Support for Congolese institutions can help build the rule of law and economic opportunities.
Consistent with that rather gloomy finding, some new research finds only a weak link between the rule of law and economic growth.
Havighurst has taught courses in health care law and policy, antitrust law and economic regulation at the Duke University School of Law since 1964.
At the same time, the core functions of government, such as enforcing property rights, rule of law and economic openness, can be accomplished by small governments.
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While clean money comes straight from the treasury and is associated with law and upstanding economic behaviour, filthy cash suggests an illicit past, and therefore triggers us to pursue selfish goals and unscrupulous gain.
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They are increasingly entrenched in the operations of foreign governments and the international financial system, thereby weakening democratic institutions, degrading the rule of law, and undermining economic markets.
Fortunately the real dilemma is not between compromising the rule of law and sacrificing the economic benefits produced by illegal immigration.
While on the mark, Ros-Lehtinen's statement only scratches the surface of how contrary to US law and the goals of Palestinian economic development and peace US financial assistance to the Palestinians truly is.
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Identical language was passed into law in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.
For the first three years, this would be a tax cut compared with current law and provide a needed economic stimulus .
Between 2002 and 2010, Colombia recovered its standing in the international community thanks to remarkable improvements in our domestic policy, not just in security matters, but also the rule of law, economic performance and social policy.
But as a new study conducted by the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth and distilled in a recent Washington Legal Foundation Legal Backgrounder demonstrates, these rules have not kept up with technology.
The minute the government slows the rate of government spending or the Federal Reserve slows the rate of growth in the money supply, the economic lie is exposed and economic law once again asserts its authority.
Two scholars from America's Harvard University, Robert Rotberg and Rachel Gisselquist, are helping Mr Ibrahim assess the nominees and measure countries' performance by such criteria as safety and security, rule of law and corruption, participation and human rights, economic opportunity, and human development.
Compared to the estate tax provisions in current law, and after all economic adjustments, repeal of the estate tax would increase GDP by about 2.25 percent, private sector output and labor income (hours worked times hourly wage) by about 2.34 percent, and capital stock by 6.1 percent.
Determined to further enhance our relationship, we discussed ways of maximizing the work of the U.S.- Portugal Bilateral Commission, which facilitates cooperation in areas as diverse as defense and security, education, science and technology exchanges, economic revitalization, law enforcement, and development in the Azores.
African governments should uphold the rule of law to attract investment and ensure economic growth, Clinton said during a town hall meeting at the University of Nairobi.
It does mean we possess many tools -- diplomatic and political, and economic and financial, and intelligence and law enforcement and our moral suasion -- and using these tools over the past three years, I believe -- I know -- that we have saved countless lives.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the federal agency overseeing the programs, has warned that between 2015 and 2021, health spending is set to grow at an average annual rate of 6.2% as a result of the aging of the population, expansion of access to care under the federal health-care law, and an improvement in economic conditions.
That undermines the traditional practice of billing high hourly rates for any work done by a person with a law degree, and cloaking the actual economic costs from the client and the firm itself.
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Our goal is to support and strengthen ASEAN as an institution so that it can more effectively promote regional stability, political and economic progress, and human rights and the rule of law.
Attempts in South Dakota or elsewhere to artificially limit the ability of companies and investors to transact with foreign firms according to their local law or custom is an unnecessary impediment to economic growth and common prosperity.
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In short, the Obama administration wants Senators to suspend common sense and ignore real and legitimate concerns about the deleterious impact of the Law of the Sea Treaty on our sovereignty, economic interests and potentially even the national security.
"I've been dealing with immigration enforcement for 20 years and the plain fact of the matter is that the law that we're working under doesn't match the economic needs of the country today and the law enforcement needs of the country today, " Napolitano told CNN.
Bankers argue, on the contrary, that the law strangles economic growth by limiting credit and forcing money to leave Arkansas.
In 2009, President Obama signed into law the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, which was part of the federal stimulus legislation.
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But smoother increases in marginal tax rates, as under current law, create less economic friction, and fewer deadweight losses, then those with a number of peaks and valleys.
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Defying her core supporters in the liberal community and the Catholic Church, she endorsed Ramos, an architect of martial law and a Protestant, as the candidate best equipped to restore stability and promote economic recovery.
The original theory underlying the Rahn Curve assumed that as the size of government increased from zero, supplying law and order and some basic services, economic growth rates would increase until government reached some optimal size.
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Congress-members from the right-of-center PAN and the PRI worked together to pass the law, a bill that is expected to boost investment and help spur economic growth.
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