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Moreover, societies lose their cohesion under such regimes; they begin to lack a shared set of values, for they become relegated to living in “a belief vacuum.”
Meanwhile, the value commanded by the imaginative goods of individualistic, disordered western societies rose.
The 2011 Deauville Partnership with Arab Countries in Transition, in which G-8 members pledged to support Arab countries’ efforts to move toward “free, democratic, and tolerant societies,” has a role to play.
As societies in many OECD countries age, and catch-up growth in large emerging economies begins to wind down, global GDP growth is expected to fall from its annual average of 3.6% in the 2010-2020 period to an estimated 2.4% in 2050-2060.
Investments, both public and private, are needed to foster green growth, support innovation and entrepreneurship, contribute to closing the inequality gaps that have widened during the crisis, and help build the skills that are essential for more resilient economies and more inclusive societies.
Productive heterogeneity – or what development economists used to call economic dualism – has always been a central feature of low-income societies.
It has changed from a battle for accountability and reform to a clash between visions of open and closed societies, between a global consensus and policies still operating at the national, local, or even tribal level.
If the EU is going to quell the revolt against globalization, free trade, and open societies, it will need more leaders and fewer managers.
Fatal ThawsMOSCOW – During the Cold War, the Soviet Union and, in a milder way, the United States imposed external limits on the activities of states and societies, causing longstanding conflicts among smaller countries to be “frozen.”
At the same time, societies are increasingly fragmented, with perceived loneliness and stress-related illnesses on the rise.
This idea is reinforced by a vast amount of neuroscientific evidence, which contradicts the emphasis on individualism that prevails in Western societies, suggesting instead that the human brain is wired for affective resonance, with people naturally reflecting each other’s emotions and motivational states.
Indeed, we are capable of building sustainable, equitable, and caring political systems, economies, and societies.
For example, despite their common historical and cultural roots, North and South Korea are very different societies.
Today, we need universities in all parts of the world to help their societies face the challenges of poverty reduction, clean energy, sustainable food supplies, and the rest.
These are the same societies that clamored before and after the fall of communism for a “return to Europe,” proudly proclaiming that they shared its values.
All occupied European societies were complicit to some degree in the Nazi effort to destroy the Jews.
If UNRWA is not given the support it needs, these children and their societies will pay an even heavier price.
In terms of durability and conviction of preferences, most societies place greater hurdles in the way of a couple seeking a divorce than Prime Minister David Cameron’s government did on the decision to leave the EU.
In contemporary societies, finance must serve a public purpose beyond the logic of financial market profitability.
This challenge faces almost all African countries as they seek to construct stable and peaceful societies.
In many Western societies, marriage, sex, and children do not necessarily come in one package.
Deviant individuals and groups exist in all human societies, and they are now empowered in ways that were once unthinkable.
Even in countries where oil revenues could fuel a significant amount of research, Arab rulers did not encourage such investment, with the result that their societies have not prospered as much as they might have.
But another exists, and not just for Islamic societies.
Open societies educate or attract people with varied and valuable kinds of know-how, and they prosper that way.
The Infrastructure SolutionTORONTO – “Infrastructure, by the nature of the word,” former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright said in February 2013, “is basic to the functioning of societies.”
France’s unemployed are, to that extent, better off than many low-paid, unskilled workers in the more unequal societies of Britain or America.
Gates’s proposal, one of many variants on the UBI theme, allows us to glimpse fascinating aspects of capitalism and human nature that rich societies have neglected for too long.
Given the fragile grip that these leaders have over their societies, America’s warnings have been taken to heart.
Governments also want to protect their societies from what comes through the Internet.
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