Word: centralization
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...crisis heightened the need to allocate current use of funds efficiently, Dominguez said. Over the last five years, Chile’s economy has been bolstered by a spike in copper prices. As copper accounts for roughly 16.4 percent of the nation’s GDP, according to the Central Bank of Chile, the government was able to accumulate a financial cushion of around $21 billion worth of savings in sovereign wealth funds and a similar amount in central bank reserves, the New York Times reported. Such financial policies allowed Chile to announce a $4 billion stimulus package this January...
...walking around, you’re not bumping into people. You’re not hearing the valuable word on the street. You’re not feeling the vibe of the place.”This managerial perspective has proved critical in her transition from the central administration to FAS. With her extensive administrative experience in various hubs throughout Harvard, Gorodentsev said she emphasizes on-the-ground communication to ensure that information not only flows from top administrators to departments, but also the other way around.“Cathy’s advantage is that people trust...
...reflected the wishes of the left, especially Nicaragua and Venezuela, which on Monday spoke against the San José Accord. It also echoed a personal friction between Ortega and Arias that dates back to the 1980s, during their first presidencies, when Arias helped broker peace settlements to end Central American civil wars like the one Ortega and his Sandinista Revolution were fighting against U.S.-backed contra rebels. Ortega made it clear soon after the Honduran coup that he felt it was the role of ALBA, not of the more conservative Arias, to broker a deal there. Ortega was also apparently...
...first person, and it just seemed natural to go ahead and call him Keith. And in a way, he’s the character who is least actually like me.” The roommate character is an amalgam of Gessen’s actual roommates. As for other central figures in the book, Gessen graduated two years ahead of Kristin Gore, but he insists that Lauren, the vice president’s daughter in the book, is not based on Gore, who he only knew “a tiny...
Andrés Eloy Ruiz, a humanities professor at Caracas' Central University and a spokesman for the Venezuelan education law that contains the new media rules, calls that nonsense. "This is not a 'Cuban' law," he says. Ruiz dismisses charges that the measure, which for the first time mandates bilingual education for indigenous children but also demands classrooms based on Bolivarian principles, will impose socialist instruction in schools. "There are no private schools or media in Cuba, but we guarantee their rights here," he adds. "We're simply requiring them to be responsible. The terrorist opposition wants to sow fear...