Agency
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The IMF forecasts the debt-to-GDP ratio in the US to rise to 85% by 2014 (prompting the rating
agency
Moody’s to threaten a downgrade in America’s bond ratings), and to 82% in Germany, 85% in France, 126% in Italy, and 144% in Japan.
The IMF, sitting on a pile of funds, sought and found a new function: serving as an economic consulting
agency
to countries in trouble -- an unusual
agency
that brought funds with it instead of charging fees.
Newspapers and magazines are blandly reproducing official pronouncements and reports from the state-run news
agency.
Brazil’s national space research agency, INPE, also reports an uptick in deforestation – about 50% year on year in September.
As a result, the question many are asking is whether, in the wake of the Peshawar killings, the Pakistani military, including its rogue Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, will be willing to break its ties with militant groups and dismantle the state-run terrorist infrastructure.
The transitional independent privatization
agency
proposed by Jean-Claude Juncker for paying the Greek debt is not a good idea.
Second, Germany’s experience with this kind of
agency
shows that it is impossible to sell off large parts of an economy simultaneously.
The oil workers’ union has been banished from the board of directors of Pemex, the national oil company, and new contracts for shale oil and gas, together with deep-water prospecting and drilling, will be signed with a government agency, not with Pemex.
The Ikea Foundation is a major partner of the UN refugee
agency
in providing shelter to refugees.
One
agency
where large-scale graft and corruption was traditionally rampant was the Department of Public Works and Highways.
Those who advocate leaving globalization exclusively in the hands of the private sector may resent the idea of vesting tax-raising authority in a global
agency.
The military – along with its rogue Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, comprising the country’s spies and secret policemen – is exempt from civilian oversight, enabling it to maintain and deepen its terrorist ties.
The new slogan for Trump’s opponents is “Abolish ICE” – that is, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal
agency
charged with implementing many of the administration’s immigration policies.
I am referring to the complex fiscal situation in the United States – a fluid problem that has just been rendered more consequential by the recent warning from the ratings
agency
Moody’s that the US could lose its top credit rating next year if Congress fails to make progress on medium-term fiscal reforms.
Moreover, one would be hard pressed to identify any meaningful hit to the US from the decision by another major agency, Standard & Poor’s, to downgrade America’s sovereign rating in August 2011.
Yet, those of us who are exposed on a daily basis to the inner workings of financial markets would caution against too upbeat an attitude toward a second downgrade by a major ratings
agency.
It must show how Britain can reinvent its economy and state to deliver equitable growth, thereby regaining its
agency
in the world.
Abbas’s son, Mazen, runs a local advertising
agency.
The budget cost increases every year, as more of the debt rolls over – and that does not include
agency
debt and the large increase in the current-account deficit to pay China, Japan, and other foreign holders of US debt.
Specifically, the federal government steps in through the
agency
of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which has a credit line with the US Treasury.
The Politics of Cosmic CatastropheWASHINGTON, DC – One weighty decision that the world will need to make in 2010 is whether to support an idea raised by Anatoly Perminov, the head of the Russian space
agency
Roscosmos, to launch an unmanned mission to redirect a large asteroid that might collide with Earth after 2030.
By demonstrating their personal
agency
against ISIS’s dictates, women freed from its control remind the world that the group has hijacked Islam’s universal values and perverted its teachings.
If workers are protected against sexual harassment by a state
agency
rather than by their union shop steward, the employee's rights will be adequately protected.
This was followed by an embarrassing surrender to the demand of protestors that a powerful new anti-corruption
agency
be established.
For Anna Harare and his followers, the only solution is another state
agency
– a vast and all-powerful anti-corruption watchdog with the power to coerce and intimidate.
With energy and enthusiasm, Burden turned that operation into a thriving health (not health-care)
agency
that covers three cities and about 300,000 people on the western edge of Los Angeles.
Subsequently, they raised equity capital from investors seeking to make a social impact – Compartamos from Accion and the IFC, and SKS from Unitus, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, and an Indian government development
agency.
Fully two-thirds of that total – around $2 trillion – is invested in dollar-based assets, largely US Treasuries and
agency
securities (i.e., Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac).
With political parties driven into irrelevance, parliament turned into a rubber stamp agency, and national television networks taken under government control, public discourse has all but disappeared.
A new report by the World Economic Forum and Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government lays out a series of best practices – each one of which has already been implemented by at least one international
agency
– that can guarantee that leaders are drawn from the most qualified candidates, and that the organizations for which they work are vested with the best possible management practices.
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