Designing appropriate governance structures for an international financial institution such as the IMF is difficult, because steps to enhance the legitimacy of such an institution through constraints on its decision-making process may affect its operational efficiency. The paper underscores that the trade-offs are not absolute, however: they depend on the...
This paper argues that media-provided information affects investors' impressions of newly public firms. In 225 Initial Public Offerings IPOs, the volume of media-provided information had a negative, diminishing relationship with underpricing and a positive, diminishing relationship with stock turnover on the first day of trading. The relationship between the tenor...
Increasingly, scholars have articulated the challenge of global economic governance in constitutional terms. The World Trade Organization WTO is often painted as an incipient global economic constitution. Its legitimacy would be enhanced, some contend, by transforming the WTO treaty system into a federal construct. But the application of the language...
From Abbot & Costello to John Wayne, Vidsenseturns on the star power in a new five-minute video( www.vidsense.com/demo.asp ) that demonstrates how and why this"retro-evolutionary" online video advertising model marks a return to whatworks. As the web's premier video ad network, Vidsense fuses the mass appeal ofonline video with the...
HARARE, July 9, 2008 AFP — Robert Mugabe's regime Wednesday branded G8 leaders' threat of more sanctions "international racism" and a bid to force out the Zimbabwe president following his widely condemned one-man election. After the Group of Eight industrial powers meeting in Japan rejected the legitimacy of...
From Abbot & Costello to John Wayne, Vidsenseturns on the star power in a new five-minute video that demonstrates howand why this "retro-evolutionary" online video advertising model marks areturn to what works. As the web's premier video ad network, Vidsense fuses the mass appeal ofonline video with the proven power...
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE AFP — The White House said Saturday that G8 leaders are likely to "strongly condemn" Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and "strongly question" his government's legitimacy, at their Japan summit beginning Monday. Dennis Wilder, the National Security Council's senior director for Asia affairs, said he...
UNITED NATIONS AFP — The United States on Thursday formally submitted a sanctions resolution in the UN Security Council that would target Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and 11 of his aides. US Ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters here that he hoped that the text, which...
LEADING ARTICLE EUROPEAN UNION They lit up the Eiffel Tower in blue and gold early yesterday morning, but no light show could distract from the painful reality that France's rotating presidency of the European Union has begun in the most inauspicious of circumstances....
INTRODUCTION The issue of political leadership and the desire to produce men and women who command national legitimacy has been tough in all polities-and this dilemma is probably more critical in the developing nations.' Indeed, the assumption is that a good leader possesses some significant attributes-qualities that are bestowed...
VIENNA AFP — The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT, which celebrates its 40th birthday this week, may have succeeded in keeping the number countries in possession of nuclear weapons down to a mere handful. But the treaty, drawn up during the Cold War period, is now in urgent...
HARARE AFP — Robert Mugabe was expected to be inaugurated for a new term as Zimbabwe's president on Sunday following a one-man election amid growing calls for his fellow African leaders to reject his legitimacy. With Mugabe boasting he had crushed the opposition Movement for Democratic Change in...
It is hard now to comprehend the sense of general anticipation as Gordon Brown posed, albeit awkwardly, exactly a year ago today, on the steps of Number 10. The palpable sense of relief at the departure of Tony Blair was reinforced by the notion that the reliable, "not flash -...
KYOTO, Japan AFP — Group of Eight foreign ministers warned Friday that they would not recognise Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's government as he went ahead with a widely condemned election. The industrial powers, meeting in the ancient Japanese capital of Kyoto, also stepped up pressure on Iran and...
WASHINGTON AFP — The United States denounced Friday a "sham" election in Zimbabwe and called on African Union nations to increase pressure on President Robert Mugabe. "I think it is pretty clear to everybody that this is a sham process run by a government that will have no...
Email Security 6.2 Implements Bounce-Address-Tag-Validation BATV to Ensure Message Legitimacy SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SonicWALL, Inc. , a leading secure network infrastructure company, today announced SonicWALL Email Security 6.2, which features the Bounce-Address-Tag-Validation BATV specification to combat an increase in Non-Delivery Report NDR spam or...
Britain has pressed the UN Security Council to deny President Robert Mugabe international legitimacy and to condemn the further escalation of political violence in Zimbabwe orchestrated by his "criminal cabal". Even South Africa, which has long resisted moves by the UN to put Zimbabwe formally on its...
INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Apatar, Inc, a provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, announced on Friday (20 June) the CDYNE Death Index connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. According to the company, the new connector verifies...
TELECOMWORLDWIRE-23 June 2008-Apatar introduces CDYNE Death Index connectorC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Apatar, Inc, a provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, announced on Friday (20 June) the CDYNE Death Index connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. According to...
Worldwide Computer Products News-23 June 2008-Apatar introduces CDYNE Death Index connectorC1995-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Apatar, Inc, a provider of open source software tools for the data integration market, announced on Friday (20 June) the CDYNE Death Index connector for the Apatar Open Source Data Integration toolset. ...
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