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But the Minister for Regional Reorganization, Dan Botwe, has dispelled such claims, saying it would instead enhance the economic opportunities as well as promote effective governance in such areas.

Free schools are here to stay, proving the value of strong leadership and effective governance in delivering high quality outcomes for pupils.

Not exact matches

«The political brinksmanship of recent months highlights what we see as America's governance and policymaking becoming less stable, less effective, and less predictable than what we previously believed,» S&P analysts explained in announcing the downgrade.

These may seem like arcane governance issues but they can make a big difference in how a board is run — and how well it acts as an effective control of a company's executives: in this case, both the executive chair and the CEO.

To discuss how to improve efficiency in the Ukrainian housing sector, Carnegie partnered with the Foundation For Effective Governance to set up a video conference with Kyiv and Washington, DC.

However, research by the FBCG also shows that only two - thirds of large family businesses in the GCC have initiated building blocks for effective family business governance structures, and only one - third of those participants have fully implemented the structures effectively.

In Kyiv, discussants included Andrei Lobatch from the Foundation for Effective Governance, Valery Saratov, Head of National Regulatory Commission on Utility Services, and Alexander Alipov, Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Regional Development, Construction, and Utility Services.

Canada's foreign aid could be more effective, were strategies in place that addressed the problem of weak host - country governance, which currently renders aid inefficient or even counter -...

After Wells Fargo forced two senior executives to pay back $ 75 million in compensation, other companies are rethinking clawback clauses — which experts say are effective governance mechanism.

Canada's foreign aid could be more effective, were strategies in place that addressed the problem of weak host - country governance, which currently renders aid inefficient or even counter-productive,...

Business professors Mai Iskandar - Datta from Wayne State University in Detroit and Yonghong Jia at Governors State University in Chicago recently concluded in a joint paper that «a clawback provision in executive compensation contracts is an effective governance mechanism» and that «shareholders of adopting firms experience statistically significant positive stock - valuation consequences.»

Arun here... breaking radio silence to share with you a thought - provoking piece by Larry Kazdan, a graduate of York University in sociology and history, and currently a Council Member with the World Federalist Movement - Canada, an organization that monitors developments at the United Nations and advocates for more effective global governance.

R&IA work in partnership with best - in - class technology to deliver independent and cost effective solutions designed to help institutional investor clients monitor investment decisions, optimize performance, reduce costs, mitigate risk and increase governance capability.

We believe this structure of a separate Executive Chairman of our board of directors and Chief Executive Officer, combined with a Lead Independent Director, reinforces the independence of our board of directors as a whole and results in an effective balancing of responsibilities, experience and independent perspective that meets the current corporate governance needs and oversight responsibilities of our board of directors.

This could include cooperation in humanitarian assistance, crisis response, and making regional governance more effective in the security domain.

This is especially important as the potential in Canada - Korea relations moves beyond the purely bilateral sphere of the past 50 years to more cooperation on international issues of common concern, such as the health of the global economy, effective global governance in the G20 and elsewhere, and preserving a peaceful and secure Asia Pacific region.

We believe that independent and effective oversight of Oracle's business and affairs is maintained through the composition of our Board, the leadership of our independent directors and Board committees and our governance structures and processes already in place.

He is also a commissioner for the Global Ocean Commission, whose mandate is to formulate politically and technically feasible short -, medium - and long - term recommendations to address four key issues facing the high seas: overfishing, large - scale loss of habitat and biodiversity, the lack of effective management and enforcement, and deficiencies in high seas governance.

It worked for MLK here in the USA and of course with Ghandi it was effective with Great Britain - both democracies with Judeo Christian societies and Government documents which extolled a Judeo Christian principle or principles of governance.

In most cases they have overcome both political fragmentation and government overload by replacing their old governmental bureaucracies with an innovative and effective form of governance: coalitions (composed of business, government, nonprofits, universities, neighborhood and minority associations, and religious groups) that develop a cooperative agenda to improve the city and that assume many of the city government's traditional functions (economic development, long - term planning, educational reform, even care of the homeless), and that also operate like political parties of yore (providing the point of access for new groups and a public realm for discourse, debate, and negotiation concerning matters of the common good).

«In fact,» Russell notes, «both the Inquisition and the Parlement or supreme court of France, where you have some strong central authority, were very effective in restraining the convictions for witchcraft — most of which come out of isolated areas of weak governancIn fact,» Russell notes, «both the Inquisition and the Parlement or supreme court of France, where you have some strong central authority, were very effective in restraining the convictions for witchcraft — most of which come out of isolated areas of weak governancin restraining the convictions for witchcraft — most of which come out of isolated areas of weak governance.

Bachmann's attack is pretty clever in the way it manages to paint any rhetoric or politics of effective governance as Obama / socialist / Big Government.

GDT's governance structure, illustrated in the diagram below, is designed to provide compliance rigour and effective representation for dairy industry seller, buyers and related financial markets.

Lynn Kern came to Prairie Moon Waldorf School in February of 2014 to give a 3 - day seminar entitled Adventures in Governance: Embracing Effective Practices.

Maternity services are appropriately resourced, underpinned by strong and effective leadership, management and governance arrangements, and delivered by a skilled and competent workforce, in partnership with women.

Following that she spent eight years with the National Association of Home Builders and most recently served as their Director of the Executive Officers Council where her responsibilities included helping NAHBs 800 local chapters become more efficient and effective in the areas of membership, governance and communication.

The articles in this newsletter offer a variety of insights on the topic of governance — from understanding basic principles of governance and knowing the basic types of governance models, to looking at effective practices in Waldorf Schools and delving deeper into anthroposophical insights into social creation.

