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BLOCS	Business Leadership Organized for Catholic Schools (Philadelphia)

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Unsettled border conflicts among some counties have presented challenges to the peaceful cohesion of communities, resulting in divisions while trying to operationalise the regional blocs.BORDER CONFLICTSThe most common border conflicts that have threatened the good relations of counties within the same regional blocs involve Kisumu and Nandi, Kisumu and Kericho, Vihiga and Kisumu and Nyandarua and Laikipia.

Border conflicts major threat to success of regional blocs

The parliamentary bloc of Nidaa Tounes officially asked on Tuesday, November 13 the HPR bureau to dismiss the five deputies of the bloc, namely Taher Fdhil, Bechir Ben Amor, Ikram Moulahi, Belkacem Dekheli and Jihane Aouichi.

HPR: New line-up of parliamentary blocs after dismissal of Nidaa Tounes deputies

The bloc is also expected to come up with ways of ending food insecurity, fighting perennial drought and managing natural resources.

Four counties partner to stop rustling

BEIRUT: As MPs and parliamentary bloc representatives emerged from meetings with Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri over the Cabinet formation Monday, some declared their requests for particular ministerial portfolios, while others were reticent to reveal details of the discussions.

MPs, blocs submit their Cabinet wish lists

In the 2017 elections, the Islamic Wafaa' Bloc won 25 seats out of 51, the Martyr Yasser Arafat Bloc won 22 seats and Student Progressive Democratic Pole Bloc held four seats.

Islamic Bloc wins Birzeit students council elections with 24 seats

Bello was reacting to reports that leaders of the ruling coalition, including a bloc led by Ako Bicol Rep.

'Not all party-list groups will block impeachment'

In addition to maintaining the goals of the revolution and continuing peaceful protests to bring down the "oppressive and tyrannical regime", the bloc's aims include retribution for "all martyrs" who died since the start of the revolution.

New revolutionary bloc launched

"Fast track" or "trade promotion authority" is a key component of the scheme to enmesh our nation in a system of regional trade blocs. Granting the president "fast track" authority violates the separation of powers by granting a legislative role to the executive branch.

"Harmonizing" our decline: our standard of living is being deliberately undermined to merge our nation into a centrally directed global economy

If a reduction in the number of trade blocs makes inter-bloc trade less important then the market power of the trade blocs is reduced and the Nash equilibrium tariffs will fall.

Bilateralism is good: trade blocs and strategic export subsidies

But I do see a creeping protectionism on trade, creeping restrictions on foreign investment, and an inward turning of the world into trading blocs. They already exist in North America and the European Community, and, more obscurely, in the investment ties between Japan and some Pacific Rim countries.

A global economy is not the wave of the future

If the world splits into three blocs, the nature of the split is not obvious.

GATT is dead; the world economy as we know it is coming to an end, taking the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade with it