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Second, better data are needed to ensure that education planners know precisely how many children with disabilities are out of school, why they are absent, and what barriers to learning they face.
Conspicuously absent from the list of signatories is the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) – the only international body that Venezuelan authorities have invited to monitor the December election.
But, in reality, such conduct has been repeatedly absent.
China and India were absent at the time, and Russia was hostile to the idea.
Why America Should Join the AIIBWASHINGTON, DC – The United States, along with Canada and Japan, has been conspicuously absent from the discussions regarding the establishment of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
Absent additional measures, it is unlikely that a critical mass of corrective steps has been attained in Turkey.
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and it seems pointless to work to strengthen the Democratic links of the chain of fiscal advice when the Republican links are not just weak but absent.
Poor countries are where these arrangements are absent or ill-formed.
Absent these missteps, expect a tougher ride on the global economy, but not a calamity.
Asian leaders have often complained that at a time when Asia became increasingly interconnected and China began to enlarge its sphere of influence, America was largely absent in the region.
Despite overwhelming support for this process, methods to do so are absent.
The protectionist impulse has been absent from the response to the current crisis so far, but that could change.
Even absent the crisis, countries would have had to make politically painful adjustments to pension and health-care programs.
Absent further trade agreements, there is a big risk that the pace of globalization will slow, with profound consequences for global poverty and welfare.
Absent a complete shift in China’s relations with Iran, a strategic partnership with the monarchies of the Persian Gulf may prove impossible to achieve.
Although all the formal trappings of a true electoral contest are in place, important aspects of authenticity are glaringly absent.
(The developing world has been largely absent in this debate, with notable exceptions in the form of indignation about unfairness built into the status quo, peppered with obstructionism.)
In 2008, we started at 365% – and this calculation leaves out the pervasive use of derivatives, which was absent in the 1930’s.
The armed gangs that move freely through rebel-controlled cities such as Aleppo are absent in Kurdish areas.
Local authorities were supplied with adequate funding and advice; independent chambers of commerce became the backbone of a local commercial middle class, which is interested in keeping the region peaceful, even absent an overall agreement; local police were trained (in Jordan), and now function effectively as police forces, not armed militias; and business relations with adjacent Israeli regions have been renewed.
But, while terror and famine have been absent, many of the oppressive tactics of the past have been revived under Vladimir Putin’s misrule, now in its 14th year.
Tailored solutions are required – what works in one city might not work in others – but, because problems arising from weak or absent coordination are widespread, emerging markets should consider governance models that vest accountability for urban health outcomes – together with the authority to shape them – in city governments.
Other substances from tobacco smoke – such as monoamine oxidase inhibitors, which have antidepressant effects –reinforce tobacco dependence, but are absent from vaporized nicotine.
Absent coordination, there is also a risk that monetary policies designed to promote growth (or at least not impede it) will lead to a return of financial-sector distortions and imbalances.
While policy traction has been notably absent in the real economies of both Japan and the US, asset markets are a different story.
Europe, of course, has no significant centralized tax authority, so this key automatic stabilizer is essentially absent.
Absent sanctions, what will ensure that participants in the eurozone behave?
Prominent German scholars expressed the view that, absent credible sanctions, only the threat of forced exit could discipline wayward eurozone members.
Absent a shared consensus on the sanctity of rules, there are not many possibilities.
The risk they face is clear enough: absent a profound reengineering, inertial spending – owing to entitlements and civil-service wages – is bound to crowd out spending on new priorities and new policies.
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