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Adult literacy has also improved, albeit more modestly, from 61% in 2010 to 66% in 2015.
Looking at the combined effect of the new law, plus the weak additional capital requirements agreed under Basel III and the hands-off approach already signaled by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (which Mr. Geithner chairs), it is hard to believe that anything has really improved.
To this end, cooperation between NATO and the EU in particular must be improved.
Beyond effective collaboration, success will demand improved surveillance and greater innovation, particularly in diagnostics, drugs and vaccines, insecticides, and vector control.
Whatever the outcome, the IMF, the World Bank, and the international community need to reaffirm their commitment to an open and transparent process – and ask how that process can be improved.
Buildings can reduce their heating needs through improved insulation, or by converting from heating oil to electricity produced by clean technology.
Yet, like its developed counterparts, China remains mired in the perception of aging as a fiscal challenge, rather than as a matter for economic policy reform and improved business practices.
This groundbreaking legislation calls for improved monitoring of fish landings, an ecosystem-based approach to fisheries’ management whereby the area would be managed holistically, and the protection of threatened and endangered fish species.
The international community could make a significant difference in this area, by helping my government monitor and control Somalia’s EEZ, as well as through improved sharing of the critical intelligence gathered by international naval patrols.
These funds could then be reinvested into better infrastructure – such as port construction, improved cold storage, and modern processing facilities – to support our artisanal and industrial fishing fleets.
American women improved their game because soccer moms do not heavily rely on husbands to fund their daughters’ training.
As a result, consumer and business confidence in Italy have rebounded to the highest level in 15 years, credit conditions have improved, and Italy is the only G-7 country expected by the IMF to grow faster in 2016 than 2015 (albeit still at an inadequate 1% rate).
Planting the Seeds of Africa’s GrowthWEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA – After decades of bad news, at least three major trends are turning Africa’s way: agricultural policies, rural demography, and farm productivity all promise improved opportunities for farm families across the continent.
The start of this turnaround could be associated with the other two trends, as the cumulative result of more favorable policies and increased labor per hectare, but it could also reflect the gradual spread of improved crop varieties that resulted from earlier investment in agricultural technology.
But African countries do have some things in common: widespread improvements in farm policy, improved demographic conditions, and the availability of new technologies create new opportunities for the decade ahead.
Moreover, 2.5 billion people – nearly half of the population in developing regions – still lack access to improved sanitation.
Real output growth explains only 12.5% of the increase in the US dollar value of nominal GDP in 2003-2011, with the rest attributable to the rise in oil prices, which improved Russia’s terms of trade by 125%, and to a 56% real appreciation of the ruble against the dollar.
According to the study, 45% of survey respondents believed that the economy had worsened over the previous year, while only 24% thought that it had improved.
As rapidly as the large, modern firms improved, through investments in technology and skills, the economy was dragged down by its unproductive small firms.
Though judicial independence and protection of human rights remain conspicuously weak, Saakashvili’s government has increased the civil service’s efficiency, improved public infrastructure, fought corruption, reduced crime, and created an attractive investment environment.
As Board Chair of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria between 2009 and 2011, and as Chair of the Roll Back Malaria Partnership between 2007 and 2009, Ghebreyesus pushed through sweeping changes that dramatically improved both organizations’ operations.
Touring the Mwandama Village, I saw the potential of modern technologies – smart phones and mobile broadband, improved seed varieties, the latest in drip irrigation, modern diagnostic tests for malaria, and low-cost solar-energy grids – to advance human well-being in ways that simply were not feasible even a few years ago.
That surplus, in turn, has contributed directly to improved education, as families donate a portion of their surplus to the school’s mid-day meal program.
Sadly, African governments have failed miserably in teaching farmers improved methods.
Experts have been preaching crop diversity, irrigation, and improved soil nutrients for decades.
African farmers need improved technologies and better access to agricultural markets in Europe and the United States.
The project – which aims to foster shared prosperity through people-to-people exchanges, improved trade flows, and increased currency circulation – is precisely what the world needs if it is to avoid a return to the Cold War divide or the Balkanization of Eastern Europe.
Many global agencies are introducing systematic surveys of their employees, but much remains to be improved.
The recent recovery of asset prices from their March lows is in part justified by fundamentals, as the risks of global financial meltdown and depression have fallen and confidence has improved.
That, in turn, requires investment incentives, improved carbon pricing, and an upgrade to the emissions trading system.
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