Agency
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There are also massive
agency
problems in the financial system, because principals (such as shareholders) cannot properly monitor the actions of agents (CEOs, managers, traders, bankers) that pursue their own interest.
Moreover, the problem is not just that long-term shareholders are shafted by greedy short-term agents; even the shareholders have
agency
problems.
At the same time, there is a double
agency
problem, as the ultimate shareholders – individual shareholders – don’t directly control boards and CEOs.
The following year, the same channel used forged documents to accuse leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny of being an agent for Britain’s MI6 intelligence
agency.
India’s Anti-Corruption ContestNEW DELHI – India ended 2011 amid political chaos, as the much-awaited “Lokpal Bill,” aimed at creating a strong, independent anti-corruption agency, collapsed amid a welter of recrimination in the parliament’s upper house, after having passed the lower house two days earlier.
The draft differed in many respects from Hazare’s, but it retained what most people sought – an independent
agency
with its own investigative resources and prosecutorial powers.
If your answer does not use elements from behavioral economics,
agency
theory, information economics, and international economics, among others, it is likely to remain seriously incomplete.
The
agency
charged with managing state property (Rosimushchestvo) is unable to act as an effective controlling shareholder.
Whether one considers the accusations of currency manipulation against the US in 2010, its trading partners in 2015, or a future defendant, designating some trade
agency
to rule on them would merely cause trouble.
Indeed, creating a regulatory
agency
is often a crucial component of successful telecommunications reforms, which typically start by privatizing the state-owned monopoly telecom company.
Its official news agency, Xinhua, has more than 170 bureaus around the world and publishes in eight languages.
The United Nations
agency
UNESCO recently issued The UN World Water Development Report 2009 ; the World Bank issued powerful studies on India ( India’s Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future ) and Pakistan ( Pakistan’s Water Economy: Running Dry ); and the Asia Society issued an overview of Asia’s water crises ( Asia’s Next Challenge: Securing the Region’s Water Future ).
In Senegal, for example, a world-leading pipe manufacturer, JM Eagle, donated more than 100 kilometers of piping to enable an impoverished community to join forces with the government water
agency
PEPAM to bring safe water to tens of thousands of people.
Conversely, several state institutions blocked a proposal by Egypt’s Central Auditing
Agency
for legislation stipulating citizens’ right to access information regarding corruption in any governmental
agency.
By grappling with North Korea in a trilateral setting, however, South Korea and Japan could triangulate the information they receive from the US and increase their
agency
in formulating a response.
According to Zimbabwe’s official statistical agency, inflation topped 66,000% in 2007, which looks more like Weimar Germany than modern-day Africa.
In Britain, Lord John Browne, the chief executive who transformed BP from a second-tier European oil company into a global giant, resigned after admitting he had lied in court about the circumstances in which he had met a gay companion (apparently, he met him through a male escort agency).
He even rejects the conclusions of Eurostat, the European statistical agency, that Greece provided misleading budget data in 2009.
Indeed, when China was awarded the Olympic Games in 2001, the country’s official news agency, Xinhua called it a “milestone in China’s rising international status and a historical event in the great renaissance of the Chinese nation.”
But, in addition to the right legal and regulatory framework to ensure appropriate links to the national economy – which is also lacking in most of the region – the search for desirable investors requires an effective foreign investment promotion
agency.
Yet, except for Costa Rica’s foreign investment promotion agency, CINDE, modeled after the IDA-Ireland, none of Latin America’s FDI promotion agencies have succeeded in adopting best practices.
An effective FDI promotion
agency
must be headed by an executive director with strong credentials and an excellent reputation in the private sector, supplemented by good international contacts and fluency in English.
The OECD just became the latest international
agency
to downgrade its global growth forecast, from 3.7% to 3.5% in 2019 and 2020.
In China, fewer than 200 people work at the Center for Drug Evaluation, the
agency
that reviews applications for new drugs.
If we fail to harness new technologies for ourselves, we will have surrendered our personal and collective agency, leaving little reason for optimism.
Nevertheless, Transparency International, the world’s premier corruption rating agency, ranked Hong Kong as the 14th cleanest society in 2007.
Another trusted loyalist, Zhao Leji, will take over from the 69-year-old Wang Qishan as the chief of the anti-corruption
agency
– a crucial position, responsible for keeping the CPC in check.
They established the principle that their new fiscal agency, the European Financial Stability Fund (EFSF), should be responsible for solvency problems, but they failed to increase the EFSF’s size.
In return for its support, political leaders like ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei have allowed the IRGC to grow into a semi-autonomous state-within-a-state.Today it is a large and sprawling enterprise, that controls its own intelligence agency, manufacturing base, and import-export companies, much like the Russian FSB or the Chinese military.
This, in turn, underlines another fundamental reality – that the fight against international terrorism cannot be won without demilitarizing and de-radicalizing Pakistan, including by rebalancing civil-military relations there and reining in the country’s rogue Inter-Services Intelligence
agency.
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