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Ending Child MarriageLONDON – Ahead of the United Nations’ summit to review progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals, much of the focus has rightly been on those areas where gains have been most disappointing.
Fourth, the social gains of the recent past, while important, are far from sufficient.
Otherwise, countries risk losing their hard-won gains.
At a time when global science is more dynamic than ever; when the richest countries are experiencing a boom in wealth unrivaled in history (including around $8 trillion in stock market gains in the United States in the past four years!), the world yearns for more effective approaches to the struggle against poverty.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,000 points twice, wiping out all the gains that the bull market had racked up for the year so far.
He regularly took credit for stock-market gains.
The energy intensiveness of the economy will continue to decline at an average annual rate of 1.6%, as efficiency gains and structural shifts offset part of the overall growth in demand.
Low-income countries have posted larger gains in health and education spending than other countries under IMF programs.
This approach limits gains from trade.
For example, the Inter-American Development Bank reports that the trade gains from Latin America’s 33 small regional trade agreements have been meager.
The key to boosting those gains, according to the IADB, is to adopt a new strategy that expands access across and within markets.
In each country, a number of prices are rigid, because sellers resist selling cheaper, as low productivity gains and wage defense by unions leave no margin for lower prices.
Talibanization gains ground when people lose faith in the capacity of the modern state to improve their lives.
Hamas wishes now to consolidate its political gains, maintain domestic order and stability, and refrain from any contacts with Israel.
NEW YORK – After the French Revolution of 1789, deputies in the National Assembly who supported the revolutionary gains sat on the left, while those who opposed them and hankered after the old order of monarchy and church congregated on the right.
Another is the use of “like-kind exchanges” to avoid capital gains tax.
But it is critical that the country’s upcoming election does not jeopardize recent gains, particularly during the current low-transmission season, which is the best opportunity to stop the disease in its tracks.
And Putin, who has declared privatization to be worthwhile even at lower prices (owing to implied efficiency gains), seems ready to issue the orders.
Anticipating such an outcome, the new shareholders might try to hide revenues, rather than invest in the company, further impeding efficiency gains and creating a vicious cycle of public distrust in private ownership.
A Dutch analysis of land use has shown that by employing the best technical and ecological means on the best available land, substantial gains could be made in food production.
Indeed, most Americans today are worse off than they were a decade ago, with almost all the gains from economic growth going to the very top of the income and wealth distribution.
Yet whenever a new Middle East crisis erupts, the latest being triggered by the Islamic State’s recent gains, the US intervenes again, perhaps to change a government (as it has just orchestrated in Iraq) or to launch a new bombing assault.
Secondly, frictional losses in the short term often obscure the fact that, in the long term, inputs from cheap suppliers may help secure jobs in the West, and that greater specialization increases exports as well as imports and offers gains in wealth for both trading partners.
But these gains are likely to be short-lived, unless policymakers seize the opportunity that they provide to address the deep-seated structural challenges that, if left unresolved, will undermine growth in the longer term.
Developing countries have made considerable gains when it comes to improving health care for the young.
Sustainable long-term growth – based on efficiency improvements, productivity gains, and innovation – is possible only with an effective institutional framework, and that requires fundamental changes to the political and regulatory systems.
With major reforms only half-complete, there are significant opportunities for stable growth based on efficiency and productivity gains, rather than merely on consumption.
By the time the MDGs concluded in 2015, they had fueled some of the fastest and most extensive gains in global health and development the world has ever seen.
While US consumers have so far saved a large proportion of the windfall they have received through cheaper gasoline prices, the gains for households are starting to translate into higher levels of spending.
People have enjoyed such huge capital gains over the past decade that most feel like gamblers on a long winning streak.
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