As such, these plans lend credibility to the pronouncements of world governance espoused by those on the political fringes.
It boasts the highest average attendances in the world, solid governance and oversight and low ticket prices, as well as fast-paced games that are well-suited to TV.
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First, global governance for a world economy that works for all people, not just a minority group.
Daniel Kaufmann, a Chilean citizen, is senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, formerly director of governance at the World Bank.
However, even with the rise of the G20 as the main global economic decision making body, with China, India, Brazil, Russia and South Africa all at the top table, the world appears to lack the governance architecture to achieve the conditions for this kind of enduring economic reform.
The IPCC was an overly optimistic experiment in international governance designed for a world that never materialized.
Bjorn-Soren Gigler, a Senior Governance Specialist at the World Bank, sees the mapping project as a step towards righting that wrong.
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Working out of an office studded with time-zone clocks in Newton, Massachusetts, Stephen Davis has become an authority on corporate governance issues around the world.
If population policy can do little more to alleviate environmental damage, then the human race will have to rely on technology and governance to shift the world's economy towards cleaner growth.
Stephen Davis, who runs Davis Global Advisors, keeps track of a range of factors affecting corporate governance in several of the world's largest economies.
The leaders also asked the International Monetary Fund to speed up changes in its governance to better represent the developing world as a voting bloc.
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Over 200 experts and stakeholders will discuss the practical ways found in different parts of the world to approach water related challenges and improve governance.
And a number of countries throughout the world obviously have a great interest in these governance issues and the type of things that have to happen, which is why I mentioned that some of these discussions have been had even before today.
He is fascinated by what he believes to be a continuous tension between the world's need and appetite for collective governance on the one hand and, on the other, the desire of tribes and nations to think of themselves as independent and sovereign.
In particular, corporate-governance regulations in many parts of the world require companies to archive electronic records for many years for compliance purposes.
African economies are growing at an average of 6% annually, good governance is gaining ground, and the world is beginning to take notice.
The World Bank paper bemoans Africa's standards of governance.
It gathers data on more than 60 indicators (the extent of crime, the quality of police, judicial independence and so on) to create rule-of-law and governance measures for virtually every country in the world.
The free and open character of the Internet, which is a precondition for online safety, is underpinned by a multi-stakeholder model of governance as confirmed by the resolutions of the World Summit of the Information Society.
In recent weeks, cardinals who have come from around the world to vote have publicly aired their grievances about the governance of the Roman Curia, the administrative body of the Vatican, pitting themselves against a coterie of colleagues who are longtime Vatican insiders.
This is one reason international bodies such as the United Nations hold occasional global forums like the Internet Governance Forum or the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) World Conference on International Telecommunications to talk about coordinated strategies to keep traffic flowing on our global highway.
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Broadman recalls working with the Chinese leadership on restructuring state-owned enterprises and corporate governance reform in the early 1990s while he was at the World Bank.
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The main aims of this tour are to strengthen Sustainable Development and Governance in the Tara River Basin Biosphere Reserve and in the Durmitor World Heritage site in Montenegro and to reinforce the management capacity of the UNESCO designated sites.
Reading a 2011 World Bank study3 on this phenomenon, one has the impression that the weaker the governance, the more attractive the country to large-scale land-based foreign land investments.
It is time to embrace the concept and practice of Governance as Leadership as we drive social change for the greater good in our world.
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"In terms of transparency and corporate governance, I don't want to say we are the best in the world but we are certainly one of the best, " says Murthy, 56.
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