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The health ministry cited a 9.5% increase in deaths caused by infectious diseases from 2011 to 2012.
For example, he has strengthened the National Guard’s position by raising its status to that of a ministry, led by his eldest son, Mit’ib.
Yet it received no data, with the Chinese foreign ministry claiming after almost four months that upstream stations were being “upgraded” or “renovated.”
According to China’s finance ministry, the AIIB’s founding members are to complete negotiations on the Articles of Agreement before July, with operations to begin by the end of the year.
While GDP will be the basic criterion for share allocation among the founding members, the finance ministry suggested in October that China does not necessarily need the 50% stake that its GDP would imply.
Moreover, although the AIIB will be based in Beijing, the ministry has said that regional offices and senior management appointments will be subject to further consultation and negotiation.
In a sense, the SRF can be considered China’s latest sovereign-wealth-fund initiative, and some media have even referred to it as the “second CIC.”But, whereas the CIC is under the managerial control of the finance ministry, the SRF’s operations appear to reflect the influence of the People’s Bank of China.
In fact, the ministry has used its “informational campaign” to shape public discussion, convincing scholars, business economists, and the general public to be more concerned about keeping the budget deficit under control than about the effects of a negative demand shock.
But Japan’s government is believed to be the world’s poorest, with the finance ministry reporting that the gross debt/GDP ratio exceeds 200%.
Within the Russian judiciary, Chuvashov was one of the rare judges with the courage to rule against powerful local government officials as well as high-ranking officers of the interior ministry.
Indeed, today’s challenges are seldom simply environmental, social, or economic, and their solutions do not lie within the area of competence of a single government ministry.
If a policy is found to be contrary to the goal of promoting gross national happiness, it is sent back to the ministry for reconsideration.
Let there be less diplomatic doublespeak and more hardheaded finance ministry number crunching in Western policy toward Russia;- concentrate on the private sector.
As a senior foreign ministry official told Emmott in 2007, “the thing you have to understand is that both of us [India and China] think that the future belongs to us.
Every year, Chile’s finance ministry asks a group of independent experts how fast Chile can grow without triggering inflation or other imbalances.
While the central bank bears a good part of the responsibility, it needs support from other parts of the government, most notably from the finance ministry.
The rest of the production and distribution companies operate as part of the government, with their parent ministry controlling their management, resources, and finances.
China, for its part, rejects what its foreign ministry has called the “China responsibility theory” regarding North Korea.
The Chinese also responded furiously to the passage of a US naval warship through disputed waters in the South China Sea last month, a move that the foreign ministry called a “provocation” that “severely undermines China’s sovereignty and security.”
When the ruble tumbled in December, the finance ministry – which holds almost half of Russia’s foreign reserves, $169 billion, in two sovereign-wealth funds – deemed the central bank’s intervention to be insufficient.
As hard as the finance ministry may try to balance expenditures and revenues, it lacks the needed political weight.
Uganda’s foreign ministry says the agreement is part of its mandate to promote the country’s interests abroad through the transfer of skills and technology, as well as an opportunity to earn foreign exchange by sourcing employment for its citizens.
That expenditure might not be very large, but it adds to the high proportion of European military spending already consumed by each country’s defense ministry, separate headquarters for each service, and plethora of supporting bureaucracies.
Last month, China’s environment ministry rejected an application from BMW Brilliance, the German carmaker’s Chinese joint venture, to expand one of its plants, citing inadequate waste-water analysis and failure to meet official pollution-reduction targets.
The Chinese foreign ministry responded by praising Modi’s “positive remarks.”
India’s under-resourced Indo-Tibetan Border Police, under the command of the home ministry, is little more than a doorman.
Another new department, the so-called Brexit ministry, will handle political, judicial, and constitutional negotiations.
Following a few problematic episodes in recent years, China’s finance ministry has now issued guidelines to mitigate the risks for SOEs pursuing foreign acquisitions.
The European External Action Service (which serves as the EU’s foreign ministry and diplomatic corps) is a work in progress, and the divisions between member states have affected High Representative Catherine Ashton’s ability to speak for Europe on Libya.
But a “foreign ministry” is not a foreign policy, and there is little sign that the EU will devise one anytime soon.
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