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Citing retrograde cultural practices – from the subjugation of women to violence against religious and sexual minorities – in the autocratic and crisis-prone countries from which immigrants often hail, their opponents often argue that people from these cultures cannot assimilate properly in Europe.
It was widely known that banks and mortgage companies were engaged in predatory lending practices, taking advantage of the least educated and most financially uninformed to make loans that maximized fees and imposed enormous risks on the borrowers.
Having suffered the oppressive practices of Turkey's "secular" state and recognizing that human rights must be protected across-the-board, the AKP emerged as a credible interlocutor with the West.
At that point, judges’ and government officials’ pay could be raised to competitive levels, which would weaken the incentive to continue corrupt practices – particularly if officials must regularly file financial-disclosure statements and are penalized for withholding information.
Whereas a company is traditionally valued based exclusively on how it deploys financial capital to generate returns, the new framework incorporates how it deploys natural, human, and social capital, as well as the transparency of its governance practices.
For example, the decadent House of Saud, backed by the United States, not only practices Wahhabi Islam – the source of modern Islamic fundamentalism – but also exports this fringe form of the faith, gradually snuffing out more liberal Islamic traditions.
While some of this criticism may be over-stated or misplaced, it nonetheless underscores the need to reform financial institutions and practices.
If Ghosn truly has been hiding his real income from Nissan’s published accounts, there must have been collaborators in the company’s finance department, and such practices ought to have been identified by auditors and investigated by independent directors.
The main moral of this tragic tale, however, does not stem from a struggle between Japanese and European practices, much less from a pay squabble and dodgy corporate practices.
Poverty is at the root of this ecological crisis, but poor farming practices perpetuate the cycle of hunger and habitat loss.
Research shows that better farming practices and technology can increase agricultural productivity while reducing habitat loss and protecting wildlife.
Established trade negotiation practices make little sense in a world of global value chains and sophisticated services.
Could the FSB not review practices and point to a preferred structure, or at least some non-preferred ones?
China has rebuffed the landmark ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration, which knocked the bottom out of expansive Chinese territorial claims in the South China Sea and held that some of the country’s practices were in violation of international law.
But, in the decades since, the Arab world’s rulers, regimes, and practices seemed to have remained firmly entrenched.
The Bank’s most important role in development today is as a “knowledge bank” that helps aggregate, distill, and disseminate best practices from around the world.
Meeting the food demands of the planet’s growing population will require new farming products, technologies, and practices to increase productivity.
For any emerging or developing economy, success depends on the presence of a broad set of complementary factors: access to finance, quality infrastructure, sufficient skilled labor, and sound managerial and organizational practices.
But at the same time the OSCE is condemning these anti-democratic practices, its own Parliamentary Assembly maintains full-fledged cooperation with the Belarusian parliament.
Reaching the top requires not only talent and luck, but also a lot of practices – that is, time wasted from the point of view of survival.
After centuries of wasteful production and consumption practices – facilitated by ever-lower commodity prices that have declined by an average of 0.7% a year in peacetime over the past century – the world is in dire need of technologies that enable producers and consumers alike to do more with less.
In this environment, companies cannot compete on the basis of twentieth-century (if not nineteenth-century) technologies and practices.
America’s Weak Case Against ChinaNEW HAVEN – On the surface, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer appears to have made an ironclad case against China in the so-called Section 301 report issued on March 22.Laid out in a detailed 182-page document (which, with 1,139 footnotes and five appendices, would make any legal team blush with pride), the USTR’s indictment of China on charges of unfair trading practices regarding technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation seems both urgent and compelling.
Yes, as we joined with our partners in creating China’s first investment bank, we shared our business practices, proprietary products, and distribution systems.
In fact, the report devotes more than twice as many pages to charges concerning China’s supposed external technology theft via such acquisitions – which are framed as a blatant grab for America’s most precious assets – as it does to internal transfers through JVs and alleged unfair licensing practices.
If current practices are maintained, the choice for this key post will be made on the basis of nationality, not merit.
True, there is a neo-Ottoman revival in the cultural field, and our citizens are eager to rediscover Ottoman life, culture, and practices.
To its credit, the European Commission also issued strong calls to member states for better legislation and practices concerning migration.
To insist that all treatment decisions be based on existing best practices stifles this exploration and prevents potential medical breakthroughs.
Advocates of EBM respond that it is the job of researchers to generate the data that are turned into best practices; the clinician’s role is to implement the results.
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