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Given that putting people to work forms the bedrock of their business model, such agencies are ideally suited to provide this link.
Moreover, in balancing companies’ needs with workers’ skills, private employment agencies gain a comprehensive understanding of the labor market.
But, this promise can be fulfilled only if multinational companies support the effort, empowering staffing agencies to deliver quality employment.
With the right tools and support, private employment agencies can help to arrest the downward spiral of youth unemployment.
Rating the RatersCAMBRIDGE – In the new financial order being put in place by regulators around the world, reform of credit rating agencies should be a key element.
Credit rating agencies, which play an important role in modern capital markets, completely failed in the years preceding the financial crisis.
There is widespread recognition that rating agencies have let down investors.
And the problem isn’t limited to such financial products: with issuers of other debt securities choosing and compensating the firms that rate them, the agencies still have strong incentives to reciprocate with good ratings.
In many cases, the importance of ratings comes partly from legal requirements that oblige or encourage institutional investors and investment vehicles to maintain portfolios of assets that have received sufficiently high grades from the recognized agencies.
It should apply to all products that rating agencies evaluate.
Predictably, the Senate’s bill encountered stiff resistance from the dominant rating agencies.
Standard & Poor argued that such a mechanism would provide credit rating agencies with “less incentive to compete with one another, pursue innovation, and improve their models, criteria, and methodologies.”
Rating agencies have been and should remain an important aspect of modern capital markets.
Now it is up to the European Parliament to address this hypersensitive issue, the most controversial part of which is the powers and responsibilities to be given to the three new pan-European supervisory agencies for banking, securities, and insurance.
The three new agencies will not only enforce common technical standards, which may eventually become binding throughout the EU if endorsed by the European Commission, but will also be allowed to settle disputes between national supervisors.
More important, should the Council declare a state of financial emergency – such as the one we are in currently – the EU agencies might exceptionally be given a position of predominance over national supervisory authorities.
As public debt exceeded 60% of GDP -- inciting the credit rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Moody's to downgrade Brazil's bond rating -- many bankers began to fear a default.
Italy’s leaders should engage actively in commercial diplomacy, using the country’s embassies and trade agencies to promote Italy globally, while working to build strong bilateral relations with other EU members, particularly southern countries like Spain.
And the IMF, the World Bank, and many UN agencies lie somewhere in between.
International agencies such as the World Bank and the IMF would automatically stop making loans to countries where the head of government exceeds that limit.
In one of the great ironies of modern American politics, the post-crisis Dodd-Frank financial reforms of 2010 actually gave more power to the Fed, mostly because other US regulatory agencies were regarded as having done a worse job.
If protecting against hoaxes is not the market’s purview, can news agencies or new media entities like Twitter prevent such deception?
Though this shift is yet to be fully funded, it reflects the long overdue recognition by governments and aid agencies that humanitarian crises are not over in weeks or months, and that refugees need more than food and shelter.
It is surely the case that the banks, along with rating agencies, mortgage underwriters, investment banks, and others, engaged in unsavory practices.
But the moral hazard view misses the central point: as we document in our book, households, banks, rating agencies, investors, and policymakers all believed in the housing market, and all failed to see the risks.
The UN refugee agency’s funding for Syria, which supports humanitarian agencies and development aid for neighboring countries, has received about one-third of the $4.5 billion needed this year.
Our sound fiscal management has been widely recognized, with all of the major credit ratings agencies upgrading the Philippines within our government’s first year.
Nearly all (95%) of housing finance in 2009 had to go through the state agencies Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Ginnie Mae to prevent a complete collapse of the US economy.
Another 40% goes to repaying interest on the country’s burgeoning international debt, which now exceeds half of Kenya’s annual GNP – a red flag for credit ratings agencies.
Given this, economic migrants should be matched with jobs where they are needed, potentially through newly created job-brokering agencies for major immigrant-sending countries.
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