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The ECB is now capable of lender-of-last resort operations, like its counterparts in the US and UK.
First, some prominent former officials argue that not all of the financial firms that got into trouble in 2008 were integrated commercial-investment banking
operations.
Some manufacturing is migrating inland, where wages and land prices are still relatively low, and some export
operations
are shifting to countries like Vietnam, where they are lower still.
Finally, multinational companies that had moved some
operations
to China from the United States or other high-wage countries are now moving back.
Likewise, firms facing a higher corporate tax rate in one country may decide to move their
operations
elsewhere.
Twitter has no
operations
in Africa.
For example, there are security questions related to strengthening the alliance between Japan and the US, including the relocation of the Futenma Air Station, the base of
operations
for the US Marine Corps on Okinawa.
Those responsible for the EU’s day-to-day operations, including the Board of the European Central Bank, would be accountable to the Parliament, which could dismiss them for failing to carry out their mandates.
The groups would operate under a common mandate across all UN agencies, and be led by UN
operations
directors in each country.
More broadly, the UN culture must change – perhaps with a new reward structure – to give priority to
operations
in the field, rather than to
operations
at headquarters; to implement reports’ recommendations, rather than just writing more reports; and to measure results on the ground, rather just counting the number of UN conferences held.
Instead, these officials have decided to refocus ADB
operations
on three areas: inclusive economic growth, environmentally sustainable growth, and regional integration, with a heavy emphasis on private-sector development.
ADB’s major goal, however, seems to be to scale up private-sector support from 15% to 50% of total bank
operations.
It will include direct financing, credit enhancements, and guarantees – a subsidy to a sector known for its risky non-performing
operations
at the ADB – as well as business-friendly regulations and removal of market “barriers,” which include social and labor rights.
The key to improving police
operations
is to embed more US and allied police officers in the police force to mentor Iraqi officers.
But a targeted assistance designed to improve the
operations
of Iraq’s police and government could help reduce violence.
Moreover, they must overhaul their own operations, to prove their impartiality.
This means rethinking the way aid is delivered and asking hard questions to the elaborate web of international agencies that deliver it, not least about the cost-effectiveness of their
operations.
This decision partly reflects inadequate aid flows; but it may also be rooted in the costs of the WFP’s own
operations.
Without a large ground force in Afghanistan or even major ground operations, the US can hold Al Qaeda’s remnants at bay in their havens in the mountainous tribal regions of Pakistan through covert operations, Predator drones, and cruise-missile attacks.
Had Obama’s goal been to rout the Taliban, a further military surge may have made sense, because a resurgent Taliban can be defeated only through major ground operations, not by airstrikes and covert action alone.
And, by retaining Afghan bases to carry out covert operations, Predator missions, and other airstrikes, the US would be able to unleash punitive power to prevent a Taliban takeover.
After all, it was American air power, combined with the Northern Alliance’s ground operations, which ousted the Taliban in 2001.
And this huge sum – a 5% increase over the 2008 military budget – is to be spent only on the US military’s normal operations, thus excluding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Beyond promoting mixed ownership involving private capital, strengthening corporate governance, and facilitating commercial operations, the reforms promise to open up the energy, resources, and telecom industries to non-state investors.
NATO peacekeeping
operations
have been a stabilizing factor in the region.
In military terms, European countries need to spend more on secure communications, airlift capabilities, special operations, and dealing with chemical and biological battlefields in order to be able to fight the war on terrorism effectively.
The ADB is also exploring possibilities for focusing a subset of our
operations
around a few high-priority economic corridors, which leads naturally to the issue of regional cooperation and integration.
But military
operations
that kill or injure civilians often do not automatically qualify as crimes, as long as deliberately inflicting pain or humiliation on a helpless individual – even if he or she is an enemy – is not the aim.
For example, problems with the
operations
of some markets – reflected in the price-fixing scandal regarding Libor (London Interbank Offered Rate), a benchmark interest rate – became apparent in 2007 and 2008.
The prospect of companies “suddenly grappling with a new, unpredictable force in their operations,” should force anyone who is anticipating a new dawn of deregulation to think twice.
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