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Because of the strong competition to stand out in terms of growth, especially at the provincial level, many lower-level officials use their authority more to advance their personal interests.
At the same time, business owners seek illicit relationships with local officials to gain protection, privileges (such as contracts), loans, a blind eye to safety standards, and regulatory exemptions – activities that generate financial risks and undermine competition by raising entry barriers for more efficient enterprises.
Since President Xi Jinping launched his anti-corruption campaign in 2012, China’s overall economic performance has not improved, partly owing to local officials’ increased reluctance to take bold steps to boost growth.
The crux of the problem may lie in China’s system of upward accountability in governing its officials.
Given the system of upward accountability, de-emphasizing GDP growth in assessing the performance of local officials would help reduce these officials’ incentive to abuse decentralized powers and make unproductive investments.
But if Chinese leaders do not abandon the system of upward accountability, how would they measure and assess local officials’ relative performance?
Governments must establish an enabling environment for the private sector to create jobs, and officials cannot consider the public purse to be a private bank account.
Government is responsible for delivering services, but it is up to civil society to be vigilant and ensure that officials work toward these aims.
Europe and America were slow to enact legislation barring their companies from bribing foreign government officials in return for mining concessions or other advantages, and there has been limited enforcement of the rules.
None of this will come as a surprise to officials in Kyiv, who have long claimed that the separatist authorities with whom they are expected to reach an agreement are getting their marching orders from Russian superiors.
But it could have an important influence on the stance taken by the European officials who are attempting to facilitate the process.
On the contrary, Israeli officials, denying the Palestinians’ assertion that a secret US-Israel agreement exists, clearly intend to continue building Jewish homes in occupied East Jerusalem.
Senior PLO officials have participated in demonstrations and protest activities, with some being injured and Executive Committee member Abbas Zaki imprisoned for a couple of days.
Other senior Fatah officials have been banned from travel outside the West Bank, owing largely to their involvement in nonviolent protests.
Under the “Act to Reestablish Confidence in Public Action,” public officials face a raft of new restrictions.
A new High Authority for Transparency in Public Life was given far-reaching powers to audit and publish public officials’ disclosures, issue rulings on misconduct and conflicts of interest, and refer violations to the solicitor general’s office.
Turkey’s Coup that FailedANKARA – The exposure of the plan hatched by senior military officials – called “Operation Sledgehammer” – to destabilize Turkey’s government, and the subsequent arrest of high-ranking officers, demonstrates the growing strength of Turkey’s democracy.
The same thing was said by top military officials about another plot, called “The Action Plan against Religious Fundamentalism,” drafted by Col. Dursun Cicek.
And, by looking critically at elected officials’ actions (or inaction), they are supposed to ensure that those who govern remain accountable to those who put them there.
The Chinese have exported their version of modern development to Tibet not only in terms of architecture and infrastructure, but also people – wave after wave of them: businessmen from Sichuan, prostitutes from Hunan, technocrats from Beijing, party officials from Shanghai, and shopkeepers from Yunnan.
Unless officials – especially German officials – act fast, the verdict of financial markets is bound to be ruthless.
The fact that Afghanistan’s ethnic groups are concentrated in distinct geographical zones would simplify partition and make the resulting borders more likely to last, unlike those drawn by colonial officials, who invented countries with no national identity or historical roots.
With higher energy prices, many Russian officials are enjoying their renewed power.
I was asked to comment on United States-Russian relations at a dinner with top officials from the government and Gazprom, the giant energy company.
To date, Iraqi officials have not been willing to deal with this escalating violence against women, or even to discuss it.
The IMF’s America ProblemThe IMF’s meeting this spring was lauded as a breakthrough, with officials given a new mandate for “surveillance” of the trade imbalances that contribute significantly to global instability.
Indeed, at the Chinese Communist Party’s recent 18th Congress, top officials advocated “ecological progress,” in addition to the longstanding goal of economic prosperity and a “harmonious society.”
To this end, a quiet meeting between the second-highest officials of the two countries – US Vice President Mike Pence and President of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea Kim Yong-nam, both of whom are expected to come to Pyeongchang – might be possible.
More recently, after Japanese maritime officials arrested a Chinese fishing-boat captain near the disputed Senkaku islands, China responded harshly with arrests of Japanese businessmen, cancelation of student visits, and suspension of exports of rare-earth minerals upon which key Japanese industries depend.
Moreover, as Chinese officials and researchers have acknowledged, though China surpassed Germany in 2009 as the world’s largest exporter by volume, it has yet to develop into a truly “strong” trading country, owing to lackluster trade in services and low value-added production.
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