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By the 1970’s and 1980’s, the Arab world’s post-independence states had made great improvements in their education sector.
By banning all nuclear explosions, the CTBT hampers both first-time development of nuclear weapons and substantial improvements to them.
But the improvements to corporate governance that would follow from the introduction of private shareholders would reduce substantially the likelihood that SOEs would continue to abuse the financial system.
Unfortunately, addressing the world’s most pressing problems is not as simple as setting up a Web site where foreigners can contribute to social improvements in some other country.
Because they are subject to greater competition, export activities tend to undergo faster technological and productivity improvements than other parts of the economy.
These efforts led to major improvements in energy efficiency.
Many development economists would argue that significant improvements in governance and political institutions are required before such goals can be achieved.
There, the takeoff point for joining Asia’s great production chains was not just the country’s low wages, but a decision to redress past government omissions: trade liberalization, creation of a more favorable investment climate, and infrastructure improvements.
Yet these improvements to human capital have not translated into faster economic growth.
And the true benefits would likely be even greater if we included related improvements to the environment and children’s performance in school.
In Rio’s case, one could argue that the city will benefit from improvements to its international airport and downtown port.
After all, the global economy and the financial system appear to be on the mend; risk-taking in the private sector has been reduced; and huge, though burdensome, regulatory improvements have been undertaken.
Across the digital landscape, however, it is broadband that will deliver some of the most significant improvements of all.
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.
This suggests that the group’s recommendations in this area will include complementary improvements to existing formal and non-formal systems, as well as mechanisms for reviving lifelong learning in higher education.
This would also require marginal improvements in concessions by the major developing countries, and by the US and the European Union on services.
And yet they deliver consumer services enjoyed by billions of people, create software that supports economy-wide productivity improvements, or develop drugs that can deliver enormous health benefits to hundreds of millions of people.
According to the World Bank, Africa must spend a staggering $93 billion annually to upgrade its current infrastructure; the vast majority of these funds – some 87% – are needed for improvements to basic services like energy, water, sanitation, and transportation.
The agreement will also spur major manufacturers such as Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, and Embraer – which are already investing in quieter, more fuel-efficient aircraft and efficiency improvements for existing models – to develop cleaner technologies that will allow them to purchase fewer emissions offsets.
The fixed-capital investments that have formed the basis of China’s growth model largely have benefited the entire economy; infrastructure improvements, for example, have enabled the rural poor to increase their productivity and incomes.
The payoffs are seen in soaring employment, a decade-long stock market boom, and rapid rates of innovation and productivity improvements.
Similarly, national leaders in the developing world – where some three billion people do not have access to affordable energy – are under immense pressure to deliver standard-of-living improvements.
The other is the Asia Society’s Global Cities Education Network (GCEN), which facilitates improvements in urban education systems throughout North America and Asia.
Blair’s departure left Bush increasingly isolated diplomatically, with changes of government in Berlin and Paris bringing only superficial improvements.
But Yeltsin has lost most of his general popularity and prime minister, Chernomyrdin, remains a clumsy public politician, in spite of obvious improvements in his performance lately.
There is just one scenario that can deliver improvements to human wellbeing in an environmentally sustainable way: the path of “transformational change,” brought about by a shift to unconventional policies and measures.
Europeans will continue to gravitate toward populism if they do not see improvements in their standard of living, which will happen only with higher productivity growth.
Talented Mexican technocrats, most of them trained in the US, have made substantial improvements to the country’s macroeconomic framework, and helped it weather recent storms.
And we should favor policies shown to make the biggest improvements in the lives of the worst-off.
These improvements will put increasing pressure on France and Italy to follow suit, which could make Europe as a whole more competitive.
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