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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.

And yet, it is important to note that formal education alone is not enough to ensure greater opportunity and prosperity.

It should have been apparent that most central banks’ pre-crisis models – both the formal models and the mental models that guide policymakers’ thinking – were badly wrong.

In many Asian countries, formal education systems often fail to produce graduates with adequate cognitive abilities and technical competencies to fill the labor market’s needs.

We will all pay dearly – in defense budgets and, more important, in lost global opportunities – if we do not summon the courage to design a global order in which non-state actors have a formal role.

That body, which emerged from the old Financial Stability Forum in 2009 with few powers and no formal status, has only recently become a separate legal entity.

But Iran wants more: at a minimum, formal recognition of its “inalienable right to enrich” uranium, no shutdown of any existing facility, and the removal, in significant part, of the many sanctions that have been imposed upon it (for refusing to comply with Security Council resolutions requiring it to suspend all enrichment activity).

There certainly are very difficult issues that must be sorted out before a peacekeeping mission could go into Donbas, notably the composition and formal mandate of whatever force is deployed.

In short, even if China’s non-tariff barriers (both formal and informal) remain high, they are lower than in the past.

Some observers conflate the concept with imperialism; but the US is clear evidence that a hegemon does not have to have a formal empire.

For almost two decades, Taiwan’s presidential elections have attracted global attention not only for the robustness of Taiwan’s democratic culture, but also for the perennial question of whether the winner would seek formal independence for Taiwan.

One problem is that doctors receive little formal training in obtaining consent, with medical schools teaching only the basics.

And, though a formal offer of membership in either organization is at best a distant possibility, it has not been ruled out.

The first and formal answer is that China inherited historical territorial claims, including a map from the Nationalist period that sketches a “nine-dotted line” encompassing virtually the entire South China Sea.

With formal barriers to trade and capital flows lowered, several trends combined to accelerate growth and structural change in post-colonial and other developing economies.

And it is not by accident that – unlike his central Asian fellow-presidents – Vladimir Putin decided to step down from office and let go of formal power after the end of his second term.

Formal complaints to the justice ministry and the national bar association weren’t even acknowledged, let alone answered.

One thing that will happen at Nice will be the formal adoption of a Charter of Fundamental Rights.

Indeed, in formal and informal ways, Islam is increasingly interpreted in a manner that brings it closer to the central values of British democracy.

Soon enough, the secret conversations led US officials to conclude that the Iranians were serious about entering into formal talks.

The United States and North Korea are technically still at war, because a formal peace treaty has not been concluded since the 1950-1953 Korean War, which ended with a ceasefire and an armistice.

For the Kremlin, it is likely that South Ossetia and Abkhazia would remain under formal Georgian sovereignty only if the country did not join NATO.

According to the World Bank, 50% of formal SMEs lack access to formal credit, and the total credit gap for both formal and informal SMEs is as high as $2.6 trillion worldwide.

He found that in the formal sector, jobs for locals actually increased after the influx of refugees, apparently because of the stimulative effect on the region’s economy.

By identifying and investing in those parts of agricultural value chains where young people can contribute, African leaders can create decent formal job opportunities in, say, light manufacturing for relatively low-skill workers.

Such skills enable young people to move not only out of the informal sector, but also out of undesirable formal jobs, such as in South Africa’s private-security industry, which employs more than 412,000 people.

As more people gain the skills and access the opportunities to fill productive jobs in the formal sector, where they are registered and recognized, governments will get a better sense of the labor market.

And yet criminal networks – entrenched relationships between legal and illegal agents engaged in organized criminal activities – continue to play a large role in these countries’ formal and informal economies and political institutions, rending the social fabric and threatening further progress.

Latin America has more (formal) democracy, higher foreign-trade turnover, a larger middle class, and more advanced technology than it had 20 years ago.

These networks bypass formal institutions to take advantage of the changes in recent decades, exploiting lacunae in the international system and the vulnerabilities of Latin American democracies.

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