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"The pie has not been cooked. The consensus has to be reached between political leaders, not between technocrats or bureaucrats, " she said.

Several officials in their 60s with experience as technocrats and in the military and intelligence services also seem to be in the running.

Within a few months the doctrines of a group calling themselves the Technocrats had spread through the country like a forest fire.

This is, of course, a very standardised process. The best products of such a system are technocrats, not people with talents in other areas.

The task of managing the mess has fallen to an interim government of technocrats, former opposition politicians and a few Mubarak holdovers.

THE European Union is not the only institution that prefers faceless technocrats to people with star power.

So China has no problem producing mid-level accountants, computer programmers and technocrats.

to work down the crushing debt load, the country's technocrats are adopting strategies that will cripple growth for a decade, maybe longer.

He stood apart from the technocrats who might have provided an alternative reform agenda.

Decided by himself or by the technocrats who were the only ones given the opportunity to rewrite the new constitution.

After all, globalisation is unstoppable: so what if a few technocrats in Switzerland packed up their briefcases and went home?

Having seen their leaders make such a mess of things, most Irish welcome the arrival of technocrats.

Unlike the PT, the PSDB was always more of a club of brilliant technocrats than a mass organisation.

And unlike those peers, who are now led by unelected technocrats, it has chosen its own captain to guide it through the storm.

A few educated technocrats have been drafted in and some ministers are impressive.

So it is striking that today, even though the leadership is still dominated by technocrats, ideology is making a limited comeback.

When its technocrats decide to dam a river, build a road or move a village, the dam goes up, the road goes down and the village disappears.

Few technocrats arrive in office with those; learning them can be a slow, costly and politically fatal process.

Again, technocrats favour transfers of cash or vouchers over dishing out food through a vast and corrupt state bureaucracy.

The tragedy has become a public relations disaster for a Communist party leadership dominated by engineers and technocrats.

They believed that monetary policy, administered by the technocrats at the Fed, could provide whatever remedies the economy needed.

Then, the system needs to find alternatives unblemished by the disastrous decisions of the past-and technocrats fit the bill.

Global dealmakers are also finding themselves beholden to a handful of young technocrats at its anti-monopoly bureau.

So I say (in this case, at least): Go, social-planning technocrats!

The really remarkable thing, from Brazil's point of view, is that it has two technocrats competing for the top job.

An independent planning body run by technocrats means they will not have to take the heat for unpopular decisions.

The Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti has been sworn in as head of a new government made up entirely of technocrats.

Mr Rodrik is, in effect, asking technocrats in emerging economies to emulate the venture capitalists of Silicon Valley.

It is rare for the intellectual firepower of so many technocrats to be trained on a country's problems (see article).

PP governments also often favour party members from the upper echelons of the civil service: political technocrats.

European technocrats tend to have strikingly similar credentials.

For the clever young technocrats at the top, the medium-term prospects for the Chinese state must be quite frightening.

I'm as quick as any other red-blooded American to bristle at European technocrats telling me how to live.

Finally "technocrats" is defined as cerebral, detail-oriented, fastidious, uncompromising, and hard-headed.

India now requires efficient, service-providing government by competent technocrats and honest politicians.

But this book is largely a tick-tock tale of a battle by technocrats against an ever-changing crisis during 2007 and 2008.

The technocrats at China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (Safe) are not in the habit of stirring the country's capital markets.

Led by visionary dealmakers during the bull market, many large companies in the new century turned to more sober technocrats.

But history suggests that charismatic technocrats, supported by strong economists, make the best leaders at the fund.

This is the opposite of the problem in Europe, where the emergence of technocrats is supposed to make decision-making less partisan.

In emerging markets, politicians fear social unrest and technocrats fret about economies overheating.

But in pursuing their divine right to meddle in China's future, the elders clashed with a younger generation of technocrats.

The Indian Institutes of Technology were designed to create technocrats rather than entrepreneurs.

