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More recently, Karim Wade, the son of former Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade, was arrested on suspicion that he amassed a fortune of roughly $1.5 billion during his father’s presidency, when he held senior ministerial positions.
To fill the job, which no one else seemed to want, Trump had turned to Mick Mulvaney, a conservative former congressman who had already held two high government positions simultaneously.
The positions taken in this complex debate do not align neatly with the traditional left-right political spectrum.
These aren’t hard questions, but when we take them seriously, they can lead to complex policy positions.
Trump’s election has not changed the core House Republican agenda – in fact, it has brought that agenda’s architects into government, at OMB, at the Department of Health and Human Services, the CIA, and other prominent positions, with more likely to follow.
So while men with histories of predatory behavior continue to occupy senior positions in the global news industry, women journalists are pushed to the point that they consider leaving it.
In digital newsrooms, which often have fewer of the inherent inequities of legacy media, the number of women in leadership positions appears to be growing faster.
They don’t want them in positions of real power.
Voters not only feared handing over positions of real authority to unqualified counter-elites; they feared endangering their country’s image and damaging its position in Europe and beyond.
Neither Europe nor the United States has put in place credible medium-term plans to stabilize their fiscal positions.
The Europeans do not need their current level of representation, and the positions and voices of middle- and lower-income countries should be strengthened.
Specifically, in order to lower the youth unemployment rate, which currently stands at 11.2%, Moon pledges to create 810,000 jobs in the public sector – including 174,000 civil-service positions in national security and public safety and 340,000 in social services – over the next five years.
In June 2015, I hosted a HeForShe chat on Twitter , and while the conversation was overwhelmingly positive, an obvious concern surfaced: Why should men help promote women to positions for which they themselves are aiming?
There is merit in both positions – but much more in the Spanish and Italian argument.
Investors are demanding a hefty premium to insure against the chance that Italy and Spain are ultimately forced out of the eurozone – thus bringing that day closer by weakening countries’ fiscal positions and raising their private-sector borrowing costs (which are set by government bond yields).
In the last three years, 11% of Australia’s population has completed such a course, partly owing to requirements that people in certain positions, such as child-care workers, have a first-aid certificate.
At stake here are opposing positions about the relation between national identity and law.
All of the relevant players – including those, like Saudi Arabia and Israel, that are not sitting at the table but whose presence is very much felt – are clinging to their initial positions.
Worse still, they are being allowed to borrow cheaply from the United States Federal Reserve, on the basis of poor collateral, and simultaneously to take risky positions.
Similar problems have arisen over admissions tests to study law and medicine, as well as exams for clerical positions.
Globally, there are fewer than 40 women for every 100 men in leadership positions (including in politics), and in the Asia-Pacific region, that figure falls to around 25.Though the share of women sitting on company boards across the region did double between 2011 and 2016, from 6% to 13%, it remains far too small.
Hundreds of top positions still await nominees.
In a world in which women held a proportionate share (one-half) of leadership positions, they might behave differently in power.
Women still lag in leadership positions, holding only 5% of top corporate positions and a minority of positions in elected legislatures (just 16% in the US, for example, compared to 45% in Sweden).
Traditional career paths, and the cultural norms that constructed and reinforced them, simply have not enabled women to gain the skills required for top leadership positions in many organizational contexts.
Kadyrov promised Zakaev amnesty and various positions ranging from director of the local theater to Minister of Culture.
By purchasing bonds of member countries, the ECB would be taking implicit positions on their individual creditworthiness.
He wants to bar politicians from hiring their relatives, accumulating paid positions, and amassing over-generous pensions.
Faced with meeting the constitutional requirement of getting votes from each state in the Federation, the candidates and their handlers have gone out of their way to avoid taking positions that ruffle feathers.
In the past few months, every time I visited an Asian country – whether South Korea or India, China or Japan – I was asked repeatedly about candidate Obama’s positions on three issues: trade, foreign policy, and the new geo-economic order.
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