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This type of assistance is granted only to countries that show improvements in democratic governance and economic development.
Intangible capital results from investment in R&D, but it is also the result of investing in workers’ skills, organizational improvements, better processes, new designs, and so on.
Boosting energy efficiency may be one of the most cost-effective ways to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions; but in Latin America, improvements in this area would entail persuading tens of millions of small businesses to switch to more environmentally friendly refrigerators, power tools, or delivery trucks.
Through its Cleaner Production Program, the company works with NGOs in Bangladesh and China to implement cost-saving improvements that reduce their fabric mills’ impact on local water quality.
Some governments are already making improvements to their laws.
When they are under-developed, they shut those demands out in the hope that they will go away – or be bought off by economic improvements.
Still, the improvements to Iran’s economy following the 2015 nuclear deal have fallen well short of expectations.
The trade improvements have been delivered, but little has been accomplished on Arab domestic reform.
In addition to restructuring the financial sector, recovery programs in the US, the United Kingdom, and other industrial countries hardest hit by the financial crisis must include relief for home and business owners, and job creation through infrastructure projects, clean-energy technologies, and improvements in healthcare and education.
They can then determine where to target their limited resources to make the biggest improvements.
The latest progress reports from the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in Basel outline definite improvements in stability-enhancing financial regulations in 24 of the world’s largest economies.
But improvements in productivity are easily overwhelmed by changes in wages.
Even though Bitcoin transactions require an exorbitant amount of electricity, with some improvements, Bitcoin might still beat the 2% fees the big banks charge on credit and debit cards.
Lives in the US changed remarkably for the better recently, with improvements in the service economy, new medical technologies, access to information, and the like.
Again, we should commit limited resources first to realizing the biggest improvements we can, and then move to the next most effective investment.
The Nobel laureate Robert Fogel argues that a new synergism between technological and physiological improvements has produced a radically new form of human evolution, which he calls technophysio evolution.
The average number of years spent in school is a good indicator of a worker's quality, especially because improvements in output nowadays mostly arise from the ability to adopt new technologies.
Likewise, research assessing the best development policies for Haiti found that focusing on improvements in nutrition through the use of fortified flour would transform the health of young children, creating lifelong benefits.
Optimists, by contrast, believe that advances like Big Data, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence herald a new era of technology-driven improvements.
Although some Republicans would like to see revenue increased only by stimulating faster economic growth, that cannot be achieved without the reductions in marginal tax rates and improvements in corporate taxation that the Democrats are unlikely to accept.
Harvard’s Martin Feldstein has argued persuasively that productivity growth is actually higher than we realize, because government statistics “grossly understate the value of improvements in the quality of existing goods and services” and “don’t even try to measure the full contribution,” of new goods and services.
More than a generation ago Intel's co_founder Gordon Moore noticed that improvements in semiconductor fabrication allow for a doubling of the density of transistors on a chip every eighteen months.
But, with its new security improvements, Apple is now closing that door.
There were also appreciable improvements in human-development indicators in the MENA countries and, judged by conventional criteria, inequality was declining in some of them.
Even so, the fact remains that the MENA countries were experiencing improvements in relative prosperity, not economic downturns or stagnation.
Even in cases when revolutions have been preceded by economic downturns, prior improvements in prosperity may have played a role.
The main concerns of the average Syrian, it seems, are definite improvements in living standards and a reduction in the high unemployment rate.
By moving fast on a few technical improvements of the merger control rules, and introducing them ahead of the Convention, the Commission acted as if it were hoping that the institutional structure of competition policy would not become an item on the agenda of the Convention: we just fixed it, let's wait and see how the new rules work out , it seems to be saying.
These funds – earmarked for infrastructure investments, environmental protection, and improvements to small- and medium-size enterprises’ competitiveness – amount to more than one-quarter of all EU resources allocated for such purposes.
This will not only jeopardize whatever liberalizing achievements remain from his predecessor Boris Yeltsin’s era, but also the limited social improvements made during his own rule.
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