Not exact matches
If all goes well in the European Union, sensible monetary and fiscal
policies should eventually reduce global anxieties related to the stability
of sovereign debt among certain EU
nations.
«The GUIDES indicators that focus on some overall macroeconomic indicators,» Chisa recommends, plus «a few other topics that get you a lot
of bang for the buck: British Colonialism,
nations versus states, Dutch Disease (resource curse),
Sovereign Wealth Fund, import substitution, current account balance, fiscal deficit, IMF austerity measures, and the «trilemma»
of free - capital flows, independent monetary
policy, and fixed exchange rates.»
They, soon reinforced, we may hope, by a more clear - eyed U.S.
policy, may succeed in recalling the United
Nations to its former and more modest self — a necessary, if frequently irritating, instrument
of sovereign states in search
of cooperation without abdication.
The problem that towers over us is not the morality
of recycling plastic or making better immigration
policies, although I do wish we could reduce our dependence on non-biodegradable packaging, and I do hope we continue to search for reasonable solutions to immigration that respect both the dignity
of persons and the rights and duties
of sovereign nations.
The classical definition
of a
nation state requires territory, population, a formal body that can impose taxes and government
policy, and recognition by (some number)
of sovereign states.
The point
of different currencies is the fact that different
sovereign nations want to employ different economic
policies and currency controls.
Recalling also that States have, in accordance with the Charter
of the United
Nations and the principles
of international law, the
sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental
policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment
of other States or
of areas beyond the limits
of national jurisdiction.
• Recalling also that States have, in accordance with the Charter
of the United
Nations and the principles
of international law, the
sovereign right to exploit their own resources pursuant to their own environmental and developmental
policies, and the responsibility to ensure that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment
of other States or
of areas beyond the limits
of national jurisdiction (UN 1992a: Preface, emphasis added).
While some major oil - producing
nations wisely saved part
of their windfall in
sovereign wealth funds, the oil price needed to balance their budgets kept creeping up while their long - discussed economic diversification
policies did not materialise.
«It's our philosophy that each
nation has the
sovereign capacity to decide for itself what its own portfolio
of policies should be,» said James Connaughton, Bush's chief environmental adviser, tells the Chronicle.