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The areas where this new and old left can make a difference include improving anti-poverty programs, expanding housing and property rights, effective land reform, developing education, science, and technology, and, perhaps most importantly, strengthening democracy, human rights, and the rule of law in a region where they have been woefully absent for decades.
First, major advances in our knowledge of genomics – specifically, the way diseases manifest and develop in the body at the genetic level – are improving our ability to target illness at each stage and improve the patient experience.
Genetic markers, for example, can indicate which patients are likely to benefit from a drug, thereby improving outcomes while allowing patients to avoid potentially painful side effects of treatments that are unlikely to work.
This model has worked remarkably well not just in generating growth, but also, as documented in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s 2008 Transition Report , in improving the institutions that support markets and democracy in Eastern Europe.
In this context, a focus on improving each NAFTA economy’s trade balance would be misguided.
But fulfilling that promise – which would now entail improving the wellbeing of about 45 million people, roughly equivalent to Sudan’s entire population – will carry significant costs.
Pathways to a low-carbon future focus on three main actions: improving energy efficiency, producing electricity from low-carbon energy sources (such as solar and wind energy), and switching from petroleum to low-carbon energy for powering vehicles (such as electric or fuel-cell vehicles) and heating buildings.
Second, we should concentrate less on improving health care and more on strengthening disease prevention, for example by driving down tobacco use, expanding opportunities for physical activity, and increasing the availability and affordability of a healthy diet.
Either it could take steps to boost tax revenues, such as by improving property-tax collections (currently extremely low), or it could reduce the level of any basic income it introduces.
Yet the public and the elite few view the presidential contenders as being capable of improving Iran’s conditions.
We need to accept human mortality and, as a matter of both practice and policy, concentrate on improving older people’s quality of life.
None of the structural reforms essential to improving Italy’s growth potential – for example, labor-market and unemployment benefit reforms, product market liberalizations, improvements of the education system, reforms of the public administration in the South – has been carried out, even though Berlusconi could count on solid majorities in both chambers of Parliament.
The economy is contracting so much that the debt/GDP ratio is actually increasing, and the actual deficit is improving only marginally, because government revenues are falling along with GDP.
In countries like Greece, Finland, Italy, and Portugal, joining the single currency ran against the interests of some industrialists, who viewed the devaluation of the national currency as preferable to better but tougher choices aimed at maintaining and improving competitiveness.
Many cancers are likely caused by chronic viral infections, another reason that it is surely more sensible to attack infectious diseases by improving access to clean water, basic sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccines than it is to build radiotherapy facilities.
Thanks to the lifting of sanctions under the JCPOA, that negotiation would take place against a background of steadily improving economic conditions, which would persuade the Iranian public of the tangible benefits of a moderate and cooperative approach.
The message is simple: improving opportunities for Roma is morally right and economically smart.
Expanded access to renewable energy would benefit African countries in many other ways, too, such as by reducing poverty, improving gender equality, enhancing sanitation, and limiting greenhouse-gas emissions.
And what we discovered is that the best way to entice young people back to the farm is by improving access to and engagement with emerging technologies.
The government also passed legislation aimed at improving the management of private debt and facilitating its restructuring.
Morocco’s evolutionary approach to improving the country’s well-being – quietly and resolutely building on the political, economic, and social reforms launched more than a decade ago – is backed by an overwhelming majority of citizens.
The reason for this is simple: the lives of ordinary people are improving, so they support Putin willingly.
Our nation may be small, but our commitment to improving the well-being of this region is anything but.
At that previous meeting, a panel of the world’s leading economic thinkers was challenged to answer this question: if an extra $50 billion were spent improving the state of the world, how could the money be allocated to achieve the most good possible?
The cost of improving air quality in all Chinese cities, let alone cleaning up all the polluted rivers, lakes, and soil in the country, will be massive.
We have the knowledge to secure our future by improving the life prospects of all our young children.
Other countries should focus on improving the conditions for long-term savings, such as through occupational pension schemes.
This means establishing a better balance between EU and national responsibilities; fully respecting the subsidiarity principle (according to which the EU should act only if a problem cannot be resolved at the local, regional, or national levels); improving the efficiency of spending and channeling it toward growth and job creation; reducing bureaucracy through better legislation; easing regulatory and administrative burdens; and enhancing transparency in every aspect of EU decision-making – from the Commission to the European Parliament.
And in the Pacific region, Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, and Vanuatu have banded together to create the Pacific Islands Regional Initiative (PIRI), which will enable every Pacific Island state, even those without a central bank, to share knowledge on improving access, quality, and usage of financial services in geographically challenging environments.
Such a pragmatic approach to improving governance would be neither dogmatic nor pretend to universality.
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