Such assignments require a collaborative effort between the ITU TSB and the appropriate ITU T study group to endeavor to ensure that the assignments meet the needs of the telecommunication community.

Bond rating agencies have issued misleading ratings on companies in questionable health.

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But Huntsman, who is stagnating at the bottom of the polls, remains inaudible.

Performance artist Gloria Yip initiated an online poster action to protest against labelling a woman's breast as a weapon.

In 2011, the Institute for the Study of the Americas released the first ever UK academic survey to rate U.S. presidents.

And their presidents, despite their undeniable competence, are watching their approval ratings plummet.

Indeed, I believe that it is here that the seminal reason for their plunging poll ratings lies.

Other emerging markets also look fragile and at risk of an eventual downgrade.

Indeed, an ethos of perpetual vigilance is central to sustaining President Vladimir Putin s high popular approval ratings.

Even more exciting is the likelihood that Nigeria will not be alone at its graduation into a growth economy.

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His other name, Abu Mazen, is not a revolutionary name but reflects the practice of naming a person as the father of his eldest son.

If necessary, an entire issue can be redeemed by one big player , says Yury Nogin, Director of the Financial Institutions Ratings Group at ACRA.

Moreover, credit rating agencies had serious conflicts of interest, because they received fees from the managers of these instruments.

Ratings affect how much banks are willing to lend, and how much developing countries and their citizens must pay to borrow.

Ratings agencies had incentives to give good ratings to the high risk securities produced by the investment banks that were paying them.

The rise of populist political parties of both the left and the right across the continent attests to popular frustrations and fears.

The Chase Australia's second night ratings drop will have Nine quietly confident that Hot Seat will ultimately prevail at 5.30.

The film was made as a pilot for a weekly series, but the series was never picked up.

Disappointment about the raters performance, and skepticism about the effectiveness of regulation, has led to calls to eliminate any regulatory reliance on ratings.

They thought that financial innovations could somehow turn bad mortgages into good securities, meriting AAA ratings.

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For this reason, politicians and powerful businessmen often cajole the press, the credit rating agencies, and even the analysts to portray their actions in a positive light.

Our sound fiscal management has been widely recognized, with all of the major credit ratings agencies upgrading the Philippines within our government s first year.

Users would keep on using pirated content, but it would be much more difficult to monitor such websites.

By conservative estimates, every year around 20 billion to 40 billion is stolen from developing countries through bribery, misappropriation of funds, and corrupt practices.

It is sometimes said that deterrence is not an effective strategy in cyberspace, because of the difficulties in attributing the source of an attack and because of the large and diverse number of state and non state actors involved.

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The official new name and signage was unveiled to a gathering of the Best family and friends at the airport on 22 May 2006, which would have been his 60th birthday.

First is just the rise of the fact that Zagat's has actually moved out of and diversified from rating restaurants, into actually rating healthcare.

Well, to be short, Yandex got completely fed up with complains about the blog ranking which has always been the most crystal clear and honest rating in the world.

Indeed, much of the money that accrues to those at the top is what economists call rents, which arise not from increasing the size of the economic pie, but from grabbing a larger slice of the existing pie.

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This can be done by making raters profits depend not on satisfying the issuers that select them, but on performing well for investors. If raters profits depend on such performance on the accuracy of their ratings the profit motive would turn from a source of perverse incentives to a provider of beneficial incentives.

If raters profits depend on such performance on the accuracy of their ratings the profit motive would turn from a source of perverse incentives to a provider of beneficial incentives.

Indeed, much of the money that accrues to those at the top is what economists call rents, which arise not from increasing the size of the economic pie, but from grabbing a larger slice of the existing pie.

It s natural that the state of global markets will have some kind of ripple effect, says Greg Kabance, managing director for Latin American structured finance at Fitch Ratings, the international credit ratings agency.

In any case, a rating change would hardly affect funding costs in the current low yield environment, as lower rated sovereigns have demonstrated.

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If ratings are not backed by the force of law, so the argument goes, regulators need not worry about rating quality and can leave the monitoring of raters to the market.

In principle, credit ratings are based on statistical models of past defaults in practice, however, with few national defaults having actually occurred, sovereign ratings are often a subjective affair.

We can also add to these financial risks the massive problems of bond insurers that guaranteed many of the risky securitization products such as CDOs. A very likely downgrade of these insurers credit ratings will force banks and financial institutions that hold these risky assets to write them down, adding another 150 billion to the financial system s mounting losses.

In many cases, the importance of ratings comes partly from legal requirements that oblige or encourage institutional investors and investment vehicles to maintain portfolios of assets that have received sufficiently high grades from the recognized agencies.

A very likely downgrade of these insurers credit ratings will force banks and financial institutions that hold these risky assets to write them down, adding another 150 billion to the financial system s mounting losses.