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The trouble with Africa is that the highest-ranking government officials often do not have the best solutions.
In many cases, lower-ranking officials, or even someone outside government, might be more effective.
Two recent arrests of diplomats by their host countries have put a spotlight on the justification for, and limits of, the immunity from local law that such officials typically enjoy.
Because consular officials do not enjoy the same degree of immunity as higher-ranking diplomats, the police were acting within their authority, even if their methods – strip-searching Khobragade, for example – might be considered excessive.
Chinese officials hope that higher household incomes will boost consumer spending, as the tightening labor market causes wages to rise and as urbanization shifts workers from low-productivity farm work to higher-wage employment in the cities.
Since 2012, when Xi began “hunting tigers,” as he put it, three dozen government ministers, provincial governors, and other high-level officials have fallen into his net.
On one hand, he has been aggressively pursuing “tigers” and “flies” (lower-level officials), while curbing, at least temporarily, the privileges enjoyed by Chinese officials.
While officials feign compliance with Xi’s economic-reform agenda, they will seek any opportunity to stymie it.
There is an alarming pattern of press manipulation throughout the region, from Honduran authorities cutting off a national radio station’s telephone service to Argentine officials shuttering a printing press.
To varying degrees, local and national officials in these countries, and in Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Peru, and Uruguay are collectively rewriting the authoritarian playbook.
In Colombia, the routine is simple: journalists who subsist on income derived from selling advertising space to government agencies call officials in the morning to get their story; later, when they must attempt to sell the same officials advertising, they find out the real cost of independent news coverage.
Some officials even require journalists to sign contracts mandating favorable coverage of government activities.
Throughout the region, government officials shut out those they regard as troublemakers and manipulate procedures for issuing broadcast licenses to benefit political allies or silence independent voices.
Steps like fair, competitive, and transparent public-sector contracting procedures, and civil service, rather than political control over allocation of government advertising funds would go a long way, especially combined with good reporting, to protect the media against officials’ persistent temptation to control what the public may know.
The effects faced by the people of Myanmar and Vietnam are considered unavoidable costs of failing to adapt to climate change, which officials classify as “loss and damage.”
She notes that government and police officials recently insisted that most rapists cannot be prosecuted in India, because, as one official put it, they are known to the women attacked.
Other officials have publicly suggested that victims themselves are “asking for it” by their use of freedom of movement.
Now, with the protests continuing in the aftermath of the victim’s death, officials are emphasizing the need for measures to guarantee the “safety and security” of women.
In recent years, Russian officials had already become increasingly derisive toward Britain’s presumptions about its international status and power.
In most economies, these macro-prudential policies are modest, owing to policymakers’ political constraints: households, real-estate developers, and elected officials protest loudly when the central bank or the regulatory authority in charge of financial stability tries to take away the punch bowl of liquidity.
The research provides NGOs and government officials with the intellectual ammunition to advocate for more funding for effective solutions, and it gives donors and elected officials a wealth of data on which to base tough decisions.
Why, Indian officials seemed to wonder, change what works, and at a time when the US needs India more than ever?
Since April, we have spoken with Russian officials and academics, as well as officials from several other Arctic Council member states.
That option was considered at the time, but American officials decided that the effect on Japanese policymakers would not be as great.
In fact, US officials had another reason for choosing to target Hiroshima and Nagasaki, instead of remote sites: they wanted a firsthand look at the impact of an atomic bomb on a city.
Despite repeated assertions by Fed officials that they are committed to near-zero short-term interest rates for the foreseeable future, hints of QE tapering have caused yields on ten-year US Treasury bonds to rise by 100 basis points from this year’s lows.
ASEAN government officials have since met to draft a text.
As services and software converge, public officials must enhance their technical skills and work with the private sector to ensure market fairness and efficiency.
This break with the usual rigid categorization shows respect for all individuals, and if it becomes widely adopted in other countries, will save many people from the hassle of explaining to immigration officials a discrepancy between their appearance and their sex as recorded in their passport.
First, David Ignatius of The Washington Post reported, on the basis of conversations with senior US officials, that agreement had already been reached on a number of steps Pakistan would take to reduce its dependence on nuclear weapons for deterrence.
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