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They argue that the NTC should limit itself to serving as a caretaker government, implementing only the most essential decisions until elected officials take office.
Other senior Libyan officials suffer from the same managerial torpor.
“Unused to planning and possessed of limited human capacity, senior officials in the ministries are very nervous,” an American diplomatic cable released by WikiLeaks reported.
That would mean further humiliation for ordinary people, who bear the brunt of corruption, as government officials and their crony capitalists continued to siphon off public funds.
The two countries’ historical ties have put Poland in a better position than others to understand the nature of Ukraine’s problems, and it would therefore be wise to listen carefully to Polish officials’ advice.
The most recent decision of the regional tribunal, in mid-December, overturned a 1979 Brazilian amnesty law protecting military officials from prosecution for abuses committed during the country’s 21-year military dictatorship.
Officials imagine that consumer protection requires another regulation whenever something goes wrong, resulting in thickets of rules that protect incumbents and lead to all kinds of unintended consequences and complexities.
Both the EU and the US have now sanctioned Russia’s highest officials and leading companies and banks.
Unfortunately, ECB officials’ recent statements may have reduced the pressure on governments to do those things, and, by reversing the decline of the euro’s value, may have blocked the market response that is needed to shrink current-account imbalances and boost GDP in the eurozone.
There is little that officials can do to monitor or modify the children's workloads on large farms or small family enterprises.
When officials in the European Union or the United States give a reason for opposing Kurdish independence, it always comes down to realpolitik.
Similarly, emerging-market officials warned that monetary expansion in the US and the UK would trigger a wave of competitive currency devaluations, with Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega going so far as to accuse the Fed and the Bank of England of waging a full-blown “currency war.”
A second component consists of former Ba’athist officials seeking a return to power.
Moreover, Indian officials must still nurture the small, albeit growing, constituency that supports a rapidly transformed relationship with the US.
An anti-corruption campaign that targets a large number of Chinese officials is likely to result in alienation, discontent, and division among the ruling elites.
Beginning with Deng Xiaoping, the post-Mao regime has worked hard to ensure the physical security of its top officials, thereby avoiding Mao’s mistake of turning internal power struggles into life-and-death contests in which nobody is safe.
For years, he sabotaged the efforts of Iranian officials who might have cut a deal with the West because he doubted their loyalty to him.
Political leaders, government officials, and judges do not even pretend that the judicial system is independent and fair.
And, while talk of “modernization” has subsided since Putin regained his presidential seat in May, corruption has not, and ordinary Russians now hold senior officials responsible for it.
As President, he achieved virtually nothing in terms of the rule of law, decentralization, or economic modernization; nonetheless, a significant part of Russia’s elite and middle class pinned their hopes on him as a counterweight to the Putin clans and siloviki (security officials).
The dilemma that officials face is that the impact of a fall in exports as a result of RMB appreciation will be felt acutely and immediately, whereas the large welfare losses due to the evaporation of the value of China’s foreign-exchange reserves will be borne by society as a whole – but not immediately.
True, commerce ministry officials recently declared their wish to see a further fall of China’s trade surplus in 2010.
But Treasury officials believe that they must keep up the pressure, lest Congress follow through on threats to punish supposed currency manipulators, derailing the TPP and other trade agreements.
They are armed and work with the backing of drug and emerald smugglers – and often of local officials.
Investors, policy analysts, and even officials are quietly beginning to suggest that this might be the case.
Officials recognize that cutting off EU support and compelling the ECB to stop providing credit to the Bank of Greece would be Europe’s Lehman Brothers moment.
Indeed, a key reason for China’s slowdown in 2011-2012 is that officials wanted it.
For the most part, German economists and officials believe that economic policy should focus almost exclusively on the supply side, diagnosing and addressing structural problems.
And German officials also regularly suggest that their economy is already performing at close to its supply-determined limits.
The banks’ institutional personalities reflect the role of collective memory in shaping how officials conceptualize the problems that they face.
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