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When the apartheid government negotiated with the African National Congress prior to the 1994 democratic transition, it demanded (and received) property and civil rights for the white minority in exchange for political rights for the black majority.
Ordinary Burmese well understand that their country’s democratic transition is the direct result of its recoil from China’s excessive demands on its natural resources.
Displaced farmers and workers must be provided with the education and training required to enter new jobs, as well as the funds, health care, and other essential services that they need to tide them through the transition.
But such trappings will not make the transition process any easier for a young man of less than 30 in a society where veteran military chiefs retain so much power.
The vast workforce has driven down the price of labor, impeding the transition to a high-income, domestic-consumption-driven growth model.
But the transition must be handled carefully to ensure that property prices do not plummet, which would increase the ratio of non-performing loans – and possibly even trigger a major financial crisis.
China’s leaders are already working to guide the transition to a growth model driven by domestic consumption and higher-value-added production.
The politics of this transition, however, will be harshly uncertain.
The new generation of Saudi leaders could spearhead a transition to a genuine constitutional monarchy, based on a transparent system of checks and balances.
Two other developments promise to prevent increased European dependence on Russia: massive expansion of liquefied gas imports into the EU and – linked to this and to deregulation of the European gas market – the transition from long-term supply agreements and the oil-price peg to market-dependent spot prices.
Moreover, at age 96, Prem may lack the stamina to manage the crown’s transition.
If anything, too rapid a democratic transition may destabilize governments and enhance the extremists’ opportunities to wreak havoc.
After decades of autocracy, this vast archipelago of a country just concluded a presidential election that has solidified its transition to democracy.
The best way to deal with the economic, political, and humanitarian concerns raised by trade agreements is via transition rules, temporary income support, and retraining, as opposed to maintaining protectionist barriers.
What was supposed to be a coordinated effort to protect civilians from ruthless repression and advance a peaceful transition – the plan developed by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan – has now degenerated into a proxy war between the United States and Russia.
The years 1989-1991 were the start of a historic transition away from the bipolar world of the post-World War II era toward today’s globalized world, a familiar place, but one that we still do not fully understand.
Will the transition be peaceful, and will the West survive it intact?
Who is likely to lead this transition to a “new normal”?
After all, China’s small list of friends in Asia became even smaller in 2012, given Myanmar’s democratic transition.
Austria and Germany - so far the two largest recipients of migrants from Eastern Europe, receiving four out of every five - announced last year that they will restrict migration from the new member states for the full transition period of seven years.
France and Belgium will restrict immigration by new EU citizens for at least the first two-years of the transition period.
Now it has resurged to become the world’s most dynamic economy since launching its transition to a market economy in 1979.
But China failed to exploit this benefit of backwardness until the transition from a command economy began in earnest.
When China’s market transition started in 1979, Deng Xiaoping adopted a pragmatic, dual-track approach, rather than the “Washington Consensus” formula of rapid privatization and trade liberalization.
Because such distortions (a legacy of the dual-track transition) result in income disparities, they ultimately repress domestic consumption and contribute to China’s trade imbalance.
Those imbalances will remain until China completes its market transition.
Any initiatives to support economic development must support this population’s transition toward higher-productivity activities.
I personally witnessed the power of living in truth in that year, when the leadership of Poland’s Solidarity movement asked me to help Poland with its transition to democracy and a market economy – part of what the Poles called their “return to Europe.”
It is time for the international community to step in, call for an end to the detention and disappearance of MDC officials and perceived supporters, and push for a democratic transition in Zimbabwe.
The world needs a rapid and fair transition away from dirty energy sources.
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