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In the past, such tribunals have interpreted the requirement that foreign investors receive “fair and equitable treatment” as grounds for striking down new government regulations – even if they are non-discriminatory and are adopted simply to protect citizens from newly discovered egregious harms.
While the language is complex – inviting costly lawsuits pitting powerful corporations against poorly financed governments – even regulations protecting the planet from greenhouse-gas emissions are vulnerable.
The only regulations that appear safe are those involving cigarettes (lawsuits filed against Uruguay and Australia for requiring modest labeling about health hazards had drawn too much negative attention).
Those seeking closer economic integration have a special responsibility to be strong advocates of global governance reforms: If authority over domestic policies is ceded to supranational bodies, then the drafting, implementation, and enforcement of the rules and regulations has to be particularly sensitive to democratic concerns.
Such policies would include a rising tax on CO2 emissions, large-scale research-and-development efforts in low-carbon technologies, a shift to electric vehicles, and regulations to phase out all coal-fired power plants except those that install CCS.
Moon also promises stricter regulations to prevent chaebols from entering financial businesses and recklessly expanding into sectors better suited to smaller firms.
Moon’s government can also contribute to private-sector job creation by easing regulations, helping small- and medium-size businesses to thrive, and ensuring a flexible labor market, in which full-time employment is not excessively protected and performance-based wage increases are applied.
The water sector should follow the example of the electric-power industry, where changes to federal regulations in the second half of the twentieth century allowed independent power producers to use existing transmission lines.
People will always seek to circumvent regulations, but policymakers must consider all the evidence before they decide to take the off-ramp.
Mechanisms for safely collecting, treating, and reusing such water have been demonstrated and documented, with stringent effluent-discharge regulations in North America, Northern Europe, and Japan setting an example for the world.
After all, given that the laws and regulations governing business in China are highly complex and, at times, even contradictory, it has been difficult for Chinese entrepreneurs not to violate some rule or another.
The latter is wholly conventional and subject to regulation (and recently to questions about how corporations should behave when there are no host-country regulations).
For example, anti-dumping rules could be better harmonized with domestic anti-monopoly rules, and regulations could be created or strengthened to minimize the discriminatory effects of FTAs and to prevent governments from using subsidies to state-owned firms to bypass WTO rules.
And it has proven difficult to enforce regulations requiring self-employed workers to put money aside in their own accounts.
Over the last 30 years, China, which adopted the civil-law tradition, has advanced rapidly along the path of rule by law, enacting laws and regulations similar to those in the West.
It now enforces rules, regulations, and property rights for real estate and other assets, for starting a business, for employment, and for international trade and investment – all of which has made China’s economic rise possible.
They must make the management of their utilities more transparent, strengthen regulations, and increase public spending on energy infrastructure.
Though the meeting was ostensibly about updating telephony regulations, the underlying issue was the ITU’s role in Internet governance.
In modern capital markets – where trading is carried out anonymously over great distances – personal trust has been replaced by surrogates: best practices, securities laws, and regulations.
Without credible enforcement, even the best possible set of regulations is meaningless.
Taking Drug Safety SeriouslyHealth hazards – nuclear reactors, guns, and contaminated foods – surround all of us, so governments take an active role in limiting these hazards through regulations, which, in many cases, are very successful.
The problem is that MENA governments, seeking to protect incumbents – especially in sectors like banking and telecommunications – impose excessive and outdated regulations that deter new actors from entering the market.
They bought commodities whose domestic prices were kept low by state regulation and resold them abroad shielded by export regulations.
Estonia, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia have already succeeded at this;-- the tax system must be simplified and minimized so that other Gazproms cannot avoid taxes in a thicket of regulations.
Inevitably, government – through its infrastructure, laws and regulations (including taxation), and education system – shapes the economy.
Despite tight monetary policy and foreign exchange regulations, the scheme has boosted trade and investment while reducing intraregional indebtedness.
Faced with this, laissez-faire ideologues argue that breakdowns are caused by faulty regulations, not by unstable markets.
There is some validity in the argument, because if our understanding is inherently imperfect, regulations are bound to be defective.
But the argument rings hollow, because it fails to explain why regulations were needed in the first place.
It sidesteps the issue by using a different argument: because regulations are faulty, unregulated markets are perfect.
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