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They command either veto power or a blocking minority in the Bretton Woods institutions (the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank), which gives them a disproportionate influence on the rules and practices that govern the international economic and monetary system.
If those arrangements are secure, users of land have an incentive not just to implement best practices for their use of it (paying attention to, say, environmental impacts), but also to invest more.
For its part, the World Bank is investing in programs that promote good governance worldwide, while maintaining a robust investigation, enforcement, and prevention capacity to manage risks and root out shady practices.
A corporate giant has little incentive to change its practices if the fines imposed on it amount to, say, less than a week’s earnings.
Yet if citizens decide that they will vote in their self-interest within the restraints of a moral code, immoral campaign practices would suddenly impose a cost, rather than confer an advantage.
In a handful of countries, poor governance can also be blamed for unsustainable debt practices.
It is time to seek out best practices that bridge this putative divide, and scale them up.
But even in many countries in those regions, Chinese practices like importing labor for infrastructure projects are unpopular.
As its weapons program lumbers forward, it has made little effort to hide its periodic failures, marking a departure from past practices.
Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a contentious legislature helped to bring such practices into public debate.
Foreign corrupt practices laws are rooted in the recognition that governance should cross borders, just as capital does.
The US and others have made progress in punishing domestic firms that engage in corrupt practices abroad.
The incentives associated with the winner-take-all system encourage cheating – ranging from questionable practices and ethical lapses to outright misconduct.
Scientific culture must be reformed to abandon longstanding practices, such as those that determine how credit is assigned.
By serving as a bridge between informal savings groups and banks, health centers, schools, and agricultural extension services, we are helping women make better decisions about food use, nutritional practices, and spending.
Romney is a proponent of free trade, but has said that he would be tougher on China’s trade practices and currency policies.
Elsewhere, in the developing world, popular mobilization occurred in the absence of a liberal tradition or liberal practices.
Agro-ecology points to solutions, but strong support from governments is needed to scale up existing best practices.
Fifth, African leaders are getting serious about curbing illicit financial outflows from corrupt practices that rob African countries of some $50 billion annually, much of it in the oil and gas sector.
More constructively, the business world uses imitation through the practice of benchmarking, whereby companies share performance information so that they can all learn what is achievable and whom to try to imitate, thus facilitating the identification of “best practices.”
I do not intend to discuss Poland’s internal politics, but I would like to show how a false understanding of Western practices, combined with a blind insistence on glib, populist solutions, creates unsustainable illusions and may destroy a chance to secure what de Tocqueville called "equality of opportunity."
Uruguay is expected to approve legislation fully legalizing marijuana in January; the Organization of American States is scheduled to deliver a report to the region’s heads of state at mid-year on alternative drug-enforcement strategies and existing “best practices” in other countries.
If China wants allies in its trade war with the US, it will have to revise many domestic regulations and practices that constitute de facto discrimination against foreign competitors.
Although the EU Commission appears to be committed to building a more open, competitive energy market in Europe, action against Russia’s noncompetitive practices within the EU has taken a back seat to internal differences over takeover battles for national energy “champions” involving companies from other member states.
The Pentagon has also acknowledged that it had authorized sexualized abuse of detainees as part of interrogation practices to be performed by female operatives.
But, at the same time, more than 16 million hectares of pastures and degraded land – an area half the size of Germany – have been abandoned in the Amazon alone, owing to poor agricultural practices and land use.
To be sure, communities in affected regions have long followed safe, traditional practices.
But they may be unaware of why these practices are so important, and therefore of the consequences of not adhering to them.
Having been encouraged by the government to experiment with Internet-based business models, Chinese firms are upending traditional practices.
The only thing we got wrong was how bad banks’ lending practices were, how non-transparent banks really were, and how inadequate their risk management systems were.
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