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Then, in the 1970s, largely as a result of an environmental scare promoted by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring , foreign aid agencies and UN organizations stopped promoting DDT, and its usage declined.
Today, emerging-country manufacturers produce about 50% of vaccines purchased by United Nations agencies for use in the developing world, up from less than 10% in 1997.
For example, drawing on data from various government agencies, the Climate Corporation (recently bought for $1 billion) has taken 30 years of weather data, 60 years of data on crop yields, and 14 terabytes of information on soil types to create customized insurance products.
But aid agencies need access.
So when aid workers are stopped at gunpoint and cannot talk their way through, humanitarian agencies naturally turn to MONUC to guarantee access.
But the aid agencies that work on the ground have first-hand experience of the impact of peacekeepers’ presence, and we have the authority to say that protection of aid workers can be dangerously inadequate.
Together with other aid agencies, IRC staff formed a convoy and MONUC offered armed vehicles to protect it.
Thailand's lively press is intimidated by the manipulation of the large advertising budgets of Thaksin-owned companies and government agencies.
Press agencies estimate that, with more than one million participants, this was the largest public protest since October 1999, which was also – sadly – a demonstration against violence and kidnappings.
And he would understand that agencies and organizations such as the CBO, OMB, Joint Committee on Taxation, Tax Policy Center (TPC), and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities have a principal allegiance to facts, not to some donor or political master.
So, too, are frequent changes of rules and weakening of regulatory agencies, reflecting a disregard for stability and the consequent need to strengthen the country’s institutional framework.
The current system does not empower the United Nations and other technical agencies concerned with health governance to confront the determinants of poor health effectively.
Here, too, existing regulatory principles, and the agencies that apply and enforce them, should be given an opportunity to prove themselves.
The second shaky principle is that, in order to validate these instruments, issuers of CDOs relied on credit-rating agencies.
Historically, these agencies had been reliable in predicting the risk of corporate defaults.
Since each issuer represented a small fraction of their revenues, rating agencies were unwilling to compromise their reputation for the sake of any single issuer.
All of a sudden, issuers had much more influence on the rating agencies, which, like any good seller, were ready to bend a little not to alienate important customers.
Once again, it relies on overcollateralization, an assumption on the joint distribution of possible outcomes, and the inevitable seal of approval of the three major credit rating agencies.
This is why rating agencies’ opinions are so valuable.
Since the crisis, rating agencies have been under attack, and major regulation, which could severely affect their business, has been discussed on both sides of the Atlantic.
Given this, how free are credit rating agencies to express their opinion on the very institutions that will regulate them?
But, instead of addressing the structural causes of rising corruption, India’s anti-graft movement bemoans a supposed weakening of ethical values and demands additional agencies with draconian powers to monitor and punish.
Humanitarian agencies are left tinkering at the margins of education provision through a fragmented patchwork of small-scale projects.
In the case of the Rohingya crisis, insufficient funding has been compounded by wider failures by humanitarian agencies, including weak coordination, turf battles, and differences over which curriculum should be used – an apparently esoteric issue that has become entangled with questions about Rohingya children’s future status.
The executive branch adheres to a decision-making process whereby relevant departments and agencies determine the risks and rewards of given scenarios, and then furnish the president with a limited menu of policy options from which to choose.
Trump will also be checked by the American political system’s separation of powers, relatively independent government agencies such as the Fed, and a free and vibrant press.
One exciting experience of my time in the Clinton White House was helping spearhead Vice-President Gore’s “Reinventing Government” initiative, where techniques and policies were developed to enhance the efficiency, efficacy, and responsiveness of government agencies.
How many financial regulatory agencies does a country need?
Though I do not necessarily advocate 200 financial regulatory agencies (more about this below), I believe that a structure involving multiple financial regulators in a country is likely to create a healthier financial system than would a single all-encompassing regulator.
After all, government agencies are not omniscient; they do make mistakes; they can become ossified.
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