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I do not believe that corruption is coming to light just because law enforcement is somehow better, or because citizens, like the presidential staff who accused President Katsav of sexual crimes and harassment, are more courageous.
Europe, while afraid of illegal migration, needs foreign labor for its own demographic reasons – not least young engineers, technical staff, doctors, and health-care workers.
Even back in the 1990’s, regulators would privately complain of the difficulty of retaining any staff capable of understanding the rapidly evolving derivatives market.
Journalists’ distinction between “reporting” and “reporting on the ground” highlights the reality that a sizable proportion of newsroom staff never leave their desks.
From Stephen Roach at Morgan Stanley to Paul Krugman at Princeton, to the Governors of the US Federal Reserve and the senior staff at the European Central Bank, to almost everyone in Japan, economists all over the world are worrying about deflation.
Though the attack on the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi, in which Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three members of his staff were murdered, may well have been planned, as the State Department has maintained, the killers clearly exploited the opportunity created by outrage at an anti-Muslim film produced in the US.
But Securum was then able to recruit skilled staff members who could maximize the assets’ value when markets recovered, and to be in a financial position to await that recovery.
The priority for now and for months to come ought to be to staff up the new administration.
In Kenya, which already leads the world in mobile money through “m-PESA,” an upsurge in telemedicine is enabling rural patients and health practitioners to interact, through video conferencing, with staff in Kenya’s main hospitals – thereby increasing quality of care at very little cost.
The next Fed chairman should be someone with an open mind, a willingness to engage the staff, and a desire to cultivate expertise throughout the Federal Reserve System.
For example, the government agency Uruguay XXI’s “finishing schools” initiative offers subsidies to export-oriented companies to train staff in specific skills, such as English, and help them to master new technologies.
They may no longer employ family members on their staff.
Of course, there is the IMF, whose staff tell anyone willing to listen that Greek debt must be cut by approximately one-third, or €100 billion ($112 billion).
Moon, who was liberal former President Roh Moo-hyun’s chief of staff, is a more forceful critic.
That might sound like a lot, but the Tokyo Fire Department spends about the same amount each year, and the Australian Department of Human Services spends $3 billion more (with less staff).
The whole family of the UN Secretariat and related entities, together with current peacekeepers, adds up to around 215,000 people worldwide – not a small number, but less than one-eighth of the roughly 1.8 million staff employed by McDonald’s and its franchisees worldwide!
They have established systems of accountability, including measures to ensure that gender competence is included in job descriptions and staff performance evaluations.
This would make the IMF staff more cognizant of the value of local knowledge relative to theoretical expertise.
Another strategy would be to relocate some of the staff, including those in functional departments, to “regional offices” in the field.
This move would likely face considerable resistance from staff who have gotten used to the perks of Washington, DC.
Indeed, there have been disclosed to me reports of at least three alleged sex assaults by faculty or academic staff in the past decade – two alleged incidents reported by two different women involving the same man.
I know that one undergraduate has more recently pursued legal action against a staff member, who, she said, drugged her with Rohypnol, the “date rape” drug, and assaulted her.
Countries that offer world-class infrastructure, high-skill staff, and simple business rules may be well entitled to ask companies to pay a commensurate tax in return.
The fundamental problem is that medical staff and students are leaving the developing world en masse to train in countries like the US and UK, and then never returning to work in their own communities.
But economists, including many central bank staff, usually do not see things this way.
Because no “one-size-fits-all” strategy exists, the Bank must include among its staff the global diversity of approaches to development issues.
After all, for-profits can hire high-quality staff, respond nimbly to changing conditions, and raise the capital required to scale up quickly.
“I would just tell you,” joint staff director Lt. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie recently said, “the US military has had a lot of experience in the western Pacific taking down small islands.”
But, while the sense of “efficiency” that attracted the mendicant Christian orders, the Dominicans and Franciscans, to staff the original universities was rather different, it is no less relevant today.
Last year, Putin reorganized the RIA Novosti news agency, firing 40% of its staff, including its relatively independent management.
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