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This general move for criminal enforcement – greater penalties to account for the difficulties of detection – is a standard prosecutorial move in the US and around the world.
China’s standard response to any suggestion that it exercise global leadership is to hide beneath its vast internal agenda and plead poverty.
Private groups using everything from satellite imagery (as in forestry) to the unofficial equivalent of on-site inspections (as in human rights) monitor who is abiding by – or violating – what standard of behavior.
The standard way to fix this problem is to raise the retirement age or cut pension benefits.
A policy of mandatory active retirement would avoid some of the pitfalls of the standard approach.
Since then, governments have gradually brought their countries into alignment with this standard.
To be sure, such an “open source” approach is not standard practice in pharmaceutical research and development.
By this the standard, the right in the United States – the party of Fox News, the Tea Party, and, increasingly, of the Republican Party itself – are no longer conservatives.
Smug self-satisfaction makes us resistant to embracing the changes necessary to maintain our standard and quality of living.
They allege that the agreement creates a double standard, according to which only some countries may possess nuclear weapons.
There is a double standard at work.
The NPT, some four decades old, is based on a double standard that gives only five countries – China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the US – the right (for how long is not defined) to possess nuclear weapons.
Where the critics of the proposed US-India accord are wrong is in charging that such a double standard is wrong when it comes to India because it opens the way for countries such as North Korea and Iran to develop nuclear weapons.
By not yet embracing an integrated approach, GCC institutions risk falling behind the global standard.
Then, as soon as the oil price exceeds two standard deviations of that equilibrium, they should start to ignore the fashionable advice of colleagues, analysts, and industry insiders.
India’s LBWNEW DELHI – A casual reader of India’s newspapers for the last several weeks would be forgiven for wondering whether the country was suddenly bereft of political controversy, sex scandals, or official corruption – normally the standard headline fare here.
In 2011, China’s energy consumption climbed 9.7%, reaching 3.7 billion metric tons of standard coal equivalent – the fastest growth rate since 2007.
Here I differ with many economists – including my dear friends Joseph Stiglitz, Jean-Paul Fitoussi, and Vladimir Kvint – whose preferred standard is the quality of life.
Perhaps prudent loosening of the imminent-harm standard for involuntary commitment in clear cases of severe disorder might be helpful.
I believe that both of these problems cause the official measure of real GDP growth to understate the true growth of the standard of living that real GDP is supposed to indicate.
If I pay the same price for some product or service this year as I did last year, but the quality of the product or service is better, my standard of living has increased.
So looking only at the cost of a meal or of a day in the hospital causes an overestimate in the price index and an underestimate of the rise in the real standard of living.
But how much more than the standard retail price would individuals pay to keep these “must-have” products?
In short, I am convinced that the real standard of living produced by the goods and services that we buy is increasing faster than our official data reveal.
And in Southeast Asia, some strains of the malaria parasite itself have begun to develop a resistance to artemisinin, the basic component in standard treatments.
Nearly a decade ago, Novartis helped develop the gold standard in pediatric antimalarial medicine, and we have donated more than 350 million doses since 2009.
National and local disaster plans have been improved, standard operating procedures have been developed, and early warning systems have been put in place.
In fact, Labour’s most recent governments were determinedly non-Keynesian; monetary policy was geared to hitting a 2% inflation target, and fiscal policy aimed at balancing the budget over the business cycle: standard macro-economic fare before the recession struck.
By any reasonable standard, he delivered: inflation is in the single digits for the first time in three decades; sanctions have been lifted in accordance with the 2015 nuclear deal; and the exchange rate has been stable for four years.
Beyond a certain point, unequal outcomes inevitably fuel greater inequality of opportunity; and extreme inequality of either outcomes or opportunity can undermine the idea that we should all be equal as citizens, if not in material standard of living.
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