The West Bank's Palestinian Authority (PA) is run by a group of technocrats, led by a former World Banker, Salam Fayyad.

History suggests that technocrats do best when blitzing the mess made by incompetent and squabbling politicians.

Just to be clear, this is not an anti-European rant, since we have our own pseudo-technocrats warping the policy debate.

Technocrats seek more productivity and efficiency from the United Nations staff.

The IMF's day-to-day business, negotiating rescue packages with troubled governments, is led by teams of technocrats and will continue.

But precedent also shows that voters will not tolerate technocrats indefinitely.

In Tunisia, civilian politicians and technocrats quickly took the helm of the country in the wake of the revolution.

He is working to find parliamentary consensus for the formation of an interim government led by technocrats.

Now, Chinese technocrats are almost out of options.

His allies inside government, who include a rising generation of younger technocrats, still press for reform.

Congress, despite able technocrats, like Mr Singh, remains an antiquated dynastic machine.

So why did those "technocrats" push so hard for the euro, disregarding many warnings from economists?

His cabinet is stuffed with technocrats, most of them educated at private schools and Santiago's Catholic University.

Mr Karzai's cabinet has also improved, with half a dozen technocrats recruited in the past year to the main economic ministries.

Without political leadership, the technocrats cannot solve the problem.

If the demonstrators were to topple the government, they could draw on capable technocrats to form an interim administration.

There is good news: the amount Tunisia needs is tiny, and its government includes many capable technocrats.

But as we know, economic decisions of such magnitude are made by politicians, not technocrats.

Mr Obama also continues to fill his administration with highly-regarded technocrats.

By the way, don't look for the technocrats to solve their electricity problems anytime soon.

Exhaustion with the normal process of party politics explains why technocrats are being brought in.

A deeper, and mistaken, geographical belief may be at work in the minds of the Whitehall technocrats behind the venture.

Remedying that will take many years, far longer than technocrats' usual political lifespan.

As for the radical Shiites, they probably just made things worse for their community by killing or scaring off Sunni technocrats.

Roosevelt assembled a group of young technocrats and planners in Washington.

It was followed by army-backed unelected technocrats.

However, I fear that cultured technocrats will not do terribly well in the new era.

Even so, some elements of fiscal policy could be hived off to technocrats.

Voluntary for technocrats and policymakers, perhaps, but not for the European masses.

For if the technocrats fail to do so, the extremists are waiting in the wings.

In the management of the economy he has trusted sensible technocrats, including Mr Aziz.

Such juntas often also bring civilian technocrats into government, or hand over to them when they step down.

In the SARS epidemic in 2003, the technocrats were initially inept too, putting face-saving ahead of epidemiology.

China's technocrats managed to fix its once faulty airlines.

This too makes sense for three fourths of China's politburo consists of young technocrats.

Technocrats have valuable room for manoeuvre.

Ultimately, the yuan's fate lies in the hands of China's political leaders, not its technocrats.

They're technocrats, schooled in subjects that bore most people.

The technocrats at the People's Bank of China don't have the final say on the yuan's direction against the dollar.

Those caveats are important. But China's technocrats are well aware of the risks they are running.

But technocrats have something to be said for them in the middle of a financial crisis.

He has named technocrats to his cabinet for their pristine image.

How many technocrats, and in which positions, justify a government's "technocratic" label?

Meanwhile, back in America, the government is being urged to emulate technocrats from the developing world.

I know from technocrats; sometimes I even play one myself.

To spread these experience, those technocrats who were trained on Western modern science and technology played important roles.

Will Italy's government of technocrats see out 2012?

So am I against technocrats?

Technocrats can tell producers what they can charge, but they cannot prevent the inevitable.

Chinese technocrats have been, in various ways, draining money from the economy to rein in inflation.

One difficulty with this is that it means loosening the grip of technocrats on how capital flows.

The country's technocrats do worry about the impact of inflows but they see the exchange rate as the most important shock absorber.

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