But this is now changing, with growing recognition that the financial system suffers from an array of market failures – short-termism, misaligned incentives, inadequate transparency and ill-defined responsibilities – which entrench the allocation of capital towards resource and carbon intensive assets.
Prominent scientists dismiss the criticism, but, Kupferschmidt notes, it does point to problems with the post, in particular its ill-defined responsibilities and accountabilities and lack of transparency.
Lê Đức Thọ, head of the Central Organizing Commission, said the party had become "a cumbersome and ponderous mechanism, only marginally efficient, marked by ill-defined responsibilities and poorly divided functions".
Ill-defined responsibilities, complex operational procedures and long time lags between data capture and analysis are unacceptable excuses for not using the data generated from population surveillance activities for the timely detection of entirely preventable morbidity and loss of life in the surveillance population.
The suggestion that, post-general election, an overhaul of the act is desirable defies logic, and the idea that we should throw in a vague and ill-defined discourse on responsibilities for good measure is puzzling.
During the pH1N1 response, some remote and isolated First Nations communities reported problems, such as, confusion and lack of preparedness, owing to ill-defined roles and responsibilities of government bodies overseeing the delivery of health care and insufficient details in community-level pandemic plans [ 14].
These issues are further exacerbated by a weak health information system hampered by poor coordination and integration between different data sources, duplication of data collection efforts, ill-defined division of reporting responsibilities and very little reporting from the private sector which represents half of the total service delivery [ 4, 72].
But the problem with letting virtual assistants look out for us is that the role suggests major responsibility with ill-defined limits.
Roles and responsibilities were "ill-defined" and lines of accountability were "irrational and blurred".
Similarly, some in the public sector earn wages they do not deserve, with responsibilities so ill-defined they are lucky to get away with a pay freeze.
