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The UN estimates that, over the long term, “Every dollar spent on TB generates up to $30 through improved health and increased productivity.”
It is just this kind of reasoning ability that improved during the twentieth century.
Macroeconomic data from the United States improved; blue-chip companies in advanced economies remained highly profitable;China and emerging markets slowed only moderately; and the risk of a disorderly default and/or exit by some members of the eurozone declined.
Water-stressed regions like Ethiopia and Sudan can adapt, at least in part, through improved technologies such as “drip irrigation,” rainwater harvesting, improved water storage facilities, deep wells, and agro-forestry techniques that make best use of scarce rainfall.
These numbers represent more than higher profits for corporations; they also amount to millions of jobs created, and billions of lives improved.
Undoubted advances in information technology led to an incredible restructuring of the American business sector, which re-wired itself to take advantage of electronic commerce and improved computer-based management, logistics, and communications systems.
Improved competitiveness facilitated by the euro bodes well for Germany’s medium term economic prospects.
Likewise, labor-market reform, improved education, and enhanced human capital could contribute an additional 4% to GDP growth in the next decade.
Improved governance, together with greater support for market-based innovation, is needed to sustain a thriving economy.
So, while Google is unlikely to re-enter China for the foreseeable future, the company has improved its negotiating position in whatever other disputes it might have in the future.
Yet improved economic performance can shore up a bad government.
According to South Korean news reports, in addition to its existing mid-range Nodong missiles, North Korea has improved its Scud missiles, extending their range to reach Japan’s main islands.
As a result, productivity has stagnated in Europe since 2007, whereas it has improved by more than six percentage points in the US.
For starters, the economic situation not only in France, but throughout Europe, has recently improved substantially.
Improved and better coordinated intelligence, law enforcement, and homeland security efforts at both the national and international levels have made it more difficult for terrorists to succeed.
The value of such an approach has recently been demonstrated in Ethiopia, where health outcomes have improved.
Governments – and corporations – must find better ways to provide equal opportunity through improved education, broader financial markets, and other channels.
They focus not on visions of war, but on the building blocks of peace, including public education, improved institutional relations, and effective organization.
The record of the Commonwealth countries in regard to ethnic minorities can also be substantially improved.
The lives of millions of people, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, have been improved.
Moreover, the upcoming pension reform caps 18 months of significant steps toward fiscal consolidation that have improved the effectiveness of public spending while financing our priorities: education, the transition to a less carbon-intensive economy, employment, health care, and security.
But it does not help to solve major financial problems, and those that it does address (short-term, overnight financing) could be dealt with more directly, with a more focused tax, better rules governing those transactions, and improved prudential regulation.
Moreover, significant sector-specific reforms are needed even in some Central European and Baltic countries, particularly in sustainable energy and energy efficiency, transport, and the financial sector, where regulatory and supervisory regimes require strengthening, financing of small and medium-sized firms needs to be improved, and local capital markets must be developed.
Disclosure standards improved throughout the Continent, as did laws to protect minority shareholders.
She didn’t like going out drinking with colleagues to complain about their boss; communication through drinking neither improved one’s skills nor helped one to rise through the ranks.
Not only have the Democrats’ chances to retake the Senate improved; so, too, have their prospects for retaking the House.
Only the high-grade corporate sector has improved.
Anti-dumping rules can also be improved by requiring that consumer and producer interests that would be adversely affected by import duties take part in domestic proceedings.
Subsidy rules can be improved by requiring economic cost-benefit analyses that incorporate potential consequences for both static and dynamic efficiency.
Problems rooted in failures of domestic deliberation can be solved only through improved democratic decision-making.
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