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Such reforms can help to ensure that budgetary resources are available at different levels of government (central, provincial, prefectural, county, township, and village), and are commensurate with expenditure responsibilities.
Over the past year and a half, China’s environmental non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) have organized protests that reach across provincial boundaries, engage Chinese from all social strata, garner support from China’s media, and directly address the issue of failed governance on a national scale.
To the contrary, by excluding different types of financial incentives based on different abilities, it deepens the cleavage between rich and poor, between big cities and provincial towns and villages.
Those interests include a new oil pipeline linking Myanmar to Kunming, the provincial capital of Yunnan province.
Since 2012, when Xi began “hunting tigers,” as he put it, three dozen government ministers, provincial governors, and other high-level officials have fallen into his net.
Those steps include cooperation with provincial governments – which bear the primary responsibility for primary and secondary education in Pakistan – to devise a roadmap for universal enrollment.
Financial reforms are in the hands of People’s Bank of China Governor Yi Gang, a US-educated economist, and the chairman of the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, Guo Shuqing, an Oxford-trained economist with experience in provincial leadership, central banking, and securities regulation.
“A land where we live well and happily,” the campaign slogan of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), resonated with them, as did the rather provincial and mostly empty messages of rival parties.
Some commentators suggest that Wilders, born and raised as a Catholic in a provincial Dutch town, is, like his Muslim enemies, a true believer, driven by the goal of keeping Europe “Judeo-Christian.”
For 14 years this former provincial boss of tiny Rhineland-Palatina has dominated Germany and Europe; in late October he becomes the longest-serving post-war German Chancellor.
By contrast, Thailand’s government and local elite seem content to remain a provincial country shielded from global competition in science and technology.
However, anyone who believes that the courtroom drama in the provincial capital of Jinan will determine the trial’s outcome (the verdict and sentence will be announced in September) is seriously mistaken.
Many of the solutions (a bicameral parliament and highly decentralized provincial structures, for example) are well known.
Hotels in China’s provincial cities can make five-star hotels in Western capitals looked shabby.
Of the 250 members of provincial Communist Party standing committees, an elite group including party chiefs and governors, 60 claim to have earned PhDs.Tellingly, only ten of them completed their doctoral studies before becoming government officials.
Inflating local growth numbers is so endemic that reported provincial GDP growth data, when added up, are always higher than the national growth data, a mathematical impossibility.
The despair of poor, provincial, and clientelistic constituencies is a tool rather than a problem, and belittling the US by aligning with Fidel Castro trumps promoting their countries’ real interests in the world.
Some of China’s problems stem from the fact that the banking system is primarily state-owned, with close links between local governments and provincial lenders, in particular, undermining disciplined credit assessment.
But it will take courage and sheer determination to tackle what is perhaps the biggest obstacle of all – resistance from deeply entrenched local and provincial power blocs.
This is especially true in developing countries, where it is common to find differences in productivity of a factor of ten at the provincial or state level and many times higher at the municipal level.
Both men’s imprisonment precipitated the downfall of a vast network of senior leaders, including provincial governors and the head of the China National Petroleum Company.
Indeed, he is a provincial player who so far has been unable to communicate a compelling vision of a new Libya.
Under Pakistan’s constitution, a convicted felon cannot serve in the national and provincial assemblies.
Provincial EuropeBERLIN – Multitasking is not exactly the strong point of Europe’s current generation of leaders.
The provincial cannot admit his inferiority and refuses to learn from others.
As we shrug off our provincial defensiveness, we become more willing to accept the best that others have to offer.
The recently concluded elections, which pushed the Communists out of their dominant position in the Rada and sharply curtailed the power of the "parties of power" that surround President Kuchma, pushed our provincial radicals to the fringes of our politics.
Perversely, some provincial governors and government officials are themselves major players in the drug trade.
What would have happened if Argentina's provincial governors had also miraculously been converted to the IMF's niggardly "logic," as demanded?
The French have recently conducted a series of two-day meetings in several provincial cities.
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