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“Twitter can create a faster information flow than any official agency,” says Michael Anti, a journalist in Beijing who has long been at the forefront of the Chinese Internet movement.
They operate in countries that typically refuse to recognize the
agency
of women beyond the role of mothers, wives, and daughters.
Start with this question: Was it poetic or divine justice that Al Qaeda’s leader, whose group, born in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 1988, was fathered by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence
agency
and midwifed by the CIA, was finally killed by his figurative creators?
One is a group of FSB (the successor
agency
to the KGB) men from St. Petersburg, headed by Security Council Secretary Sergei Ivanov.
That means that MTVA – which runs television stations, a radio network, and a news
agency
– had a daily budget of $846,000.
In 2012, a cash injection from Serbian authorities into the state-controlled news agency, Tanjug, gave it a massive competitive edge over the independent news service Beta.
Social impact bonds, or SIBs, require that private investors and other non-government actors cover most or all of the upfront cost of a pilot project, to be reimbursed by the contracting government
agency
only if independent evaluators conclude that the project achieves its goals and saves taxpayers money.
Not long after the destruction of Hiroshima, President Harry S. Truman, together with the Canadian and UK prime ministers, proposed the first non-proliferation plan; all nuclear weapons would be eliminated, and nuclear technology for peaceful purposes would be shared and overseen by a United Nations
agency.
Much of this failure is the result of the Bush administration’s policies, which effectively eroded the capacities of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency
(FEMA), the government
agency
primarily responsible for dealing with disasters.
After Hurricane Katrina hit the United States, we discovered that President Bush had appointed a crony rather than a professional as head of America’s emergency relief
agency.
And the credit-ratings
agency
Moody’s notes that many of the countries China has chosen to participate in its infrastructure-focused Belt and Road Initiative are among the world’s financially insecure.
The blogger joked, “If this recognition by a rating
agency
that France has problems is an example of the first failing, a recovery must have begun; if it is an example of the second failing, the country faces a dire reckoning.”
In Cambodia, for example, a United Nations
agency
found in 2004 that salaries of public employees, at just $28 per month, were “below subsistence levels,” thus creating “incentives for corruption” among low-ranking officials, as well as in the judiciary and at the highest levels of the political hierarchy.
Trump’s most peculiar recent personnel move – part of an ever-growing list of dismissals – was to fire David Shulkin as head of the Veterans Administration, a Leviathan of an agency, and nominate his personal physician for the job.
Along with roughly $700 billion in Chinese holdings of US
agency
debt (Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac), China’s total $2 trillion exposure to US government and quasi-government securities is massive by any standard.
Its uncompromising task is to make certain that no single
agency
avoids its responsibility in this fight.
The EU border control agency, Frontex, needs a stronger mandate and more resources to fulfill this crucial role.
The European Financial Stability Facility in Luxemburg would become a socialist planning agency, organizing flows of public capital in Europe and thwarting markets’ allocative function.
This week, Ellen Williams, Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, part of the US Department of Energy, announced that her
agency
had beaten the billionaires to it.
Though still in its infancy, the
agency
– based on the model of the long-established Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency
(DARPA) – has already shown major promise.
This represents a major challenge, because the
agency
is working in an industry that remains in its early stages.
It does not need to waste scarce money on diplomacy of dubious value--not when the country lacks an
agency
dedicated to helping Argentine businessmen sell their goods abroad.
The Bush administration has put outright grants at the center of its foreign-assistance policy, a commitment that is embodied in its new aid agency, the “Millennium Challenge Account.”
Dodd’s bill would create a “resolution authority,” meaning a government
agency
with the legal power to take over and close down failing financial institutions.
And an independent and credible European fiscal
agency
should be entrusted with budget monitoring and the implementation and enforcement of the rules.
But China has no specialized
agency
in charge of international development assistance.
They are seen as the last pure cause, the entirely innocent “Other,” unimplicated in their fate and apparently deprived of political
agency
or choice.
At the same time, an external
agency
such as the International Monetary Fund could render the plan more credible by evaluating it for consistency with the country’s goals and monitoring its implementation.
That intervention – together with the US and Saudi governments’ provision of arms to Afghanistan’s anti-Soviet guerrillas through Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence
agency
– helped spread militancy and terrorism, which the subsequent US military intervention has kept alive.
The UN, which has a specialized
agency
for each aspect of a humane society, has successfully supported decolonization, helped to build states, and averted the spread of regional conflicts, especially that between Israelis and Palestinians.
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