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Greek and European officials hailed the bond sale as a milestone for a country that had lost access to global capital markets back in 2010.
Rather than politely applauding castles in the sky, EU officials and member governments need to work, with a frank and realistic mindset, to build consensus on foreign and security issues.
They know what to buy.”Facebook posts showed them what kinds of tents to purchase, which routes to take, and what tactics to implement, such as slashing the rubber boats they arrived in to avoid being pushed back out to sea by Greek officials.
Given this, officials, investors, and business leaders in search of revolutionary ideas, cutting-edge solutions, and untapped talent should not allow turbulence in some societies, or tranquility in others, to influence their decisions excessively.
Solutions do exist: mandatory voting, term limits for elected officials, and youth parliaments or special bodies to examine intergenerational issues, for example.
During those two decades, American and Chinese officials frequently discussed North Korea’s behavior, both privately and in public meetings.
Instead, two senior North Korean officials subsequently visited Beijing and were scolded for the North’s behavior.
As African officials gather in Washington, DC, on August 4-6 for the first US-Africa Leaders Summit, it is worth considering the basis – and the limits – of the continent’s progress.
As a government minister in 1993, however, I was already hearing CIA officials express concern that a “Mafia state” was being created instead.
Caplin’s research evidently did not sit well with FHA officials, who were hostile to Caplin and refused to give him the data he wanted.
But the political reality is that government officials lack sufficient knowledge and incentive to impose reforms that are effective but highly technical.
Zhou had come to the end of his term – and had reached an age at which officials are supposed to retire.
Between 2005 and 2012, for example, the CDC lost 17% of its funding, and officials recently reported that funding allocated for Ebola-type health emergencies is $1 billion less than it was in 2003.
At the same time, China should implement a well-designed training program that provides officials at all levels of government and entrepreneurs with basic information about operating abroad.
A closer look reveals that President Hu Jintao’s words and deeds are often shaped by a mixture of insecurity and cockiness, and that Chinese officials alternate between playing up and playing down the country’s rise.
But officials are confident that they have at least found the haystack.
But the summit has also attracted controversy over whether President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and his senior officials will be invited.
The EU has imposed targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe, including a visa ban on senior officials, and there were protests when Mugabe appeared in Paris in February 2003 for the last France-Africa summit on European territory.
During the last Portuguese Presidency (January-June 2000), the EU-Africa Summit had to be cancelled because of a visa ban on Zimbabwean officials and the reluctance of Africans to attend if Mugabe was excluded.
France would prefer to invite Mugabe and his officials to its summit in Cannes, but the British government has lobbied against this.
US intelligence officials have repeatedly warned of this possibility.
Removing Assad, US security officials believed, would weaken Iran, undermine Hezbollah, and roll back Russia’s geopolitical reach.
Administration officials who simply want to make a statement and escape searching interrogation should not be welcome.
The elected officials will be denied travel permits, workers from isolated Gaza barred from entering Israel, and every effort is being made to block funds to Palestinians.
During the 1990s and 2000s, I repeatedly asked senior Japanese finance ministry officials why they allowed the yen’s real appreciation to persist, thereby shutting down export growth.
Its booming exports in the mid-2000s led US officials to threaten trade retaliation unless the Chinese authorities took steps to restrict exports, cause the renminbi to appreciate, and shift to “consumption-led growth.”
In addition to the outlays required to equip the armed forces engaged against Boko Haram, Nigerian officials estimate that billions of dollars will be needed to rebuild ravaged infrastructure in the north.
It is easier to blame the Fed for today’s global economic problems than it is to blame China’s secular slowdown, which reflects Chinese officials’ laudable efforts to rebalance their economy.
Yet Fed officials, while commenting copiously about their motives for tapering QE, have said nothing about the impact of doing so on emerging markets.
Emerging-market officials have been increasingly reluctant to turn to the IMF for advice and assistance, undermining its ability to play an effective global role.
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