Risk management entails moving away from a technology centred treatment of information security towards adopting a more holistic approach.

The turnaround in Germany s public finances was due mostly to a reduction in expenditure.

This should also lead to major reductions in time spent by programme partners on small scale project management.

The transformation in China s banking system, coupled with the recent decision to revalue China s currency, will require major changes in the conduct of monetary policy.

It is not yet clear whether East Asia s economic powerhouses will succeed in making the transition from follower to frontier.

There may be some savings to be realized as the Investment Management Service is in the process of changing to one global custodian to replace the master record keeper and three regional custodians.

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The Techno Political Transformation

After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the Bush administration launched an ambitious new policy to encourage a democratic transformation of the Middle East. Saddam Hussein's removal was intended as only the first step.

This discursive turn within feminist analysis reflects the turn within political science as a whole.

It subsequently played a central role in the management of the 1980 s debt crisis and in the post communist economic transition after 1989.

If the Obama administration does not succeed in stopping Iran by peaceful means from crossing the threshold to becoming a nuclear power, a hot confrontation is lurking.

From Cuba and in Caracas, he makes a show of governing, and he puts the transition in context The only transition here, one that we must accelerate and consolidate, is the transition to the socialist model.

Putin s Tipping Point?

China s Turning Point

Fourth, military transformation.

The Transition to Sustainability

Turning Point at Chernobyl

The Digital Transformation of Europe

East Asia s Turning Point

The first turning point is political.

The Ayatollahs Tipping Point

Pakistan s Tipping Point

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The more fundamental problem is that Japan seems unable, as a nation, to manage the kind of collective psychological shift that has transformed Germany, with which it is inevitably compared.

Success in drawing up the new constitution will be the definitive turning point for Iraq's stability and the entire process of democratic change.

Africa s Structural Transformation Challenge

The transformation reflects both necessity and design.

Mexico Breaking Good?

That shift is understandable.

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This is termed a criterion shift.

The first is privatization.

To support this shift, much is required.

Pakistan s Polio Tipping Point

That shift, however, has now come into view.

The Shift Towards Services, New York and Geneva, 2004.

The current trend is toward decentralization.

Relatively few economies (five to be precise, all in Asia Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore) successfully managed this transition while sustaining high growth rates.

But, to facilitate this shift, appropriate financing vehicles must be developed investment and risk management expertise will have to be acquired regulatory frameworks will have to be improved and adequate data and investment benchmarks will be needed.

But if a shift across America s racial divide is not truly revolutionary, then what is?

China s shift has been dramatic.

Incompetence during a political transition has a high price.

Governments must galvanize this transformation.

The signs of this shift are profound, even spectacular.