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The decisive impact of globalization lies elsewhere: it gives a crisis bonus to countries with transparent and accountable political structures.
Most important, if corporate boards – and the lawyers, bankers, and accountants who advise companies and individuals – are to be vigilant about legal and ethical compliance, they must believe that they will be held accountable for their actions.
The last principle is congruity, to ensure that decision-makers are accountable for the outcomes of their decisions.
Fortunately, governments, technology companies, civil-society groups, and journalists recognize the salience of these issues and are working together to build more transparent and accountable institutions.
By raising the bar for defamation charges, that decision ensures that American journalists can hold public officials accountable.
Because national governments are politically accountable to their own citizens, they often lack incentive to increase cooperation at the EU level.
With Trump poised to make such imprudent decisions, will US voters hold him accountable?
They are accountable to their governing bodies and influenced by the interests of activist states.
Then again, the mayor of Datong in Shanxi province, Geng Yanbo – nicknamed “Geng Chaichai,” or “Geng destroys and destroys” – has yet to be held accountable for similarly venal behavior.
In order to make local-government borrowing more transparent and accountable, the Third Plenum calls for streamlining the distribution of revenue between the central and local governments, increasing transfer payments to cities, and allowing local authorities to issue municipal bonds independently.
Holding people accountable for mistreating farm workers will be challenging, but not impossible.
There is now an overwhelming consensus that open, transparent, and accountable mechanisms of shareholder control are essential for the efficient functioning of public corporations.
Maybe that capitalism works better when it is being held accountable to some external standard than when left to its own devices.
Those who collaborate with populists – or copy their ideas – must be held accountable.
So, beyond offering funding for ameliorative programs, Soros uses his philanthropy to advance a vision of a truly free society governed by democratically accountable leaders.
President Bush’s warning that “the transfer of nuclear weapons or material by North Korea to states or non-state entities would be considered a grave threat to the United States, and we would hold North Korea fully accountable of the consequences of such action,” is meant to deter this outcome.
The Forum has always promoted the notion of corporate social responsibility – or, expressed differently, of business leaders being accountable not only to their employees and shareholders, but also to their communities and society at large.
Moreover, in addition to people, investors, land, and other tangible assets, an independent yet accountable government must create and enforce rules, and a charter must specify how the rules can be changed.
This will never be acceptable either to Palestinians or to the international community, and will inevitably precipitate increased tension and violence within Palestine and stronger resentment and animosity from the Arab world against America, which will be held accountable for the plight of the Palestinians.
It should go without saying that outsourcing national-security policy to an adrenaline-fueled agency that will not be held accountable for its decisions to use force cannot end well.
One leading bank, Wells Fargo, paid huge fines for charging higher interest rates to African-American and Latino borrowers; but no one was really held accountable for the many other abuses.
In a non-democracy, officials are held accountable to their superiors, not to voters.
Here, it is critical that ordinary citizens stand up and hold their governments accountable.
Today, there are 20,000 soldiers – not accountable to the people, but only to the executive – on our streets.
Most important, prophets of doom should have to answer for their predictions – or at least forfeit a bottle of champagne – and those who promote their nonsense should be held accountable for their irresponsible behavior.
Trump has launched aggressive attacks on institutions intended to hold him accountable.
Surely, companies must be held more accountable.
In the long run, the anti-depressant crisis thus may prove to be a blessing in disguise, but only if it brings about the transparency and intellectual honesty needed to make the medical profession ultimately accountable to the people it claims to serve.
Citizens’ access to information is an essential tool to hold governments accountable.
Having practiced long-term detentions without charge, trial, or access to family or counsel; having sexually humiliated and tortured prisoners, some of them to death; and having failed to hold accountable any of the high-level officials responsible for the policies that led to those crimes, the US is now seen as a hypocrite when it calls on other governments not to engage in such abuses.
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