Word: technocrats
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...Sydney before embarking on a trans-Pacific flight last Wednesday, is Alternative Prime Minister of Australia. As he fronts this week's ALP national conference for the first time as leader, Rudd will be playing to his party's supreme policy-making body. The former diplomat and high-level technocrat is not a creature of Labor's factions or union base, which makes him stronger outside the party than within it. If the polls are accurate, people are wild about Rudd, who is trying to convince them that Labor will provide a more prosperous future while the government is stuck...
...Mexico's Calderon, a Harvard-educated technocrat, will have to bend his own free-market ideology to keep a bitterly divided Mexico from erupting after he takes office. Special federal police forces have already been called in to quell deadly riots in the poor southern state of Oaxaca. In its broader context, the violence reflects a national backlash against the utter failure of globalization and a fledgling democracy to address Mexico's gross economic inequality. And that powder keg is nudging Calderon to acknowledge that the sort of social investment and regulatory reform programs for which he once ridiculed Lopez...
...Another casualty may have been the proposed unity government agreement between the Fatah organization of President Mahmoud Abbas and the Islamist militants of Hamas, led by Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh. Following the shelling, the two sides broke off talks to form a technocrat-led coalition government that would temper Hamas's militancy and allow international donors to lift their embargo on funds and most aid to the Palestinian territories...
...question," says emerging-markets expert Marc Faber, publisher of The Gloom, Boom & Doom Report. "Having said that, I don't think this will have a huge impact on the financial and manufacturing sector." In a reassuring move, the new administration tapped central-bank governor Pridiyathorn Devakula, a respected technocrat who helped extricate Thailand from the 1997 Asian financial crisis, as a top economic advisor. Pridiyathorn spent late last week trying to convince overseas investors that Thailand wouldn't retreat from the global economy or pursue a protectionist agenda. And the health of Thailand's economy, projected to grow...
...people locked in a dance-floor embrace in front of a cordon of riot police. But behind the scenes, more quietly and with no discernible romance, France can and does also say oui. For every rock-throwing protester posing for TV cameras outside the Sorbonne, there is a polished technocrat in an anonymous office patiently pushing the modernization envelope. The changes those technocrats can institute are limited, less sweeping in scope and slower to take effect than grandiose political programs, but they're often more effective. They underline the truth that France is a prosperous nation whose public services...