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As she put it in her acceptance speech: “If someone told you that, with just 12 years of investment of about $1 billion a year, you could, across the developing world, increase economic growth, decrease infant mortality, increase agricultural yields,
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maternal health,
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children’s health and nutrition, increase the numbers of children – girls and boys – in school, slow down population growth, increase the number of men and women who can read and write, decrease the spread of AIDS, add new people to the work force, and be able to
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their wages without pushing others out of the work force, what would you say?
Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan put it simply: “No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, lower infant and maternal mortality,
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nutrition, promote health, including the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and increase the chances of education for the next generation.
Of course, international summits are usually an occasion for countries to sign agreements, not for the hard bargaining that can begin to
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their relations with one another.
Until conditions in the world economy
improve
substantially, China’s policymakers will have no easy way out.
Likewise, the European Union, the International Labor Organization, and the government of Bangladesh have cooperated with global companies on a pact to
improve
conditions for Bangladeshi garment workers.
A successful model will lower health-care costs, increase life expectancy, and
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elderly people’s quality of life.
First, free movement has meant that good players from small leagues
improve
much more than they would had they stayed home.
While the policy caused credit spreads to narrow and bond market liquidity to improve, many banks have been using the extra money to rebuild their balance sheets (the equivalent of increased household savings) rather than lending it to businesses and individuals.
For decades, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has been working with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to help countries take advantage of nuclear and related technologies to
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food security and advance agricultural development.
Park remains, rightly, a skeptic concerning Kim’s motives; but the spectacle of the North’s second-highest-ranking official appearing suddenly at the Asian Games earlier this month created a frisson of excitement that perhaps Kim the Younger may actually want to
improve
relations.
The goal should be to
improve
society, not disruption for its own sake.
Their expectation might have been that North Korea could
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relations with the US while retaining its nuclear weapons, in exchange for not developing long-range missiles.
Meanwhile, in order to mitigate the environmental impact of continued rapid growth, the world must
improve
its resource efficiency considerably.
As demographic tailwinds turn into headwinds, and environmental challenges become ever more apparent, businesses and governments need to think carefully about how to
improve
resource efficiency while fostering more inclusive economic growth.
While such ambivalence will not change, French-American relations are likely to
improve
no matter which of the three leading candidates prevails in the final round of voting on May 6, in part owing to Chirac’s exit.
In fact, French-American relations have already begun to improve, as both sides realized that their pubic dispute was damaging their interests.
Whatever the outcome of the French election, French-American relations are likely to remain on a steady course, and may well
improve
further after the US presidential election 2008.
The second step was to organize cash-for-work projects that built dams, rehabilitated springs, and constructed roads, thereby helping people to strengthen their small farms and
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their resilience to future droughts.
At a time of intense debate over budgets, people around the world must remember that these kinds of investments not only save lives,
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livelihoods, and promote stability, but also save money in the long run.
But simply lending more would not
improve
the situation.
Emerging Arab leaders, from Islamists to re-invented former regime officials, are keenly aware of the need to
improve
their countries’ economic prospects.
The West, for its part, stands to gain in myriad ways from a solid partnership with the Arab world to
improve
its societies’ economic future.
Nevertheless, I am glad to see that Skidelsky (unlike Krugman) acknowledges the need for supply-side reforms “to
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skills, infrastructure, and access to finance,” and concedes that he and his fellow Keynesians “have been slow to understand that a government cannot increase the national debt without limit for a cause in which most people do not believe.”
Early in his presidency, the attacks of September 11, 2001, laid bare the need to rebuild the military and
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homeland security.
Although the European Semester created a broad framework for coordination, it has failed to effectively
improve
competitiveness, growth, or employment across all EU countries.
A Franco-German reform package that includes these proposals would
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eurozone economic and policy convergence and cohesiveness.
For decades, most of India’s political parties have practiced forms of “strategic secularism” to secure a so-called Muslim vote bank – an approach that has stoked resentment among the country’s Hindu majority while doing little to
improve
Muslims’ wellbeing.
If polarization and strife increase, much-needed investment will not materialize, and the state’s already scarce human capital will flee, making it all but impossible to
improve
economic performance.
But suspicion of government may also stem from a belief that political systems are rigged, and that politicians can’t or won’t
improve
things because they have become “captured” by entrenched interests, mired in legislative stalemate, or stymied by bureaucracy.
At the same time, growing numbers of traditional source countries for students, from South Korea to Saudi Arabia, are trying to
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both the quantity and quality of their own degrees, engaging in a fierce – and expensive – race to recruit students and create world-class research universities of their own.
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