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Are they missing the only opportunity we have to discipline the banks and force them to compete for responsible risk-taking?
Given its growing profile, China must do far more to demonstrate its bona fides as a responsible global leader or risk undermining the system that has enabled its own miraculous rise.
It did not take Margaret Thatcher long after her election in 1979 to downgrade the National Economic Development Office (known as Neddy), the body responsible for strategic state interventions, which was finally dismantled under Thatcher’s successor, John Major, in 1992.
But, in view of America’s long history of neglect of energy security and resilience, the notion that Barack Obama’s administration is responsible for rising gas prices makes little sense.
Sixty regional and local governments, responsible for 15% of global greenhouse-gas emissions, are also taking action.
The finest tribute Filipinos and other freedom-loving peoples can offer to Cory's memory is for responsible citizens to work towards the vision of an empowered, bountiful future for which she and Ninoy aspired.
Now, too, as borrowers find credit increasingly difficult to obtain, and as resentment toward banks – and those responsible for regulating them – grows accordingly, we can expect demands for political intervention to alter the distribution of credit.
This is perhaps not exactly what happened with the Dutch Battalion in Srebrenica, but the recent 6000-page report of the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIO) suggests that when it comes to taking responsibility for the hideous massacre of 7,000 Bosnian Muslims under the eyes of a UN protective force (UNPROFOR) in Srebrenica, everyone now washes their hands and looks somewhere else to find who is responsible.
Brazilians still have a long way to go to eliminate corruption, reform or rescind populist policies, and create efficient and responsible state institutions.
As a result, an audience of staunch Atlanticists saw Germany as a responsible, reliable ally.
A somewhat more nuanced analysis holds that the euro itself is responsible for these countries’ problematic spending.
First, the share of government debt that can be pooled must be strictly limited, leaving each country responsible for a significant portion of its national debt, and therefore motivated to maintain sound public finances.
So the Asians are coming: as markets, as states, as consumers, as financiers (Asian central banks, for example, are responsible for financing America’s whopping budget deficits), as scientists and engineers, and as corporations.
At the BoE, the MPC is responsible for official forecasts, which it publishes in its Inflation Reports.
Lists have been drawn up of people who played a significant role in the Japanese colonial regime, ranging from university professors to police chiefs – and extending even to their children, reflecting the Confucian belief that families are responsible for the behavior of their individual members.
Another is Mahmoud Dahlan, also an ex-prisoner and former security official, although the loss of Gaza to Hamas, for which many Palestinians hold him partly responsible, has dimmed his leadership prospects.
An armed attack could also cause the Iranian public to rally around the government, reducing the chances that a more responsible leadership might emerge.
Leaving a worn-out house to future generations to repair is not a responsible way to manage wealth.
In other words, the segment of the US government that is directly responsible for upholding national security recognizes the need to attract and retain highly educated workers to provide care and early learning to the children of all employees.
The Unaccountable G-8NEW YORK – In hosting the 2010 G-8 summit of major economies (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper called for an “accountability summit,” to hold the G-8 responsible for the promises that it made over the years.
Contrary to Western expectations, most of this domestic Internet censorship is carried out not by the government's Internet police, but by Chinese Web hosting companies, which are being held legally responsible for what their users publish.
In many countries, women are responsible for the provision of water and food for their families.
Even if someone with a different educational background or work experience manages to get face time with those responsible for hiring, they must overcome the perception that they are a riskier choice.
In the process, Merkel, the daughter of an East German pastor, set an example of personal decency that has gone a long way toward restoring the good name of a country that, three-quarters of a century ago, was responsible for some of the largest-scale human-rights violations ever recorded.
The 1.2 billion poorest people on the planet account for just 1% of global consumption, while the billion richest are responsible for 72%.
A growing body of evidence suggests that new business models can deliver responsible growth.
Though some of the Brexiteers – most notably former London Mayor Boris Johnson – are now in the government, none of those who led the campaign to leave the European Union are ultimately responsible for carrying it out.
Regardless of their economic conditions or their confidence – or lack of it – in each other, France and Germany are more than ever jointly responsible for the future, if not the very survival, of the European project.
The London G-20 meeting recognized that the world’s poorest countries and people should not be penalized by a crisis for which they were not responsible.
In fact, my own publications promote the stakeholder concept as the framework for a modern understanding of socially responsible corporate management.
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