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One notably successful
agency
in this regard is the African Development Bank (AfDB), which has introduced an organization-wide whistle-blowing policy, an anti-corruption and fraud framework, and an office to investigate disclosures.
Bolivia’s track record is remarkable: the world’s first debt-for-nature swap; the world’s largest protected dry tropical forest; experimental Indian park management; a rapidly growing protected-areas system; a National Environmental Fund; a world leader in international efforts to protect the endangered vicuna; progressive forestry legislation; a national biodiversity conservation agency; and a total ban on trade in domestic species.
They demand long-term capacity building and knowledge transfers from rich to poor countries, with the latter gaining far more
agency
in developing solutions.
If each international aid
agency
gave no more than an extra $10 million, a half-million children in Lebanon could begin the new school term in September.
CARE, as both a relief and development agency, can take a long-term approach to disasters, matching emergency relief with a rehabilitation and recovery phase.
The EU has an
agency
called Frontex to coordinate and strengthen national border-control policies.
It is perhaps telling that the “progress charts” prepared by the United Nations Development Program, the
agency
charged with reporting on progress toward achieving the MDGs, track only Internet usage under that goal.
According to the United Nations refugee agency, more than two million Syrians have fled to neighboring countries.
Perhaps, in a few decades, the region’s countries will develop institutions to promote financial integration, such as a single bank supervisory
agency
of the type that the European Union is now creating.
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.
This new
agency
already has immense potential.
Indeed, far from being an electoral revolution, only two of those elected – Barghouti and Muhammad Shtayyeh, who has headed PECDAR, the Palestinian
agency
that promotes transparency and economic development – can be considered at all critical of the Fatah establishment.
“It’s natural that the state of global markets will have some kind of ripple effect,” says Greg Kabance, managing director for Latin American structured finance at Fitch Ratings, the international credit ratings
agency.
Mexican mortgages are indexed to inflation, but the state mortgage
agency
links that index to the minimum wage and makes up the difference if mortgage interest adjustments for inflation outpace wage growth.
A case can be made that both functions should be integrated within a single agency, which should have three main characteristics:The third issue concerns whether the scope of a banking union should be the European Union or the eurozone.
And if a European
agency
is to guarantee banks’ solvency, that
agency
must also oversee them.
A European banking
agency
would break up the incestuous relationship between banks and regulators that was at the root of the excesses that fueled the current crisis.
Which supranational
agency
will be in charge of issuing eurobonds?
“Starting today,” he told his cabinet secretaries and staff, “every
agency
and department should know that this administration stands on the side not of those who seek to withhold information but those who seek to make it known.”
It is time for the international community to meet that challenge, by pledging to support our global health infrastructure, so that no
agency
– and no country or person – is left out.
According to Frontex, the European border-management agency, the 26,460 migrants detected crossing the EU’s external borders in the eastern Mediterranean in March amounted to less than half the figure recorded in February.
In short, university research is the principal intelligence
agency
of civil society.
He looked at me and asked: “Is the World Trade Organization a travel agency?”
But this required inventing a new kind of collective
agency
that could decide and act together, to which one could attribute - a la Rousseau -- a "will."
They therefore see its rule over them as illegitimate, which is precisely the point: the logic of popular sovereignty requires an idea of collective
agency
based on a sense of individual belonging that is much stronger than in our lecture audience.
The answer that we as individuals accept is that we are free because we rule ourselves in common, rather than being ruled by some
agency
that need not take account of us.
This law also defines the community whose freedom it realizes and defends-a collective agency, a people, whose acting together by the law preserves their freedom.
In short, there can be no democracy without a shared identity as participants in a common
agency.
Simply put, are Iraqis too divided, too long oppressed, to develop anything like the sense of common identity and collective
agency
that popular sovereignty requires?
The bill submitted to Congress even had language in it that would exempt the secretary’s decisions from review by any court or administrative
agency
- the ultimate fulfillment of the Bush administration’s dream of a unitary executive.
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