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The top 10% have easy access to higher education that will enable their children to have the same privileges as them; the bottom 90% must work much harder to cover sky-high tuition fees, and typically graduate with a heavy debt burden.
Professional sport is a legislated monopoly in most countries, with top teams extracting free stadiums and other privileges from host cities.
They see a trading system that privileges business over labor, the environment, and consumer safety.
Non-democratic countries cannot count on the same trade privileges as democratic ones.
Having dominated East and Southeast Asia for all but the last two centuries of the past two millennia, China is chafing at the current US-led regional order of sovereign states, in which even the smallest enjoys the same rights, privileges, and protection as the largest.
Communism’s fall unleashed a huge surge of human energy, but this started with a bizarre and cynical transfer of privileges and assets within the old “nomenklatura,” and with a new general Darwinian struggle.
The French Revolution never actually ended the privileges of France’s ruling elites.
Once elected, the French president and his court gain access to financial privileges that are not always legal.
There are several reasons why Japanese governments have resisted the neoliberalism promoted in the West since the Reagan/Thatcher years: corporate interests, bureaucratic privileges, and pork-barrel politics of various kinds.
This can be achieved by obtaining privileges or special rights from government or the legislature, privileges that may come in the form of monopoly rights, subsidies, protectionist privileges or other kinds of preferences.
Where governments grant such privileges, insiders gain wealth, but society is beggared because it becomes less efficient in generating new wealth.
Not only are the working-class white men of the South and Midwest defending their status and racial privileges; they are also fighting for their jobs in industries where automation and foreign trade have steadily eroded employment.
Market-oriented reform, by leveling the competitive playing field, would hurt their interests and reduce their privileges, making fierce opposition likely.
With economic privileges doled out in a way that blocked the emergence of independent entrepreneurs that might eventually challenge the autocrats’ control, favored firms were able to acquire virtual monopolies over entire liberalized economic sectors.
Furthermore, policymakers should pursue comprehensive reform aimed at eliminating domestic firms’ privileges and boosting competition, including with foreign firms.
Repo creditors’ exemption from these rules privileges them over the failed firm’s other creditors.
The second financial rule that privileges repos is that money-market funds must keep their portfolios extremely liquid, because their customers draw checks on their deposits.
There is another solution as well: repo users could be made to pay for their privileges and the costs that they impose on the rest of the economy.
Even leaving aside perks and privileges, majority shareholders can appropriate private benefits through transactions with other companies that they own, such as transfer pricing and privileged credit relations.
He quickly took up a divisive constitutional battle against the hereditary Malay rulers, the nine sultans, and succeeded in curtailing their privileges and powers.
Instead, the CDB lends on secret terms, for uses that are undisclosed and corrupt, and with built-in privileges for Chinese companies in areas like telecommunications (Huawei), appliances (Haier), cars (Chery), and oil drilling (ICTV).
Instead, Iliescu’s regime created a rhetorical cult of the Revolution’s "martyrs and heroes," granting exorbitant privileges and tax-exemptions to the so-called "revolutionaries" in order to placate their lingering resentments.
All efforts to subvert the electoral process should be met with clear warnings that current and future aid, as well as trade privileges such as accelerated WTO accession, will be in jeopardy.
Bankers can, of course, ignore their critics and the public, and use their money to lobby in the right quarters to maintain their privileges.
We in academia cannot continue to pat ourselves on the back, celebrating our own privileges and failing to look at the world in new and relevant ways.
And to some, sometimes, it was: the hedonism of gay life in Amsterdam or San Francisco, the sexual habits in some hippie communes and the almost feudal erotic privileges of rock stars.
In December, China’s government reiterated its commitment to implementing tough market-oriented reforms, including measures to address environmental pollution, overcapacity, excessive debt, high taxes, bureaucratic red tape, and monopoly privileges for state-owned enterprises (SOEs).
The “Beijing consensus" – China's statist policy approach, often contrasted with the “Washington consensus" of market-friendly policies broadly favored by Europe and the US – is inspiring a growing number of countries to shower domestic tech champions with privileges and subsidies.
Needless to say, not all of Alckmin’s ideas appeal to an electorate addicted to state benefits, privileges, and sinecures.
But if financial firms lose their passporting privileges and their clients cannot easily access Europe from Britain, bankers will seek new office space in Amsterdam, Paris, or Frankfurt, which will likely welcome them with streamlined licensing procedures and tax breaks.
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