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The workers are subject to unsafe construction sites, exploitative recruitment agencies, and little recourse to formal justice.
Governments must also clarify the responsibilities of national water agencies and improve the capacity of water-related institutions at all levels to institute large-scale unconventional-water programs.
Paris Club loans were made by government export credit agencies, which underwrite foreign purchases of their countries’ capital goods and other products.
But governments have not allowed it to issue directives to national agencies.
Among the most innovative are development impact bonds, in which investors provide financing for development projects, in exchange for returns provided by donors, NGOs, or government agencies if, and only if, the agreed-upon outcomes are achieved.
The Delhi police and the federal investigative agencies – in particular, the Central Bureau of Investigation – are not safe from politicization, either.
Likewise, Rwanda’s Ministry of Infrastructure coordinates the activities of other ministries and public agencies – ensuring that infrastructure strategies align with the East African Community’s regional integration plans – and monitors downstream delivery and operations.
Congress and the US Supreme Court are the only federal agencies whose employees may, without restrictions, trade stocks based on non-public information.
State agencies can be captured and aid can be used for private or political gain.
But as Coronel notes, “Filipinos have consistently judged the police the most corrupt of all government agencies.”
Credit rating agencies rebalance information asymmetries, by providing information about companies’ creditworthiness to lenders and investors.
That's a lesson other occupying international agencies should keep in mind.
Obviously, more detailed calculations and analyses are required, along with discussions with governments, existing institutions, rating agencies, and other stakeholders.
Spontaneous reporting rates to regulatory agencies are low – approximately 1% – and ongoing monitoring is passive in many countries.
Physicians may feel guilty and fear litigation, drug companies worry about the threat to corporate profits and regulatory agencies must face the question: “Why was the drug approved in the first place?”
Their skepticism is hardly groundless: internal documents obtained in recent lawsuits reveal that drug companies often fail to submit critical safety information to regulatory agencies, as required by law, and fail to communicate such information to physicians and patients.
Relief agencies are blocked from operating where they are needed most.
These two measures alone – both of which could be enacted by governmental regulatory agencies – would reduce the use of antibiotics by nearly 80%, slowing the rise of antibiotic resistance substantially.
To be sure, ISIS’s foray into cyberspace creates opportunities for Western law enforcement and intelligence agencies to conduct surveillance, if they can develop the capacity to do so.
The Global Commission on Internet Governance (of which I am a member) has put forward a proposal for “a new social compact” among citizens, their elected representatives, law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, businesses, civil-society groups, and programmers and developers.
The agency will also maintain two vital arms in Europe: an innovation and technology center in Bonn; and an office in Vienna for strategic alliances with other agencies, particularly the United Nations.
So, at least for now, China will focus on another great wave of economic reform, whereas political reform will mostly be limited to reorganization of government agencies to boost efficiency and strengthen efforts to reduce corruption.
Too often, digital-health services are fragmented among government agencies, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations.
But this is also unlikely, because the plan has been well publicized in financial circles, and ratings agencies like Moody’s count the loss-absorbing debt as riskier than banks’ regular debt.
If the UNHCR and other relief agencies are to address the unprecedented amount of human need, they will have to broaden their base of support.
To a large extent, this technological advance can be funded from international capital markets, rather than aid agencies or national governments.
Yet the intellectual left has gone to great lengths to absolve regulators, government lending mandates, and agencies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of any responsibility for the housing boom and the subsequent bust.
The CRA instructs federal financial supervisory agencies to encourage the institutions that they regulate to help the communities in which they are chartered to meet their credit needs, while also conforming to “safe and sound” standards.
Indeed, an increasingly embattled Jonathan recently declared that his own cabinet, in addition to the security agencies, is riddled with “Boko Haram sympathizers.”
In February 2016, the CJGEA went to court against six state agencies and two corporate entities.
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