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And women, once told that gender parity in the boardroom might be achieved within a generation, will benefit from quota legislation adopted in the past year in Italy, Germany, and France.
Research demonstrates that gender quota legislation is more effective in ensuring the election of women when a closed party list voting system is used.
When combined with adequate enforcement of the quota legislation, closed lists guarantee a minimum level of women’s representation across all parties and districts.
In open-list systems, a 50% quota should be adopted.
It is not possible to predict with any accuracy the impact of an increase in the quota percentages in the open-list systems that currently have effective quota legislation.
The impact would be greatest (resulting in an approximately 20% jump in the percentage of women elected) in systems that currently do not have effective quota legislation.
The Hungarian government has called for a referendum on accepting its quota of refugees set by the EU.
In addition, no one knows how many kangaroos are killed illegally, outside the quota system.
In Slovenia, for example, if the government implements EU-wide climate targets, the new EIB-financed Sostanj lignite unit will consume most of that country’s CO2 emissions quota by 2050.
To do this consistently with “equal shares,” we need to multiply the per capita share by the country’s population to reach its emissions quota.
Healthy living now means carrying water bottles with us, sipping at all times, trying to drink our daily quota to ensure that we stay hydrated and healthy.
That suspect terrain is clearly visible once more in the absence of support for the EU’s proposed migrant quota system, which would allocate refugees to the member states on the basis of fair criteria.
Each subsequent year, the import quota would be reduced by 5%, so that the EU’s total annual imports of Russian energy would be reduced by half within a decade.
Saudi Arabia also fears that Iraq will regain its oil-output quota within OPEC, which the country couldn’t meet, owing to poor security and infrastructure constraints.
A European quota system, limited to electricity producers and materials manufacturers, the two major sources of emissions, has been in place since 2005.
Plots of land were returned to their previous owners, who were allowed to keep any output exceeding the government’s mandatory quota.
In Egypt, though, the prospects for women seem gloomier, because they failed to retain the pre-revolution quota system that had given them 64 parliamentary seats.
Worse, the response to the plan – with some member states opting out of the program; others objecting to how the quotas are to be measured; and still others bristling at the idea that the EU should propose a quota at all – seems to suggest that it is every country for itself.
A better way to deal with the fear of migrants abusing social welfare systems would be to adopt a common and rather generous transitional quota at the level of the EU as a whole, to be lifted early if it is not filled.
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) will give them a quota for this purpose.
Thus, even a quota that permits an offshore clearing bank to tap funding in China does not guarantee that it can obtain that funding at a reasonable price.
The main reason for the increase in the number of women MPs was the introduction of a quota system, according to which South Korea’s political parties should ensure that 30% of their candidates are women.
The campaign-finance law was revised to provide additional government funding to parties that meet the quota, and to reduce the amount for parties that do not.
Although the quota system is still a matter of constitutional debate in South Korea, years of effort by women’s groups have made a significant contribution to boosting women’s role in policymaking.
And, while the 33% quota for women in local-government bodies has placed a million of them in elected positions at the grass roots, the extent to which this has actually improved women’s status has yet to be measured.
Since then, the number of women in parliament has steadily increased, aided by a 33% quota and rules dictating how many women must be included on party lists.
Of the 342 members of the National Assembly, just 70 are women, and only nine were elected; the rest were appointed under the quota system.
China holds two types of election: "equal quota elections" and "differential quota elections."
In equal quota elections, the leaders present three candidates, leaving voters the task of picking one.
After the Cultural Revolution, and despite widespread protest, "differential quota elections" were introduced, albeit in a limited fashion.
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