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Meeting Accountability Challenges in a Dynamic Environment

GAO-12-167CG Published: Oct 17, 2011. Publicly Released: Oct 17, 2011.
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This is a Comptroller General presentation delivered to the Alabama Examiners of Public Accounts Annual Meeting in Montgomery, Alabama on October 17, 2011. Major topics of this presentation include: threats confronting U.S. national security interests, fiscal sustainability and debt challenges, economic recovery and restored growth, changing dynamics of global interdependence, advances in science and technology, increasing impact of networks and virtualization, the shifting roles in government and governance, and the demographic and societal changes confronting young and old.

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