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The EU may not have imposed sweeping quotas and tariffs, but powerful “behind the border” protectionism has emerged in the form of subsidies, bailouts, “buy national” injunctions, and new
restrictions
on foreign direct investment.
Several solutions to this problem have been proposed, and some – such as increased capital requirements and
restrictions
on risky investments – are headed toward implementation.
Greater
restrictions
would provide incentives for illegal operators to remain, while less restrictive regulation would discourage black marketeers, but at the price of increasing the number of users and problem users.
According to Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer, human-rights activist, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, the
restrictions
are part of a government policy to limit women’s opportunities outside the home.
It also puts city managers at odds with environmentalists, who campaign for
restrictions
on development to ease pressure on forests and watersheds.
The main shortcoming is that these
restrictions
can be circumvented easily, since they apply only to bonuses, whereas banks maintain discretion over the mix between salary and bonus.
The salary, which can be paid entirely in cash, will be renegotiated every year, thereby skirting all the regulatory
restrictions.
But few such
restrictions
have been legislated – or have been left unchallenged by the gun lobby when they are.
This statement, made in passing, wrongly implied that Japan’s regulations at the time were notably lax, heightening the paranoia about what were already some of the world’s most strictly radionuclide-regulated food supplies (even before
restrictions
were further tightened).
He has also taken significant steps to uphold the rights of women and sexual minorities, and has used his executive power to loosen immigration
restrictions
on families amid congressional paralysis.
Khatami’s aides now mention such reforms as: legalizing political parties, including opposition groups prepared to work within the system; reigning in the swaggering paramilitary groups and morality police who patrol neighborhoods; loosening
restrictions
on the media.
It is, therefore, inappropriate to extend the legal
restrictions
on hate speech to blasphemy.
The equity injections were accompanied by
restrictions
on executive pay and dividends.
For better or worse,
restrictions
in these areas are well-understood constants of Syrian life.
Recent
restrictions
on microbloggers – especially denial of access to those who use untraceable aliases – have heightened concerns over Chinese Internet freedom.
Such restrictions, of course, cut both ways – potentially limiting personal expression, but also constraining disguised and reckless vigilante attacks.
In order to avert chaos, Germany has no choice but to impose
restrictions.
There is no cause for the US to place any significant new
restrictions
on sovereign investments in the US beyond those that it already has on trade.
In 1967, the
restrictions
of time and geography were removed, making the Convention universal.
The SADC’s censure of Mugabe and his regime should be backed up by concrete actions, such as
restrictions
on all arms flows to Zimbabwe, travel
restrictions
on senior officials of Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, and the threat of property seizures and the freezing of financial assets in the region and beyond.
By easing
restrictions
on migration, developed countries could bolster their dwindling workforces with young people from developing countries.
Despite continuing political
restrictions
imposed by an authoritarian regime, Deng Xiaoping succeeded beyond his wildest imagination.
And, thanks to a fully convertible ruble and the absence of
restrictions
on capital outflows, they can transfer their gains to offshore tax havens.
This is mainly caused by domestic problems (the bloated state owned enterprises and the government's failure to reform them, the huge number of non-performing loans on the books of state banks,
restrictions
to private investment, among many other causes.
All candid accounts indicate their internal incentives are not much changed, and
restrictions
on their activities are unlikely to prove effective as global growth picks up.
The head of the Reserve Bank of India (the central bank) will continue to be Raghuram Rajan, a distinguished economist who has already shown his desire to reduce India’s near-double-digit annual inflation rate, and to reform some of the inherited counterproductive
restrictions
on the country’s financial sector.
Anyone who visits Mumbai or other major Indian cities sees how zoning
restrictions
cause misuse of urban land and limit modernization.
Relaxing such
restrictions
would strengthen the financial sector and play an important role in economic growth.
We need a global-level discussion of the pros and cons of direct
restrictions
on business models.”
There is also a deep political crisis which leads to frequent changes of governments operating under political
restrictions
and, therefore, incapable of developing and pursuing strategic programs of economic change.
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