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...dire conditions and heightened tension. The diplomats who refuse to go would be forced to leave government - three years into the war the State Department has managed to staff only 52% of its positions dealing with Iraq. Recruit and deploy economic managerial expertise from the U.S. government and private sector to find ways to employ Iraqis. In the short term, find ways to increase the availability of dependable power, clean water, fuel, etc. Give the tribal leaders cash incentives to protect Iraq's oil facilities and pipelines or suffer the consequences...
...investors in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua's most important beach town, have written a letter to Ortega urging the president-elect to hold a special meeting with them as a sign of his commitment to tourism and investment on the coast. The group warned that the tourism sector is "very volatile to political perceptions," and claimed that some investors have already started to withdraw their money from the country...
...competition--that outgoing President Vicente Fox unveiled but then failed to deliver on. Although more politically adroit, Calderón inherits a far more acrimonious political environment, in which López Obrador still insists he is the legitimate President. This surely will complicate Calderón's dealings with the public-sector unions and with sensitive symbols like the national oil company, Pemex, which desperately needs foreign investment, now outlawed. "Mexico needs to think outside the sovereignty box," says Raul Rodriguez, former CEO of the North American Development Bank, but Mexico's nationalization of Rockefeller's Standard Oil company holdings...
...that investment has a price attached. To gain WTO entry, Vietnam made greater concessions than other nations have been required to make upon joining, agreeing to lower trade barriers, reduce many subsidies and allow virtually unfettered foreign competition in some sectors of its domestic economy. "It's a tougher deal than even China got," says Jonathan Pincus, a Hanoi-based economist for the United Nations Development Programme (). For example, next April, Vietnam must allow foreign banks to set up their own branch offices in the country, without requiring them to partner with domestic lenders as banks wanting to enter China...
...Although Patrick has never held elected office, his emphasis on his leadership experience in the private sector and in the Clinton administration appeared to resonate with voters, propelling him to the strongest gubernatorial victory since Weld’s 1994 race for reelection...