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Scientists worldwide agree that GM is merely a refinement, or improvement, over less precise and predictable genetic techniques that have been used for centuries, but this exquisite new means to develop plants with higher yields and innovative traits will be blocked by the disincentive of unnecessary regulations.
This
improvement
in human capital is bound to offset, to some extent, the net loss of labor.
Of course, given Asia’s size and dynamism, there are many other issues that will need to be addressed in the years ahead, including
improvement
of the security environment in a currently unstable East Asia and amending the country’s constitution, which the LDP has considered doing for many years.
The resulting
improvement
in child survival rates and population growth during the 1970’s and 1980’s were faster than those seen earlier in Asia or Latin America.
The optimistic reading is that, despite no sign of
improvement
in the labor market, economic performance has in fact started to improve, and an adjustment process is under way.
The problem, however, is that a large part of this
improvement
reflects collapsing domestic demand, which has plummeted by around one-quarter in Greece and Ireland since 2007, and by one-eighth in Spain and Portugal.
First, even though the Chinese Communist regime has become thoroughly corrupt, it has strengthened itself through economic growth and
improvement
in people's lives.
This is a challenge for the general proposition of self-help, and also for my own new venture: the Health Initiative Coordinating Council (HICCup), which will advise five communities competing to win the HICCup Prize for the greatest improvement, according to five metrics, in health (not health care) over five years.
This bizarre transfer of office but not power – perhaps a slight
improvement
on state governors in the American south who used to hand their offices to their wives when their term-limits expired – is Putin’s scenario.
With few signs that this year will bring any improvement, policymakers would be wise to understand the factors underlying the global economy’s anemic performance – and the implications of continued feebleness.
In an assessment for the Copenhagen Consensus Center, the think tank I direct, researchers examined the cost of the United Nations’ objective to “double the global rate of
improvement
in energy efficiency” by 2030.
The researchers found, however, that it would cost $3.2 trillion to achieve the target of doubling the rate of
improvement
in energy efficiency.
While economic data suggests that
improvement
in fundamentals has occurred - the risk of a near depression has been reduced; the prospects of the global recession bottoming out by year end are increasing; and risk sentiment is improving - it is equally clear that other, less sustainable factors are also playing a role.
Beginning in the eastern region of Ghana, our Community-based Hypertension
Improvement
Program (ComHIP) trains local businesses and health-care workers living in the community to screen and support hypertensive patients.
Kurds exceeded this number, with 95% claiming an
improvement.
Without dramatic
improvement
at all educational levels, unemployment, illiteracy, and income inequality will continue to worsen, and the region will remain a danger to itself and its neighbors.
Measured productivity growth would be close to nil, but also irrelevant to
improvement
in human welfare.
A qualitative breakthrough is taking place, and not only a temporary
improvement
caused by devaluation and higher oil prices.
Precisely because they recognize the fundamental fact of human fallibility, proponents of open society always believe in the possibility of
improvement.
And since
improvement
requires trial and error, open society insists on freedom of expression and protecting dissent, even in such matters as the very criteria of what is right or true.
When patients come forward to say they were helped by ECT, or a patient’s medical record points to clinical
improvement
with treatment, the apparent improvements are read as indicating the disinhibition and vacuousness that accompanies brain damage.
Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, the most widely-used benchmark to gauge businessmen’s and experts’ beliefs about the extent of corruption in various countries, ranked China 78th out of 158 countries in 2005 – not much
improvement
from 2000.
But recognizing fallibility can actually be empowering, because it implies the possibility of
improvement
in both economics and politics.
United Russia, on the other hand, based its campaign on the progress made during President Putin's tenure: notable economic growth and slight
improvement
in people's living standards.
But no significant
improvement
on these fronts can occur without thoroughly refashioning the country’s decision-making process.
Some of these factors, rather than just the actions taken by governments and multilateral organizations, plausibly played a role in the current economic
improvement.
No doubt, much of the burden for economic
improvement
rests with Africa itself, working together with the private international markets.
Most importantly, the rules must recognize their own imperfection – and thus must remain open to review and
improvement.
National leaders and public health officials need to know all of this and more in order to identify weaknesses in the primary-care system and target areas for
improvement.
Yet too often, and despite its potential to drive
improvement
and foster accountability, data collection is treated as an afterthought.
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