They also impose a crippling economic burden on societies where so many are struggling to lift their families out of poverty.
But it doesn't explain why these low-trust societies became economic powers.
In free societies greater economic equality happens only when successful people agree to give back to society more than their fair share of income and wealth.
"Within societies, economic difficulties exacerbate tensions that negatively affect the way migrants are seen and threaten social cohesion, " said the President of Romania, Traian Basescu, calling for the rejection of public statements condoning racism and stigmatization.
China will see no need for force when gradual and inexorable economic integration brings the two societies together.
In fact, new media and more specifically social media has considerably changed the social, political and economic dynamics of many African societies.
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Throughout history, when societies face tough economic times, we have seen democratic reforms deferred, decreased trust in government, persecution of minority groups, and a general shrinking of the democratic space.
They include the economic meltdown of 2008, the global recession, and the persistent economic problems that plague countries and societies around the world today.
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With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 the importance of unequal outcomes was affirmed as proof that societies without market determined economic winners and losers could not survive.
Only societies with a system of economic freedom create widespread prosperity.
This happened to coincide with topics that were of vital importance to the world then: democracy, free markets, and growth-oriented fiscal and economic policies for America and other capitalist societies.
"With planning and the right investments in people now ... our world of 7 billion can have thriving, sustainable cities, productive labor forces that can fuel economic growth, youth populations that contribute to the well-being of economies and societies, and a generation of older people who are healthy and actively engaged in the social and economic affairs of their communities, " UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, said in a new report.
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It will be very hard for these banks to satisfy their societies' sky-high expectations for economic growth without scuppering their own newly won reputations for prudence.
More broadly, the author argues, popular expectations about what states and societies might do to soften the impact of economic integration had created a burden that politics could not support.
With crippled economies and fragile societies, they are barely on the world's economic map.
There is no doubt that central guidance can jumpstart economic growth, something that has happened in both democratic and authoritarian societies.
The distribution of assets, and of the costs and benefits of different policies, as well as the role of trust, are all critical to the ability of societies to develop competent rules and institutions to address environmental, social and economic problems.
Full transparency and data disclosure of these commercial and credit transactions are now required so that the Western democracies can coordinate the selective use of economic and financial leverage to press for real reform and transformation of the East bloc societies to a path of democracy and free markets.
At least, it is not enough when we are thinking about economic peace in terms of anti-poverty and eradicating a mentality of violence at the bottom and middle of societies.
In this case, it is necessary to ensure that the costs of the current international crisis are not borne by the poorest and most vulnerable in our societies, who are the traditional victims of structural adjustment policies implemented to cope with the consequences of economic crises.
Free and prosperous societies on Russia's borders will advance Russia's interests by serving as sources of stability and economic opportunity.
In the last century of so, the social and economic status of women has changed, they have come to achieve a more equal situation with men in most modern societies.
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