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So did the scheme’s results – improved literacy rates and nutrition levels.
Indeed, thanks to the scheme, school-attendance rates have improved, sometimes by as much as 10%, and dropout rates have declined.
Better policy coordination can profit from improved analytical work on the linkages between financial developments and the real economy.
In the meantime, Iran’s youthful population may become more politically active and demand democratization and improved living conditions.
Without doubt, NATO air strikes and the subsequent administration of Kosovo as a protectorate improved the political situation for Albanian Kosovars.
At the same time, the global economy and modernization can also promise better education, more jobs and opportunities, and improved health care, and opinion polls indicate that a majority of the region's population desires these benefits.
But, at a time when rising inequality is undermining social cohesion, it is far from certain that the conditions required to support such gains – that is, improved education and stronger incentives to innovate – can be met.
Now many members, including Brazil, China, India, and several African countries, are raising their voices in support of more collegial leadership and an improved strategy that works for all.
Water quality for more than 700 million people could be significantly improved by adopting conservation practices in watersheds.
Water quality would be improved for more than 600 million people if the farms and ranches operating within their watersheds limited runoff and restored stream banks.
For starters, improved access to contraception would prevent an estimated one-third of all maternal deaths, and would have a particularly large impact among those facing the highest risk.
But the revolution is not only for the elite; it also offers a realistic (non-utopian) promise of dramatically improved lives for many people around the entire globe - not in 100 years, but in the foreseeable future.
Hong Kong greatly reduced corruption and improved administration with an amnesty, pay increases, and financial-disclosure requirements for officials.
In recent decades, data collection has improved dramatically in many areas.
Anyone who looks little more than a mile north, south, east, or west of Manchester’s Albert Square – never mind slightly less adjacent parts such as Oldham and Rochdale – can see that much needs to be improved, including education, skills training, and inclusiveness, in order to ensure long-term success.
As a result, the Philippines has dramatically improved its ranking in Transparency International’s annual corruption index, rising from a 134th-place tie with Nigeria in 2010, to 94th place, alongside India, last year.
Improved diagnostic technologies are undoubtedly within the reach of the world’s top technology firms.
A third imperative, recommended by the Review and recognized by the G-7, is improved surveillance of the spread of drug-resistant infections, particularly in developing countries, where such data is most sparse.
Indeed, the rules have changed, and Israel cannot say that it was not warned that this is an era in which international law and universal justice are being forcefully promoted as pillars of an improved world order.
Over the last 25 years, farmers in more than 20 countries around the world improved food security while maintaining or increasing forest cover.
Russian foreign policy’s new central task is to channel those resources to Russia’s modernization drive, for which improved relations with the US are essential.
Placing what was then called the Third World at the top, he claimed, improved his understanding of those countries’ problems and perspectives.
Getting improved stoves to half the people affected would cost $2.3 billion.
Improved stove intervention to reduce indoor air pollution24.
But improved surveillance is essential to ensure that the global economy remains on an even keel.
Wage restraint and productivity gains have improved competitiveness, thereby boosting exports.
Longer-term trends have also improved.
The Arab Spring suggests that improved economic performance cannot be viewed as an insurance policy against political instability.
Despite Beijing’s improved relations with Taipei, Chinese strategists largely maintain that as long as the US remains the predominant power in the Western Pacific, China will not escape the threat of naval coercion.
The pace of job creation has increased, indicators for manufacturing and services have improved, and consumption spending has been stronger than anticipated.
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