Improvements
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BRUSSELS – The fiscal rules of the European Union have undergone some much-needed
improvements
in recent years, but much more needs to be done.
In practice, however, the cost structure depends on a host of other factors, including technological improvements, human expertise, and so forth.
So, in the case of shale-oil production, the industry appears to have enjoyed significant
improvements
to operational efficiency through old-fashioned trial and error, or “learning by doing.”
Some insufficient tax
improvements
for small enterprises are under way.
While most countries have made
improvements
on these fronts, the tribal business tradition remains entrenched, and will take time to dislodge.
He concluded that, “The value of a rising standard of living lies not just in the concrete
improvements
it brings to how individuals live but in how it shapes the social, political, and ultimately the moral character of a people.”
The Palestinian Authority has received more aid per capita than did post-war Europe under the Marshall Plan, yet the politics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have foiled hopes of a broader Euro-Mediterranean framework that, through dialogue and investment, would bring tangible
improvements
to the lives of millions.
Unblocking Corporate Governance ReformCAMBRIDGE – When they met earlier this month, G-20 finance ministers and central bankers called for global
improvements
in corporate governance.
The international community can offer stability and
improvements
in living conditions for both Israelis and Palestinians by intervening now with a peacekeeping and humanitarian presence, endorsed by the United Nations and with the support of the United States.
Each time, radical
improvements
in technology made the threat evaporate.
There have been similar
improvements
across the board in metals mining and agriculture.
Yet the voters were ready to move away from the old ties – the electorate had become much younger in the 1990s and the
improvements
over the old regime, after the recession of the early 1990s had run its course and the reform policies began to pay off, became palpable.
If so, the outlook for Colombia is more favorable in 2010 and 2011, when growth should be close to 3%, thanks to inflows of foreign investment,
improvements
in security, and a better business environment.
Improvements
in computer and communications technologies have also enabled employers to offshore many routine tasks that machines cannot directly replace.
The military operation highlighted important
improvements
in European leadership since the Bosnian debacle in the 1990’s, but the conditions underlying the Libya mission’s success cannot be counted upon to exist again in the future.
While not all of these programs were implemented in strict compliance with IMF conditionality, they played a key role in promoting significant
improvements
in Asian competiveness.
There are still important gains to be had from further
improvements
in the broader business environment.
Expensive quick fixes to increase energy security are crowding out other important priorities in Central and Eastern Europe, such as long-term investment in tertiary education and research, and much-needed
improvements
in dilapidated health-care systems.
Second, caution has costs: financial openness may itself catalyze
improvements
in fundamentals that enhance the benefits of globalization.
Three-quarters of the potential pickup in productivity could come from “catch-up” improvements, with countries taking steps – modernizing their retail sectors, consolidating automobile production into a smaller number of larger factories, improving health-care efficiency, and reducing food-processing wastage – that have already proven effective elsewhere.
Consider
improvements
in energy efficiency, which could halve projected energy demand between now and 2020.
Similarly, Ethiopia has made strides towards shifting agricultural policies and investing more in productivity
improvements
for small farmers, with increased spending helping to boost crop yields over the past several years.
And Europe’s troubled economies have been slow to undertake structural reforms;
improvements
in competitiveness reflect wage and salary cuts, rather than productivity gains.
During the first Industrial Revolution, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, new manufacturing processes eventually led to huge
improvements
in human wellbeing.
In exchange, they have to contribute to a public fund for housing, environmental, and infrastructure
improvements.
At the top of the agenda should be ratification of
improvements
to a crucial nuclear security instrument – theConvention on the Physical Protection of Nuclear Material.
The fact that some of Asia’s most dynamic economies – including China, Japan, and the four tigers (Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan) – have experienced investment-propelled growth and
improvements
in TFP simultaneously can be explained by the fact that TFP gains increase investment returns, accelerating capital expansion further.
Systematic calculation and publication of cyclically adjusted fiscal indicators would help maintain discipline by promoting accountability, as would other
improvements
in transparency, especially regarding quasi-fiscal operations and the contingent liabilities of the government and public enterprises.
Surprisingly, the same is true when it comes to basic, conventional schooling
improvements
like providing extra textbooks and building libraries.
Based on the Jamaican study, income
improvements
would be worth around $10,000 over each child’s lifetime.
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