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Three hundred senior officials in 126 countries gave China’s representatives low marks in “agenda-setting influence.”
Sufficient unto themselves behind the Kremlin's walls, Putin and his officials rule in ways more arbitrary and opaque than would be tolerated in a true democracy.
And what was the pretext for the raid and subsequent demotion of senior Austrian intelligence officials?
Eleven former CIA directors and deputy directors, as well as 70 former senior CIA officers (including me), said as much last week, criticizing the unprecedented revocation as political coercion and accusing Trump of misusing presidential powers, damaging national security, and threatening current and former officials’ right of free speech.
Though Russia is pursuing its military campaign independently of the Western powers (reflecting its support for Assad), it, too, has apparently become a target, with US and European officials increasingly convinced that the Islamic State was behind October’s crash of a Russian airliner in the Sinai Peninsula.
Across the country, residents often protest wrongful eviction from their homes, frequently at the hands of corrupt local officials.
Combating corruption through increased punitive action, while leaving intact a bloated and discretionary public sector, will only paralyze public officials, delay important decisions, and play into the hands of cynical demagogues and political fanatics.
Since Tsipras’s election in January, German officials have barely been able to contain their fury that a left-wing upstart government of a tiny, bankrupt country would dare to challenge one of the world’s great economies.
That is a worrying outcome, because senior Fed officials seem to have slipped back into their pre-2008 ways, ignoring concerns about dangerous financial-sector behavior – even when those concerns are expressed by members of the US Senate Banking Committee.
Consequently, senior Fed and White House officials seem rather confident that nothing dramatic will happen that would undermine the Fed’s independence.
Senior Fed officials emphasize that big banks fund themselves with more equity now than they did in the past.
In doing so, officials are reluctant to take into account that the recent crisis resulted from an unprecedented credit boom gone bust.
But, unlike private investors, Fed officials insist that this time really will be different.
If that happens, Fed officials will face a difficult choice: tighten monetary policy to stem accelerating price growth, thereby antagonizing Congress and possibly facing restrictions that make it difficult to fight inflation in the future; or do nothing.
On the other side were officials, like George Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who worried about the impact on the broader economy and preferred to use other instruments to address financial imbalances.
Afterwards, Moon’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, and intelligence chief Suh Hoon traveled to Pyongyang and Washington, where, standing on the White House lawn with Cho Yoon-je, South Korea’s ambassador to the US – but with no US officials present – they announced the summit.
In March 2013, Obama sent two senior State Department officials, William J. Burns and Jake Sullivan, to begin secret conversations with the Iranians in Oman.
Soon enough, the secret conversations led US officials to conclude that the Iranians were serious about entering into formal talks.
Some officials claim that Cristina will bring in a new era of higher institutional quality.
Palestinian officials called this the most important development in the Islamic world in a decade, since it implicitly accepts Israel’s right to exist.
Tehran also pledged to detail its chemical weapons programs to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in the Hague -- though it has not yet complied American officials say.
Scotland, which voted overwhelmingly to remain in the EU, can be expected to make another attempt to gain its independence, and some officials in Northern Ireland, where voters also backed Remain, have already called for unification with the Republic of Ireland.
This is the same UN whose officials took kickbacks from the Iraqi oil for food program and jetted around the world on Concorde while supposedly trying to ameliorate poverty, and whose Commission on Human Rights was until recently chaired by Libya and now includes five of the world's fifteen most repressive nations - China, Cuba, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan.
Wolf recently excoriated the world’s big banks as an industry with an extraordinary “talent for privatising gains and socialising losses... [and] get[ting]... self-righteously angry when public officials... fail to come at once to their rescue when they get into (well-deserved) trouble....[T]he conflicts of interest created by large financial institutions are far harder to manage than in any other industry.”
What the Chinese public resents most is the collusion between government officials and businesspeople, described by the respected Chinese economist Wu Jianglian as “capitalism of the powerful and rich.”
When officials are accused or suspected of corruption, they do not quickly resign, as in Korea or Japan.
Finally, revenues should be open to public scrutiny and their efficient use, both for investment and consumption, must be ensured by institutional mechanisms that impose clear accountability on public officials.
The sources of public administration failure include lack of professionalism in the civil service; vague, complex, and confusing legal rules; weak management of government finances; poor distribution of tasks across levels of government; lack of transparency in government processes, and the difficulty of holding officials accountable for their actions.
In 2017, 71% of respondents globally considered government officials not credible or only somewhat credible, and 63% of respondents had the same dismal view of CEOs.
To restore it, government officials must build and defend robust civic institutions and political processes that serve the public interest; and businesses must ensure that they are working effectively for all of their stakeholders.
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