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Importing laws and legal standards has dominated attempts by former communist countries to join the West.
The IMF endorsed legal standards and codes of best practice developed by other institutions, but also promotes the development of new standards, including accounting and auditing standards, securities market regulations, bankruptcy law, codes for corporate governance, insurance and banking regulations.
Experience suggests that importing laws and legal standards rarely works well.
With the exception of highly technical rules, such as accounting standards, the contents and interpretation of rules is dependent on the context in which they are enforced.
If countries that adopt standards are defined as “safe” investments, foreign investors can justify their actions even if things go badly wrong.
Of course, this task is more difficult and time consuming than designing general standards, but the payoff may be worth it.
These double standards form a pillar of today's machismo.
A new border bureaucracy will have to check customs compliance, calculate import duties depending on where goods are deemed to have originated, ensure payments, verify that goods comply with EU standards, and so forth.
Yeltsin's Two Russian FacesNEW YORK: Even by Boris Yeltsin’s wayward standards, the last few weeks have been frantic.
That would propel the economy roughly one-third of the way toward higher incomes and better living standards.
The NEPAD Heads of States Implementing Committee has asked the African Development Bank to take the lead in regional infrastructure (including transport, energy, water, etc.) and banking and financial standards.
While providing relatively fewer tangible public goods and services directly, the Chinese government will need to provide more intangible public goods and services like rules, standards, and policies.
The third wave is the widespread diffusion of the innovation in ways that lift overall productivity and living standards.
A policy based on fiction and double standards is bound to fail sooner or later.
Both countries experienced sharp increases in international trade and foreign investment, but the pictures are utterly different where it counts most: rising standards of living, particularly for the poor.
New auditing standards must reflect an overhauled financial architecture that focuses on transparency.
The aim of such standards must be to attenuate the impact of financial failure, not amplify it, as has occurred in the crisis.
He was not criticizing ethnic and cultural pluralism, but the idea of “state multiculturalism,” which applies different moral standards to various social groups.
In this respect, Vilks’ work must be regarded as having succeeded in exposing moral double standards – no matter what one thinks of the drawing itself.
Global nuclear safety standards are being reviewed.
His 63-65% approval rating prior to the annexation of Crimea appeared high by Western standards, but was low compared to his previous record – and dangerously close to levels that would threaten his leadership.
The law was a watershed, because it simultaneously pacified violent regions, delivered justice for millions of dispossessed peasants, radically improved standards of living, and blunted the appeal of a guerrilla group that used the banner of land reform to justify its untold atrocities.
If there are just two companies in the sector, the one that refuses to violate minimal labor standards risks losing the entire market to an immoral competitor, which can ultimately sell its shoes more cheaply.
But if consumers show that they will pay a little more for shoes that are made without violating labor standards, they can undercut the immoral firm’s advantage.
I believe there are corporations and political groups that actually want to adhere to minimal moral standards but cannot, for fearing of losing everything.
According to a recent survey of 65 mainly emerging countries worldwide by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), which ranks countries by their education standards, around half of Latin American 15-year-olds performed below the basic levels in math, science, and reading comprehension.
While standards for students in the region’s upper socioeconomic quintile rose over the past decade, there was little change in the lower quintile, where 70% of students failed to reach the most basic levels.
Essential to this is an understanding that a fair and prosperous society needs young people who are educated to the standards required of a modern workforce.
The United States’ economy is gradually reviving, albeit slowly by the standards of recovery from a deep recession.
It seems clear, however, that his more immediate goal is to expose the West’s double standards, thereby breaking down Western barriers to his pursuit of Russian interests.
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