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Meanwhile, Lebanon’s main economic indicators show steady improvement: GNP increased from $21 billion in 2004 to $32 billion in 2009, inflation remains under control, foreign trade is balanced, and the unemployment rate is tolerable.
First, in line with Moore’s Law, the pace of hardware productivity improvement is dramatically faster than it was at earlier stages of technological change.
But many higher-paid jobs may play no role in driving productivity improvement.
Meeting those objectives will require both an improvement in energy productivity (the amount of income produced per unit of energy consumed) of at least 3% per year and the rapid decarbonization of energy supply, with the share of zero-carbon energy increasing by at least one percentage point each year.
But the truth is that, while this outcome is better than an end to free trade in North America, the USMCA is no improvement over the status quo.
It is not as good as the TPP, nor is it an overall improvement over NAFTA.
In today’s fast-paced world, it takes only a single technological improvement, price advantage, or great viral advertising campaign for a competitor to leap ahead.
Iran has a long way to go, of course, to bring about permanent improvement in its relations with the West; but what Iran needs to do is not the only impediment.
One reason is the emergence of so-called peer action networks, which facilitate knowledge-sharing globally and encourage continuous improvement locally.
Why America Isn’t WorkingCAMBRIDGE – As the US economy limps toward the second anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, anemic growth has left unemployment mired near 10%, with little prospect of significant improvement anytime soon.
France, like many other European countries, has much room for improvement in preparing its young people for the job market.
But there is the prospect of a virtuous circle in which economic improvement leads to less surly politics, in turn reducing uncertainty and boosting recovery further.
If America’s annual rate of improvement in productivity turns out to be higher in the next thirty years than they have been over the past three decades, the country’s worries will be few.
To advance both objectives, the EU must link its investment and aid programs to concrete progress on democratization, and press for much greater accountability and improvement in reforming educational systems throughout the region.
For Russia, this would mean a significant improvement on what it has been offered since the end of the Cold War.
Third, there has been significant improvement in China’s external imbalance.
Unfortunately, as those aspirations are addressed, the economy has entered a steep decline, jeopardizing one of the revolution’s main goals, namely improvement in Egyptians’ living standards and welfare.
Moreover, public policies will have to promote the testing and improvement of this technology, especially when used at a large scale.
The only chance of improvement is to decouple economic growth from energy consumption and emissions.
Islam’s part in the deal must include a guarantee of human rights and civil liberties, improvement in women’s status, and realistic policies to stem the Islamic world’s demographic explosion.
We have much to learn from systems that have demonstrated continuous improvement, in contexts as varied as Singapore, Chile, Ghana, Slovenia, and England.
Without such a global agreement, the muddled interventions of today will continue, with little hope of any real improvement.
The current machines of this genre are direct descendants of the Boeing 707, and, after many decades of evolutionary improvement, this design approach simply lacks the scope to address the many problems that must be solved.
Although the pace of decline slowed between March and April, half of that improvement was the result of an increase in government employment, owing to a one-time hiring of more than 60,000 temporary staff to conduct the 2010 census.
Because computer programs and humans are close substitutes for such jobs, and given the predictable improvement in computing power, there seems to be no technical obstacle to the redundancy of workers across much of the service economy.
For the majority of Iranians, economic improvement is the priority.
These levels may be a big improvement from the early 1990s, but they certainly are not evidence of inflation’s demise.
Worse, appalling income inequalities, a squeezed middle class, and evidence of widespread ethical lapses and impunity are fueling a dangerous disenchantment with democracy and a growing loss of trust in a system that has betrayed the American dream of constant progress and improvement.
And sustained government investment in public health is reflected in steady improvement in India’s infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy.
Most disturbing was the fact that no improvement in performance occurred with increasing abstinence.
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