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They undergo independent international audits, publish annual reports, and maintain boards with independent directors.
Legally, these firms, which include Vnesheconombank (VEB) and Russian Technologies (Rostec), are independent nongovernmental organizations.
However, as things stand, most independent economists expect 7-7.5% annual GDP in 2013-2017, while the International Monetary Fund forecasts a more optimistic 8.2-8.5% rate during this period.
Only an independent group examining the data sent in from the field has that information.
A number of countries have independent organs that pronounce on budgets.
Strong, independent, multilateral institutions that can play the role of impartial arbiter in facilitating international economic transactions are in India’s interest.
But such a G-2 framework is not consistent with China’s independent foreign policy, nor with the general trend towards wider dispersion of geopolitical power within the international community.
While China is committed to its own independent foreign policy, it cannot achieve development in isolation.
Non-traditional approaches are also emerging, such as reaching the unbanked poor via small, independent businesses that they already use and trust.
Independent central banks are the archetypal example.
So an independent fiscal authority modeled along the lines of an independent central bank is neither feasible nor desirable.
But certain fiscal decisions, and most critically the level of the fiscal deficit, can be delegated to an independent board.
The court – with its improbable blend of Cambodian and foreign judges and attorneys as well as laws – is meant to be a model for judicial reform and independent justice in a country where impunity has long been the rule.
Privately owned newspapers, independent radio and television networks, trade unions, churches, professional societies, and other groups within civil society provide a bulwark against despotism.
In the poorest countries, where illiteracy is high, desperate people are subject to government manipulation, and there is a lack of independent control through the media and professional organizations, governments face only weak control by society.
On balance, the euro has been a success, but it does balance gains from price transparency and decreased transaction costs against the loss of independent monetary policies and a currency adjustment shock absorber.
When a common DGS does become feasible, it should be combined with a new European Resolution Authority (ERA), an independent supervisory entity that follows, to some degree, the example of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation in the United States and Japan’s Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Such a system would ensure that the EU’s DGS remains independent from the European Commission, the European Council, and the ECB.
Before 2000, there was an influential, independent press and a parliament loyal to the president, but still independent.
The Federation Council (the upper chamber of the Duma), too, was generally loyal to the president, as were regional governors, while remaining independent.
If there is no independent press able to caution against mistakes and a parliament that can do the same, then the mistakes will eventually manifest themselves on the streets.
Sufism comprises a variety of independent orders with distinctive beliefs and practices that are derived from numerous saints’ teachings.
This is an approach that fails to foster curiosity, self-confidence, and independent thinking.
Clinton’s trip should signal America’s firm commitment to building an independent and democratic Ukraine, and make clear that the US rejects a European security order based on spheres of influence.
Instead of thinking what Ahtisaari deemed unthinkable, a partition of Kosovo with a small part of the north going to Serbia and the rest linked to the Kosovars ethnic brethren in Albania or a separate state, the US plans to act without the UN’s blessing, arguing that only an independent Kosovo will bring stability to the Western Balkans.
China’s rising urban middle class and its surprisingly well-organized rural communities are increasingly demanding less corrupt and more accountable government, cleaner air and water, safer food and drug supplies, and an independent, well-functioning judicial system.
Likewise, the Court was not asked and did not rule on whether Serbia or, indeed, any other state in the world community is required to recognize Kosovo as an independent state.
Nor did the Court’s decision address the borders of an independent Kosovo, or whether and under what circumstances force could legally be used either to impose independence or to resist it.
Under the Senate’s approach, regulators would create rules under which an independent regulatory board would choose raters.
He has said that he will make America energy independent, which entails abandoning US interests in the region and becoming more reliant on domestically produced greenhouse-gas-emitting fossil fuels.
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