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All other central bankers, finance ministers, and even presidents run a distant second.
In Ghana last month, I met ministers who shared with me impressive figures on how much progress the country has made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
After a subsequent meeting with Nigeria’s finance and petroleum ministers, Sanusi said that he had misspoken: the NNPC had misappropriated only $12 billion.
But, unlike previous Israeli prime ministers (again, with the possible exception of Sharon), Netanyahu has emulated the Palestinian political strategy of sumud, or steadfastness.
Israeli prime ministers are supposed to come in two varieties: heavily accented Eastern European men and grizzled military officers who talk a good game before acquiescing to the latest American or international demands for concessions, talks, and aid.
While previous prime ministers like Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir were not averse to lecturing, they lacked strategic cunning.
France again took its seat at meetings of NATO defense ministers, without, to be sure, suggesting reintegration of French forces into NATO's supreme command.
One pundit asked, “Will the time soon come when ministers are hired by head-hunters?”
As soon as they were appointed in June 2007, Sarkozy’s ministers were given a clear set of objectives in the form of a letter of intent.
Isn’t it normal to create some means of holding ministers accountable?
And if assessment of state action were based only on a set of pre-defined quantitative targets, ministers would also understandably – but mistakenly – neglect quality and other important objectives.
Beyond technical criteria, ministers will still be assessed according to the influence exercised by their party or political faction, election results, and their popularity among the media and the public.
Thus, there is no contradiction between the aim of turning ministers into efficient managers and parliament’s power to hold members of the government accountable.
Beyond that point, the goals of state action – the substance of ministers’ responsibilities – will still be assessed according to values whose richness and complexity cannot be reduced to the cold one-dimensionality of a spread sheet.
So as negotiators – and a handful of government ministers – arrived in Durban, expectations could not have been lower.
Syria’s borders, as many have noted, were hurriedly and secretly drawn a century ago by the foreign ministers of France and Britain.
Indeed, the situation is even more absurd when G7 finance ministers meet: the central bank governors of France, Germany, and Italy still attend these meetings, even though their banks have been reduced to local branches of the European Central Bank, while the president of the ECB - these countries' real monetary authority - is a mere "invited guest."
The problem is that a succession of railway ministers, viewing the trains as poor people's only affordable means of transport, have refused to raise passenger fares, squeezing freight instead.
Yet the railway ministers continue to insist on their populist approach.
Game Changers for GrowthBERKELEY – The recent G-20 meeting of finance ministers in Saint Petersburg confirmed that the debate between growth and austerity is over – at least for now.
The Refugee Problem in New YorkNEW YORK – Every September, many of the world’s presidents, prime ministers, and foreign ministers descend on New York City for a few days.
Although the ECB does not have to deal with direct legislative oversight, it is now clear that there are members of its governing board who would oppose higher interest rates, and that there is political pressure from government leaders and finance ministers to keep rates low.
With the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meetings coming up later this month in Washington, DC, leading central bankers and finance ministers will have ringside seats at Ground Zero.
That is the purpose behind the Global Ocean Commission, an independent international body comprising former heads of state, ministers, and business leaders.
Let’s Talk About SexBRUSSELS – Last week, at the “She Decides” conference in Brussels, government ministers met with representatives from NGOs, United Nations agencies, and foundations from around the world to talk about an issue that is rarely discussed in such dignified settings: sex.
But perhaps finance ministers in Lima, Bogota, Pretoria, or Jakarta should have been more careful about what they wished for.
It already has brought down two prime ministers and one opposition leader.
He had to appoint officials, select prime ministers after parliamentary elections, award state decorations, and make speeches.
Three of India's Presidents have been Muslim, as have been innumerable cabinet ministers, ambassadors, generals, and Supreme Court justices, not to mention cricket captains.
In addition to their annual summits – which have produced joint declarations covering every major global issue, from questions of peace and security to United Nations reform – the BRICS have conducted foreign ministers’ meetings and engaged in think-tank consultations.
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