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Development is about aspiration—our longing for a better life as individuals and as a community—and respect, as we individually and collectively recognize and support these aspirations. Development requires the freedom to define and choose that better life; a fair share of the resources needed to realize that life; and narratives of where we currently stand with regard to our aspirations and why, where we want to go, and what it will take to get there. This means that development inevitably takes place in and through politics, law, and the social sciences (especially economics), as we work to articulate our claims and understand how development can occur sustainably within an environment of finite resources. Development raises difficult issues of causality, path dependence, responsibility and justice, which can and have led to urgent and painful conflicts. However, globalization and recent innovative thinking on development may herald a new "post-national" development discourse in which we no longer arbitrarily distinguish between the "local" and the "global," opening the way to increased understanding and cooperation towards deeply shared aims, and a more just global order, meaning inclusive, effective investment in human capabilities for everyone.

Recently, bids by Chinese multinational enterprises for leading companies in advanced economies have multiplied, despite numerous concerns being raised about such acquisitions. This Perspective explains the reasons why target firms find Chinese acquirers uniquely appealing, and explores how governments could position themselves in view of competing perspectives about such deals.

Deze uitgave analyseert vanuit een klassiek-verdragsrechtelijke benadering literatuur, verdrag, wet en jurisprudentie over het vertrouwensbeginsel geanalyseerd. Aan de hand van acht dimensies wordt het vertrouwensbeginsel bij de interstatelijke samenwerking in strafzaken beschreven. Deze 'typologie' van het vertrouwensbeginsel wordt vervolgens toegepast op de strafrechtelijke samenwerking binnen de Europese Unie, waarna aandacht wordt besteed aan de maatregelen ter bevordering van het onderling vertrouwen en de concrete maatregelen tot samenwerking. Deze bevindingen rond de strafrechtelijke samenwerking binnen de Europese Unie worden vervolgens getoetst aan de hand van de eerder beschreven dimensies van het vertrouwensbeginsel. Hieruit volgen diverse conclusies over de rol van onderling vertrouwen bij die samenwerking. Het boek sluit af met een algemene conclusie, waarin ook aanbevelingen worden gedaan aan de wetgever, de rechter en het bestuur in zowel nationaal als Europees verband

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PUBLISHED ; This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a country?s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although specific constituencies, including some poor households, could see their immediate food security threatened by the withdrawal of trade protection. The challenge for policymakers is to design flanking policies which enable countries to reap aggregate gains yet mitigate specific losses. Those policies include social protection and the provision of risk management tools, allied with investments in productivity so that average incomes rise to the extent that any a dverse shock to incomes is unlikely to jeopardise food security. Developing countries are increasingly able to deploy such targeted instruments. Lessons are also being learned with respect to the political economy of trade reform, such that changes can be introduced in a way that minimises adjustment stresses and helps build the consensus needed to lock in the benefits of trade policy reform.