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Investment governance frameworks also need to be strengthened, in order to ensure that projects are objectively appraised, selected, and prioritized on the basis of their financial and human-capital returns.
The Chinese economist Jin Liqun has been selected to lead the AIIB’s Multilateral Interim Secretariat, charged with overseeing the bank’s establishment.
Moreover, the SRF could act as a catalyst for other state financial institutions to contribute to a selected project’s equity and debt financing.
In the compilation below, we have selected some of Project Syndicate’s most-read commentaries on economics in 2017.
There is also a group of retired professors of economics and law, and another of “ordinary” citizens, whose individual complaints have been selected as examples by the Court.
To consolidate support, Thatcher would go head-to-head with carefully selected enemies – from British miners to Argentina’s president, General Leopoldo Galtieri, to the bureaucrats in Brussels.
Legislators in one chamber would be selected on the basis of merit and competency, and in the others on the basis of elections of some kind.
That yields everyone’s per capita share of the atmosphere’s capacity to absorb our greenhouse gases, up to the selected date.
Guantanamo was selected as the site to imprison them in a deliberate--and successful--effort to prevent American civilian courts asserting their jurisdiction.
Trump and his supporters have selected their winning issues carefully.
They also need regulatory agencies in sectors such as telecommunications and energy that can pursue policies in accordance with broad goals established by the political process, but with appointees selected according to nonpartisan criteria who then exercise their authority in a way that fosters competition open to all.
But now, because governments’ deployment of overwhelming financial resources to save selected private institutions deemed too big to fail caused sovereign debt to increase dramatically, officials have imposed fiscal austerity in deference to bond-market demands.
Today, my colleagues can genetically modify selected brain cells to make them controllable by laser light.
This time, by contrast, the new development bank would take the lead in channeling scarce homegrown resources into selected productive investment.
Instead of attempting to impose a new Syrian leadership, the US should host a meeting with internally selected representatives to help them draft a constitution and make other political arrangements.
They allow the reader to evaluate the author’s work on the basis of the perceived quality of the selected references.
In this case, an embryo is being selected not only to avoid congenital disease and thus directly benefit the resulting child, but also to produce a child whose very existence could provide a cure for an older sibling, and with virtually no risk to the donor child.
Interestingly, as several heads of US Congressional committees have pointed out, it is in America’s interest for the Bank to be led by the most qualified person, selected in an open and transparent process, regardless of nationality, gender, or race.
But now Japan, with overt support from Australia in particular, seems determined to change the balance by establishing, as a counterweight to China, a much denser alliance-type relationship with selected partners.
(The only exception was the extremely popular and well-regarded Kofi Annan, who, despite having succeeded another African after one term, was selected for two consecutive terms.)
A Supreme Court dominated by conservative factions has selected judges and prosecutors, and Afghans have little legal redress in a system that allows local commanders, who hold sway over the judiciary, to act with impunity.
One part seeks to protect the nation state or selected provinces against intrusive forces from without and/or less fortunate claimants from within.
The officials who worked for the emperors were selected based on written exams of Confucian thought.
And, because we selected MENA-specific names only, many MENA inventors who have names shared with other ethnicities, such as Biblical names, were left out.
For example, in rural India, recruiters for well-paid back-office jobs visited randomly selected villages over a period of three years.
Pakistani reactions were a curious mixture, ranging from dismissive declarations (backed by orchestrated bus tours of journalists to selected parts of the LoC) that no surgical strikes had even occurred, to angry statements declaring that irresponsible Indian firing across the LoC had killed two Pakistani soldiers.
After all, if President Donald Trump had wanted to remain on the same path, he would have just selected Yellen for a second term (which would have been more in line with tradition).
Such tools include well-designed public-private partnerships, especially when it comes to modernizing infrastructure; disruptive outside advisers – selected not for what they think, but for how they think – in the government decision-making process; mechanisms to strengthen inter-agency coordination so that it enhances, rather than retards, policy responsiveness; and broader cross-border private-sector linkages to enhance multilateral coordination.
Judging from past experience, it is likely that the targets of additional lending will be selected according to national political priorities.
It is also possible that the assassination of selected individuals has slowed the advance of Iranian nuclear efforts.
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