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Another promising change in Italy has been the appointment of Mario Draghi as Governor of the Bank of Italy.
Most important, Europe and the US continue to resist the full dismantling of a nationality-based appointment system that favors their citizens for the highest leadership positions at the IMF and the World Bank, despite offering the occasional promise of change.
Doing Development BetterCAMBRIDGE – Jim Yong Kim’s appointment as World Bank president may have been predictable, given the long-standing tradition that renders the selection an American prerogative.
The European Union has recently taken important steps towards greater cohesion and unity with the appointment of a President and High Representative for Foreign Affairs.
The appointment was duly rejected by the Italian president.
In this way, democracy was already substantially eroded before the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in January 1933.
By establishing the seniority rule for the most important Supreme Court appointment, Sharif has depoliticized the process.
Indeed, I once read that Stalin's appointment to his first key party post was a mistake.
That effort is exemplified by the recent appointment of firebrand John Bolton to replace the embattled H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser.
On this front, Bolton’s appointment might even help, as it lends added credibility to the threat of the use force, which is required to make such an approach work.
No motive other than ideology can explain Trump’s open hostility to the bloc, his bizarre ambassadorial appointment, or his notorious question to EU President Donald Tusk: “What country is next to leave?”
But a more coherent and consistent approach evolved following the appointment of Aaron Motsoaledi as Minister of Health in 2009.
It was in the first weeks after the establishment of the ECB in June 1998 that I received a letter by the late Nobel Prize laureate Milton Friedman, who congratulated me on my appointment as member of the Executive Board – which he called “an impossible job.”
Anyone who wants Stark will need a good team of lawyers to figure out how to convert his current, non-renewable appointment on the Executive Board into an appointment as President without violating the ECB’s rules.
Until his appointment as secretary general, there had been periods of “detente”, of course, but, at least on Moscow’s side, they were considered as useful breathing spaces.
While the appointment of the Chinese central banker Zhu Min as IMF Deputy Managing Director was a positive step, it has not been followed by other appointments or steps that would increase China’s influence.
Why are Hong Kongers, who evinced no strong demand for elections under British colonial rule, suddenly so opposed to China’s appointment of their leaders?
The right person should not necessarily be an American as that would unduly limit the choice and risks bringing an appointment more distinguished by ideology than competence.
Renzi’s Choice, Europe’s LossROME – The appointment of Federica Mogherini, Italy’s foreign minister, as the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy has exposed two fictions.
Mogherini’s appointment bodes ill for progress toward a more assertive, or at least unified and coherent, European foreign-policy stance.
A lack of qualified women in Europe is no excuse for not making a meaningful appointment.
The perversity of Mogherini’s appointment is that Italy does have highly qualified women candidates.
And nationality, rather than merit, still is the dominant guide for the appointment of these institutions’ leaders, with top positions still reserved for European and US citizens.
On a European level, the British vision of liberalization also formed a crucial ingredient of the 1986 Single European Act, which was decisively influenced by Thatcher’s appointment of Lord Cockfield as Britain’s European Commissioner.
They ask: "How can the appointment of governors be a means of fighting terrorism?"
And the appointment of Igor Kholmanskikh, a tank factory foreman who had offered to come to Moscow with a burly cohort of his fellow assembly-line workers to defend Putin’s regime, to rule the vast Ural region will not scare them.
Moreover, her appointment would speak to other important initiatives with which Obama has aligned himself, including efforts to fight corruption, strengthen meritocracy, and support gender equality.
Meanwhile, Europeans are happy to hold their tongue as a reward to the US for having supported their nationality-based appointment last year of Christine Lagarde to head the IMF.
Second, by asking Ocampo to step aside in favor of Okonjo-Iweala, they can unite their votes behind a highly credible merit-based appointment for the World Bank.
Jeremy Stein, a relatively new appointment to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, recently gave a speech explaining why dangerous incentive problems within large financial institutions will not be fixed by regulation.
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