Unfortunately, this has led to problems of social equity and environmental sustainability, which require complex coordination of bureaucratic silos in order to overcome the resistance of powerful vested interests.

Vested interests are everywhere.

As the new book No Growth Without Equity? Inequality, Interests and Competition , edited by the prominent economists Santiago Levy and Michael Walton, argues, vested interests are capable of blocking changes that would make the economy more productive and efficient.

The IPCC faced down these vested interests.

Vested interests may also play a role.

After all, vested interests do not welcome challenges.

Business as usual and fighting to maintain vested interests

Start with equity.

Make those assumptions explicit, and the decisive role of vested interests evaporates.

Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly.

i. Gender Equity Policy

Promoting greater gender equity.

This threat to vested interests remains the impetus behind the increasing threat of serious violent confrontation between TFG and the opposition, which is in reality an alliance of convenience to preserve vested interests.

Vested interests remain powerful, certainly in Congress and even within the White House.

Taming the Private Equity Locusts

Employment equity and workplace diversity

Equity structures have also benefited from logistical support (computers, office facilities) and from technical assistance (National Equity Committee).

The international community, too, has a vested interest in seeing that China rises peacefully.

Both countries face formidable resistance to reform from formidable vested interests and lobby groups.

With every vested interest fighting for itself, closed professions proved impossible to pry open.

In the Niger, legislative power is vested in an 83 member monocameral National Assembly.

Higher equity capital requirements, for example, require banks to fund themselves with relatively more equity and relatively less debt.

Subprogramme 4 Social development and equity

Only then will they lose their vested interest in an insurgency that has no end.

Unfortunately, strong vested interests have spent millions of dollars on spreading misinformation about climate change.

Europe is pushing for ambitious targets but is having trouble with its own vested interests.

The supreme judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court or Riigikohus, with nineteen justices.

The judicial power is vested in the Constitutional Court, Supreme Court and the Economic Court.

2.13 Substantive responsibility for implementing the subprogramme is vested in the Division for Palestinian Rights.

Legislative authority is vested in a single House of Assembly consisting of 15 elected members.

As a further enhancement to the Australian Government's equity provisions for higher education students, the Higher Education Equity Support Programme was introduced in 2005 following a review of higher education equity measures under the reforms.

Increase of access to education and equity

Gender Equity Policy and The Nine Benchmarks

Indeed, there was no economic malfunction that the two words vested interests could not account for.

What the executive branch has relinquished, or been forced to give up, vested interests have seized.

Remarkably, disproportionate political, economic and military power is vested in the elites hailing from Tigray region.

Indeed, if, as some believe, only a fraction of the banks equity is at risk, the potential debt equity swaps would be minuscule.

The big campaign contributors to both parties pay to ensure that their vested interests dominate political debates.

In both cases, the biggest winners were vested interests (Korea s business establishment and the Chinese Communist Party).

But the fundamental explanation lies in a crony capitalist system with too many vested interests to maintain.

If reformers are to win, they must be prepared to fight the world s most powerful vested interest.

Such appeals are often heard, but powerful vested interests make it hard for governments to follow through.

Politicians saw little need to vote for further reforms, especially those that would upset powerful vested interests.

The Pay Equity Act was adopted in 1996.

Equity in the Schools Project 1998 1.1 billion.