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Such solutions should draw from relevant experiences, with the understanding that they do not amount to “best practices.”
And, indeed, there is some evidence to support claims that currency manipulation and unfair trading practices have been key drivers, at least over some sub-periods.
US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that these surpluses are a byproduct of unfair trade practices rings stridently hollow.
Of course, institutional differences between America and Western Europe do exist: in the regulation of labor, in restrictions on land-use and redevelopment, in the tolerance of competition authorities for resale price maintenance and related practices.
But addressing scarcity will inevitably imply revising agricultural practices and policies worldwide to ensure their sustainability.
Human rights activists in the United States are calling for legislation that would prevent American companies from engaging in business practices that help repressive regimes stifle democratic movements.
But is reprogenetics simply a new and more powerful vehicle to repeat the abhorrent eugenic practices of the past?
Eugenics embodies the desire and attempts of a society's leaders to control the breeding practices of its citizens, including the forcible sterilization or murder of those deemed as carrying undesirable genes.
While eugenic practices led to a restriction of reproductive freedom and worse, reprogenetics can do the opposite.
Increasingly obsessed at the prospect of its own citizens and practices coming under international scrutiny, America has over the past few years contributed to the general erosion of the UN human rights monitoring system.
While Spiekermann thinks “personal data markets and the use of the data within them should be forbidden in their current form,” she thinks the GDPR “is a good motivator for companies around the world to question their personal data sharing practices.”
A study by a class of WU graduate students “benchmarked the data collection practices of our top online services (such as Google, Facebook or Apple) and compared them to their new privacy-friendly competitors.”
The electoral process has been unable to guarantee decent democratic governance, rein in predatory practices among the political class, or make public officials follow established rules, keep them responsive to citizen preferences, and deter them from channeling public funds into private hands.
If the data revolution is to be harnessed in the service of sustainable development, the best practices of this field must be incorporated into the effort.
Salafis, whose name is derived from the Arabic phrase for “righteous ancestors,” known as “Salaf al-Salih,” insist on a return to what they consider the purity of the practices of the first Muslims.
And yet recent research by the World Bank Group documented discrepancies between treatment of women and men in 102 of 141 countries surveyed – policies and practices that severely limit women’s economic opportunities.
Such practices, illegal as practiced by Bernard Madoff, are functionally equivalent to what happens during an asset-price bubble.
For we often sought to import tried and tested Western practices -- private property, the free market, competition, strict observance of human rights, the creation of civil society, representative democracy -- in diluted forms that would somehow help us maintain elements of Socialism.
Over the last decade we moved from complete aversion to the idea of reform to a policy of mutant reforms pursued for corrupt motives, to the gradual adaptation of legitimate Western practices.
In an important book, W. Brian Arthur defines technology as a collection of devices and engineering practices available to a culture.
In the United States, for example, recent legislation should help to ensure that the best evidence-based practices will form the basis of non-coercive interrogation.
Some governments have already implemented important measures to support the shift toward more environmentally friendly practices, including financial and market incentives.
Indeed, it sometimes seems as if no major environmental conference is complete without a presentation by European policymakers on their continent’s supposed “best practices,” which the rest of the world should emulate.
The stigma surrounding the disease remains hard to dispel, and results in discriminatory attitudes and practices that continue to blight the lives of millions of people.
As for industrial policy, the economist Stephen S. Cohen and I argue in our 2016 book, Concrete Economics, that officials should recognize and capitalize on America’s interlinked communities of producers and their deep institutional knowledge of engineering practices.
Globalization connects scientists worldwide, enabling them to avoid duplication and facilitating the development of universal standards and best practices.
Let us concede that child marriage, female circumcision, and the like are not found reprehensible by many societies; but let us also ask the victims of these practices how they feel.
Better than BaselROME – The Basel Accords – meant to protect depositors and the public in general from bad banking practices – exacerbated the downward economic spiral triggered by the financial crisis of 2008.
Stiglitz asserts that the study Fannie Mae hired him to write in 2002 said only that its lending practices at that time were safe.
A girl who has had more than six years of education is better equipped to seek and use medical advice, to immunize her children, and to be aware of the importance of sanitary practices, from boiling water to washing hands.
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