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  • In developing countries, This house would ban major shareholders of corporations with a significant market share from funding election campaigns

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    Possessing a significant market share entails substantial sales and influence over a particular industry or market. They often play a significant role in local industries by supplying goods and services and providing employment.

    Hiraya Debate Cup · Round 2 · 2025-02-22

  • The parliament believes that, instead of increasing funding for small-scale primary healthcare clinics in developing economies, priority should be given to expanding subsidies for medical specialization facilities, infrastructure, and specialists (such as cardiology, neurology, etc.).

    RDS Ramadan Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-02-20

  • This House supports the degrowth movement.

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    The degrowth (decrescimento) movement argues that humanity cannot continue to grow without this leading to a climate catastrophe. The only solution, according to the movement, is a radical transformation of our way of life—reducing economic growth (degrowing), promoting a reduction in consumption, production, and economic development in favor of ecological sustainability.

    IV Campeonato Sul-Brasileiro de Debates · Rodada 1 · 2025-02-17

  • This house, as the Democratic Party, would make active efforts to make DOGE bi-partisan instead of opposing it

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    The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is an executive advisory commission in the US led by Elon Musk created under the Trump Administration that aims to increase efficiency in national expenditure through reducing financial waste, abolishing agencies deemed unnecessary, and downsizing the government workforce. Recently, DOGE has cancelled several government contracts reportedly valued at $10 billion, notably including the whole of USAID and and parts of the Department of Education.

    Caritas Debate Open 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-02-15

  • এই সংসদ এমন একটি পৃথিবী চায়, যেখানে একজন মানুষ এনজিওতে চাকরি করার পরিবর্তে অধিক বেতনের চাকরি করে তার সিংহভাগ অর্থ ডোনেশন করবে।

    1st JISCDC Nationals 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-02-14

  • This house regrets the popularisation of RCTs in developmental economics research

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    Randomized controlled trials are experiments that apply an intervention to only a randomly selected portion of the target population, so that you can compare the effects of the intervention against a group that didn’t receive it. From a focus largely on nation-scale problems with no clear answers (like why countries are poor), the field of development economics has shifted to a focus largely on smaller problems that can be definitively answered since the introduction of RCTs. Some people, however, are vary that RCTs dehumanize people and treat them as science experiments.

    5th Ikhtilaf Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Novice Semi Finals · 2025-02-08

  • This house regrets the popularisation of RCTs in developmental economics research

    Infoslide

    Randomized controlled trials are experiments that apply an intervention to only a randomly selected portion of the target population, so that you can compare the effects of the intervention against a group that didn’t receive it. From a focus largely on nation-scale problems with no clear answers (like why countries are poor), the field of development economics has shifted to a focus largely on smaller problems that can be definitively answered since the introduction of RCTs. Some people, however, are vary that RCTs dehumanize people and treat them as science experiments.

    5th Ikhtilaf Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Open Quarter Finals · 2025-02-08

  • This house believes that CIDCA should adopt the operational model of USAID.

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    The China International Development Cooperation Agency (CIDCA) is the Chinese government agency responsible for managing the country’s foreign aid and international development cooperation. Its projects are often loan-based and linked to China's broader infrastructure and trade strategy, e.g. the Belt and Road Initiative. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the U.S. government agency responsible for administering foreign aid, humanitarian assistance, and development programs worldwide. Its model is grant-based where aids are granted without requirement of financial repayment; however, it emphasizes the promotion of democracy, human rights, and governance from the recipients.

    Vietnam WGM 2025 · Pre-finals · 2025-02-08

  • This house believes that limiting the negative effects of US monetary policy on foreign economies should become an explicit part of the Federal Reserve mandate

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    The Federal Reserve is the central bank of the United States of America. When setting monetary policy, the Federal Reserve currently has a dual mandate: 1\. Maximizing employment in the U.S. 2\. Stabilizing prices/controlling inflation in the U.S.

    5th Ikhtilaf Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Novice Semi Finals · 2025-02-08

  • This house would ban vulture funds from purchasing sovereign debt

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    Vulture funds are a sub-set of hedge funds which invest in distressed securities that have a high chance of default. These funds buy risky debt securities at heavy discounts and seek returns via methods like aggressive litigation, debt restructuring and asset seizure. Sovereign debt is the debt a country owes. Governments acquire sovereign debt by issuing bonds, bills, debt securities, or loans from other countries and multilateral organizations like the International Monetary Fund.

    5th Ikhtilaf Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Novice Semi Finals · 2025-02-08

  • This House Regrets IMF structural adjustment programs* in African nations *Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) are economic reforms implemented by countries as a condition for receiving financial assistance from international institutions like the IMF and World Bank. These policies typically include reducing government spending, privatizing state-owned enterprises, liberalizing trade, devaluing currency, and encouraging foreign investment.

    2nd Qatar Schools Debate League Girls 2024-2025 · Round 4 · 2025-02-08

  • This House Regrets IMF structural adjustment programs* in African nations *Structural Adjustment Policies (SAPs) are economic reforms implemented by countries as a condition for receiving financial assistance from international institutions like the IMF and World Bank. These policies typically include reducing government spending, privatizing state-owned enterprises, liberalizing trade, devaluing currency, and encouraging foreign investment.

    2nd Qatar Schools Debate League Girls 2024-2025 · Round 4 · 2025-02-08

  • This house opposes the expansion of BRICS.

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    BRICS is an intergovernmental organization founded in 2009 by Brazil, Russia, India, and China, and joined a year later by South Africa. Some BRICS initiatives include the New Development Bank (a development bank owened in equal parts by the five founding BRICS members), the BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement (a lender of last resort for National Central Banks), and BRICS Pay (a payment system which will allow BRICS members to recieve and make payments in their own local currencies). In 2024, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates were invited to join the BRICS. Argentina declined the invitiation, Saudi Arabia is still assessing it and all the other countries agreed to join. In 2025 Indonesia became the 10th member state of BRICS.

    Trinity College Dublin's Intervarsity Debating Competition 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-02-08

  • Hükümet, toplanan vergilerin geri dağıtımında; doğrudan sosyal adaleti arttırmayı hedefleyen politikalar yerine (sosyal yardımlar, ücretsiz eğitim ve sağlık hizmetlerinin iyileştirilmesi, vb.) dağıtılacak toplam geliri arttırmayı hedefleyen politikaları (Ar-Ge yatırımlarının sübvanse edilmesi, yeni istihdam alanları açılmasının teşvik edilmesi, vb.) önceler.

    İstanbul Erkek Lisesi Münazara Turnuvası 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-02-08