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Why not the IMF?Elimination of the IMF's lending functions would solve the problem of perpetual turf wars between it and the World Bank.
Despite the Asian and Russian fiascos, the general view among the international financial clerisy is that the IMF needs more, not fewer functions.
Despite the introduction of individual accounts 20 years ago, China’s pension system effectively still functions on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Unless you performed all of these functions well, you would go out of business.
Globalization allows these different functions to be carried out in different places, thereby allowing countries to participate earlier, when they still have few locally available capabilities, which can then be expanded over time.
A decent banking system has two functions: to look after depositors’ money and to bring together savers and investors in mutually profitable trades.
But, according to Yasushi Ando, one of Japan’s best-known private-equity figures, giving a major borrower an increased say in how a bank functions would be a clear conflict of interest (link in Japanese).
And yet employment still lags, owing to longer-term factors like labor-saving technology and reconfigurations of global supply chains, in which lower-value-added segments and functions tend to be concentrated in lower-income countries.
Democracies, for example, tend to use torture secretly and prefer techniques that target core psychological, neural, and physiological functions.
An important step in this direction was the US Commerce Department’s decision last month to hand oversight of the so-called IANA functions – the “address book” of the Internet – to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
Some American senators complained that when President Barack Obama’s Commerce Department handed its oversight of the IANA functions to ICANN, it was “giving away the Internet.”
In the civilian world, too, the most important determinant of whether an organization functions well is not the monetary incentive system, as standard economic models would imply, but whether its workers identify with the organization and with their job within it.
They existed as the shadow economy and I will never forget a visit to an institute in Moscow in 1983, where I had long conversation on the structures and functions of the shadow economy in the Soviet Union and the difficulties that arose from the fact that as, officially, this shadow economy did not exist there were no legal framework within which it could function.
If men shared such responsibilities more equitably, businesses adopted more flexible and “care-friendly” work schedules, and governments provided more support for childcare and other family-care functions, female labor-force participation rates could rise significantly.
In particular, their technical functions must be clearly distinguished from their political roles.
Throughout the EU, as in much of the world, from the Indian subcontinent to large parts of Africa, English increasingly functions as the language of international communication.
Good leaders construct teams that combine these functions, making sure to hire subordinates who can compensate for the leader’s managerial deficiencies.
Such a siege strategy – waiting for Greece to run out of the money it needs to maintain the normal functions of government – now looks like the EU’s most promising technique to break Greek resistance.
International banks in Argentina should work with the Government to restore banking functions within days, not months.
Fourth, every company both depends on and affects the societies in which it functions.
Its clients are the banks; it is a place where banks can go to borrow money when they really need to; and its functions are to support the banking sector so that banks can make their proper profits as they go about their proper business.
General Electric, for example, is cutting down the functions provided by its medical equipment to only what is strictly useful in order to supply remote rural clinics across the developing world.
This brain's functions and dysfunctions--its very structure--will broaden dramatically our understanding of the relationship between the self and others.
But they are failing to fulfill one of the core functions of any state: to protect citizens from physical harm, even when those citizens display their Jewishness in public.
Mainstream economics is founded on the assumption that human beings are motivated by exogenously given preferences – what economists call “utility functions.”
Advances in molecular sciences, corresponding to the sequencing of the human genome in the 1980’s, led to the identification of all the human proteins – large, complex molecules necessary for many of the body’s functions.
This should not be mere symbolism but a serious step toward genuine reform in the UN’s functions.
Civil-society institutions, for their part, are essential to ensure that the state functions efficiently and fairly.
It is caused by imbalanced nutrition or a lack of vitamins and essential minerals that enable the human body to grow and that maintain its vital functions.
Translators are essential to complex transformation efforts that cross many business functions.
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