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Unfortunately, under the far-too-long leadership of Guido Westerwelle, the FDP has degenerated into a party notable for defending the freedom only of a few privileged individuals: bankers and businessmen.
This put financial capital in a privileged position: governments had to pay more attention to the requirements of international capital than to the aspirations of their own people.
So far, however, the US and the EU have been loath to relinquish their privileged positions.
With less than one-fifth of the population of the United States, Italy’s parliament has twice as many members as the US Congress, and they are among the world’s best-compensated and most privileged MPs.
But, compared with Chinese private entrepreneurs, representatives of large Western firms are a privileged group, and are not victimized as frequently by official corruption.
The risk premium on doing business in Brazil will improve if investors believe its economy is governed by the rule of law, rather than by market-rigging on the part of a privileged few.
Now the state has given rise to its own vested, privileged interests which can only be broken by a new combination of public guarantees and private provisions.
Granted, the people publicly mourning in Pyongyang belong to the most privileged class, and dramatic bawling is a traditional Korean way of expressing grief.
The strategic environment today is a far cry from that of 1997, when NATO leaders backed the membership bids of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary, and awarded Ukraine and Russia privileged partner status.
In the wake of events in Crimea and eastern Ukraine, Russia’s privileged partnership with NATO is evidently outdated.
Ideologies of privatization that incapacitate effective government, permitting the privileged to save themselves while leaving the poor clinging to roofs, must now be challenged.
The result is that the “have-nots” are increasingly turning on the privileged elites, and thus on the openness that those elites favor, demanding instead a return to what they view as a more predictable and secure past.
Yet, because the usual response – socialization of bank losses, with a privileged few keeping the profits and bonuses they accrued while the bubble was growing – creates moral hazard, the cycle is likely to be repeated.
The fact that he shares this resentment with millions of people who are much less privileged goes a long way toward explaining his political success.
Many citizens believe that European cooperation benefits only the privileged, and that workers and pensioners face higher taxes because cross-border integration has helped the rich find ways to avoid paying their fair share on interest and capital gains.
Indeed, we could expect xenophobia to wane worldwide as access to foreign workers became more privileged.
Such countries evolve a hierarchical authoritarian society in which the only incentive is to compete for privileged access to commodity rents.
To create more cost-effective, integrated, and inclusive policies that benefit most Afghans, not just the privileged few, US leaders will need to engage in some radical rethinking.
It is a question of relatively underprivileged people in a globalizing, increasingly multi-cultural world, resenting those who are even less privileged.
Investment in infrastructure was shifting from growth-enhancing projects, such as inter-city highways, to less productive shopping malls in second- and third-tier cities.Productivity plummeted in SOEs, whose privileged access to financing crowded out private-sector investment.
Refusing to protect the public, especially the most vulnerable, from dangerous content in the name of “free speech” actually serves the interests of those who are already privileged, beginning with the powerful companies that drive the dissemination of information.
So the noisiest are often rewarded with a megaphone, while less polarizing, less privileged voices are drowned out, even if they are providing the smart and nuanced perspectives that can truly enrich public discussions.
If the algorithm doesn’t do the job of silencing less privileged voices, online trolls often step in, directing hateful and threatening speech at whomever they choose.
This "new class" became more privileged, and the center became progressively enfeebled.
But when such reforms involve sacrifices by ordinary citizens and benefit society’s most privileged groups, political gridlock and instability invariably follow.
But the bureaucracy and its privileged networks benefited most, and a second, non-market source of inequality – endemic official corruption – became entrenched.
Budget deficits offered what appeared to be a free lunch, as the resulting inflation eroded the real value of public debt, while the government had privileged access to private savings at near-zero real interest rates.
The IMF was given a privileged legal position, and only devastated and wrecked "failed states" such as Sudan would default on loans from the Fund.
The former remains wedded to its phantom imperial illusions about a “zone of privileged interests” extending far beyond Russia’s borders, while the latter, starting with Kadyrov, rule as independent autocrats happy to accept handouts from the Russian state budget.
I have felt privileged to play a role in the Champions’ Group, which has pressed for this change agenda.
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