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Indeed, as the sea reared up to ravage the country’s coast on March 11, 2011, more than 90% of the population in the affected areas had already fled to safety.
Leaks of this kind will reinforce the bureaucratic barriers that must be removed if policymaking and implementation are to be effective in all areas that require input, coordination, and common information and analysis across departments and agencies.
In 2012, these areas accounted for half of India’s population, 70% of its GDP, and 71% of consumers.
Companies hoping to catch India’s next growth wave might want to consider areas that seldom feature on investment lists, but that might offer better value than marquee destinations.
But momentum is flagging, both on implementing the agreed reforms and on progress in areas like derivatives and shadow banking.
Cooperation will be needed in many areas.
Depending on policies on both sides, China may also become a foreign direct investor in the US economy in a wide range of areas – including infrastructure.
These statements of faith are both historic and timely, as the world’s countries seek to implement global agreements in areas ranging from climate change to the Sustainable Development Goals and the establishment of marine reserves on the high seas.
Other countries, especially in the south, perform poorly in most areas.
Under this framework, four key areas call for immediate and sustained attention.
In many areas, regional and international governance systems have supplanted bilateralism.
For three decades, China underwent massive internal migration to the coastal areas of Guangdong, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai, where export-oriented factories awaited the low-cost labor that enabled them to fuel China’s GDP growth – and a much-touted reduction in global poverty.
An essential element of such a mechanism is to give the IMF a prominent role in two areas: strong and effective surveillance in order to prevent crises, and responsible lending to countries in need, but with appropriate limits and conditionality.
Protected by a “security wall” on one side and the sea on the other, Israeli citizens may enjoy the feeling of living on an artificial island from which they can connect directly to the areas of modernity and prosperity in Asia and the West.
For schools in the poorest areas, we use special arrangements, because they cannot access the Internet themselves.
The OECD demands a smorgasbord of reforms affecting corporate governance, private insurance markets, competition policy, statistics, health, technology, agriculture, and many other regulatory areas.
The non-residential construction boom this created helped not only to absorb the labor force that was leaving rural areas but also to achieve a remarkable reduction in inequality.
Murray argues that those living in the “super-zip codes” – areas with high levels of income and education, such as Belmont, Massachusetts – have maintained the traditional American values of hard work and family values.
A committee of the UN General Assembly identified 17 target areas, including the eradication of extreme poverty, ensuring education and health for all, and fighting human-induced climate change.
When the SDGs were first proposed in 2012, the UN’s member said that they “should be action-oriented,” “easy to communicate,” and “limited in number,” with many governments favoring a total of perhaps 10-12 goals encompassing the 17 priority areas.
Most of the 54 million Nigerian girls and women who live and work in rural areas are forced into insecure employment in the informal economy.
Because per capita incomes are higher in cities than in rural areas, the world’s cities today are estimated to account for more than 80% of global income, with the largest 600 accounting for around half.
As high-density, high-productivity settlements, cities can provide greater access to services of all kinds – including energy, water, health, education, finance, media, transport, recycling, and research – than can most rural areas.
When the metropolitan scale is recognized, the importance of leading urban areas is even more remarkable.
In reworking our “priority education” program, we can adjust teaching methods to address school inequalities, while channeling additional resources to disadvantaged areas.
Even in a country as big as Brazil, over 80% of the population lives in urban areas.
She replied that government policies often had unexpected negative consequences in other areas – consequences that sometimes canceled out, or even exceeded, positive effects.
Areas of focus include competition, consumer protection, innovation and entrepreneurship, insurance and pensions, education, governance, and trade.
Of course, China merits criticism in many areas of its domestic and foreign policy.
But in the Kurdish-controlled areas of the north and Shiite-dominated provinces in the south, levels of crime and deadly violence compare favorably with those in many cities in the United States.
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