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The SEC was once a great and powerful independent agency.
In recent years, the Palestinian Authority has effectively prevented acts of terrorism and violence against Israelis, with the aim of stabilizing the situation in the West Bank in order to prepare for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
But the fact that a well-known cartoonist had to disguise the culprit’s image speaks volumes about the fear felt by independent journalists in the Arab world.
Discrediting, constraining, or otherwise silencing independent journalists is a key tool of this repression.
Autocratic governments create laws and regulations to protect themselves and their cronies from criticism or exposure by independent media.
Even in the United States – long admired for its robust free press, protected by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, and powerful investigative journalism, which once brought down a president – President Donald Trump’s administration routinely attacks independent journalists, labeling them traitors, paid agents, and purveyors of “fake news.”
It has an important political economy component: Are independent central banks willing to force society to sacrifice growth in order to preserve financial stability?
But a responsible central bank should not cater to irrational fears of inflation in what is in fact a deflationary environment, just as it is not an independent central bank’s role to tighten the thumbscrews for fiscal and structural reform.
He was careful not to humiliate Gorbachev, and to manage the transition to Boris Yeltsin’s presidency in a newly independent Russia.
When multinationals create subsidiaries, those entities are considered to be legally independent firms.
By forcing the Dalai Lama into exile, they have ensured the establishment of a Tibetan diaspora society, which might well survive in a more traditional form than would have been likely even in an independent Tibet.
But the transparency and vigilance that a free and independent press provides are critical not only to democracy; they also serve as powerful weapons against forces, ranging from corruption to bad business practices, that undermine economic prosperity.
An active, engaged, and independent press provides a fundamental public good: the transparency that makes political and economic accountability possible.
By contrast, Scotland’s institutional landscape – schools and universities with their own curriculum and exam structures, a legal system with its own codes and rules, a church independent of the state, and a distinctive system of local government – were left untouched by the union.
Thus, little protest is heard if a judge is asked to conduct an independent inquiry even into such matters as the motives for the Iraq war.
In modern societies, influences on apparently independent people are numerous and hard to control.
The three leading candidates – Park Geun-hye of the ruling Saenuri Party, Moon Jae-in of the main opposition Democratic United Party, and the independent Ahn Cheol-soo – are united in vowing chaebol reform.
Such a strategy would also have to take into account the global competitiveness of British industry, and complement the country’s new independent trade policy.
In contrast, if history is a guide, a policy mix characterized by financial de-regulation (a Trump favorite) and an independent central bank facing potential full employment and overheating would be a harbinger of higher interest rates.
But, as the World Bank notes in its World Development Report 2012, gender equality is an independent value, not just an instrument for economic growth and efficiency.
With separate and relatively independent budgets, coordination becomes very difficult.
Independent national monetary policies in a common market were rightly seen as infeasible, given Europeans’ preference for stable exchange rates and open financial markets.
After 60 years of failures, and as the generation that lived through the Nakbeh passes from the scene, a political settlement that can provide Palestinians with freedom in an independent state alongside a secure Israel and a fair solution of the refugee problem is more necessary – but also appears less possible – than ever.
The former should be handled by an independent central bank with primary responsibility for monetary and currency policies, whereas the latter should be the responsibility of the new Central Leading Group on Reforms, which has just been established by the Third Plenum.
America, by contrast, has witnessed a massive assault on those rights, including that of habeas corpus – the right to challenge one’s detention before an independent judge.
More to the point, it is time for those in a position to rein them in to believe what Murdoch’s companies are saying – beginning with the independent British media regulator Ofcom, which is now deciding whether 21st Century Fox, and the Murdoch family that runs it, is fit to proceed with its acquisition of Sky.
News Corp and 21st Century Fox should serve as a cautionary tale for regulators, independent board members, and investors alike.
Such charges have been substantiated by US prosecutors, the Organization of American States (OAS) and its independent experts, and by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Granted, what governments should do and what they will do are not always independent questions, because people often do what they should.
This independent, non-governmental organization produces more than 200 reports a year, most in response to specific requests from the US government.
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