Building an export-oriented company from scratch also proved difficult, she said, in a nascent democracy where regulations governing everything from customs duties to safety did not exist.
The reasons why they don't, and why the environment has not been turned to rack and ruin, have to do with prices, technological innovation, social change and, in democracies, government regulation in response to popular pressure.
Democracy, government, regulations, spending, taxes.
Lately wealthy corporate owners -- who benefit from the commerce that our democracy, government, regulations, spending and taxes enabled -- have found another way to get around these protections that We, the People built for ourselves.
To bring the oligarchs back within reach, Mount recommends improved accountability, reinvigorated democracy, more stringent regulation: all sensible measures, but these are not sensible times.
Amongst the changes, which are intended to extend corporate democracy and bring regulation into the digital era, is a requirement that all corporations must begin reporting "information respecting diversity among the directors and among the members of senior management".
While Indian regulators are probably less nationalistic than China's, India being a democracy, clarity on regulations may actually take longer.
Six organizations that support campaign finance regulation -- Democracy 21, Campaign Legal Center, Public Citizen, Common Cause, League of Women Voters and U.S. PIRG -- held a Capitol Hill press conference to urge the president to appoint new commissioners to fill the seats of five Federal Election Commission members whose terms have expired.
"Organizing for Action is a mistake by President Obama that he should correct," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, which seeks tighter regulation of political money.
If we keep in mind that environmental degradation probably impacts negatively on democratic politics (for example, by undermining its legitimacy and stability), the failure to pursue effective transnational environmental regulation potentially undermines democracy at home as well as abroad.
