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Several controversial
provisions
included in the government’s last budget are being reviewed.
But the firms’ pay arrangements did not contain any “claw-back”
provisions
that would have enabled the firms to recoup the bonuses that had already been paid.
Even after incorporating various deductions, credits, and other tax-reducing provisions, the effective average and marginal corporate tax rates in the US – what corporations actually pay – are higher than the OECD average.
Though the TPP’s precise
provisions
have not been made public, political leaders in the member countries predict that the deal, once ratified and implemented, will add hundreds of billions of dollars to their economies and bolster employment.
Dozens of governments have already begun to implement measures in line with the global tobacco convention’s conflict-of-interest
provisions.
The pressure to include similar
provisions
in the other deals would then grow.
Second, more specific
provisions
on labor, the environment, gender equality, and indigenous rights are needed, as well as anti-trust, regulatory, and judicial reform provisions, for reasons both of principle and political expediency.
These revised agreements should include bold, enlightened
provisions
for infrastructure and “social-cohesion” funds, since these can make the difference between muddling through and true success.
Even the Republicans know that many of the ACA’s key provisions, such as ensuring that people with pre-existing conditions can buy health insurance, are extremely popular.
Yet all refuse to accept that the rationale for a domestic rule of law – including
provisions
to protect weak borrowers from powerful and abusive creditors – applies at the international level as well.
Fortunately, Brazil’s legislators kept these
provisions
out of the final Marco Civil, which was adopted in April.
Even though it was presented to the European Council a week after the Brexit referendum, its aim is to implement the
provisions
foreseen in the Treaty of Lisbon, seven years after the treaty entered into effect.
For example, many countries have tax and regulatory
provisions
that discourage large automobiles – not because they are trying to discriminate against US goods, but because they worry about pollution and energy efficiency.
Bangkok, for example, has been under either a state of emergency or
provisions
of the internal security act for more than a year, in violation of basic civil liberties.
Almost four years after it was first launched, neither of the parties has managed to muster the political will necessary to implement its primary
provisions.
Unfortunately, the TPP’s
provisions
remain secret – meaning that it cannot be seen or discussed by members of the public.
In addition to trade, TPP includes important
provisions
related to investment, the most prominent of which concern intellectual property rights, such as patents.
It needs thoughtful, public deliberation about the
provisions
that are included, as they can have important consequences for the US and its trading partners.
In that conference room, I described how investors had opposed apartheid by divesting from South African companies, with state pension funds and others including
provisions
in their guidelines prohibiting further such investment.
Those
provisions
were withdrawn only in 1993, after Nelson Mandela urged foreign investors to return.
“But it is in the interest of the extractive companies to comply fully with the spirit of these
provisions.
The US demands that North Korea adhere to the
provisions
of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), and on that basis has encouraged the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on North Korea in pursuit of denuclearization.
"The
provisions
of this Charter are addressed to the Institutions, bodies and agencies of the Union with due regard for the principle of subsidiarity and to the Member States only when they are implementing Union law" (Art.
Some new
provisions
- such as the weighting of national votes in the Councils of the Union - have been, and will continue to be, widely discussed.
Provisions
like those setting up a Commission of 25 - and perhaps soon 30 members - will probably be changed before long, because they are simply not viable.
Quotas get action: they “open the way to equality and they break through the glass ceiling,” according to Reding, a result seen in France and other countries with legally binding
provisions
on placing women in top business positions.
It seems exaggerated for Soros to take credit for the
provisions
in the legislation that made this possible.
Lobbyists sought to water down the proposed legislation, with telecommunications companies particularly opposed to its net-neutrality
provisions.
The mechanism would include
provisions
allowing for a temporary standstill on all payments due, whether private or public; an automatic stay on creditor litigation; temporary exchange-rate and capital controls; the provision of debtor-in-possession and interim financing for vital current-account transactions; and, eventually, debt restructuring and relief.
When Putin’s regime wants to stamp out opposition, it typically deploys exotic and improbable
provisions
of Russia’s criminal code.
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