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As the career outcomes associated with specific institutions and degree programs become more transparent, education and training providers will become more accountable for preparing their students for prosperous and productive lives.
Indeed, it is all very well to say that we want to “develop effective, accountable and transparent institutions at all levels,” and to “substantially reduce corruption and bribery in all their forms,” but where do we start?
In this sense, the banking union is not a scheme to burden German taxpayers with the losses of failed southern European banks; rather, it is a mechanism to render all banks (including German ones) accountable for their own mistakes, thereby reducing the burden that they impose on domestic taxpayers.
We have created a political body that has power to hold European institutions to account but has no obvious European electorate to which it can itself be held accountable.
And, by looking critically at elected officials’ actions (or inaction), they are supposed to ensure that those who govern remain accountable to those who put them there.
If the West now wants to hold Asian countries responsible for restraining new sources of greenhouse-gas emissions, it must first hold itself accountable for its old stock and current emissions.
The groups that needed to work together to attain them were easy to identify, and they could be held accountable for cooperation and progress.
Those who forcibly displace civilians in violation of international law must be held accountable in order to deter others in the future.
But victims often do not understand that this actually tends to contain potentially embarrassing scandals, by preventing real – that is, accountable – law enforcement from getting involved.
As the fourth estate, the media holds governments and corporations accountable by reporting on corruption, environmental degradation, and other violations of the public trust.
Concerns already exist that South Africa’s security services are insufficiently accountable to the public, and that they are rife with political infighting and extrajudicial surveillance.
This includes ensuring that borrowers are accountable and that their liabilities are transparent; deleveraging municipal debt through asset sales and more transparent financing; and shifting the burden of resolving property-rights disputes from regulators to arbitrators and, eventually, to the judiciary.
When Democracy Fails the PeopleNEW YORK – Nobel laureate Amartya Sen famously suggested that famines do not occur in democracies, because accountable governments will do everything they can to avoid mass starvation.
Far from holding Pakistan’s generals accountable for the American blood on their hands, the US has provided them large amounts of funding – so much, in fact, that Pakistan has been one of America’s largest aid recipients.
Moreover, progress should be measured, not only so that policymakers, companies, and health systems can be held accountable, but also so that others can emulate their successes.
If the banks were ever really held accountable for the social costs of their behavior, the bill would far exceed $300-400 billion.
In today’s noisy, confusing, multi-channel news landscape, where “fake news” is sold as fact, we need accountable, analytical, responsible reporting more than ever.
They are held accountable for their choices by voters, other elected officials (in the form of parliamentary scrutiny), and independent media.
Paradoxically, she made accountable and authoritative government possible again partly by curtailing the state’s role in the economy.
The fund would be managed at arm’s length in a transparent, accountable manner, guided by a city mandate but directed by a dedicated professional staff to keep it free from political influence.
It needs more effective and more accountable governments.
We must be faster and more flexible, efficient, transparent, and accountable.
Time and again what is clear is that people, given the chance, do want governments that are accountable, proper rule of law and the ability to choose their own destiny.
Weak governments can be made stronger; governments that tolerate or support terrorism must be held accountable.
The best answer, both in theory and practice, is to find ways to hold governments accountable to the people that they serve.
Is Putin risking his political future by accepting a formally secondary role and making himself accountable for all socio-economic policy?
One of the chief weaknesses in Russia's constitutional design is that power is separated from accountability: the president has the most power, but the government is held accountable for policy results.
If the Kremlin claimed credit for the oil- and gas-fired prosperity of the past six years – prosperity due solely to economic exuberance elsewhere in the world – the Kremlin should be accountable for the current devastation.
Findings are being shared among millions of citizens around the world, making it a tool for citizens to hold their leaders accountable.
Finally, the international community must commit to more decisive and accountable global leadership.
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