Full coffers give governments little incentive to privatise, deregulate or make public accounts transparent, all long-standing demands of both foreign and local investors.
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.
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.
Microsoft is uniquely positioned to help public organizations transform into connected, agile, transparent organizations that enable the people who serve the public to realize their full potential.
The British Medical Association also seeks to make rationing more transparent through wider public consultation.
The problem is that right now there are few short-term incentives for hospitals to be transparent to the public.
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To ensure a comprehensive and transparent process, public involvement will be integral to shaping the direction of these action plans.
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It would be even better if their regulatory machinations were transparent to the investor public.
The officials emphasized that the investigation would be completely transparent so that the public will have confidence in the outcome.
Its candidate, an energetic entrepreneur and community activist called Adolf D'Souza, campaigns for decentralisation, transparent online budgeting and public accountability.
Panel member John Campion had said he believed the public would want an "open, transparent process".
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".
Were American policy makers to have the benefit of transparent financial statements prepared the way public companies must report their pension liabilities, they would see clearly the magnitude of the future borrowing that these liabilities imply.
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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".
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.
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.
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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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.
On the other hand, the public comments system is entertaining, compelling and, unlike the Man Booker, transparent.
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When institutional operations are not transparent, it can increase transaction costs, reduce the efficiency of public services, distort the decision-making process and undermine social values.
He believes very much in the need to be as transparent as possible on these matters with Congress as well as with the public.
This provision of the Dodd-Frank Act, effective next year, will have the effect of forcing public corporations to open kimonos they have long cinched tight--even companies with relatively transparent disclosure practices.
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.
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