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In 2009, I edited a series of essays with Oksanen documenting official practices in Estonia when it was part of the Soviet Union.
Moreover, the method is vulnerable to illicit practices, such as collecting receipts issued to foreigners and students, who cannot claim their own refunds.
Had that happened, Dimon would have needed to withdraw his comment that the problem was just a tempest in a teapot, and doubts would have arisen, in the midst of the crisis, about just how good JPM’s well-regarded risk-management practices really were.
My own recent research suggests that although countries that ratify treaties usually have better human rights records than countries that do not, countries with the worst human rights records actually ratify many treaties as often as nations with the best practices.
Human rights treaties serve to foster gradual improvements in human rights practices in both non-ratifying and ratifying countries through changes in shared understandings of what behavior is acceptable.
Nonetheless, there is as of yet no clear evidence that the UN's human rights treaties have a direct measurable positive impact on the human rights practices of individual countries that ratify them, all else being equal.
The more information we have about countries' human rights practices, the harder it will be for them to get away with abuses.
To draw attention to the often-nefarious practices of debt collectors, Rolling Jubilee recently canceled student debt for 2,761 students of Everest College, a for-profit school whose parent company, Corinthian Colleges, is being sued by the US government for predatory lending.
The OECD concurs, and has frequently called on authorities to address “anti-competitive mergers, abuse of dominance, cartels and price fixing, vertical restraints, and exclusive practices” in the food sector.
Between 1997 and 2004, for example, the FAO counted 122 allegations of “anti-competitive practices” in 23 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Past civilizations adopted divinatory practices in an effort to know the future.
As Harvard’s Lant Pritchett, Michael Woolcock, and Andrews argue, when inept organizations adopt “best practices” such as financial management systems and procurement rules, they become too distracted by decision-distorting protocols to do what they were established to do.
Africa’s Manmade Water CrisisSINGAPORE – About a decade ago, at a meeting of South African mayors convened by Lindiwe Hendricks, South Africa’s then-minister of water and environmental affairs, we predicted that an unprecedented water crisis would hit one of the country’s main cities within 15 years, unless water-management practices were improved significantly.
Although the majority of China's exports now come from private companies that receive virtually no loans from state banks , American candidates in previous elections routinely sought to curry favor with working class voters by vowing to protect US jobs against China's supposedly unfair business practices.
Some ex-Baathists ended up in US detention centers, where abusive practices were widespread.
Realizing the economic potential of women requires changes in policies, business practices, and attitudes.
At the same time, human-resource practices should take account of unconscious biases, risks of stereotyping, and documented gender differences in behavior.
As my colleagues and I put it in our book-length report Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 2015, launched in Geneva, Vienna, and Washington in March: “On the evidence of the size of their weapons arsenals, fissile material stocks, force modernization plans, stated doctrine and known deployment practices, all nine nuclear-armed states foresee indefinite retention of nuclear weapons and a continuing role for them in their security policies.”
The plight of the US middle class has been framed as a blame game, with China and its alleged unfair trading practices singled out as the culprit.
But the Iranian regime is no ordinary government; it may not adhere to the normal practices of nuclear restraint.
To do so required a change in work practices and in the way firms were run.
So should labor and environmental practices.
But the interlinking of consulting and auditing practices puts other perverse incentives in place: an incentive to please the clients, who dislike unfavorable reports.
Its auditors claim that its central practices were within the law; that thousands of firms do the same.
And, indeed, the new CEO shows up with big plans, spending the first six months dismantling and castigating past policies and practices, sometimes without rhyme or reason.
So he should be held to the same standard as a CEO of a large public multinational company – a standard that is going up, owing to increased scrutiny of corporate governance practices (despite Trump’s deregulation efforts).
Corporate governance is becoming stricter, based on a growing recognition of companies’ responsibility to ensure safe working environments, bar child labor, prevent environmental destruction, and end other damaging practices.
South Korea’s leaders must implement stronger regulations to prevent illegal transactions and unfair practices, including collusion between chaebols and government officials.
Clean tech is maturing and adopting proven management practices in operations, marketing, sales, and distribution.
Whether Trump’s trade war is about containing China or just about punishing it for its trade practices, the unintended consequence is that China is now fortifying itself for a new era of political and economic challenges.
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