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Though law-enforcement, anti-trafficking, and child-protection agencies have long known about these abusive practices, solutions – such as employment schemes, legal immigration status, and improved health-care access – remain absent.
The risk is that the fraternal ties between the army – not exactly innocent of the Mubarak regime’s repressive practices – and the protesters might prove short-lived.
None of this is to say that the US does not have any legitimate grievances about China’s trade practices.
Ironically, those who are caught often blame their misconduct on competition, pressure to publish, and recognition and prizes – the very practices and incentives that the scientific community introduced and fostered.
But we must be careful not to corrupt their work with the questionable practices that the scientific community has adopted in recent years.
Clearly, improving health outcomes requires both increased government spending and an end to shady practices that siphon crucial resources from the health system.
Because the biggest opportunities lie in spurring faster productivity catch-up by adopting and diffusing today’s best practices, politicians must keep pushing to reduce trade and regulatory barriers to market integration and competition.
The Chinese, for their part, complain about foreign trade practices and are taking some cases (for example, a long-running dispute with the European Union over solar panels) to the WTO, where cases brought against China by other countries are proliferating.
The real issue is not a theoretical question about Islam, but concerns the religious practices of Muslims.
Atif Mian and Amir Sufi warn that US consumers’ purchases of cars and other durables have been bolstered by the same unsustainable “subprime” lending practices that were used to finance home purchases before the crisis.
The industry should follow best practices, including making public the chemicals that it uses.
That’s not to say that America’s trading partners should be let off the hook for unfair practices.
Lack of information, marriage to much older men, and the inability to negotiate safe sexual practices also puts child brides at greater risk of HIV infection than their unmarried peers.
The paper alleged that the men had been enticed into such practices by a Norwegian, who gave them money and gifts in exchange for photos of them engaged in homosexual acts.
Chirac practices the politics of “scapegoatism” and excuses.
If released into the environment, they could potentially alter food chains, eradicate beneficial organisms such as pollinators, and disrupt indigenous agro-ecological practices and cultures.
But, because special-interest groups have developed around existing institutions and practices, we are basically stuck with them, subject to minor tweaking.
Moreover, America has been exporting its problems abroad, not just by selling toxic mortgages and bad financial practices, but through the ever-weakening dollar, in part a result of flawed macro- and micro-policies.
Social norms can also help to curb corruption and encourage fair practices.
The Fund urges that savings be found in unproductive spending - meaning excessive military spending, subsidies for the well-to-do, and inefficient administrative practices.
Russia actually withdrew from the World Psychiatric Association for most of the 1980s, in order to avoid being expelled for such practices.
As international bureaucracies with a penchant for “best practices” and common standards, these institutions are woefully unsuited to the task of seeking innovative, unique pathways suited to each country’s particular circumstances.
Students and faculty who sympathize with Trump may perceive such practices as discriminatory.
Like other organizations, universities have the right to determine their practices in accordance with their values.
These practices may diverge from what specific subgroups within them would like to see, either because there are contending values or because there are differences on the practicalities of how to realize them.
Nonetheless, political pressures from the US and Europe, manifested as charges of currency manipulation and unfair trade practices, as well as misguided ideas in China about the renminbi’s “prestige,” might lead China to resist any meaningful exchange-rate correction.
All of the world's religions contain some doctrines and practices that are potentially harmful to the emergence of democracy, and others that are potentially beneficial.
Moreover, the region’s most productive farmers could be identified and encouraged to share their best practices with other farmers.
But some practices can be modified for use elsewhere.
Indeed, the lack of restrictions has enabled dubious journalistic practices to flourish.
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