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These more egalitarian countries have also achieved comparatively stable, inclusive economic growth and a high standard of living.
If a supposedly universal policy is seen to be applied inconsistently in order to further one nation's or culture's interests, that policy will lose credibility and be rejected as representing a double standard.
He is the standard bearer for democracy.
Standard monetary policy, together with bad structural policies, is to blame for the eurozone’s growth disparities.
Its Articles of Agreement were renegotiated by the US, which was looking for more flexibility, and France, which wanted something of the solidity and predictability of the old gold standard.
Manufacturing job losses in the American Rust Belt have left predominantly white working-class men with a standard of living little better than their parents had.
It is no longer seen only as a story of the capital-market-driven integration of the last two decades of the twentieth century, or even of an “early wave of globalization” in the nineteenth century, when the gold standard and the Atlantic telegram seemed to unite the world.
All that is required is an increase in the standard of living and social cohesion – the refusal to endanger the lives of the poorest through a lack of redistribution.
Reflecting the standard colonialist view that a colony cannot be trusted to make independent decisions, a bipartisan Financial Oversight and Management Board was created to make fiscal decisions for Puerto Rico.
Workers’ wages in the US, Canada, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and other developed countries would be inexorably competed down toward those of lower-wage trading partners, while developing-country workers would find it increasingly difficult – even in nominal democracies – to improve their standard of living.
Bubble CPAP delivered with the ultra-low cost apparatus was shown to be as effective as the standard low- and high-flow oxygen therapies.
If future trials demonstrate similar high efficacy, low-cost bubble CPAP could become the standard of care for pneumonia in resource-deprived settings, potentially saving thousands of lives every year.
The Sex Workers Outreach Project agreed that decriminalization led to better health for sex workers, and enabled them to be covered by the standard features of the labor market, including insurance, occupational health and safety programs, and rules of fair trading.
To deal with standard moral hazard objections, the new facility would require that countries pre-qualify by demonstrating sound domestic policies.
Under the gold standard, discipline was automatic.
Is there a way to redress the double standard in biomedical research that is both fair and wise?
Ironically, the double standard has both a moral and an economic underpinning.
Opponents of the double standard draw on principles of fairness, equity, and distributive justice.
They view the double standard as a possible source of public distrust in the biomedical research enterprise.
In brief, the introduction of a tissue tax would be both a fair and a wise way to redress the double standard that currently governs the collaborative biomedical research enterprise.
For example, in the standard economic analysis of workplace gender discrimination, men do not like to associate with women on the job – in the same way that they might prefer apples to oranges.
Likewise, the standard economic analysis of racial discrimination is that whites do not want to associate with non-whites, and so demand a premium to buy from or work with non-whites.
To grasp the relevance of identity economics, and how it differs from standard economics, consider an otherwise puzzling fact.
We cannot explain this convergence in terms of standard economic arguments, such as changes in relative prices and incomes, because no such changes were sufficiently large.
Nothing in standard economic analysis can make sense of such a pay structure – or of the rituals that are central to military tradition.
In the civilian world, too, the most important determinant of whether an organization functions well is not the monetary incentive system, as standard economic models would imply, but whether its workers identify with the organization and with their job within it.
The gaffe also opened the door for Republican attacks – this being a standard campaign strategy that has dogged wealthy major-party candidates (as they all are) since George H.W. Bush was astonished by a grocery scanner.
Although more developed regions have been taking such measures, they are not yet standard practice in Africa.
Nationalism could become the primary source of legitimacy for a ruling party that can no longer point to a rapidly rising standard of living.
The standard objection – that people are robbed of their dignity when they are given money without having to work – is ahistorical.
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