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Two studies that I conducted with colleagues at the University of Beirut use Lebanon to examine the relationship between religion and such social and cultural characteristics as inequality, preference for sons, and the degree of female labor market participation.
Indeed, just as our initial research uncovered no evidence of relative Muslim egalitarianism, we discovered no major difference between preference for sons among Christians and Muslims.
While this does not guarantee that no relationship exists between religion and discrimination against women, it suggests that if such a tie does exist, it is unrelated to female labor market participation or preference for sons.
After all, Lebanon does have low social mobility, low female labor market participation, and a strong preference for sons, while other countries do not.
Russia’s stance also reflects its preference for stability over justice and its acceptance of the legitimacy of authoritarian rule.
The preference clearly is that the first new members should, for the time being at least, also be the last.
Indian couples have a strong cultural preference, bordering on obsession, for sons over daughters – despite the strides in education and employment that women have made over the last few decades.
Politically, this translates into a preference for social-welfare spending over defense or investment expenditure, with the former liable to absorb 5-10% of GDP in developed countries.
While pragmatism has come to dominate northern Europe’s socialist parties since the 1930’s – and, after the 1957 Congress of Bad Godesberg, the Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) as well – a preference for revolutionary ideology has always prevailed, at least on the rhetorical level, among French socialists.
But he seems to have a preference for shallow populism – a penchant for seeking ready-made symbols of legitimacy to win over a restive population.
The preference of some countries to isolate themselves within their borders is anachronistic and self-defeating, but it would be a serious mistake for others, fearing contagion, to respond by avoiding engagement with these states.
Instead of a dialogue of civilizations and support for modernist forces in the Middle East, preference has been given to an almost opposite course of action.
This trend is now being reversed in school food, thanks to legislative innovations such as allowing a preference (of up to about 10%) for locally grown products.
Water-sharing disputes between countries or provinces already are increasingly frequent, owing to the proliferation of dam projects that can adversely affect downstream flows – an approach that represents a continuing preference for supply-side approaches over smart water management.
Of course, with an augmented supply of euros, China can be expected to make substantial investments in Europe, which also is a good thing, especially since, in the United States at least, China has demonstrated a preference for investments in financial institutions rocked by the sub-prime crisis.
Time preference means that the $600 billion addition to the debt today, which Barro sees as the cost of stimulus, is not nearly as burdensome as a demand to pay $600 billion now would be.
The Bank argued that the “equity principle” that guides normal development activities could not be ignored in order to give preference to a few when there were 300,000 peasants without land in El Salvador.
But if other European countries accept this preference, and Europe continues along its unbalanced integration path, there will be no leverage to convince France to support political union.
The critics would say that it is because of the tax preference accorded to debt, or because banks are too big to fail.
It should give preference to non-military means, placing a special emphasis on disarmament.
Clinton’s inclination for political calculation suggests a preference for incrementalism on global challenges.
Many valuable elements of the so-called Old Diplomacy persisted: the alignment of foreign policies with national and regional interests, the preference for the possible over the merely desirable, and the cultivation of what are today called “confidence-building measures,” that is, methods for establishing trust among small groups of professional negotiators, and between them and the people they represent.
Conversely, there is an unchallenged and unthinking preference for “me” medicine, partly because it pushes all the right buttons in our psyches, the ones marked “choice,” “individuality” and “special.”
The Kurds of Iraq have made their preference known; it is neither fair nor sustainable to refuse to take their goal seriously.
Voters rank the candidates in order of preference, and if no candidate receives a majority of all votes cast, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated.
In the current election, Stein’s voters would be able to vote for their candidate without worrying that their choice might benefit Trump, who presumably would not be these voters’ second preference.
The existence of such differences in attitude should come as no surprise: The tradeoff is a real one, and policymakers may have different views, depending on their experience and time preference.
The US and NATO would prefer to avoid an abrupt and complete withdrawal – a preference that Afghanistan’s neighbors share, fearing that any resulting disorder would spill over their borders.
Consider Sweden, which has transformed its immigration policy by allowing employers to identify the immigrant workers whom they need (the policy has built-in safeguards to give preference to Swedish and EU citizens).
(Indeed, the abortion problem in India lies at the other end of the spectrum: pervasive termination of female fetuses, owing to a cultural preference for sons, a situation that I would argue inflicts violence against mothers as well.)
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