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But the terms that Russia is demanding, if accepted by the West, would fatally undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty; worse, accepting Russia’s terms would ratify the idea that powerful countries may bully less powerful neighbors into doing their bidding, to the point of surrendering their independence.
To mitigate these risks, most countries have implemented requirements for open bidding processes and strict transparency rules for government purchases.
Indeed, most recent free-trade agreements require signatories to open up government procurement to one another’s firms, and the World Bank publishes the names of firms barred for fraud or corruption from bidding on Bank-financed projects.
Countries that forego open bidding processes end up with the kind of large-scale theft that has been documented in Venezuela and almost certainly occurred in Ukraine under deposed President Viktor Yanukovych.
Such an operation would make America appear to be doing Israel’s bidding – even George W. Bush refused when former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked the US to attack a Syrian nuclear reactor – and destroy Obama’s strategy of reconciliation with the Muslim world.
I lost interest in bidding after such a lengthy exercise.”
With the new process, Alam is now bidding again: “Now I can submit tenders online, even from home without any hassle and undue influence or obstruction.”
Apparently, investors believe that this boom is going to last, or at least that other investors think it should last, which is why they are bidding up stock prices in a dramatic response to the earnings increase.
Instead, it should allow private equity funds, which have accumulated large amounts of savings as they await good investment opportunities, to act as AMCs, bidding for the NPLs at a discount.
An independent board would oversee the state plan’s administration, relying on a competitive bidding process to select investment managers.
By keeping bidding on BRI projects closed and opaque, China often massively inflates their value, leaving countries struggling to repay their debts.
Other banks, when seeking to provide renminbi to their clients, are limited to bidding for the fixed supplies that circulate offshore.
With BOJ Governor Masaaki Shirakawa’s term ending in April, Abe will be able to select a successor – and two deputy governors as well – to do his bidding.
There are no “grownups in the room” who can stop him as he surrounds himself with corrupt and bellicose cronies prepared to do his bidding – all of which is entirely predictable from his psychology.
Because bidding and private buying would not be permitted, available organs would be distributed to the next in line – not just to the wealthy.
These disheartening results raise an important question: How do politicians who are unresponsive to the interests of the vast majority of their constituents get elected and, more important, re-elected, while doing the bidding mostly of the wealthiest individuals?
Moreover, Chinese foreign direct investment is often carried out by state-owned enterprises, and thus frequently packaged with foreign aid – an approach that can put Western-based firms at a disadvantage when bidding for contracts in developing countries.
This is a taxpayer-funded event for public consumption, so those bidding on government projects should not expect the same level of confidentiality as in private-sector contractual arrangements.
If red tape is slowing things down too much, the solution is to simplify the procedures, not to abolish competitive bidding.
The transatlantic system’s two founding powers are in the process of bidding that system goodbye.
The US has experienced a decade of excessively low interest rates, which have caused investors and lenders to seek higher yields by bidding up the prices of all types of assets and making risky loans.
If this story is right, the policy conclusion is simple: throw out the rascals who did the bankers’ bidding, tax the rich, and redistribute income more aggressively.
Sergei Kiriyenko, the former prime minister and currently a leader of the Soyuz pravykh sil (Union of Right Forces) is bidding to be Moscow's mayor.
At least some in the Kremlin realize that not all courts exist merely to do the bidding of those in power.
The judiciary already does the executive’s bidding; if current plans succeed, the ruling party will soon dominate the legislature as well.
Presumably, the anonymous Chinese buyers at recent Sotheby’s and Christie’s auctions had spirited their money out of the country before bidding, and the paintings are just an investment vehicle that is particularly easy to hold secretively.
Trump is the latest useful fool doing the polluters’ bidding, abetted by congressional Republicans who finance their election campaigns with contributions from environmental culprits such as Koch Industries.
That is why the gains from trade took the form of bidding up real wages, rather than further increasing the number of jobs.
He is free to do what he wants- free to betray state priorities, free to crush the life of every Ukrainian; free to hand out bits and pieces of the national economy to the favored few who do his bidding.
The political maneuvering has already started, with the unpopular incumbent prime minister, Gordon Brown, today’s equivalent of Heath, bidding for the Liberal Democrats’ support by promising a constitutional reform that would give the party major advantages.
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