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Barring that, he would not feel secure enough to do without the nuclear deterrence on which he has staked his regime’s survival.
Why Strengthening Land Rights Strengthens DevelopmentWASHINGTON, DC – For most of the world’s poor and vulnerable people, secure property rights, including land tenure, are a rarely accessible luxury.
If those arrangements are secure, users of land have an incentive not just to implement best practices for their use of it (paying attention to, say, environmental impacts), but also to invest more.
An international consensus has emerged regarding the importance of secure land tenure for development outcomes.
In Romania, for example, many Roma have less secure farmland tenure than their non-Roma neighbors.
Moreover, secure land rights are essential to reduce disaster risk and build climate resilience, which is an urgent imperative at a time when climate change is already fueling more – and more frequent – extreme weather.
Reflecting the importance of secure land ownership to the SDGs’ success, the World Bank Group is now working with developing countries to improve their land-tenure systems and expand the coverage of legally recognized and registered rights.
Secure land tenure is thus vital to building the inclusive, resilient, and sustainable communities that will propel economic and social progress well into the future.
On the one hand, US investment treaties are designed to secure the strongest possible protection for US investors overseas.
No one prefers to live in a society where bribes must be paid to secure basic public services like health care and education.
By the logic of Westminster, you elect a legislature to form the executive, and when the executive does not command a secure majority in the legislative assembly, the government falls, triggering fresh elections.
Millions of AIDS orphans in Southern Africa live with grandparents too old and weak to produce food or to secure it.
Anything less will be insufficient to secure its territory.
The idea of a “social contract” – which arose during the Enlightenment in orderto address, without resort to divine right, the legitimacy of the state’s authority over its citizens – rests on the premise that individuals surrender a certain degree of personal liberty in order to secure peace and prosperity for all.
Yet we should certainly have done as much to introduce and entrench democratic institutions in Hong Kong as we did to secure the rule of law and the protection of civil liberties.
It needs little care and brings a secure income.
Although they lacked experience in narcotics eradication, many NGOs based in Peshawar and Pakistan’s North West Frontier jumped at the opportunity to secure USAID money, proposing ill-considered programs.
China’s Rogue FireworksChina’s president, Hu Jintao, is currently touring Africa, seeking to secure dependable sources of natural resources, but also to promote China’s “peaceful rise.”
Because mini-grids require less capital investment than grid expansion, it can be easier to secure financing for them, meaning that they can electrify communities that might have to wait years for a grid connection.
If a developing country's trade deficit is offset by assistance through a grant of the new global money, its overall financial position will be secure.
For starters, Qaddafi managed to unify a country that, since the Greek invasion in the seventh century BC, had been divided between a coastal strip linked to the larger Mediterranean basin and an isolated hinterland that even Benito Mussolini’s brutal regime could not secure.
I lived that paradisiacal summer in a little Moldavian town, overwhelmed by the miraculous banality of a normal, secure environment.
The struggle to secure the victory of Viktor Yushchenko, the true winner in last Sunday’s presidential election, as Ukraine’s new president is not one that we sought.
By securing our democracy, we help secure Russia’s own.
Often, after completing a government-sponsored program, participants find it impossible to secure a job with the promised higher pay.
We propose that the Council’s permanent members, along with key Middle Eastern states, appoint humanitarian envoys whose sole purpose would be to secure access to those in need.
Understanding these developments could help to generate enough momentum to initiate, after more than seven years of confrontation, genuine inter-Korean cooperation and help guide the peninsula toward a more peaceful and secure future.
That is good news for everyone, but particularly for the Trump administration, given that it will almost certainly fail to secure any meaningful concessions from North Korea in the upcoming talks.
At least, Greeks were promised, this bailout would secure the country’s banks once and for all.
Democratic and Republican candidates alike were called upon to explain what they would be prepared to do if there were an opportunity to capture Osama Bin Laden or a need to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
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