As economies of the world aggregate, monitoring the growth and operation of SWFs becomes an ever-more delicate and indispensable task.

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In 2007 the Kazakh embassy in Washington tried to pack a mission from the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, an international monitoring outfit, with sympathetic staff.

ECONOMIST: Election fraud

The objectives of the Workshop were to examine the opportunity and means of establishing an Andean Glacier monitoring Network (A-GMN) through international co-operation between research workers and institutions, national agencies and international organisations and programs.

UNESCO: Valdivia, Chile, 2003

One of the last important federally funded studies of this sort, the Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring program, had its cash cut off and ceased operation.

FORBES: Magazine Article

There are certain dangers associated with the operation of home security systems themselves (such as whether the alarm will sound properly when tripped) and the monitoring services related to these systems (such as whether the security company operator and the police will respond quickly).

FORBES: When Your Home Security Company Becomes the Greatest Security Risk

However credible this assessment may be, we will endeavour - in view of the inherent uncertainties associated with any verification process, and, particularly in light of Iraq's past record of co-operation - to evaluate Iraq's capabilities on a continuous basis as part of our long-term monitoring and verification programme, in order to provide the international community with ongoing and real time assurances.

BBC: Full text: ElBaradei briefing