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When the Cold War was at its height, and the threat from Russia at its most extreme, the West seemed to welcome Turkey's advances.
Despite advances in recent years, more than 600 million Africans still lack access to electricity.
Without a critical press, Latin America’s undeniable advances toward real democracy – development of an informed, empowered citizenry and governments respectful of the legitimate boundaries of power – will be endangered, even as formal electoral trappings become more routine.
As medical advances and technological developments have helped cancer patients in high-income countries to live longer – to the extent that some forms of cancer have effectively become chronic conditions – those in low-income countries continue to die young.
In the fight against cancer, medical advances can shave precious percentage points off of mortality rates, which implies that improved access to vaccines can have a massive impact, slashing the number of future cases in developing countries for just a few dollars per dose.
The innovations that drive economic advances – information technology, biotech, and nanotech – can boost living standards in both the developing and the developed world.
This is crucial, because whatever technical advances there may be in solar and other renewable energy sources, we will depend on coal and oil for the next 40 years.
Advances in cloud computing alone are expected to create 2.5 million additional jobs in Europe by 2020.
Integrated corporate reporting and disclosure of material ESG information can facilitate the creation of an efficient financial system that advances sustainable economic growth, while supporting achievement of the SDGs.
Multinational organizations and businesses have prospered from global markets and dramatic advances in technology.
More broadly, the region’s current crisis should inspire reflection about how the world supports and advances development.
Gordon argues that all of the epochal advances, from running water and electricity to the internal combustion and jet engines, have been made.
We see radical technological advances in robotics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and materials design going on all around us.
Here, rapid advances in robotics are particularly relevant, as increasingly sophisticated machines threaten to supplant low-cost labor in a variety of sectors.
This means that as technology, data, and data users and providers make rapid advances, cooperation among diverse actors – governments, national statistics offices, donor agencies, global and local NGOs, academic and research institutions, the private sector and others – will be needed.
This category will be particularly helpful for financial analysts, or even for venture capitalists, given that specific advances could earn a future market-entry reward or have vast commercial potential.
We are even witnessing a boom in urban agriculture, as advances in hydroponic and aeroponic farming techniques make it easier to grow vegetables in confined spaces.
As a result, developing countries face a stark choice: take advantage of new technologies to stimulate economic growth and enhance productivity or fall even further behind as businesses and consumers in rich countries increasingly embrace digital advances.
According to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the statues “were created using an assembly production system that paved the way for advances in mass production and commerce.”
The increase in US production, thanks to technological advances in shale oil production, has been breathtaking.
But production technology advances, and higher prices beckon.
Rodrik proposes the creation of public venture capital firms – sovereign wealth funds – that take equity positions in exchange for the intellectual advances created through public financing.
Given advances in technology in everything from window glass to air conditioners, change can come for no net cost.
Significant advances were made at the summit on development, security, and human rights.
Education in an Uncertain WorldPARIS – Until the Industrial Revolution, neither formal education nor advances in technology made much of a difference for the vast majority of people.
If Pakistan also advances, demilitarization of politics elsewhere in the Islamic world might not be far behind.
Taboos had been broken, and during the subsequent decades, technological advances enabled the spread of new ideas.
For example, advances in medical science and biotechnology are helping to stem workers’ physical and cognitive decline.
Still, where are the social sciences in the vast conversation over "human nature" that has been prompted by recent advances in cognitive neuroscience, behavioral genetics, and evolutionary psychology?
The Egyptian process, however, should not be considered merely a return to the pre-2011 status quo; rather, developments constitute what could be characterized as an ascending spiral that, while turning back on itself, nevertheless advances.
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