The strategy promised 500, 000 new jobs a year and increased inward investment - dependent, according to the government, on more transparent public spending and improved security.
Adshead says that if Gazprom and the soon-to-go-public Rosneft were as transparent as ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, they might double their market values.
Adshead says that if Gazprom and the soon-to-go-public Rosneft were as transparent as ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell (nyse: RDSA - news - people ), they might double their market values.
But the GSMA cited Colombia as an example of the way USFs should be structured, with a reduction in levies and a transparent public bidding process.
Its candidate, an energetic entrepreneur and community activist called Adolf D'Souza, campaigns for decentralisation, transparent online budgeting and public accountability.
To ensure a comprehensive and transparent process, public involvement will be integral to shaping the direction of these action plans.
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However, Michael Meacher said at the meeting he thought the public was entitled to a full and transparent examination of all the facts.
On Monday Tory MP Rob Wilson told the Commons he had a "number of major concerns that the investigations announced by the BBC will not be sufficiently independent, transparent and robust to give the public confidence".
Conservative AM Byron Davies - who referred the matter to the Wales Audit Office - says he believes the sale process could have been more transparent, and also that significant public assets should not have been sold to a business registered in a tax haven.
Still, critics claim the Channel Islands are not transparent enough, and do not make public details of who is behind trusts.
He said that in the year ahead a key priority would be to ensure the sentencing process was "transparent, consistent and understood by the public".
Drawing on the experience of the Green Development Initiative , I suggested that a critical contribution from the public sector would be to establish an accountable, measurable and transparent biodiversity asset.
In this commercial environment, it is imperative to find ways in which the media can remain accountable and transparent and continue to promote and protect the public interest.
That person also would be charged with making sure government is more transparent and that there is outreach to the public to get the "best ideas on how we can govern the country, " says Kennard, a former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in the Clinton administration.
Full coffers give governments little incentive to privatise, deregulate or make public accounts transparent, all long-standing demands of both foreign and local investors.
We believe that this motivates them to achieve the mandate of public safety and allows them to take pride in being part of a transparent government institution.
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On the other hand, the public comments system is entertaining, compelling and, unlike the Man Booker, transparent.
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It seems unlikely that both conditions could be met in an established and transparent democracy such as the United States without sparking a huge public outcry which would produce a domestic prosecution.
At least in its later stages, Thatcherite privatisation was concerned with the restructuring of government-owned industries to introduce price mechanisms, competition and transparent regulation, to offer a share of ownership to the public, and to promote general economic efficiency.
The press, currently so pious and pompous about the BBC's mistakes, faces the Leveson report at a very low level of public trust, and unless it learns to deal with its mistakes in a serious and transparent way, that is how it will remain.
The initiative to take journalists inside the trial site is part of a major PR offensive by the scientists and their backers to be open and transparent about the research - in an effort to explain its value to the public.
Despite all the proposals to make accounting more transparent, pro forma obfuscations are as bad as ever--and cover a shocking number of public companies, according to data compiled by Multex (nasdaq: MLTX - news - people ), a New York financial research company.
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