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Indeed, the fallibility of the bond markets and rating agencies was evident in the run up to the 2008 crisis.
The United Nations does not even use the same metrics across all of its agencies: in the General Assembly, every country is weighted equally, and there are no veto rights; in the Security Council, the five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the US) have veto rights.
Jordan’s diverse tribal composition was reflected in newly established Web sites, some of which were created with tacit support – and even funding – from security agencies or other official or political groups.
Al-Shabaab is blocking most international relief agencies from accessing famine areas, preventing famine victims from reaching help, and forcing farmers back to their barren land, where most will die unseen and unrecorded.
Aid agencies that have managed to negotiate access with al-Shabaab should continue to do so, even though their activities are severely restricted.
It works with national governments, specialized UN agencies, and collaborating international and local NGOs.
For example, the UN has helped negotiate temporary ceasefires so that humanitarian-aid agencies can access besieged areas;UN agencies have quietly furnished local NGOs working in rebel-controlled areas with sorely needed supplies and technical advice; and the UN Security Council has passed resolutions to bypass the Syrian government and allow cross-border humanitarian-aid delivery.
“America First” Financial Regulation?LONDON – As US President Trump struggles to staff his administration with sympathizers who will help transpose tweets into policy, the exodus of Obama appointees from the federal government and other agencies continues.
Led by Yasmine Sherif, the fund coordinates with the UN and its humanitarian agencies, both financially and organizationally, to ensure that every refugee boy and girl has the opportunity to get an education.
For this reason, politicians and powerful businessmen often cajole the press, the credit rating agencies, and even the analysts to portray their actions in a positive light.
More important, Maduro’s regime already is a military dictatorship, with officers in charge of many government agencies.
The International Commission on Financing Global Education Opportunity – along with the World Bank and other multilateral lenders, an array of United Nations agencies, the Global Partnership for Education, and Education Cannot Wait – has proposed a plan to fill the external financing gap.
International agencies estimate that more than 100 million people fell into poverty as a result of higher food prices during 2007-2008, and that the global financial and economic crisis of 2008-2009 accounted for an increase of another 200 million.
The first is that most aid recipients are drowning in foreign indebtedness, with the money often owed to the very same governments and international agencies providing the "aid."
The recent Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is 848 pages, and requires regulatory agencies to produce several hundred additional documents giving even more detailed rules.
It is an arms race that underfunded government agencies have no chance to win.
Its activities should include raising capital (equity and debt) for global education; providing investment-banking services to governments, businesses, and multilateral agencies in cooperation with local banks; and offering consulting and advisory services for public-private partnerships, privatization, decentralization, loans, and concessionary finance negotiations.
So, as international agencies invest in computers for developing countries they must identify the obstacles erected by governments to the diffusion of ICTs, as well as the costs for overcoming these obstacles.
Nor has it helped that China’s regulatory agencies lag far behind the growth of its economy.
So, rather than simply shutting our doors to Chinese products, we might contemplate helping China by opening the doors of our regulatory agencies to Chinese regulators.
Research by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has shown that regulation and legislation in this area must strike a balance, lest it undermine “the ability of regulatory agencies to seek and retain talent.”
The international agencies involved in post-conflict reconstruction have so far failed to understand how to start or restart economic development in a low-income setting.
Once a conflict is over, aid agencies seem paralyzed.
Together with other similar cases, these trials raise serious questions about Ukraine’s judicial system and law enforcement agencies.
Human trafficking was transferred from the police to job agencies and the Ministry of Labor Supervision.
A useful example is the cooperation between Brazil’s state-owned energy giant Petrobras and Prominp – a coalition of government agencies, businesses, trade associations, and labor unions – aimed at unleashing the full potential of the country’s oil and gas sector.
Government agencies are always at risk of putting money into what Schuck calls “bad bets” and “bad apples.”
Some 50 public agencies have sponsored more than 260 challenges since 2011.
Schools, motor vehicle bureaus, adoption agencies, mortgage lenders, organ transplant registries all have a stake in information about genetic predispositions.
If we can identify specific measures that work to unblock the private sector's potential, these recommendations can be adopted both by individual countries and by multilateral agencies like the UNDP.
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