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How can Pakistan be a “normal” state if its army and intelligence
agency
remain outside civilian oversight and decisive power remains with military generals?
He even retracted his confession to the CCP’s anti-graft agency, blaming mental stress for his admission that he accepted bribes from a man he called “soulless” in court.
He has put development at the forefront, saying explicitly, “It’s time for a development professional to lead the world's largest development agency.”
In February, on orders from the populist interior minister, Austrian police raided the country’s main intelligence
agency
– the very organization charged with monitoring right-wing extremism.
That the
agency
was running an operation aimed at harming North Korea.
When Economic History Improves With TimeCAMBRIDGE – Seldom does a dense report from a statistical
agency
take your breath away, but the latest publication on the United States’ national income accounts from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) is the exception that proves the rule.
In conflict zones, the United Nations children’s
agency
UNICEF recently observed, sexual violence usually spreads like an epidemic.
In its 2015 mid-year report, the
agency
put the number of “forcibly displaced” people worldwide at 59.5 million at the end of 2014, including 19.5 million internationally displaced, which they define as true refugees.
Suddenly, the Fund has moved to center stage as the only
agency
seemingly capable of stemming the vicious downward spiral that is currently seizing emerging-market stocks and bonds.
World leaders can allow the IMF to sell some of its gold stock to endow the
agency
with enough cash to fund its monitoring and surveillance functions.
Moreover, many are concerned that the country’s newly established cyber-crime investigative
agency
will carry out “unchecked government surveillance on Tunisian citizens,” as occurred under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who was ousted in the Arab Spring revolution.
According to tripartite agreements between the governments of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the United Nations’ refugee agency, UNHCR, four of the largest camps in Pakistan are to be closed and all Afghans living there repatriated.
Beyond oil and gas, Russia’s arms export agency, Rosoboronexport, has just seized Avtovaz, the giant dysfunctional Soviet car factory, and VSMPO-Avisma, Russia’s big titanium company, while all aircraft production has been concentrated in one state company.
But, as a 2003 EPA report noted, the
agency
“did not have sufficient data and analyses to make such a blanket statement” at that time.
While the US government never officially promised to bail them out, it did create a special agency, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, which was to assess their strength in an annual report.
But this
agency
never even acknowledged that there was a housing bubble.
As Robert Hannigan, the former director of the British intelligence
agency
GCHQ, recently observed, the window for tech companies to reform themselves voluntarily is quickly closing.
And, as Anthony Atkinson reminds us in his masterful book on inequality, even technological change is not immune from government agency: There is much that policymakers can do to influence the direction of technological change and ensure that it leads to higher employment and greater equity.
To avoid problems, a kind of debt-management
agency
should be established as well – possibly also under the auspices of the ESM – with a mandate to buy back member states’ debt above a certain threshold.
But, with a real debt-management
agency
and a regime for managing legacy debt, member states’ newly liberated fiscal capacity might relieve the need for such a centralized solution.
What is known is that Bin Laden’s demise came at a moment when relations between the CIA and Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan’s intelligence agency, had sunk to an all-time low.
With the help of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence
agency
and Saudi Arabia’s money, the CIA staged what remains the largest covert operation in its history, training and arming thousands of anti-Soviet insurgents.
Each
agency
has its role, but they also tend to squabble over turf rather than cooperate.
One basic reform should be to transform the IMF into a super rating agency, like Standard & Poors or Moodys.
The credit ratings
agency
Standard & Poor’s has just downgraded the sovereign-debt ratings of nine eurozone countries, including France.
This is not new: US federal legislation has long mandated a complete cutoff of American financing to any United Nations
agency
in which Palestine is a full member.
At the same time, the involvement of a rule-bound international
agency
would minimize the political poison associated with bank recapitalizations and currency interventions.
These men have lost the opportunity to do meaningful work, and to feel a sense of agency; and they have been deprived of a space where they can prosper, by gaining the satisfaction of succeeding at something, and grow in a self-fulfilling vocation.
While the United Nations General Assembly has tasked its
agency
for human settlements, UN-HABITAT, with promoting sustainable urbanization, the
agency
lacks the influence to ensure that this vital issue makes it onto the global agenda.
A second camp favored greater control by the International Telecommunications Union, a United Nations specialized agency, which ensured legitimacy but at the cost of efficiency.
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