With George Osborne back at the Treasury, there is nothing to stop his plan to devolve £6bn of health and care funding to the control of Greater Manchester, one of the more tangible commitments to emerge from his Northern Powerhouse rhetoric.
Among the few commitments to emerge from a one-day climate summit — held at the United Nations in New York on Tuesday and attended by over 100 heads of state — was a promise to end destruction of the world's forests by 2030 and funnel over $1 billion in aid to countries where forest conservation is most needed.
But some wonder if these new series have less to do with the networks' commitment to emerging comedy groups than with their desire to please a fickle youth audience.
Though Toyota framed the action as part of its commitment to emerging markets — indeed, the brand expects production of passenger cars in India to increase from the current 160,000 units to 310,000 in 2013 — the announcement came at a time when Toyota, as well as other Japanese automakers, were pursuing strategies to shelter their businesses from the effects of a strong yen.
It is the music team that also steers Burberry's ongoing commitment to emerging musicians — not just with projects such as Burberry Acoustic but, as Bailey is keen to explain, in the way that the company "work on a lot of things that we don't show with musicians, matching artists up with the right management and record labels and things.
(di Suvero's resolute commitment to emerging artists is also evidenced by his Athena Foundation to award grants to artists, and La Vie des Formes foundation in France hosting artists in studio and exhibition spaces).
The show reflected Machine Project's commitment to emerging artists — at that point, Patton (who has since staged events at LACMA and New York's Museum of Modern Art) was fresh out of the master's program at Stanford University.
Some two thirds of U.S. state pension funds have no emerging market bonds in their largest portfolios and only 12 of the largest 30 public pension funds here have dedicated, mandated commitments to emerging-market bonds, based on Ashmore's research.
