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In poor countries, by contrast, powerful vested interests often resist higher taxes on the wealthy, and widespread poverty makes it difficult to impose universal consumption taxes on the poor.
The challenge is convincing politicians, financiers, and vested interests of the value in going decentralized.
Another problem with governance reforms is that, although they are formally neutral, they often favor particular vested interests, with grossly unfair consequences.
Because Tudjman created a highly-centralized political system with vast prerogatives vested in the president, the opposition's best bet was to stick together in hope of mustering the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution.
Such appeals are often heard, but powerful vested interests make it hard for governments to follow through.
When citizens become so outraged that their voting decisions may be affected by politicians’ failure to improve investor protection, public demand for governance reform can overcome the power of vested interests.
Instead, it decided – every time – to kowtow to its most powerful shareholders and their vested interests (such as Big Pharma and the financial industry), arguably in exchange for additional resources for its soft-loan window (the International Development Association) and, less frequently, capital increases for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and International Finance Corporation.
What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.
After all, neither donor countries nor their partners are exempt from such problems as corruption, political crises, armed conflicts, human rights abuses, vested interests, or international power politics.
This hybrid system clearly impedes credit allocation from catalyzing development, while creating and sustaining vested interests opposed to reform.
Few trust politicians, who often have a vested interest in false information, to do the job.
Now this competitive process, not only is capable but is actually meant to endanger existing structures and vested interests that no longer serve the purpose of demand.
In other words, a competitive process is a process that induces change, even if the existing structures and vested interests would like to eliminate change in order to continue their existence.
Moreover, given the vast profits available under the current system, the struggle to bring about a significant energy transition faces stiff resistance from deeply entrenched vested interests.
People no longer think of parliaments as representing them and thus vested with the legitimacy needed to take decisions on their behalf.
The most remarkable feature of the policy deliberations on prudential banking rules so far has been their delegation to the Basel Committee of Banking Supervisors and the banks themselves, both of which have a vested interest in preserving the existing system.
Some openly questioned the current US economic model, which is increasingly characterized by the monopolization of resources and distortion of political decision-making by vested interests.
Powerful vested interests – not least the world’s fossil-fuel industries – will no doubt seek to limit progress, and most governments are not yet focused on the problem.
In Mumbai, a large proportion of them are Muslims who were denied space in the formal economy and have developed strong vested interests over the past 50 years.
To understand why is to see the sheer extent to which our systems of government have been captured by the corrupting influence of vested interests.
North observed that institutional change is extremely difficult, as it requires overcoming not only vested interests, but also outdated belief systems and mental models.
The trick is to know how and where to set boundaries that concede neither too much nor too little to those with a vested interest, for good reasons or bad, in avoiding scrutiny.
So, no matter how conditioned the Egyptian army may be by its worldview and vested interests, it has no option but to facilitate the democratization process.
Politicians feel their constituents’ pain, but it is hard to improve the quality of education, for improvement requires real and effective policy change in an area where too many vested interests favor the status quo.
True, India may not be the best advertisement for democracy in some respects, given how hard it often seems there to make long-term decisions and implement them without being buffeted – and frequently derailed – by volatile public opinion and hard-nosed vested interests.
Only by overcoming vested interests and building a more efficient bureaucracy, bound firmly by the rule of law, can the reforms China needs be pushed through.
Russia's Incompetent War on TerrorIn response to the recent wave of terrorist attacks, Vladimir Putin has demanded that even more power be vested in him.
The European Union has prohibited this practice for a decade now, but its policy has not spread globally because vested interests in major food-producing countries have stood in the way.
By contrast, user reports of adverse reactions attempt to describe some human reality, rather than promote images that suit the vested interests involved.
Efforts to bring market forces to bear by, say, auctioning gates and flight times, were stymied, in particular by airlines with vested interests.
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