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Some 60 million primary-school-age children have no access to formal education.
The term was never defined in any formal setting, but the concept was not difficult to decipher.
And according to the Kansas City Star report, “[Roberts] and other Republican senators received no formal heads-up from the White House.”
Poor states that spend public money more wisely improved people's lives quite quickly: Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan illustrate the value of better governance;Other measures of development, such as the Indian Human Development Index (which includes literacy, infant mortality, access to safe water and durably constructed housing, as well as formal education, poverty ratios, and per capita expenditure), do not show increased inequality;Exclusive focus on the states ignores problems that are concentrated at lower levels: available evidence, albeit limited, suggests that decentralizing policy-making power that is currently exercised at the state level could lead to further improvement in overall economic performance.
The greatest risk of death is at the beginning of life: three-quarters of all neonatal deaths (three million) occur within one week of birth, and at least one million babies die on their first day of life, many at home without any formal healthcare.
Yet, until recently, training in soft skills has not been integrated into formal education systems on the continent.
Governments opened formal negotiations last November, and are aiming to reach agreement by the end of this year.
But, rather than issuing a formal ruling that would constrain the Bundesbank and the German parliament, as it could have done, the Court asked the European Court of Justice for its opinion.
Microfinance’s Macro PotentialLONDON – Microfinance is, at its heart, an effort to provide financial services to people who are not served – or are under-served – by the formal banking system.
More mature firms have phased in formal protocols, with ethics officers, risk committees, and other structures that oversee how data are collected and used, though not always successfully (indeed, they often depend on trial and error).
It thrives in societies that are not bound by laws that apply equally to all, or even by any formal laws at all.
Meanwhile, the disaggregation and “disintermediation” of global corporations enables them to create formal barriers that prevent senior management from ever seeing, let alone being influenced by, their own workers (and growers).
In this sense, it is the Chinese monetary authorities’ reluctance to open up the formal financial sector to domestic private capital, or to liberalize the deposit rate, that is fueling the expansion of shadow banking.
With small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) – by far the economy’s most important growth engine – unable to acquire sufficient funding from the formal financial sector, they have been forced to turn to informal channels.
Liquidity-thirsty developers, unable to acquire financing through the formal banking sector, have been taking out massive loans at extremely high interest rates.
But it has no formal authority to mandate a common approach to capital (the G-20 should give it one).
Instead, these will be entrusted to the Union, presumably with formal Commission powers of initiative in their preparation.
Given that the formal banking sector provides a large share of shadow-banking finance, this could initiate a chain reaction affecting the entire financial sector.
It includes the establishment of formal and informal norms for state behavior, better legal mechanisms for addressing cross-border cybercrime, transparent national legislation for law enforcement, and endorsement of the need for encryption to protect the integrity of data.
This should become a topic of discussion at bilateral and multilateral meetings, not because it would lead to a formal agreement, but because it would focus attention on applying stringent sanctions or undertaking military action, which could then reduce the odds of proliferation.
Regulators allowed innovations in incomplete contract-based financial intermediations, such as trust companies and Internet-based platforms, while maintaining tight control over the formal banking sector.
Allowing the UK to remain involved in formal EU decision-making is not an option, as it would diminish the value of membership.
But the balance of power between Germany and France could shift as soon as a formal decision to go ahead with EMU is taken.
But how can this formal status be madeinto a social and spiritual reality?
But the additional wealth has not translated into formal employment.
Instead, the EU kept Turkey waiting yet again, putting off formal negotiations that, in any case, may take years to complete.
In some countries, formal allegiance to religious faith was symbolized by gestures and rites.
Not all democracies were as strict as France in their formal secularism but all were secular: the law is made by the sovereign people and not by some superhuman being or agency.
Arguing that it could increase Europe’s annual economic growth rate by half a percentage point, they declared that formal negotiations would start quickly.
Moreover, Kazakhstan is already in formal talks with the EU about human rights issues.
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