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There were also signs of modest improvement in Europe’s relations with China, despite a lack of unity that continued to undermine its leverage.
Goldman Sachs is bullish, believing that the bank can record 17% loan growth this year, a 20-basis-point improvement in margins, and significant growth in fee income.
With its penchant for constant experimentation and improvement, one might even hope that China will draw lessons and apply them to all of its developing-country lending.
The modern equivalent of that learning about trade policy would be to think about mechanisms to ensure long-term improvement in fiscal policymaking.
After all, such changes are best served not by imposing stifling sanctions, or through military “shock and awe” tactics, as in Iraq, but by socioeconomic improvement and diplomatic engagement by external powers.
But here, too, policy blunders could torpedo hopes for improvement.
Broadly, we see three areas in which Europe’s policymakers at both the national and EU levels can do better: global challenges where Europe could show greater leadership, the creation and strengthening of human capital within the EU and worldwide, and improvement in the effectiveness of the EU’s own political machinery.
The most important reason is a sharp improvement in corporate earnings, and in economic conditions in general.
The most important fact to bear in mind is that enrollees in Medicaid show no significant improvement in clinical physical health outcomes.
But there was no significant improvement in clinical physical outcomes for conditions including hypertension, high cholesterol, or diabetes.
The Democrats have an agreed and implementable strategy that would represent a definite improvement over the status quo.
But now the APC must design and implement an effective strategy that leads to genuine improvement in the lives of ordinary Nigerians.
Far from a miracle, Trump has failed to deliver any kind of improvement to economic growth.
Under the 2007 financial law, those who claim the home improvement deduction must supply an invoice from the building contractor, which must specify the cost for labor.
The doctor says that you probably have two years to live, or a 50% expected improvement in “survival” (medical terminology for living another five years) if you undergo chemotherapy.
How do you measure health improvement?
It is not, as one benighted analyst suggested, “A 20% improvement (reduction) in heart attacks plus a 30% improvement (reduction) in diabetes incidence equals a 50% improvement.”
China is also animating the improvement in India-US ties.
Fortunately, there are signs of improvement.
But austerity undermines growth, worsening the government’s fiscal position, or at least yielding less improvement than austerity’s advocates promise.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF), for example, pushes widespread improvement in laws related to corporate and financial institutions.
This focus on material improvement aimed at meeting basic needs makes sense for a country at Bhutan’s relatively low income level.
But the improvement is extremely precarious.
Compared to the crooks and demagogues who preceded him in office (not long ago, one was filmed stashing millions in cash behind the altar of a local monastery), President Mauricio Macri and his team of well-trained technocrats are a massive improvement.
His readers then had to wait another 27 years for his second book, On What Matters, unless they were able to read one of the drafts that Parfit circulated in order to receive suggestions for improvement.
We need to appreciate what women and girls are achieving by putting their experience and knowledge to good use in designing disaster plans and identifying areas for improvement in urban planning and early warning systems.
A more telling indicator of progress – or lack of it – is the minimal improvement in education.
Typically, these protests are local in nature and generally resolved with a combination of payoffs, arrests, and promises of future improvement.
The overall budget deficit is still predicted to be 4.1% of Greece’s GDP in 2013 – a substantial improvement compared to 2010 but still far from fiscal balance.
This, too, is showing up as further improvement in Europe’s competitiveness.
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