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The solution should be to focus on improving the technology – making the lights safer, brighter, warm up faster, and save more energy, so that more people will replace more of their lights.
Reprogenetics, by contrast, is concerned with the question of what genes an individual child will receive, not with the vague, unscientific goal of improving a society's gene pool.
The Alliance should also expand the scope and scale of its joint exercises, increasing partners’ involvement in the planning and command of joint operations and improving information-sharing during such missions.
A tiny fraction of international aid funding currently goes toward reducing societal violence and improving criminal justice systems.
By taking an integrated approach – limiting the hours during which alcohol can be sold, reclaiming public space, and improving the police and justice systems – the homicide rate was reduced to 21 per 100,000 in 2004.
That rather poor cost-benefit ratio does not appear to be improving.
These are key issues in the short term, but, as every economist knows, long-run economic growth is determined mainly by improving productivity.
This data revolution offers enormous potential for improving decision-making at every level – from the local farmer to world-spanning development organizations.
So we need to know where additional data will have value for improving a decision and how much we should spend to get it.
Lastly, improving the quantity and quality of education and healthcare through partnerships with the private and non-profit sector and researchers is essential to sustain growth beyond the next five years.
The new government should promote researcher-policymaker partnerships to design and evaluate innovative programs to solve knotty policy challenges like improving learning outcomes and boosting preventive health care.
The Truth About Development AidSEATTLE – US President Donald Trump’s recently released 2018 budget blueprint proposes deep cuts in US foreign aid, prompting a discussion on the role of such spending in improving the health and wellbeing of the world’s most vulnerable people.
The plan does include sensible calls for improving tax collection and the efficiency of government spending.
Not only is it becoming increasingly obvious that GDP-directed development is ecologically unsustainable; survey research shows that it is no longer improving well-being and happiness in developed countries.
Databases are rapidly improving in depth, and are becoming more deeply integrated with personal financial-planning Web sites.
Improving the quality of life for all Africans will require political commitment, public-private partnerships, and robust public involvement.
Given that promoting sustainable urbanization and improving coordination would bolster progress in other priority areas (including women’s rights, climate change, youth unemployment, and literacy), sustainable urbanization must become a bureaucratic priority.
Devices like small-scale water-filtration systems, portable heart monitors, and low-cost tablet computers are already dramatically improving the lives of the world’s poorest citizens and helping to level the economic playing field.
Several steps can be taken towards these goals, including improving community attitudes towards education, reforming schools, tying the curriculum in community colleges and vocational institutions more closely to the needs of local firms, making higher education more affordable, and finding effective ways to retrain unemployed workers.
The rich can certainly afford to pay more, but if governments increase taxes on the wealthy, they should do it with the aim of improving opportunities for all, rather than as a punitive measure to rectify an imagined wrong.
That will require repairing and improving damaged infrastructure, generating economic prosperity, running efficient social services, and taming the unrest in the delta region.
When a government commits to improving education, it is betting that equipping its citizens for an unknowable future will yield broad-based, society-wide progress.
In fact, these countries are the biggest advocates of improving relations with Belarus, because of their shared historical, commercial, and familial links.
Economic growth and new jobs are crucial to improving people’s livelihoods now and to ensuring the prosperity of future generations.
To help meet this need, we have created the Reaching all Children with Education (RACE) initiative, focused on improving access to formal education for Syrian refugees and underprivileged Lebanese.
Rather, countries must take control by drastically improving efficiency and productivity.
Such provisions have been shown to increase female labor-force participation, while improving outcomes according to several social indicators, including violence against women, child marriage, unmet need for family planning, and education.
But it would be strange to conclude from Greece’s experience that wage deflation is a useless tool for improving competitiveness, given the widespread assumption that Germany benefited massively from it.
Given this, it would be wise to spend at least part of the windfall on improving the capacity to innovate, which is essential for a long-term growth beyond the fluctuation of international commodity prices.
Beyond improving public accounts, a large part of the revenues from high commodity prices were used to increase public spending, although this proportion varied from country to country.
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