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The principles underpinning such measures are anchored in SDG target 12.6, which encourages “companies, especially large and transnational companies, to adopt sustainable practices and to integrate sustainability information into their reporting cycle.”
Some are even opting to divest from any company with exposure to industries or business practices that present sustainability challenges.
Their main objectives are to enable companies and organizations to set sustainability targets and key performance indicators; to monitor, prepare, and disclose comparative data measuring their economic and ESG performance; and to integrate sustainable production and consumption practices in company business strategies and models.
No matter how irksome American dominance might have been, or how much people deplored some of the destructive wars that the US unleashed, criticism of US policies, presidents, and even cultural practices was not only permissible, but seen as a healthy sign of liberal democracy.
For example, they must prevent the manipulation of reviews and other practices that mislead consumers trying to assess the quality of a company’s service.
Digital connections promote productivity growth; indeed, they can help developing economies move to the productivity frontier by exposing their business sectors to ideas, research, technologies, and best management and operational practices, and by building new channels to serve large global markets.
The new benchmark’s overall score for a firm can be broken down into three separate categories: its commitment to research and development for new drugs; its manufacturing, production, and environmental standards; and its marketing and distribution practices, which should focus on ensuring access rather than excess.
Yet regulators persist in trying to inject themselves into these fields, with antitrust authorities claiming that they are ripe with anti-competitive practices and exercises of “undue market power" by the most successful market participants.
Even if Microsoft on occasion may have engaged in some sharp competitive practices, the EU’s competition authorities have not been content with slapping its wrists, but got involved in deeply intrusive remedies, including the unbundling of a media player from Microsoft’s operating system and mandating disclosure of industrial secrets embodied in Microsoft’s server software.
Like the system of mass production, they are “inherently political,” because their core functionality demands certain social practices and discourages others.
Just as we obey our leaders’ orders to fight and die because we trust their judgment, we entrust our careers and our money to those who run Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and other such banks, because we believe their leaders will be fair to their employees and clients, and honorable in their business practices.
Jump-starting productivity growth will require reworking the kingdom’s restrictions on business and labor practices.
This would enable it to identify macroeconomic threats to stability and encourage best practices for supervisors and regulators.
Although Moore’s law about the doubling of computing power every two years means that cyber time moves quickly, human habits, norms, and state practices change more slowly.
In some cases, development of principles and practices among like-minded states can lead to norms to which others may accede at a later point.
Indeed, subsidiaries where managers hold shares through their children and other relatives – say, the huge construction company Stroitransgaz which has billion-dollar contracts with Gazprom – are created regularly and shareholders seem powerless to stop such practices.
This must be accompanied by increased efforts, from the Arctic to the Antarctic, to protect key species affected by fishing practices and establish fully protected marine reserves or “regeneration zones” to help restock and restore habitats.
School officials and politicians often extol Asian educational practices, but they should also consider Asian recess practices in the context of an extended school day and academic year.
After all, high levels of growth translate into large rents that can, through corrupt practices, be distributed to the officials themselves, as well as to their friends and protégé.
Eliminate such practices, the logic goes, and officials will be unable to reap large rewards from economic growth – and thus will be less motivated to encourage it.
The funding can be direct, through institutions like the Defense Department or the National Institutes of Health (NIH), or indirect, via tax breaks, procurement practices, and subsidies to academic labs or research centers.
Today’s Arab states in transition are discovering how difficult it is to replace deep-seated authoritarian practices and relationships with sustained democratization, a process that depends crucially on transforming their security sectors.
Cohen knows a great deal about Trump’s previous business practices and has revealed that he arranged to pay women with whom Trump had sex (though he hasn’t admitted it) for their silence before the presidential election.
However, their narrowly focused anti-drug stance strongly influences the policies and practices of member nations.
These two practices alone could do more to reduce infant mortality than just about any other global health initiative.
Compassionate MeritocracySINGAPORE – More than two decades ago, political leaders in Singapore put forward the idea of “Asian values” to assert that liberal democratic principles and practices were not suited to the region, sparking an important debate that centered on the universality of human rights.
Fortunately, a free press, an independent judiciary, and a pluralist legislature helped to hold for such practices up public debate.
Stationed for a decade as a KGB agent in the former East Germany, he saw Western democratic and business practices at close hand, and is believed to be committed to them.
But many areas in which reform is needed, such as hiring practices, require change in private-sector conventions, not government regulations.
Family policies, together with changes in corporate labor practices, can reinforce changing mores, leading to greater (and more effective) female labor-force participation.
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