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English term or phrase:position posting
Selected answer:ideas...
Entered by: Mohamed Fouda

18:48 Mar 13, 2019
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: position posting
But what I can say when we visit a country and when we go under the skin of the economy is, look at your procurement laws. They facilitate corruption right, left and center. From bureau A to bureau Z. We can look at all the position posting where license fees are extracted. Where special permissions are required. So, from a purely policy and institutional point of view, you can actually point the finger, and then it's for the authorities in the country to decide whether they want to to do it or not.
Mohamed Fouda
Egypt
Local time: 00:04
ideas...
Explanation:
Lagarde's English is usually pretty good but this is difficult to understand or say what it refers to exactly. It might be about government job postings but I doubt she would hone in on something like that rather than on wider "positions" where corruption might take place such as economic/fiscal/development or governance.

However, since "procurement" is mentioned just this before I think it could be about the tendering process and all the areas or places where bribery or corruption could easily take place? So, posts or ads for submitting bids/tenders? Or posts/ads for companies or individuals applying for exploitation or operating licences?
Or false economic positions being touted?

"From bureau A to bureau Z." = from one Department/Ministry to another??

Here is a synopsis of a speech by her where she refers to corruption and
governance and procurement practices

https://www.thenational.ae/business/economy/middle-east-econ...

“But there is scope to improve fiscal frameworks in the region… and create the fiscal space to enable spending on health, education, social protection and public investment – all key priorities in the region,” she said.

"The first building block is a good fiscal framework ....

The second pillar is good governance and transparency – enforced by strong institutions that create legitimacy and generate buy-in among citizens and businesses for incoming fiscal policies. “We know that these kind of reforms pay off,” she said.

Reducing corruption in public institutions is a key strand of building good fiscal frameworks. “This a global issue—relevant for large and small countries, advanced and low-income economies, and the public and private sectors,” Ms Lagarde said.

“Given this, it is no surprise that IMF research found that weak governance and corruption are associated with significantly lower growth, foreign direct investment, tax revenues, and higher inequality and exclusion.”

or here in regards to "off-budget" where bribery could take place:
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1449346/business-economy
“I am referring to such factors as large amounts of spending kept off-budget and poor risk management. Across the region, it is common for sovereign wealth funds to directly finance projects, bypassing the normal budget process... ” Lagarde said.

or here:
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2019/02/11...

"...we the IMF should be looking in our economic audit of our membership at those vulnerability points that I talked about.

What are they? Well procurement generally is a vulnerability point, revenue generation, custom authorities are generally areas were possibly if it is poorly structured. If there are too many bottlenecks, too many procedures where you can actually identify a source for corruption....

Lara Habib: Any estimates for the cost of corruption in the region?

Lagarde: No, we don’t have the estimate of the overall cost of corruption. What I can give you is the estimate we have for the cost of bribery around the world and we are anywhere between USD 1.5 trillion and USD 2 trillion... something which is significant."

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Note added at 17 hrs (2019-03-14 12:34:54 GMT)
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Thanks for the video. Excellent interview. I've given some parts of it in transcription above). So, listening to this makes me more convinced that she IS talking about governance positions re corruption in procurement & fiscal policies/licensing. That is the whole tone of the conversation at that point.

Note 9.26. that she pauses after "position" and then says "postings" so they are two separate words and she is using "posting" as a synonym for "position"

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Note added at 18 hrs (2019-03-14 13:25:57 GMT)
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Mohamed. I think she clearly thinks "posting" is synonym of "position" so I'd keep the meaning of the latter. If you want to use "We can look at all the positions, postings, where license fees are extracted, where special permissions are required", you could just use the synonym "places" I think for both. = Places where corruption can occur/come about.

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Note added at 4 days (2019-03-18 12:46:30 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped. (Definitely should have been a Pro question!)
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Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 23:04
Grading comment
Thanks!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
3designated positions
Andrea Pilenso
3ideas...
Yvonne Gallagher


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


18 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
designated positions


Explanation:
Suggestion

Position: an employment for which one has been hired
Posting: appointment to a post or a command



Example sentence(s):
  • https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/posting

    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/posting
    https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/designated
Andrea Pilenso
Brazil
Local time: 19:04
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  B D Finch: Very unlikely, especially "designated". Translation simply using a dictionary and without regard to context might as well be done by Google Translate.
14 hrs
neutral  Yvonne Gallagher: with BDF.
17 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
ideas...


