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Likewise, stories of illegal or unethical labor practices – for example, among Apple suppliers in China – have inspired companies to take a close look at their supply chains.
As with unfair or illegal labor practices, businesses must refuse to sponsor, supply, or work with organizations that fail to protect their workers from sexual abuse.
Likewise, part of the wealth of those in finance comes from exploiting the poor, through predatory lending and abusive credit-card practices.
The successful implementation of China’s revised Bankruptcy Law hinges on its effective enforcement and abandonment of the mindset and practices shaped under the old version, especially in the era of policy-based bankruptcy.
Private-sector flows have been much larger throughout Central and Eastern Europe as well, owing to attractive conditions for foreign direct investment – much of it comprising long-term projects with associated benefits like knowledge transfer and the introduction of international best practices.
Is Bankers’ Pay Really the Root of Financial Evil?CHICAGO – Compensation practices at financial firms stand accused of being a primary cause of the recent global financial crisis.
Ruling out compensation practices hardly leaves us at a loss for culprits.
Even companies catering to the “silver market” (elderly consumers) have barely begun to develop more age-friendly employment practices.
Yet while their economies blossomed, power remained opaque, screened by personal loyalties, secret deals, corrupt practices.
But I have also had many eye-opening experiences as people from around the world and from every background deepen my understanding and sourcing about issues as far-ranging as military law, religious practices, and swine flu.
Questionable practices by companies from any country should be addressed in a fair, impartial way.
Small changes in practices, when replicated by hundreds of millions of people, can make an enormous difference.
Realizing this potential will require efforts by both employers and governments to eliminate discriminatory practices that impede the recruitment, retention, and promotion of women, as well as credit, tax, and family support policies to help workers balance their responsibilities at work and at home.
In the long run, selective repudiation of odious debts will benefit both borrowers and creditors by promoting more responsible lending practices.
But, given that these bilateral arrangements are executed by state-owned corporations, they often do not adhere to international best practices.
Only with an open attitude can Western leaders ensure that Chinese-led institutions adopt best practices of multilateralism and accountability, and that they adhere to international labor and environmental standards.
That means not only greater economic inclusion, higher agricultural productivity, strengthened food security, and financial stability, but also lessons concerning responsible and sustainable business practices, corporate governance, and community relations.
And we should consider how to facilitate the spread of cooperatives’ best practices while avoiding common pitfalls.
The US and those representing it have been guilty of hubris (the US may often be the indispensable nation, but it would be better if others pointed this out), and examples of inconsistency between America’s practices and its principles understandably provoke charges of hypocrisy.
Finally, the world faces many serious challenges, ranging from the need to halt the spread of weapons of mass destruction, fight climate change, and maintain a functioning world economic order that promotes trade and investment to regulating practices in cyberspace, improving global health, and preventing armed conflicts.
Last month the Ministry of Education invited a delegation from Columbia University’s Harriman Institute to visit the country to discuss educational practices in the United States and exchange views about educational reform.
Companies will have to upgrade their accounting standards, and banks their risk-management practices, to cope with the faster pace of financial transactions.
They claim that America’s current-account deficit (or trade deficit), which is in fact the result of America’s low and falling saving rate, is an indicator of unfair trade practices by Germany and China, two current-account surplus countries.
On trade, for example, multilateralists will need to work with China to defend the WTO; but they also need to reform the WTO so that it is equipped to curtail China’s problematic trade and investment practices.
Studies such as this are rare, because the doctors who profit from the practices being investigated do not welcome independent reviews that might demolish their trade.
The successes of social businesses such as Grameen Bank and BRAC in Bangladesh have contributed to renewed thinking about how social objectives can be fused with revenue-generating practices.
It opposes necessary structural reforms in order to defend its clients’ rent-seeking practices; rejects citizen candidacies in favor of unaccountable party elites; recoils from union modernization, owing to the corporatist practices that it implemented; and refuses to dismantle the monopolies that it established.
One paradigm regards economic policies as a set of universal best practices.
Prompted by civic passivity, political parties not only came to dominate every aspect of Czech life but engaged in dubious practices that increased cynicism and public passivity.
Those who question whether the administration has any inclination of going this route should note that it did, in fact, file a WTO complaint against Chinese technology licensing practices in March.
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