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The country cannot afford to lose those benefits to an international backlash against its unfair trade and investment practices.
Another important tool in the fight against corruption will be technological innovation, which can reduce opportunities for wrongdoing, empower citizens to highlight illegal practices, and enhance government transparency and accountability.
Boycotts of sweated college t-shirts in the United States led to fairer manufacturing practices, and boycotts of coffee and produce, led mostly by women consumers, resulted in fair-trade purchases by major supermarkets.
Let us support a fair-trade economy, and refuse to shop at outlets targeted by activists for unfair employment practices (for more information, go to http://www.worldwatch.org/node/1485).
There may be a certain trade-off between these two aspects, since the EU's accession criteria were defined at a time when the eurozone did not exist and when best practices in exchange rate and monetary policy regimes differed from current ones.
For years, with the authorities’ encouragement (or at least acquiescence), China’s securities companies spared no effort in pumping up China’s stock exchanges with fashionable financial instruments and practices, the sole aim being to realize capital gains from rising prices (dividends are rarely distributed).
On one hand, the world sees a young, educated leader pledging to modernize Russia, particularly in terms of bringing its law enforcement and judicial practices into line with international norms.
The crisis is an opportunity to achieve greater transparency on all fronts, including banking practices in rich countries that facilitate tax evasion in developing nations.
The US needs to refocus the US-China trade agenda toward expanded market access in these and other areas – pushing back against Chinese policies and government procurement practices that favor domestic production and indigenous innovation.
Women are among those most vulnerable to the impacts of unsustainable practices and climate change, because they often have no independent income or land rights.
Inherently biased recruitment and hiring practices exacerbate this inequality further.
Such a review of remittances should look into restrictive practices that could be abolished, and ask whether official assistance should be adapted to the needs of this informal yet crucially important aid network.
They have their own national rules and regulations to apply, and every financial supervisory authority (FSA) in Europe has its own practices and traditions.
Given this reality, what matters now is how this “Putin system” will work, which will depend on institutional frameworks and practices.
Through the Nairobi-Upper-Tana Water Fund, the combined resources of government and business are helping farmers implement more sustainable agricultural practices, such as the use of cover crops, resulting not only in increased water flows to Nairobi, but also in higher agricultural yields.
Therefore, developing nation policymakers should consider encouraging households to change their food practices.
A mother’s diet, breastfeeding choice, and weaning practices are critically important for her child’s well being.
Where the impetus to “cover” comes welling up from below, from family and community, such veiling practices provoke countervailing state actions.
Not only are Jordanians largely silent about the practices of the Iraqi regime, but also they are sceptical about efforts to bring reform or greater openness to Jordan.
If Google’s search practices really do harm consumers, Almunia risks agreeing to a settlement that does not solve the problem.
The federal government can work to sharpen and reinforce state efforts by providing funding and encouraging best practices, while avoiding imposing any ideology on the projects.
Such practices are perceived as serving a moral “us” at the expense of the immoral or foreign “them.”
These institutions represent a viable alternative to the extremes of capitalism that have given rise to morally reprehensible practices, from predatory lending and market manipulation in the financial sector to tech companies’ abuse of personal data and emissions cheating in the automobile industry.
This contrast can also point us to the ways Europe’s governments should amend their rules, encouraging entrepreneurs to develop cutting-edge business models at home rather than being forced to accept innovations only after they have become best practices abroad.
Organic practices afford limited pesticide options, create difficulties in meeting peak fertilizer demand, and rule out access to genetically engineered varieties.
It is in this anxious atmosphere that the current coalition rules, combining George W. Bush’s conservative nostrums with the centralizing practices of Vladimir Putin.
As the Bank reviews its financial-management practices, a more consciously counter-cyclical approach could be adopted.
China can maintain its currency practices, but at the risk of large global macroeconomic imbalances and a major political backlash in the US and elsewhere.
Yet the European Court has fueled frustrations by undercutting local labor practices in notable recent cases concerning workers employed in Sweden and in Germany.
A recent New York Times editorial, for example, decried wealthy countries’ “me first” attitude toward a possible H5N1 pandemic, because “[t]he best hope of stopping a pandemic, or at least buying time to respond, is to improve surveillance and health practices in East Africa and Asia, where one would probably begin.”
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