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The Initiative also envisages the promotion of regional defense reforms and the improvement of interoperability among military forces in the region.
In this sense, the new “plug and play" scheme for public-private partnerships, whereby “all clearances and linkages will be in place before the project is awarded," is a major improvement over the previous PPP model.
For starters, governments and industry must treat nuclear security as a process of continuous improvement and work to keep pace with evolving threats and challenges.
The growth of potential GDP will reflect the structural rise of the labor force, the increase in the capital stock, and the improvement in multifactor productivity (i.e., the change in the output that results from improvements in technology rather than from increases in labor and capital.)
The populist policies of the past four years have not brought economic improvement.
They no longer believe that the future will bring them material improvement and that their children will have a better life than their own.
If successful, a second phase of reform would provide limited investment funds for continued improvement in service delivery and financial efficiency.
Indeed, while the economies of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone grew rapidly in the ten years prior to the Ebola outbreak – at average annual rates of 2.8%, 10%, and 8%, respectively – their populations have seen little improvement in their daily lives.
Amid a re-run of last year’s lurid schoolyard taunts – “little rocket man” and “mentally deranged dotard” – Moon will be desperate to rescue a semblance of improvement in relations with the North.
Unfortunately, a recently approved reform, despite being marketed as a strategic improvement, has only benefited a few, and far too little.
That way, if the regime balked, it would have to explain to its own people why it was not prepared to abandon its nuclear-weapons program, despite a reasonable US proposal that was not designed to humiliate Iran, and that, if accepted, promised a major improvement in Iranian living standards.
The economic improvement that voters demanded in electing Rowhani can almost certainly be achieved only if Western and international sanctions are lifted.
Fortunately, this backing appears to have declined in the last year or so, following improvement in Colombia’s relations with these countries.
For example, despite significant improvement in its human-rights policies, the Chilean government has at times applied harsh anti-terrorism laws against indigenous Mapuche protesters.
Subsequent actions by her husband’s administration and her own have blocked improvement.
In fact, participation in on-the-job training by middle-aged and elderly workers in Japan and Korea is currently lower than in other advanced economies, such as the United States and Finland, meaning that there should be space for improvement.
Improvement in US performance on climate change will have to come from innovation and increased energy efficiency.
Both may be necessary, because, while average fuel economy has made slight gains in recent years, the longer distances that people are traveling have offset any improvement.
This solution would not only permit the much-needed administrative reforms to be implemented; it would also bring clarity and transparency to a process that is in great need of improvement.
Even a disorderly regime transition, however traumatic and chaotic in the short term, could yield a system that, on balance, is an improvement over a stagnant, repressive, and corrupt autocracy.
But their control of the clock is less than perfect; and it will become increasingly ineffective if economic improvement faces additional political headwinds in the months ahead.
There is much room for improvement.
“US inflation continues to run below the Committee’s 2% objective,” she said, and the current “high degree of policy accommodation remains appropriate to foster further improvement in labor market conditions and to promote a return of inflation toward 2% over the medium term.”
Although China remains far less open to foreign direct investment than most advanced economies, the OECD’s composite indicator shows that there has been continuous, albeit sluggish, improvement.
This investment pays off wonderfully, with research centers such as the International Rice Research Institute and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre providing the high-yield seeds and innovative farming strategies that together triggered the Asian Green Revolution.
The economist Raj Chetty has been gauging the improvement people have made over what their parents had.
The aim was to substitute external demand, in the form of an improvement in net exports, for deficient domestic demand.
Second, any improvement in GDP derived from stronger exports leads to an increase in imports.
Your efforts to move forward towards resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict will generate significant improvement in the political atmosphere in the entire Middle East.
There is always room for improvement, and constant vigilance is needed.
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