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While Singapore’s leaders still contend that meritocratically selected officials should take a long-term view, rather than cater to electoral cycles, they recognize the need for greater equality and wider political participation.
Since the 1990’s, thousands of Chinese officials have traveled to Singapore to learn from its experience.
Indeed, following Singapore’s example, China has developed a sophisticated and comprehensive system for selecting and promoting political leaders that involves decades of training and a battery of exams for officials at various stages of their careers.
It also needs to develop its meritocratic system further: government officials should be selected and promoted on the basis of ability and morality, rather than political loyalty, wealth, or family background.
And officials should be rewarded for their contributions not just to GDP growth, but also to reducing social and economic inequalities and promoting a more caring form of government.
Indeed, though party officials had been in place for some time, they waited until the votes were cast before putting their cards on the table, and even then did so behind closed doors.
By opening up party primaries to more candidates, or by using ranked-choice voting (RCV) – which allows voters to list as many candidates as they want, in order of preference – we can ensure that elected officials represent the full spectrum of voters.
With a renewed confidence in democracy, citizens can take action to ensure that elected officials are governed by the right incentives, and motivated to pursue bipartisan solutions to the country’s problems.
US officials dispute this, arguing that American companies are among the region’s largest foreign direct investors, while 11 of the US’s 20 free-trade agreements (FTAs) are with Latin American countries.
Bo will join a long line of incarcerated officials, though the special prisons where they are held may seem like recreation centers for retired senior officials when compared to the abusive and physically degrading conditions that the Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo and other prisoners have had to endure.
Although Israel formally withdrew from Gaza, its complete control over the borders, infrastructure, transport, and taxation, together with its regular military incursions in response to shelling from Gaza and its killings and capture of senior Hamas officials, left Palestinians there desperate.
Unfortunately, China’s local officials need to excel in the country’s “growth tournament” to get promoted.
Talk to World Bank and WTO officials, and you will get an earful of inflated claims about the benefits that a successful Doha round would bring.
These officials often make it sound as if the livelihood of hundreds of millions of poor people in developing nations hangs in the balance.
Despite China’s official hard line, some Chinese environmental officials privately express alarm at run-away carbon emissions, and suggest that foreign green tariffs would actually strengthen their hand in domestic policy struggles over controlling greenhouse gases by helping to win political support for emissions cuts.
But officials concede that they may be fighting a losing battle.
One reason why the FARC has survived repeated blows to its leadership is the support that it receives from various groups, perhaps including government officials, in neighboring Ecuador and Venezuela.
At worst, certain public officials may tolerate some foreign terrorists’ activities and neglect to act vigorously against them.
At other times simple rent-seeking behavior by officials, aided and abetted by outsiders, is the outcome.
Finally, there’s the usual Indian problem: sports administrative bodies and government departments are ridden with patronage and petty bossism, with officials more interested in protecting their turf (and enjoying paid vacations to sporting events) than in promoting athletes.
Indeed, Iranian officials often declare that Bahrain is a province of Iran.
Abbas and other PA officials stress the need for “one regime, one legal system, and political pluralism.”
While Chinese officials have announced their intention of letting the exchange rate move, only time will tell whether their talk is accompanied by deeds.
It would have been better had Chinese officials encouraged earlier and more gradual adjustment, and if adjustment had come through currency appreciation, which would have enhanced workers’ command over imports, rather than inflation, which will make no one happy.
Elected officials hard-wired misleading projections by excising from current law expensive policies that they had every intention of pursuing.
So why do German officials refuse to get on board?
Some central-bank officials have even advocated the establishment of a supra-sovereign wealth fund for developing-country investment.
In its view, rewarding them with monetary stimulus – keeping the boat afloat with more spending – only relieves the pressure on national officials to do what is necessary.
Tellingly, UNHCR officials have said that they will have no part in the management of a center in Nauru or Manus Island.
If the recent attack on Sony Pictures’ computers really did originate there, as United States officials charge, was it an act of sabotage, vandalism, terrorism, or, to use neo-conservatives’ favorite word (especially during the holiday season), war?
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