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Moreover, emerging-market countries’ representation in global governance did not keep pace with the increasingly significant role of their economies and currencies.
The larger emerging-market countries acquired more representation when the G-20 succeeded the G-7 as the preeminent global economic grouping.
The notion that dirty shoes would be wiped on a representation of the Indian flag had outraged the tweeter, Atul Bhobe, who contacted – and found an advocate in – Swaraj.
Though GDP should never be taken as an accurate representation of a country’s economic health, in Egypt, the figures do reflect the collapse of the country’s entire productive capacity in the years following the fall of Hosni Mubarak’s regime in 2011.
In particular, slavery was allowed in some states, but prohibited in others, and the 1787 compromise to count each slave as three-fifths of a person when determining a state’s population for representation and taxation was fraying.
The low representation of women in legislatures is not only a symbol of flaws in the functioning of Latin American democracies; it also means that women legislators are unable to bring their intrinsically different approaches to policy into play.
When combined with adequate enforcement of the quota legislation, closed lists guarantee a minimum level of women’s representation across all parties and districts.
This will allow for a greater degree of substantive representation of issues and policies that are important to women, whose interests are often inadequately represented by overwhelmingly male legislatures.
Indeed, China today is increasingly perceived to be undermining the international order, while promoting novel interpretations of concepts such as democracy, pluralism, and representation.
In Mexico, for example, liberalization of elections expanded the opposition's representation in parliament, ending domination of the executive over legislation and policy.
Moreover, the MB will most likely have to offer some concessions to guarantee balanced representation of Islamists and non-Islamists in the assembly that the parliament is to choose to draft a new constitution.
That gross imbalance in representation is a shameful betrayal of Ukraine's sovereignty.
But New Power, New Responsibility suggests a different path, arguing for the reform of the Security Council in a way that would merge the French and British seats into a permanent European seat in a “slightly enlarged circle of permanent members,” while also ensuring European representation among the non-permanent members.
Global disciplines pertaining to transparency, broad representation, accountability, and use of scientific or economic evidence in domestic proceedings – without constraining the end result – are examples of such requirements.
The mapping movement’s growing momentum promises to result in the accurate and comprehensive representation of almost every inch of the world, including road data, photos, and business listings.
But Western commentators have long underestimated that potential, forcing the BRICS to demand greater representation in global-governance institutions.
One major goal in recent decades has been to shift representation at the IMF somewhat away from Europe and toward the world’s emerging markets.
These countries’ global economic and financial significance has grown rapidly, yet they have relatively little representation at the Fund.
The Europeans do not need their current level of representation, and the positions and voices of middle- and lower-income countries should be strengthened.
A system of weighted voting with global representation should replace the current system, according to which veto authority based on the post-World War II balance of power determines what is feasible, regardless of world opinion.
Rich countries are places where investors feel secure in their property rights, the rule of law prevails, private incentives are aligned with social objectives, monetary and fiscal policies are solidly grounded, risks are mediated through social insurance, and citizens have recourse to civil liberties and political representation.
But both point to the same crisis of political representation.
“We live in a crisis of representation,” Dibarboure tells me on Skype (how else?).
Dibarboure’s solution is to use the Internet to ensure accurate representation.
“We are about representation, not ideology,” she clarifies.
It would have a prosecutor and a reasonable number of judges, nominated with a view to balanced representation of the world’s principal legal systems and geographical regions, and to gender equity.
Likewise, increasing women's political representation would cost little, whereas the benefits would often be welcome but difficult to quantify.
But she has also expended considerable energy on promoting women, particularly their representation in politics.
Building recognition of women’s rights into the MDGs did not corrupt African cultures by imposing “Western” values; in fact, it strengthened many African countries, which now lead the world in the representation of women in government.
The size of the IMF’s executive board should be reduced from 24 to 20 members by consolidating European representation.
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