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Most of its people would welcome a more entrepreneurial environment, but they have been beaten down by years of criticism, constraints, regulations, and arbitrary budget cuts.
Private insurance companies, competing against each other and subject to appropriate regulations, may show much more entrepreneurial creativity in successfully managing the risks that free trade imposes on individuals.
Because governments today generally approach security independently – developing their own national standards and regulations, with no requirement for mutual accountability regarding implementation – the state of nuclear-materials security around the world varies widely.
In comparison with Thailand, Indonesia had an adequate provision of prudential rules and regulations.
But it lacked effective legal and accounting systems, so those rules and regulations could not be properly enforced.
Inventing new machines, new regulations, new institutions will not suffice.
Traditional banking is subject to intense oversight, and regulations have only become more onerous in recent years, as regulatory authorities reacted to the 2008 global financial crisis by tightening rules on leveraging ratios and know-your-customer requirements.
The same has happened in the case of tight labor laws and looser financial regulations, while European surveillance and global emergency mechanisms have undergone a similar change.
To prepare the world to confront the challenges posed by globalization and technological development in a way that supports sustainable and equitable growth, governance institutions and regulations at both the national and international levels must be drastically improved.
The slowdown in long-term infrastructure investment is also an unintended consequence of tough new banking regulations adopted in the wake of the recent global financial crisis.
Norway and Switzerland must abide by all EU single market standards and regulations, without any say in their formulation.
The French, German, and Irish governments would be particularly delighted to see UK-based banks and hedge funds shackled by EU regulations, and UK-based businesses involved in asset management, insurance, accountancy, law, and media forced to transfer their jobs, head offices, and tax payments to Paris, Frankfurt, or Dublin.
When confronted with this exodus of high-value service jobs and businesses, Britain would surely balk and accept the intrusive regulations entailed by Swiss and Norwegian-style EU association agreements.
Regulations limiting foreign participation to prudent levels should be part of the new international regime.
It will include direct financing, credit enhancements, and guarantees – a subsidy to a sector known for its risky non-performing operations at the ADB – as well as business-friendly regulations and removal of market “barriers,” which include social and labor rights.
Their innovations focused on circumventing accounting and financial regulations designed to ensure transparency, efficiency, and stability, and to prevent the exploitation of the less informed.
They point to election results “bought” by special interests, and to arcane legal and regulatory frameworks that seem rigged to benefit the rich, such as banking regulations that only large institutions can navigate and investment treaties negotiated in secret.
These challenges are being compounded for developing countries by new financial regulations in the advanced countries that are hampering flows of investment and finance to the developing world.
The shift in economic decision-making away from the State Council’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) toward Party-based Leading Small Groups is particularly important, as are the anti-corruption campaign, heightened Internet censorship, and new regulations on non-governmental organizations (NGOs).
But most instances of corrupt actions involve bribes or other illicit payoffs to officials to obtain government contracts, for laws to be passed that keep out competition, for loans on favorable terms, or to ease the enforcement of pollution and other costly regulations.
With inefficient government regulations and extensive government management of banks and other enterprises, corrupt officials may unknowingly serve a useful function by reducing arbitrary public decisions, and by helping business people and others get around harmful legislation and regulations.
High priority should go to eliminating the thousands of petty, nuisance regulations and laws on the books in most countries which do more harm than good, and that also encourage bribery and other efforts to unfairly influence government officials.
Unfortunately, in the short run it is seldom politically feasible to reduce significantly the number and effect of undesirable laws and regulations.
Given the heightened financial risks associated with climate change, resisting Trump’s executive order to roll back Wall Street transparency regulations should be a top priority.
Unfortunately, as in development economics, mimicking advanced-country regulations and institutions rarely produces the desired results.
Alternatively, countries could impose stricter capital controls and financial-market regulations to lock in savers, as the advanced countries did after World War II.
Meanwhile, we Britons should acknowledge that many EU laws and regulations have become our own, and that we share many common goals and joint programs.
The draft Protocol contains language in which China agrees to establish independent “tribunals… and procedures for the prompt review of all disputes relating to the implementation of laws, regulations, judicial decisions and administrative rulings of general application.”
The G-20’s Helpful Silence on Capital ControlsNEW YORK – When French President Nicolas Sarkozy took the reins as host of this year’s G-20 summit, to be held in Cannes on November 3-4, he called on the International Monetary Fund to develop an enforceable “code of conduct” for the use of capital controls (or capital-account regulations, as we prefer to call them) in the world economy.
The IMF has shown that those countries that deployed capital-account regulations were among the least hard-hit during the worst of the global financial crisis.
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