China s BRICS Balancing Act

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The Commission noted further that representatives of the United Nations Secretariat had informed the ICSC secretariat that in order to address imbalances in the Tax Equalization Fund, a reduction in staff assessment would be required to lower the fund by 20 per cent.

Humpty Dumpty and Global Financial Imbalances

The sickness funds have to see to it that their income and expenditures are balanced.

Strengthening of State systems for nuclear material accountancy and control

We need reform of the international monetary and financial institutions, as well as to set right other systemic imbalances, to ensure equitable development.

Moreover, the restriction of individual agency funds to their mandated activities necessarily limits the use of the funds and leaves the system vulnerable to sectoral imbalances.

There are balancers the U.S., Europe, China, Japan can balance each other.

H. Gender balance in the common system

Reaffirming its commitment to governance, equity and transparency in the financial, monetary and trading systems and its commitment to open, equitable, rule based, predictable and non discriminatory multilateral trading and financial systems,

Note 19. United Nations Tax Equalization Fund (statement XIX)

In the context of the review of the revised base floor scale adjustment, the Commission noted that the representatives of the United Nations Secretariat informed the ICSC secretariat that, in order to address imbalances in the Tax Equalization Fund, a reduction in staff assessment rates by 20 per cent would be required to lower the staff assessment contributions to the Fund.

And so, what the countries of the bottom billion need is very strong checks and balances.

A set of indicators has been developed to help measure the progress, performance and impact of programmes in the Fund s core programme areas.

The Soviet Union provided for balance in the global system.

On the other hand, stronger home country involvement in the Kimberley Process would help balance the existing strong host country involvement in the scheme.

There should also be disclosure of the mechanisms which are in place to act as checks and balances on key individuals in the enterprise.

(c) Resolution No. 62 96 (12 7 96) establishing the Regulations for Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material, which contains the rules governing SNCC.

Because the GM is a resource mobilization mechanism that is not primarily responsible for providing project funding, it is difficult to quantify the GM's direct effect on financial assistance flows to affected developing country parties.

UNFPA should develop more accurate workload measures, specific to the full range of work undertaken, to ensure that General Service staff numbers are commensurate with need, and establish workload benchmarks and measures to determine more accurately the number of Professional staff needed (para. 9 (i) and (j)).

(e) Such sums as may be necessary to enable the Tax Equalization Fund to meet current commitments pending the accumulation of credits such advances shall be repaid as soon as credits are available in the Tax Equalization Fund

The allocation of funding to regions was seen to be imbalanced.

Management of environmental and social effects Leverage of international private financial resources

(b) UNCDF will adopt and adapt the UNDP balanced scorecard system and methodology for monitoring and reporting on organizational performance.

However, the Commission noted that it had not followed, in lock step, the changes in Member States tax systems since it was also necessary to reflect the needs of the Tax Equalization Fund in this respect.

The Right to Development owed its genesis to the historical wrongs committed in the process of lopsided development and an approach based on the Right to Development would address the imbalances in the international economic environment, namely in its financial order, trading system, knowledge and technology, and economic decision making.

reference base and yardstick) and Issue 6 (Avoiding setting

(e) Such sums as may be necessary to enable the Tax Equalization Fund to meet current commitments pending the accumulation of credits such advances shall be repaid as soon as credits are available in the Tax Equalization Fund

What we can measure is that tangible stuff at the bottom of the pyramid.

In short, striking a balance between the impulse toward rivalry and incentives encouraging restraint is the most important dynamic in contemporary international affairs. And, for now, the global balance is tipping toward restraint.

A better balance was also needed, with the resources directed primarily to core activities.

How can we help improve governance and introduce checks and balances?

Following its baseline survey that aimed to define future benchmarks and targets, IFAD now uses a set of indicators to measure impact achievement in the project cycle policy partnership, learning and innovations and accountability and monitoring.

26. The ICSC secretariat also attributed the imbalance to the fact that, at the lower grades, comparator salaries reflected primarily clerical pay levels because of the comparator s uniform salary scales, which combined clerical and Professional salary data to derive internal salary levels.

And the guy took it apart, and one of the things he pulled out was one of the balance wheels.

That equilibrium lies at the heart of the potential of those mechanisms.

To facilitate this, measurable targets will be set up when projects begin.

Yes. The only power in Rome strong enough to checkmate Gracchus and his senate.

(e) Such sums as may be necessary to enable the Tax Equalization Fund to meet current commitments pending the accumulation of credits such advances shall be repaid as soon as credits are available in the Tax Equalization Fund

The first concerns the growing imbalances in the monetary and financial systems that expose the global economy to shocks that are beyond any national capacity to control.

The aforementioned Decree Law laid the foundations for the establishment and current functioning of the State System of Accounting for and Control of Nuclear Material (SNCC), which gives proper consideration to the importance of safeguards and associated measures and controls.

Such institutions can create, reflect and reproduce imbalances of power.

(Need for a common reference base and yardstick) and Issue 6 (Avoiding setting standards

I can turn them on and off and control the flow of gasoline and balance the airplane that way. Understand?