ordinary Americans possibly know that Rasilah al-Faqih, a pregnant Yemeni woman, was killed in Walad Rabei’, along with her husband and ten-year-old daughter, as they headed home from a visit to the doctor?
The obvious conclusion that even ordinary Russians are drawing is that neither property rights nor people are safe.
The same officials who lord it over ordinary Chinese people often summon irresistible charm to woo Western investors.
Their praise of Chinese officials’ quality and effectiveness is often held up by the Communist Party as an international endorsement of its policies and legitimacy – even if ordinary Chinese know otherwise.
The Kremlin’s campaign against gay rights has secured the support of the church, while reminding ordinary Russians that the state takes a watchful interest in their lives.
There is no credible threat to ordinary Russians, yet Surkov’s campaign is having a profound impact.
Alongside elite self-interest, the pain of ordinary workers and citizens is a genuine and widespread concern.
Ordinary people are already angry at a kleptocratic elite that siphons off public money.
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