Explanation:
Lagarde's English is usually pretty good but this is difficult to understand or say what it refers to exactly. It might be about government job postings but I doubt she would hone in on something like that rather than on wider "positions" where corruption might take place such as economic/fiscal/development or governance.

However, since "procurement" is mentioned just this before I think it could be about the tendering process and all the areas or places where bribery or corruption could easily take place? So, posts or ads for submitting bids/tenders? Or posts/ads for companies or individuals applying for exploitation or operating licences?
Or false economic positions being touted?

"From bureau A to bureau Z." = from one Department/Ministry to another??

Here is a synopsis of a speech by her where she refers to corruption and
governance and procurement practices

https://www.thenational.ae/business/economy/middle-east-econ...

“But there is scope to improve fiscal frameworks in the region… and create the fiscal space to enable spending on health, education, social protection and public investment – all key priorities in the region,” she said.

"The first building block is a good fiscal framework ....

The second pillar is good governance and transparency – enforced by strong institutions that create legitimacy and generate buy-in among citizens and businesses for incoming fiscal policies. “We know that these kind of reforms pay off,” she said.

Reducing corruption in public institutions is a key strand of building good fiscal frameworks. “This a global issue—relevant for large and small countries, advanced and low-income economies, and the public and private sectors,” Ms Lagarde said.

“Given this, it is no surprise that IMF research found that weak governance and corruption are associated with significantly lower growth, foreign direct investment, tax revenues, and higher inequality and exclusion.”

or here in regards to "off-budget" where bribery could take place:
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1449346/business-economy
“I am referring to such factors as large amounts of spending kept off-budget and poor risk management. Across the region, it is common for sovereign wealth funds to directly finance projects, bypassing the normal budget process... ” Lagarde said.

or here:
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/business/economy/2019/02/11...

"...we the IMF should be looking in our economic audit of our membership at those vulnerability points that I talked about.

What are they? Well procurement generally is a vulnerability point, revenue generation, custom authorities are generally areas were possibly if it is poorly structured. If there are too many bottlenecks, too many procedures where you can actually identify a source for corruption....

Lara Habib: Any estimates for the cost of corruption in the region?

Lagarde: No, we don’t have the estimate of the overall cost of corruption. What I can give you is the estimate we have for the cost of bribery around the world and we are anywhere between USD 1.5 trillion and USD 2 trillion... something which is significant."

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 17 hrs (2019-03-14 12:34:54 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Thanks for the video. Excellent interview. I've given some parts of it in transcription above). So, listening to this makes me more convinced that she IS talking about governance positions re corruption in procurement & fiscal policies/licensing. That is the whole tone of the conversation at that point.

Note 9.26. that she pauses after "position" and then says "postings" so they are two separate words and she is using "posting" as a synonym for "position"

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Note added at 18 hrs (2019-03-14 13:25:57 GMT)
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Mohamed. I think she clearly thinks "posting" is synonym of "position" so I'd keep the meaning of the latter. If you want to use "We can look at all the positions, postings, where license fees are extracted, where special permissions are required", you could just use the synonym "places" I think for both. = Places where corruption can occur/come about.

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Note added at 4 days (2019-03-18 12:46:30 GMT) Post-grading
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Glad to have helped. (Definitely should have been a Pro question!)

Yvonne Gallagher
Ireland
Local time: 23:04
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 659
Grading comment
Thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: https://youtu.be/3vjpLRTyGYQ?t=550

Asker: Thanks for your help! So, maybe she meant it like this: We can look at all the position, posting, where license fees are extracted. Does it make sense this way?

Asker: @B D Finch Hahaha Yes. I should probably send her a transcription of her speech to review it and get things straight. :D


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  B D Finch: Goodness knows what she meant, the positions could be market positions or job positions and posting could be publication or advertisement. Perhaps one needs to ring her up and ask? ;)
9 hrs
  -> Look at the video 8.58 -1150 and "positions" seems to be synonym for "postings". It seems to be about governance positions re corruption
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