Participants agreed to form a "preparatory group" charged with exploring possible actions, mechanisms, timing, institutional frameworks, and principles involved in constructing a permanent institution designed to ensure international dialogue, cooperation, and coordination in nanotechnology research and development.
The challenge is designing appropriate policies and institutional frameworks that create conducive environments for an effective deployment of traditional institutions to promote desirable development goals.
And the second is the challenge of evolving the institutional frameworks needed for sustainable development.
Within institutional frameworks, political actors may have more or less freedom to pursue and develop their individual preferences and tastes.
In a country where there are no consistent legal consequences for committing crime, reliable institutional frameworks give way to something more "diffuse and fragmentary".
To suggest, in other words, that success — material, social, sexual, emotional — depends on (our!) gender traits and not on the legal and institutional frameworks we live in?
Saudi Arabia commended the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya's achievements in its constitutional, legislative and institutional frameworks, which showed the importance that the country attached to human rights.
He said non-performing loans now stand at more than €900bn, and policymakers should "encourage banks to deal with this stock of bad loans and implement more efficient legal and institutional frameworks to speed up this process".
Four billion poor people constitute a staggering market opportunity, but without buying power (income) and transaction capacity (credit, infrastructure, distribution systems, and other institutional frameworks), the poor are locked into poverty.
The problem comes if institutional frameworks in, say, the higher education system or the labor market are distorted in favor of the powerful — a process the sociologist Charles Tilly labeled "opportunity hoarding".
The key, she insists, is that countries should get their policy and institutional frameworks right.Whether or not these funds are good for producing countries, their investments in foreign markets appear to be no cause for concern just now.
