After the adoption was legalised, Madonna said the difficulties had arisen because "this adoption essentially was the beginning of the creation of adoption laws in Malawi".

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High payroll taxes in many Latin American countries penalise workers in the formal economy, and rigid and over-generous labour laws discourage the creation of formal jobs.

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The Obama administration is preparing a stepped-up approach to policing Internet privacy that calls for new laws and the creation of a new position to oversee the effort, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Among the other warning signs Park points to: the discoverer claims a powerful establishment is out to sabotage their work, the discoverer has worked in isolation and the discoverer must propose new laws of nature to explain their creation.

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Another stalled plan is for the liberalisation of Brazil's stifling labour laws, which discourage job-creation and promote the spread of unprotected informal work.

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Cash spent jumping through hoops to comply with the minute details of conflicting laws is cash not going toward job creation.

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Not only have both countries tried to protect manufacturing jobs with employment-protection laws, but a tangle of red tape also discourages the creation of new jobs in services.

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New laws which came into force in Britain at the beginning of September allow the creation of licensed internet casinos where people can gamble on games such as poker and blackjack.

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