Example (ii): monitoring of good practice, identifying performance critical areas.
The loss of one carnival worker–Huntley's employment the first time he visited Canada may not cost South Africa much, but there is no better monitor of good or bad government than outflows of people.
Recently, real-time monitoring of Dangerous Goods Transport has drawn a lot of attention, thanks to its capability to provide a better visibility on dynamically moving vehicles, particularly through a Web Mapping application.
And the lesson, as The Economist argued earlier this year, is that central banks should pay attention to the prices of assets as well as monitoring the prices of goods and services.Central banks already take account of rising share prices if they threaten to spill over into general inflation as consumers are encouraged to spend some of their capital gains.
A variant would be to promote so-called "alternative arrangements" – technologies to monitor the flow of goods that could supersede the backstop.
Currently, these partnerships are governed by Australia's defence export controls, which monitor the export of goods and technology to ensure it is in Australia's national interests.
The list of what has not been sent, though, is nearly as long as the list of what has been, as Colonel Lantara closely monitors the flow of goods and personnel.
This second interim report from the panel, headed by Paul Volcker, focused primarily on Mr. Annan's knowledge of and involvement in the awarding of a contract in 1998 to Cotecna Inspection Services, a small Swiss company, to monitor the importation of goods into Iraq under the oil-for-food program.
Georgia had insisted, quite reasonably, on placing international observers to monitor the movement of goods at its sovereign border, which includes the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.Russia, which has recognised the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, said this compromised their status.
