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Third, although curtailing the state's role in allocating goods and services that can be provided more efficiently by markets may reduce corruption, it is unrealistic to think that the number of fields in which the state deploys its regulatory powers can be reduced greatly.
Fire integrates everything around it – sun, wind, rain, plants, terrain, roofing, fields, and everything people do, and don’t do.
This October, 128 leading experts in the fields of human rights and equality from 44 countries launched a landmark attempt to build on the epochal 1948 UN declaration to establish universal human equality.
The bottom line for me is that economics, like all fields of study, is irreducibly ideological, and the tools that it has developed are far from value-free.
Based on this dogma, students of both fields were taught that neural plasticity, or the ability of the nervous system to grow and change, was extremely limited after childhood.
There is hope across all clinical fields that deal with disorders of the nervous system that these discoveries will lead to greater understanding of brain functioning and radically improved treatment.
Typically, ministers fight jealously over these spoils, as their ability to leave a mark in their respective fields often depends on it.
They are fighting back and, at least in the rice fields of Uganda, they are winning.
Our values reflect the democratic debate itself, nothing more, and our defense of them must address three related fields.
These farmers, who cultivate plots about the size of one or two football fields, typically lack reliable irrigation systems and quality inputs, such as seeds and soil supplements.
Finally, foreign aid should be used to expand training massively for Africans in all the essential fields in rich countries like the US, the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands.
Yet the profit motive, essential in so many fields, seems to have disappointed in one crucial area: education.
Girls, meanwhile, are married off, or sent to work in the fields or as domestic helpers.
Similarly, under current law, soldiers will answer not to Baghdad but to regional powerbrokers, while the Iraqi constitution guarantees local governments the right to pocket the revenue that flows from new oil fields within their jurisdiction.
In fact, although the central government has the authority to collect the revenues generated by existing fields, there is no law to prevent local officials from modernizing old sites and claiming that they are new.
As a result, China’s resources are increasingly being redeployed toward a more balanced portfolio that still includes growth, but adds environmental protection, social welfare, security, and innovation in a wide range of fields that overlap only partly with productivity and income growth.
They want the kinds of skills that will keep them among the managers, rather than the managed, and some intuit greater job security and better career prospects at the international level of these fields.
People in these fields are ultimately bought and sold by corporate managers as much as people in technical fields.
On the other hand, when women farmers have access to financing, the benefits go far beyond the fields.
Although opponents of the Iraq war might accuse the United States of coveting the country’s oil fields, the campaign was uneconomical, to say the least.
But, though public health is a major regional challenge, so far universities have been placing far greater emphasis on subjects in engineering and technological fields.
Electricity has allowed us to irrigate fields and synthesize fertilizer from air.
David Hume and Adam Smith pioneered this way of thinking, which eventually spawned the fields of evolutionary and moral psychology.
There are established techniques for the voluntary matching of supply and demand in other fields, such as matching students to schools and medical interns to hospitals.
Meanwhile, the technology used at drilling and production platforms has developed tremendously, but the challenges regarding depth, weather, and sediment structure have grown even more, as easy-to-exploit oil fields have been exhausted.
Empty houses and uncultivated fields – a common feature of southern Europe – represent a relatively secure investment that does not cost much, owing to low property taxes.
Scientific views in fields like energy, climate, genetics, and medicine face widespread popular rejection.
Errors regularly occur in academia, but they are more swiftly and systematically corrected than in other fields.
Rosneft has loaned billions to Venezuela’s state oil company – with the Venezuelan-owned US refiner Citgo as collateral – in a clear bid to exploit the country’s dire economic situation to gain access to its oil fields.
Biofuels, for which the EU alone is now paying more than $10 billion annually to do less than one cent of good for every dollar spent, also take up fields that otherwise would have produced food.
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