For example, some sets of values are more consistent and more conducive to social stability.
If yes, then I am sad, although I understand it from a social stability standpoint.
But the desire for social stability needs to be balanced against other goods, such as prosperity.
China will do everything in its power to stimulate growth and attain much-needed social stability.
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This would promote social stability and help muster public support for Singapore's open-door migration policies, it argues.
And throughout this turmoil China had succeeded in combining an astonishing rate of growth with social stability.
And a crucial guarantor of growth, they will as always argue, is the maintenance of social stability.
All these measures are intended to address the root problems of public discontent and help maintain social stability.
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In addition, local governments are still heavily incentivized on two very measurable criteria: social stability and economic growth.
The most important measures are maintaining social stability, achieving economic growth and, in many areas, enforcing population controls.
Perhaps they may prefer to believe the prime minister with his comforting promises of social stability and economic recovery.
It is a delicate balancing act: economic growth, public health and social stability.
Authorities recognize the importance for social stability of ensuring that Chinese can invest their savings in a generally fair market.
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It remains to be seen if other European societies will follow the Greek path or if social stability can be restored.
Basic literacy--as well as computer literacy--is key to financial and social stability.
Shell benefited and was dependent on social stability, but also realized it was in its business interest to contribute to that stability and prosperity.
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As for the World Economic Forum itself, one of its pre-Davos reports identifies growing income inequalities as a threat to economic and social stability.
Social stability and the business environment would suffer as a result.
How this shift will affect social stability remains to be seen.
To maintain social stability and encourage domestic consumption, the government will have to create a more comprehensive safety net and focus on improving equality of opportunity.
Just as China is said to need 8% growth in order to maintain social stability, India probably needs to grow at 6% or more to maintain financial stability.
Allowing gays to marry would, if anything, add to social stability, for it would increase the number of couples that take on real, rather than simply passing, commitments.
That freedom from government interference is not for its own sake but for a higher purpose of keeping prices stable, which in turn underpins economic and social stability.
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Yin Tian of Peking University says the law will be a mark of the government's respect for private property and could help to reinforce social stability by reducing disputes.
Most importantly, they will need to ensure social stability.
These are lofty, but attainable goals, as long as we have leaders who are brave enough to fully consider how their actions affect job creation, social stability, economic prosperity, trust, and free markets.
European federalists know that the single currency zone will need at least a ten-fold increase in direct EU taxes (currently 1.28% of GDP) for there to be any prospect of European social stability.
There may be other factors as well: overall poverty, disparity of wealth, the presence and proportion of and relationships among various ethnic groups, and perhaps some measure of social stability like church attendance.
Many home buyers have been shut out of the property market on the mainland because of government steps to cool the domestic property market for fear that surging housing prices could hurt social stability.
In his inaugural policy speech in January, the chief executive said the inability of the middle class to buy homes posed a threat to social stability and promised to make it a priority to tackle the housing shortage.
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