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But it would strengthen raters’ positive incentives to compete with one another to produce accurate ratings, and to pursue innovations and improvements that enable raters to achieve that far more socially beneficial goal.
The Swiss government’s careful evaluation of this approach demonstrated that heroin-assisted therapy is both feasible and cost-effective, and that it can bring patients significant health improvements.
Similarly, vaccination has been shown to lead to wage gains across populations, while improvements in child survival rates are associated with lower fertility rates.
Indeed, despite steady improvements, public health and education levels remain low (102nd worldwide).
Policy discussions at many high-level summits sought to strengthen other features of industrial policy, including public financing of airports, highways, ports, electricity grids, telecommunications, and other infrastructure, improvements in institutional effectiveness, an emphasis on education and skills, and a clearer legal framework.
Only when we know how people are being affected by development can we design policies that bring about the most valuable improvements in their lives.
There were significant improvements in disease control as well.
While the MDGs are not the only factor underpinning the improvements since 2000, they have played a huge role.
But the ultimate goal – diversification and associated improvements in economic (and political) institutions and the business climate – has mostly proved elusive.
Over the next 15 years, the world will need to invest some $90 trillion in infrastructure improvements.
But, compelling as this logic seems, Brazil’s rise does not confirm it: financial and economic growth was not preceded by – or even accompanied by – fundamental improvements in courts and contracts.
Institutional improvements help, but they can come later.
This can be done by refitting households with high-efficiency light bulbs and other technological improvements, and by retrofitting industrial plants with energy-saving technologies.
Implementing these improvements will be difficult, to be sure.
Unlike developed countries, which often struggle to find productive investment opportunities, China can pursue improvements in infrastructure, urbanization efforts, environmental management, and high-tech industries.
Income inequality will likely start widening again, despite striking improvements in median family income and the poverty rate last year.
Growth will need to rely to a much greater extent on sustained improvements in human capital, institutions, and governance.
Moreover, post-independence improvements in child survival triggered a rise in child dependency rates, which also reached historically unprecedented levels in the 1970’s and 1980’s.
But African countries do have some things in common: widespread improvements in farm policy, improved demographic conditions, and the availability of new technologies create new opportunities for the decade ahead.
Improvements were also made in treating HIV.
In general, terms-of-trade improvements and capital inflows do not continue permanently: they either stabilize or eventually reverse direction.
For most emerging-market countries, however, nominal GDP growth in the 2003-2011 period was caused by terms-of-trade improvements, capital inflows, and real appreciation.
Outsiders have found tangible improvements in residents’ health.
Real improvements in energy efficiency can be very expensive.
This approach would be much more effective than inefficient subsidies, or focusing on incremental efficiency improvements.
This is not to say that we should ignore opportunities to make energy more efficient, or that we should invest solely in RD&D at the expense of improvements to today’s grid.
Since the UNDP issued its first report in 1990, we have seen significant improvements made in billions of people’s lives worldwide.
Increases in agricultural productivity, owing to improvements in seeds, new fertilizers and pesticides, improved credit access, and technological breakthroughs, have been a key driver in reducing hunger.
These fiscal improvements have freed up funds for sizable investments in education, without adding to public debt.
These improvements, together with more effective information sharing in the medical profession, are critical for better planning and accountability as well.
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