Today’s column deals with the quality of governance because the city is actually a good example of my 16th Theorem of Government. The simple way to think of the city’s economic history is that the private sector was dominant for nearly 350 years. And that is the period when NYC became...
In the United States, as in Switzerland, the provisions forconstitutionalamendments developed organically. In both countries the component states’ representatives in the federal representative assembly, as well as the component states themselves, have to assent by qualified majorities. In the United Sta...
The public sector, assumed not to be motivated by profit, but rather citizens’ welfare and economic development, even if for self-centered or political reasons, has the tendency of absorbing some of these costs. Hence, when residual ownership is given to the public sector, there is a higher...
Joint efforts to advance the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) made solid headway. China played its part for the entry into force of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement, which has created the world’s largest free trade zone. China’s total volume of trade in goods ...
The foundation for achieving our country's economic recovery needs to be further consolidated, impediments to consumer spending remain, and investment growth lacks sustainability. Our MSMEs and self-employed individuals are still finding the going tough, and the pressure in 6 maintaining stable ...
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Well-being is a multi-dimensional concept. It has individual, interpersonal, and existential dimensions (Mathews & Izquierdo2009). Well-being includes people’s ability to fulfill basic needs, such as the need for food and housing (Tay and Diener2011; OECD2015; Veenhoven2008) or financial secur...
The government is still responsible for setting up their own regulatory body, acquisition of licenses, site selection, development or amendment of the provisions of national law, maintaining international obligations, promoting safety, maintenance of spent fuel, waste disposal and decommissioning. ...
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and monitoring/evaluation that they support. Parallel to the international NGOs have been programs that indigenous organizations have implemented, includinggroups such as SORRA in Somaliland, SAF in Madagascar, Sarvadoya in Sri Lanka, BRAC in Pakistan, IIDS in Nepal, MYRADA in India, ENDA-Zimbabwe...