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One reason that greater independence for regulators in general has been unpopular with politicians is the legitimate fear that independent state agencies could turn into an uncontrolled fourth branch of government.
In every developed economy, the financial sector plays a central role, and its regulators wield power unmatched by most other supervisory agencies.
These two attributes of supervisory agencies - political independence and political accountability - are often presented as zero-sum choices: more of one necessarily means less of the other.
Often, the independence of central banks and regulatory agencies exists only on paper.
The French Death RattlePARIS – Moody’s announcement in November that it had downgraded France’s sovereign-credit rating by one notch from its AAA rating prompted one blogger to poke fun at rating agencies’ tendency either to get things completely wrong or to recognize suddenly a crisis that had long been staring them in the face.
Security officials who failed to respond to the crisis in Mpeketoni have been fired; a similar shake-up appears likely within Kenya’s national-security agencies.
It would not be prudent for agencies to allocate all of their funding to high-risk research.
These proposals have focused on the problems caused by poor transparency, over-leveraging, outsized financial institutions, tax havens, bad incentives for financial bosses, and credit rating agencies’ conflicts of interest.
Failure to share potentially pandemic viral strains with world health agencies is morally reprehensible.
Behind the brothers were other security agencies: the Internal Security Forces, the Revolutionary Committees, and, to a lesser extent, the Jamahiriya Security Apparatus (Foreign Intelligence).
Funding agencies for academic research should adopt a similar philosophy, awarding a certain share of financing to thoughtful, unconventional proposals – those deemed risky, owing to a relatively low probability of success, but that could lead to important discoveries.
Just last week, the credit rating agencies threatened to downgrade leading European banks because of their exposure to Asia.
The EITI would require government agencies and companies to disclose information relating to hydrocarbon extraction and production.
The Charter’s 12 precepts to guide stakeholders’ decision-making should be integrated into relevant legislation and regulations by the Lebanese government, Parliament, applicable regulatory agencies, and civil-society actors such as the Lebanon Oil and Gas Initiative.
Through Europol and Eurojust, European police forces and judicial authorities have intensified cooperation, and ministers are preparing to grant law enforcement agencies of other EU countries access to national databases of DNA and fingerprints.
European police and security agencies have prevented many terrorist attacks.
The head of the central bank, Christian Noyer, has argued that the rating agencies should begin by downgrading Britain.
A draft report by American intelligence agencies has also concluded that Afghanistan is in a “downward spiral” and casts serious doubt on the Afghan government’s ability to stem the Taliban’s resurgence.
In order to help Central American farmers tackle this challenge, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has partnered with two global coffee companies – Starbucks and ECOM – as well as other multilateral agencies and donors to devise a pragmatic, business-based solution.
Similarly, NASA’s important earth-science initiatives may be shunted off to other government agencies – where they can be defunded and left to die.
In addition, there is the $3.9 trillion in debt owed by America’s government-backed housing-finance agencies (Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and others), which currently underwrite more than 90% of all US mortgages.
For Italy, the obvious solution is to strengthen the country's investigative and financial institutions, and improve the design of regulatory agencies, particularly the quality of their personnel.
The GPE’s members – 60 developing-country partners, donor countries, civil-society organizations, teachers associations, private-sector actors, and others, including UN agencies –are all ready to realize the SDG vision.
The much-touted Asian model of development was little more than an unholy alliance between government agencies, large industries, and the financial system.
To succeed, public agencies will have to overcome significant challenges.
Advertisers, insurance companies, national security agencies, and political advisers have already learned to tap into big data, sometimes to our chagrin; so, too, have countless scientists and researchers, thereby accelerating progress on new discoveries.
As indicated in the report A World that Counts: Mobilizing the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development, we must modernize the practices used by statistical offices and other public agencies, while tapping into new sources of data in a thoughtful and creative way that complements traditional approaches.
Statisticians at the US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Economic Analysis, and at its sister agencies in other countries, have struggled to measure the role of increased “variety” in productivity.
The financial collapse of 2007-2009 was the result of a massive mispricing of assets by private banks and ratings agencies.
Indeed, thanks to ongoing grants and future loans from national aid agencies and multilateral lenders like the World Bank, most of the poor “debtor” countries look set to receive considerably more money than they pay back, with no end in sight.
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