Business as usual and fighting to maintain vested interests

This threat to vested interests remains the impetus behind the increasing threat of serious violent confrontation between TFG and the opposition, which is in reality an alliance of convenience to preserve vested interests.

The responsibility vested in parents and other primary caregivers is linked to the requirement that they act in children's best interests.

Firms have technological, competitive, and bottom line constraints. For politicians, the ability to exercise power for their own interests or those of vested interests is constrained by the need to get elected.

These proposals would not be easy to implement, as there were vested interests in all governmental and social sectors of the countries involved.

Moreover, many reports refer to the persecution of leaders and representatives of indigenous social movements whose activities affect various kinds of vested interests.

Each opposition element is concerned with the impact on their respective vested interests if the Transitional Federal Government is successful in establishing itself in Somalia.

The big campaign contributors to both parties pay to ensure that their vested interests dominate political debates. That means that both parties increasingly defend the interests of the rich, though Republicans do so slightly more than Democrats.

But burdensome regulations are the biggest barrier. Excessive regulation that protects incumbent firms and other vested interests undermines market competitiveness and limits prospects for improved productivity and efficiency.

The problem abides, and the most conspicuous theme in the present report is the continuing trend of escalating potential violence in a pattern of protection of entrenched vested interests.

We need a new contract among European nations, generations, and social classes, which implies difficult choices. We must bid farewell to national egoisms, vested interests, dirty tricks, and assumed certainties.

The opposition elements inside Somalia may be preparing for a violent engagement with the Transitional Federal Government subsequent to its arrival in Somalia in order to protect certain vested interests.

That way, the dangers of popular antipathies will be contained. Instead of damaging democracy, the rise of the right, by challenging the corruption of vested interests, might actually turn out to strengthen it.

For now, however, those representative elements that have been added incrementally are not powerful enough to overcome the growing corruption and excessive influence of vested interests. To maintain single party legitimacy and thus the ability to govern those narrower interests must be overridden in favor of the general interest.

Efforts to relax competition have many faces. But all of them make an economy less productive and redistribute wealth to small, coordinated groups with vested interests and a strong inclination to lobby the government.

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups. Both also face major price distortions, owing to quantitative easing by monetary policymakers, which has led to negative real interest rates.

The main constraints blocking effective action are undoubtedly the overwhelming superiority of vested interests controlling forest resources and the equally grave lack of political will manifest in governmental attitudes towards forest conservation and sustainable use.

In reality, our contemporary frameworks for political economy are replete with unstated assumptions about the system of ideas underlying the operation of political systems. Make those assumptions explicit, and the decisive role of vested interests evaporates.

In contrast with Mexico s authoritarian past, when an imperial presidency constituted a major obstacle to modernization, power has been dispersed. What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.

It is now largely up to Thaksin himself. If he is enlightened enough to make amends with disaffected southerners and move beyond his vested interests in Myanmar, he retains a good shot at becoming Asia s next spokesman.

China s strong fiscal position today gives it a window of opportunity. But that window will close fast, because beneficiaries of specific reform policies have morphed into vested interests, which are fighting hard to protect what they have.

But many of China s antifragile measures have been piecemeal and incomplete. The need to overhaul SOEs, for example, remains on the agenda, owing to the power of vested interests that oppose further privatization and market based reforms.

While it assumes predictable financial flows, such predictability can be spurious. 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.

Once again, short term national interests are taking precedence over the need for a forward looking, flexible, and efficient EU budget. The European Parliament, which for the first time must approve the MFF, should use its new found influence to uphold the EU wide public interest and offset the blinkered, vested interests of individual member states.

The next step is for Abe s government to use its political capital to overcome vested interests, both in the bureaucracy and the business community. This means compelling businesses to give up some of the special tax benefits they now enjoy.

Which country achieves this goal first will depend not only on revenue, but also on the political will to overcome vested interests. It will also depend on institutions ability to design rational health care, monitor delivery, and properly assess new treatments.

The more we claimed to be explaining, the less room was left for improving matters. If politicians behavior is determined by the vested interests to which they are beholden, economists advocacy of policy reforms is bound to fall on deaf ears.

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. But one thing is certain the reality of climate change is making it impossible to ignore.

They are always able to raise tax rates in order to service their debt. 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.

Belief in a government answerable to the people and in a transparent market purged of insider dealing no longer guides government policy. Instead, the ideals for which we struggled appear as slogans invoked by those who want to protect their vested interests.

They included individuals from the Transitional Federal Government as well as individuals and groups from the opposition, such as traders, businessmen, warlords and fundamentalists whose vested interests would be negatively affected if the Transitional Federal Government were to be established in Somalia.

Their independence was a result of the USSR s collapse, and, while some had national revolutions, in most Soviet elites and political culture remained entrenched. Corruption is rife, state capture by powerful vested interests is the norm, and institutional effectiveness and capacity for reform are weak.

This is precisely the point. The biggest resentment among right wing voters in European countries is reserved for political elites, who, in the opinion of many, have been governing for too long in cozy coalitions, which appear to exist chiefly to protect vested interests.

But an excessive focus on vested interests can easily divert us from the critical contribution that policy analysis and political entrepreneurship can make. The possibilities of economic change are limited not just by the realities of political power, but also by the poverty of our ideas.

They must fight corruption, combat organized crime, and implement effective tax systems, which is even more critical in resource rich countries. Recent events in the Middle East and Ukraine demonstrate how the capture of state coffers by vested interests instigates conflict and undermines people s trust in government.

Crisis conditions can liberate a gifted leader from the accumulated constraints of vested interests and bureaucratic inertia that normally inhibit action in the American system. Bill Clinton, caught up in the complacent 1990 s, is said to have envied Franklin Roosevelt s crisis conditions of the 1930 s.

Some of these constituencies have only a few hundred voters and are easily controlled by a small number of vested interests. Indeed, at the close of nomination on August 4, eleven functional candidates were chosen without opposition, including those representing banks and the Chinese chamber of commerce.

Without a clear understanding of who gains and who loses from the status quo, it is difficult to make sense of our existing policies. But an excessive focus on vested interests can easily divert us from the critical contribution that policy analysis and political entrepreneurship can make.

The country s new leaders speak earnestly of deepening reforms and rebalancing the economy, but they remain cautious, gradualist, and conservative by inclination. Moreover, the power of vested interests that oppose reform state owned enterprises, provincial governments, and the military, for example has yet to be broken.

16.16 The substantive responsibility for this subprogramme is vested in the Economic Analysis Division.

In the Niger, legislative power is vested in an 83 member monocameral National Assembly.

An inter governmental system that falls apart under the challenges of trade negotiations and proliferation threats is unlikely to master the deep complexity and multitudinous vested interests that the issue of climate change entails. Traditional diplomacy will at best devise a face saving but meaningless accord next year.

16.22 The responsibility for this subprogramme is vested in the Trade Development and Timber Division.

16.23 The responsibility for this subprogramme is vested in the Trade Development and Timber Division.

Legislative authority is vested in a single House of Assembly consisting of 15 elected members.