The first three years of General Acheampong's regime (1972 - 1975) was about one of the most effective governance ever experienced in post Kwame Nkrumah era.

And they must be matched by much more effective economic governance in the Eurozone to ensure fiscal responsibility is hard wired into the system.

We would be better off in every way by representing and governing ourselves through effective governance.

In an effective governance system everything the organisation needs to do and employ to deliver its required outcomes is causally linked at all levels.

Developing Countries in a Networked Global Order (with Leonardo Martinez - Diaz, Oxford University Press, 2009), The Globalizers: the IMF, the World Bank and their Borrowers (Cornell University Press, 2006), Exporting Good Governance: Temptations and Challenges in Canada's Aid Program (with Jennifer Welsh, Laurier University Press, 2007), and Making Self - Regulation Effective in Developing Countries (with Dana Brown, Oxford University Press, 2007).

The tools available today are none other than deep reforms in the periphery, wealth transfers from the core to reinforce those reforms, and an overall more effective plan for European economic governance.

The women who are in Parliament should be assisted to become effective role models in qualitative governance.

I strongly believe that it plays its own important role in making American government dysfunctional and effective governance, at least if that means adopting intelligent policy on basic challenges facing the polity, nearly impossible.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and the county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance and establishes an environment that will support economic opportunities for all our residents.»

Amid delays that were based, in part, on political point - scoring, the system lasted only five years before the Welsh Assembly Government moved forward with a referendum to get rid of the LCO system and devolve further powers in one go — evidence, perhaps, that a system which requires the agreement of both devolved and central governments on policy changes might prove detrimental to effective governance.

In his goodwill message, the Project Director, European Centre for Electoral Support in Nigeria (ECES), the sponsors of the meeting, David Le Norte, said «ECES is proud to be associated with the main objective of the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU - SDGN) programme, which seeks the reinforcement of democracy in Nigeria through enhancing effective and legitimate democratic institutions achieved by cumulative actions within the five components of the programme.&raquIn his goodwill message, the Project Director, European Centre for Electoral Support in Nigeria (ECES), the sponsors of the meeting, David Le Norte, said «ECES is proud to be associated with the main objective of the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU - SDGN) programme, which seeks the reinforcement of democracy in Nigeria through enhancing effective and legitimate democratic institutions achieved by cumulative actions within the five components of the programme.&raquin Nigeria (ECES), the sponsors of the meeting, David Le Norte, said «ECES is proud to be associated with the main objective of the European Union Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU - SDGN) programme, which seeks the reinforcement of democracy in Nigeria through enhancing effective and legitimate democratic institutions achieved by cumulative actions within the five components of the programme.&raquin Nigeria (EU - SDGN) programme, which seeks the reinforcement of democracy in Nigeria through enhancing effective and legitimate democratic institutions achieved by cumulative actions within the five components of the programme.&raquin Nigeria through enhancing effective and legitimate democratic institutions achieved by cumulative actions within the five components of the programme.»

In the medium to long term, we must amend the law and constitution to strengthen Parliament's ability to oversight the executive (in order to promote effective checks and balances); inject meritocratic selection and fiduciary accountability into the governance of the state corporate sector; and allow for popular election of district mayors to promote local government decentralization and effectivenesIn the medium to long term, we must amend the law and constitution to strengthen Parliament's ability to oversight the executive (in order to promote effective checks and balances); inject meritocratic selection and fiduciary accountability into the governance of the state corporate sector; and allow for popular election of district mayors to promote local government decentralization and effectivenesin order to promote effective checks and balances); inject meritocratic selection and fiduciary accountability into the governance of the state corporate sector; and allow for popular election of district mayors to promote local government decentralization and effectiveness.

Nigeria needs true federalism just as the overall power existing in the country needs to be devolutionalized to the existing regions for effective and efficient governance and management.

This works in closely held companies because the identity between ownership and management and effective political power of the owners in corporate governance is sufficient to make sure that the entity distributes enough money to allow the owners to pay taxes on profits that are earned.

«The revelation that he sacrificed the commuters of his state and participated in a cover - up to serve his own political interests make it clear he does not possess the moral authority for effective governance.»

He stressed that effective implementation of the reforms in the public sector would reduce cost of governance, eliminate wastages, blocking of wastage among others.

Plenty of independents who are fiscally conservative, like myself, see nothing in their actions when in power that indicates they know anything about effective governance.

The Chairman said that the EU's Support to Democratic Governance in Nigeria (EU - SDGN), aimed at contributing to the reinforcement of democracy in the country through the building of strong, effective and legitimate democratic institutions, is anchored on the priorities of the Federal Government and the recommendations of the EU Election Observation Mission on the 2015 General Elections.

«Unlike maintained schools, academies have substantial discretion over the ways in which governance is undertaken and some schools and multi-academy trusts have used this freedom to establish opaque and ambiguous governance structures that undermine effective internal school accountability.

«That support continues as the commission works toward the goal of presenting to the voters of the city and county a public referendum in November 2016 that reflects more effective and efficient municipal governance,» the application says.

«Mark Boughton has shown remarkable leadership... as an advocate for the principles of limited government and economic growth at the state and local level,» said Connecticut Republican Chairman Jerry Labriola Jr. «When people ask me if Republicans can govern effectively at the local level, I tell them Danbury is a case study in effective governance, primarily because of Mayor Boughton.»

The committee shall also work in conjunction with Democratic elected officials to facilitate more effective governance and communication among Democratic elected officials.

It seeks to advocate strict adherence, and push effective policy implementation on utilisation of public resources, active citizen participation in local governance as well as monitor and evaluate execution of...