Honesty is not always the best policy.

The main priority was fundamental transit policy issues, and Ethiopia was doing its best to harmonize and standardize its policy with its transit neighbours.

The report could provide analysis on how Governments and public policy can best address the particular problems.

And I consider India and China the best partners in the world in a good global climate policy.

Third, where Europe has a serious internal policy, it is easier to establish a more serious external policy. The best example of this is energy policy and Russia, which wants a sphere of influence around its borders.

The seminars brought together policy makers, enterprises and experts from developing (and developed) countries to exchange experiences and best practices.

But it should then be able to gradually extend its work on best practices to other areas of counter terrorism policy.

This entails a process of trial and error, to identify those policy options that best suit the country's specific level of development.

UNCDF will continued to serve as the policy advisor to the UNDP group to ensure consistent application of the best microfinance practices.

OIOS is not convinced that placing the Coordination Unit's functions within the Office of Policy and Programme Coordination has been the best solution.

The high level conference entitled Tackling Human Trafficking Policy and Best Practice in Europe which the Task Force, the European Commission and the United Kingdom, which currently held the European Union Presidency, would be hosting later in the month was an important step towards developing the most suitable policy and best practices against human trafficking in Europe.

The Unit advocates the incorporation of evaluation and best practices identified therein into current and future programmes, organizational and strategic planning and policy formulation.

The project will lead to a publication emphasizing best practices and policy recommendations, to be launched on the International Day of Older Persons 2005.

All law and policy development, administrative and judicial decision making and service provision that affect children must take account of the best interests principle.

Conventional structural reform tends to be biased toward best practices policy remedies that are supposedly universally valid. But, as successful countries around the world have discovered, a best practice mindset does not help much in promoting new exports.

South Korea s Sunshine Policy is best understood as unconditional engagement. Not surprisingly, this all carrot, no stick approach has failed to affect North Korean behavior.

At the policy level, WIPO provided legal advice to Governments with regard to the best way of integrating intellectual property into national economic development strategies.

The ensuing discussion focused on the need to scale up and replicate best practices in development contributions and the role of policy in this context.

Trying to replicate someone else's blueprint or following best practice cases are unlikely to provide the right guide for policy makers looking to accelerate growth.

Currently, the secretariat is undertaking activities that seek to promote the advancement of liberalization through the multilateral trading system as a first best policy option.

The ultimate objective of such a global survey is to identify best practices and policy recommendations in the promotion of business linkages, which will then be used as a basis for UNCTAD's policy advice on linkage promotion to the Brazilian Government.

And then we can ask questions, real questions, questions like, what's the best life insurance policy to get? real questions that people have in their everyday lives.

The question therefore is how to best balance the policy principle of equitable geographical distribution of supply sources against the requirement of more cost effective procurement operations.

A comprehensive policy on joint operations and joint mission analysis centres was being developed in conjunction with the new Department of Safety and Security, building on best field practices.

Finally, an opportunity for developing country negotiators and policy makers to share their experiences in the formulation and implementation of South South IIAs would facilitate the identification of best practices.

Child adoption policy in Indonesia would be based on the principle of the best interest of the child, as stipulated in the Law No. 23 of 2002 on Child Protection.

The event brought together ICT policy makers, statistical offices and telecom regulators, to discuss the need for internationally comparable data on ICT access, use and impact, share best practices in ICT measurement and examine some of the policy issues impeding effective measurement of the information society.

Reformers in this mold are suspicious of best practices and universal blueprints. They look instead for policy innovations, small and large, that are tailored to local economic circumstances and political complications.

Promoting corporate responsibility and accountability and the exchange of best practices, as well as the active involvement of civil society, are also important aspects of building stable policy and institutional frameworks.

The best civil engineers we had, the best planners, the best architects.

They are second best local policy responses to an ineffective mechanism for international adjustment (or non adjustment). A better system to rebalance the world economy is as necessary as it is unlikely.

The representative of Cuba drew attention to the importance of safeguarding national policy space, which could allow developing countries to steer FDI in the direction best suited to meeting their development needs.

The chapter on marine culture assesses mariculture methods (marine net pen rearing, ocean ranching, extractive aquaculture and intensive shrimp farming) for their environmental consequences, and suggests best practices to guide policy making.

The representative of Cuba drew attention to the importance of safeguarding national policy space, which could allow developing countries to steer FDI in the direction best suited to meeting their development needs.

The good news is that there has been real progress in development policy, and, beneath the doctrinal differences, is a certain convergence not on what works, but on how we should think about and do development policy. The best of the recent work in the two traditions shares common predilections.

No one can guarantee that Prime Minister Li Keqiang s attempts to achieve deleveraging and structural reform will succeed. Moreover, external shocks, policy mistakes, and political instability could disrupt even the best laid plans.

As a first step, the working group is drawing up an anti corruption and fraud prevention policy which will draw on existing best practices, including the model recently developed by the World Bank.

For each theme, the expert discussion focused on stocktaking, rationale, impact and effectiveness, possible improvements, and the role of national (home and host country) and international policy in light of identified best practices.

The III believes it is possible to go further and outline the particular features that best give effect to the public and international policy objectives that countries seek to achieve through such laws.

Best dancer walks tall, gets the best date.

(i) Best available techniques and best environmental practices

(i) To ensure national research and documentation to identify vulnerable groups of children, inform policy and programmes at all levels and track progress and best practices towards preventing all forms of violence against children

(h) To ensure national research and documentation to identify vulnerable groups of children, inform policy and programmes at all levels and track progress and best practices towards preventing all forms of violence against children

With respect to follow up to the International Conference on Financing for Development, the activities of the regional commissions focused on analytical work for promoting policy dialogue, capacity building, including sharing of best practices.

In regard to the recommendations in paragraphs 97 and 101 of the report of the Board, UNU has initiated action to formulate a policy on best practices and expected full implementation by June 2005.