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While billions of dollars in aid have led to improvements in urban areas, where health facilities have been built and midwives trained, the overall maternal death figures have hardly changed.
All the same, I still fear that improvements in productivity will turn out to be lower than the prophets of the New Economy promise.
The eurozone owes its ostensible immunity from financial-market gyrations to major improvements in the peripheral economies’ fundamentals: growth has picked up, and unemployment, though still high, is declining rapidly.
The question is whether these improvements are stable enough to ensure the eurozone’s continued resilience.
Even in China and other parts of the world with growing manufacturing sectors, productivity improvements – often related to job-killing automated processes – account for most of the growth in output.
Indeed, although he has made some small improvements in regulation, privatization, and cash transfers to the poor, bolder land and labor-market reforms remain elusive.
Despite improvements and reforms, many of Japan's fundamentals remain woeful.
Low-income African countries can sustain moderate rates of productivity growth into the future, on the back of steady improvements in human capital and governance.
Important improvements have been made over the past year to expand the pension system’s coverage, move toward universal health care, and provide public funding for basic education.
Related to this is the need for improvements in the overall financial system .
The Hartwell group argues that mass improvements are needed across many technologies, requiring the determined participation of governments.
There are several alternatives, such as the blended wing body and strut/truss braced wings, which offer major potential increases in lift-to-drag ratio and improvements in structural weight fraction.
Such improvements in these parameters would provide design margins to address most of the current problems, with the exception of emissions.
Mechanisms such as information-feedback loops would then enable authorities to identify quality issues and make improvements quickly.
As people pursue new directions in business, science, and the arts, they develop innovations and improvements that drive the economy forward.
But, although the recent news is not as encouraging as some have claimed, I expect that the next few months will see some real improvements that will reduce the rate of overall economic decline, or even produce a temporary rise in the GDP growth rate, owing to the Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus measures.
The increase in women MPs led not only to an increase in female cabinet members, but also to a variety of policies and institutional improvements aimed specifically at women.
Yes, massive institutional improvements concerning central banks have created formidable barriers to high inflation.
Whatever the problems in the financial system, the massive improvements over the years in technology, productivity, and social progress – the real fundamentals – are a genuine testament to the power of globalization as a force for good.
And Appelbaum and Batt are careful to point out that many private-equity firms bring better management or other efficiency improvements to their portfolio companies.
Although recent reports published in 2006 by the European Union’s Monitoring Center on Racism and Xenophobia and the Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commissioner note some improvements, they indicate Roma living conditions have stagnated, if not deteriorated.
And this spectacular growth has been accompanied by equally extraordinary improvements in a wide range of socioeconomic indicators.
The sheer magnitude of the Enlightenment’s achievements tends to be undervalued, because we are prone to remembering and normalizing catastrophes rather than quotidian improvements.
Failure to contain local outbreaks, develop tools and strategies for identifying and treating XDR-TB, and invest in longer-term improvements in TB control could transform our pharmacological magic bullets for TB into blanks.
Significant improvements to this situation will be hard won.
Likewise, quality improvements – say, better cars rather than just more cars – account for much of the increase in GDP nowadays.
But assessing quality improvements is difficult.
It strikes the ideal balance between realism and ambition, recognizing the EU’s limitations and pinpointing the improvements that are needed.
Improvements in photovoltaic technology make further reductions inevitable: within five years, we will see a price of $0.01 per kWh in favorable locations.
As for sub-Saharan Africa, the "Washington Consensus" - economic liberalization, deregulation of capital movements, suppression of subsidies, and privatization - runs against the very policies needed to promote political improvements, a stable macroeconomic environment, enlarged financial markets, and lower debt overhang.
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