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His quest for eternal rule is driven not so much by a thirst for power as by a fear that he will one day be held accountable for his actions.
Rather than control the economy outright, Arab governments should foster the emergence of independent yet accountable regulators that can help ensure improved economic outcomes.
Meanwhile, with more skin in the game, venture capital would be more accountable to investors and savers.
This method of governance makes it appear that, at long last, we can hold politicians accountable by establishing whether targets have been reached or not.
In the long-term, financial stability, no less than price stability, requires independent and accountable regulators and supervisors.
But the region’s achievements will not be sustained if states fail to create institutions capable of holding government employees accountable for professional integrity.
The best way to avoid a relapse into conflict and arbitrary rule is to ensure that Sri Lanka’s leaders are held accountable through representative institutions.
That means implementing credible measures to ensure that colleagues or employees are not abusing their power inside or outside the office, and holding accountable those who bring the company into disrepute.
Women’s Development GoalsNEW YORK – As the 2015 deadline for the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) approaches, world leaders will face a choice: move the goal posts back another decade or two, or hold accountable those who have failed to deliver on their commitments.
What is missing from the diplomatic discourse is a strong framework to hold governments and development partners accountable for translating lofty ideals like human rights – particularly the right to access basic health and social services – into practical solutions.
In other words, some degree of regulation would occur at all levels, creating a system of countervailing forces in which all parties are held accountable.
Indeed, despite intense scrutiny and agonizingly slow trials, several more special tribunals have been established to hold individuals accountable for large-scale crimes committed in countries like Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, and Lebanon.
As Asia creates the world’s largest middle class – projected to grow more than three-fold, from 500 million to 1.75 billion, by 2020 – it will also have to cope with demands for more competent and more accountable governments.
Doing so would not only enable us to reward governments that are fostering progress; it would also keep laggard governments accountable for their weak performance and, one hopes, motivate them to redouble their efforts.
Competing for lucrative contracts, global powers have preferred to avoid offending Nigeria’s government by drawing attention to its inability to protect its citizens or hold criminals accountable.
Each country draws up a list of what to be done, and each government is held accountable in terms of its performance.
This is not to deny that some governments have been living beyond their means, and that shorting their debt is how financial markets hold them accountable.
After the election, many hoped that Karzai would recognize the need to build a more accountable government to help secure both Afghanistan's future and the future of international military and financial support.
NATO and the international community must do everything possible to foster accountable government at all levels in Afghanistan.
Harley-Davidson is only responding as any company accountable to its investors would.
“Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable,” and so should their leaders, who are “sworn to protect and defend.”
Aid should preferably be financed out of donor countries’ national budgets in a transparent, democratically accountable way.
In early May, US Secretary of State John Kerry pledged $5 million toward “a credible, impartial, and effective justice mechanism, such as a hybrid court,” to hold accountable perpetrators of violence in South Sudan’s civil war, in which tens of thousands have died, and hundreds of thousands displaced, since 2013.
If the EU were to require companies to publish detailed information regarding production and operational numbers, financial and accounting balances, and payments to authorities, companies would become truly accountable to citizens, and government revenues would be augmented.
Those running a strong emergency financing mechanism will have to be strongly accountable.
And who better to press for a more accountable European Central Bank?
The challenge, therefore, is to define appropriate sovereign obligations in these areas in future trade pacts, and to create mechanisms to hold governments accountable.
The decisions made in that room have an impact beyond the company, so it is not just shareholders who hold board members accountable for their choices.
The key to making such a system work is to ensure that national governments are held accountable for their economic policies.
A single command accountable directly to President Putin would rule out uncoordinated actions, improve discipline, strengthen the responsibility of those who are dealing with Chechnya, and diminish the carelessness with Chechen civilian lives of some Russian commanders.
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