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Improved social policies and increased investment in education have been substantial factors.
A free-trade agreement with the US and improved access to EU markets might be powerful incentives that the West can offer to Egypt’s young democracy.
In assessing research relevant for policymakers in Bangladesh, Rabbani found only one study showing that additional textbooks definitely improved test scores – and only the top students benefited.
But over the two years of home visits, the children’s development improved.
Traditional recommendations like free trade, competitive exchange rates, and sound fiscal policy are worthwhile only to the extent that they achieve other desirable objectives, such as faster economic growth, lower poverty, and improved equity.
Even though relations with the US have improved, the People’s Republic is far from being trusted.
Improved Greek-Turkish ties would be welcomed not only by foreign investors and European Union officials, but also by Greece’s NATO allies – above all the United States.
Current progress toward trade liberalization underscores how trade policy – especially that of the United States – has improved over the last hundred years.
It was U.S. investment in eradicating hookworms from its Southern states in the early 20th century that improved health conditions in the American South, and which helped to bring about a boom in investments in that previously impoverished region.
So the Trump presidency didn’t start with first-class personnel, and the staff hasn’t improved.
Here, improved transparency of government operations is vital.
The second change would allow forestry and land-use projects that are eligible to issue carbon credits to include such activities as re-vegetation, forest restoration, and improved agricultural management.
But we forget how much the state of the world has improved.
President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s government has demonstrated a commitment to economic reform, improved accountability, and transparency.
For example, a recent study showed that all but four of 54 children who underwent a hemispherectomy, in which half the brain is removed to treat severe and intractable epilepsy, showed the same or even improved intellectual capacity.
To many in Europe, these factors suggest that the key to keeping Europe safe is controlling the flow of refugees, including through improved vetting procedures.
Improved governance is also critical – no small challenge for a country that ranks 144th on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, alongside Iran and Nigeria.
And it means that the health-care system’s quality will be improved not by throwing more money at it, but through a greater emphasis on preventive medicine.
Improved agricultural productivity would benefit rural areas and give farmers a comparative share in the Union’s growing wealth.
It is often said, for good reason, that the widening income gap largely reflects technological change, which has drained many economies of blue- and even white-collar jobs, while channeling the fruits of improved productivity to high-skilled elites.
And that points to another piece of the solution: improved labor-market efficiency.
In India, productivity can be improved simply by building a better road from a factory to the railhead.
Although gender parity in primary education has improved, dropout rates for girls are higher than for boys.
The paradox of South Asia is that growth has been instrumental in reducing poverty and improving social outcomes, but poverty rates and social outcomes have not improved fast enough to reduce the total number of people living in misery.
Association agreements with the EU have improved Eastern countries' market access.
To be sure, reforms that were implemented in response to the last crisis have improved the situation at the aggregate level; but they have not resolved the eurozone’s fundamental asymmetry.
Joint US-Chinese effort on this issue could potentially provide the elusive key to an improved relationship.
Education has improved as well.
Similarly, we should focus on at least halving malnutrition, because there is robust evidence that proper nutrition for young children leads to a lifetime of large benefits – better brain development, improved academic performance, and ultimately higher productivity as adults.
It is thanks to the spike in the CDS market that the Greek government tightened its budget and improved its fiscal position.
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