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But there is a second reason for backing Macron: During the stifling of the Greek Spring in 2015, the social democrats in power in France (under Hollande) and in Germany (in the coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats) embraced the same brutish standards as the conservative right.
This week, such government debt paid around 3.2%, which is very low by historical standards.
Such large-scale lending might cut a generation off the time it would take economies where people were poor to converge with the industrial structures and living standards of rich countries.
The 1980’s solution saved the banks (and the bankers) from the debt crisis, but in the long run increased burden of repayment, and in this way decreased living standards in Latin America.
In Mishel’s words, “if free-traders had actually cared about the working class, they could have supported a full range of policies to support robust wage growth: full employment, collective bargaining, high labor standards, a robust minimum wage, and so on.”
If they fail to apply the same standards to their own leaders, is there not a whiff of hypocrisy?
The same can be said of the Basel Committee’s standards for capital adequacy.
In fact, the financial industry’s biggest problems lie elsewhere: hedge funds, investment banks, and other non-bank financial institutions that face less regulatory oversight and restrictions (such as on capital standards and leverage) than commercial banks.
But developing such standards in the cyber domain faces a number of difficult hurdles.
Moreover, the EU’s image as a defender of human rights around the world will be tarnished by its inability to hold member states to its own standards.
As Europe struggles to prevent financial contagion and America struggles to reduce its record deficits, their dangerous debt levels threaten future living standards and strain domestic and international political institutions.
Thus, increases of 40-50% of GDP risk cutting long-run growth in half in parts of Western Europe, and by one-third in America – a devastating reduction in gains in living standards over the course of a generation.
China, moreover, is trying to learn from its partners so that it can improve its own governance, labor, and environmental standards.
There is a rigorous process of scholarly review of proposed new therapies, associated with professional journals that uphold high research standards.
When Venter and his team began their effort, genetic engineers had tools that were powerful but, by modern standards, crude.
That proved inadequate, as standards and rules remained very different from country to country, and gave way to an approach based on minimum harmonization, whereby core rules were to be the same across Europe, but local variations and additions remained permissible.
By the standards of the protesters in the Middle East, for example, they are well off.
In the last quarter-century, Chile managed to consolidate democracy, triple per capita income, and achieve the highest living standards in Latin America, with near-universal coverage in health care, education, and old-age pensions.
In fact, such templates now extend beyond conventional trade issues (for example, agricultural protection) to vast numbers of areas unrelated to trade, including labor standards, environmental rules, policies on expropriation, and the ability to impose capital-account controls in financial crises.
That way, if the regime balked, it would have to explain to its own people why it was not prepared to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, despite a reasonable US proposal that was not designed to humiliate Iran, and that, if accepted, promised a major improvement in Iranian living standards.
During Saddam’s reign, no effort was made to raise living standards for the poor.
It was better than anything else, but not great by today’s standards.
California’s latest building and appliance standards are expected to avoid the need for five large power plants in the next 10 years.
Governments need to set standards that become progressively tighter over time.
His orders would rescind the Clean Power Plan regulations of the US Environmental Protection Agency; roll back standards to control methane releases from oil and gas production and distribution; and end the regulatory use of a “social cost of carbon,” introduced by the EPA to calibrate the dollar value of climate damage caused by the emission of an additional ton of carbon dioxide.
Those standards are protected by the Clean Air Act, and Trump lacks the votes in Congress – by a wide margin – to change that legislation.
They aim to restore momentum toward an open global trade regime, including progress on contentious issues like trade in services, intellectual property rights, government procurement, and the harmonization of safety, health, and technical standards.
A new “shadow banking” system evolved, with highly pro-cyclical characteristics, and lending standards plummeted even as financial leverage and asset prices rose to extremely high levels.
We now believe that inter-Korean relations should conform to principles and standards that any member of the international community should respect.
In the past countries could achieve high living standards by exploiting natural resources.
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