But the issue of high maternal deaths in Uttar Pradesh never becomes a 'political' issue, the agent of accountability is never clear and despite some gains at the localised sites, overall the health system and bureaucracy remain inert.
Underlying this problem are critical environmental complexities: - Numerous layers of principal-agent relationships and actors and mechanisms simultaneously acting as principals and agents, weakening accountability links.
"Using chemical agents without accountability has become the new normal in Syria.
Yet fusion centers' practices and priorities remain hidden from traditional agents of accountability.
When the agents claiming accountability happen to be poor and/or socially marginalised groups with few social and political resources at their command they are unlikely to be a counterweight to the considerable power of public officials and institutions.
Thea Anderson, senior advisor for financial inclusion, Mercy Corps, Washington, DC @mercycorps Harness the potential of banking agents: Liquidity and accountability are key to their success.
"Even for contractors conducting covert operations, we could require contract firms to install internal accountability agents with a role comparable to that of uniformed lawyers in the military.
At a very basic level, the accountability of agents acting between the manufacturers and purchasers seem to be a very loose concept.
Although ensuring the "accountability" of agents to their principals is widely considered a core objective of institutional design, recent work in political economy has identified and elucidated an important class of situations in which effective accountability mechanisms can decrease, rather than increase, an agent's likelihood of acting in her principal's interests.
Bound together through principal-agent relationships and accountabilities, each group has an important role in health research and policy.
Rather than promote transparency and accountability regarding placement agent usage at TSERS, the record reveals that the Treasurer has intentionally withheld, as well as sought to thwart the release of, damning placement agent information since taking public office.
