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Improving people’s understanding of the problem will be crucial to reversing this trend.
In testimony to the Senate Banking Committee in early February, MIT’s Simon Johnson endorsed the Volcker approach, but also favored strengthening commercial banks’ capital ratios “dramatically” – from about 7% to 25% – and improving bankruptcy procedures through a “living will,” which would freeze some assets, but not others.
Any fiscal stimulus now should focus on improving public services, encouraging consumption, and increasing household income.
Instead, the current crisis should reinvigorate debate about these issues, with the goal of refining the balance between public-health and business interests and thereby improving the global response to future crises.
The authorities should focus not only on producing renewable energy, but also on improving the energy efficiency of existing systems.
Tackling the world’s environmental and ecological problems, and improving the lot of those who have been left behind, will require public action, such as that which I oversaw in my roles at the World Bank, the United Nations, and the British government.
Many of the region’s universities have put a premium on innovation, which bodes well for improving health-care services.
But safety is improving.
Robbing the RomaBUDAPEST – A year and a half has passed since the European Commission adopted the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020, which calls upon European Union governments to create comprehensive plans aimed at strengthening social inclusion and improving the well-being of their Romani citizens.
But what strikes me is that these arguments focus only on improving the mix of outputs within an economy, with no attention paid to labor.
Reducing road fatalities is an important goal, and the growing engagement of tech companies (and competition with the established auto companies) should be welcomed, in the interest of improving road safety.
Carrying the scenario further, one could even dream up an optimistic outlook for the UK’s trade balance, with a highly competitive exchange rate significantly improving demand in its major market, the eurozone.
Averaging the numbers assumes that all components are substitutes: if you cannot improve on one, you can compensate by improving on another.
Improving on them does not foretell more economic dynamism.
The Kim regime is also certain to want to avoid being forced to choose between giving up its nuclear and missile programs, which it sees as essential for its security, and improving its economy, which is essential for social and political stability.
That is why the next chapter of global health development must focus on improving the delivery of care.
Needless to say, improving health-care systems will require more resources and firm leadership, particularly in the countries most affected by malaria.
The 17 goals range from ending poverty and improving health to protecting the planet’s biosphere and providing energy for all.
A promising financial instrument, capable of improving the efficiency of credit markets, is rejected; or the agency's investigative and review procedures become stultified.
The conventional wisdom will tell you that the MDGs targets – reducing poverty and hunger, improving the health of mothers and children, combating HIV/AIDS, increasing access to education, protecting the environment, and forging a global partnership for development – are simply unattainable.
This requires improving access to all forms of education – and at low or zero cost.
Weak health-care systems must also be strengthened in order to tackle the endemic diseases that sap productivity, such as malaria, as well as improving preparedness for outbreaks of deadly epidemics.
Policymakers must make it easier to move goods across borders, by improving connectivity between countries and reducing bureaucratic hurdles and administrative costs.
EU enlargement brought greater prosperity, with living standards improving throughout the Union, particularly in the new member states.
For example, improving the provision of health care, education, and care for the elderly, and bringing it into line with the needs and expectations of the emerging middle class should encourage more households to allocate a larger share of their income to consumption.
Easing access to finance for the private sector, strengthening legal frameworks, making the private sector more attractive to nationals (more than two-thirds of whom are currently public employees), and coordinating investment in areas like logistics would go a long way toward improving private-sector competitiveness in the GCC.
But the new development banks seem less interested in supplanting current institutions than in improving upon them – an objective shared by those institutions themselves.
We must address the barriers to learning, both in the classroom and at home, by improving the quality of teaching and classroom conditions and teaching parents how they can support their children’s education.
Paradoxically, one indicator that has been improving steadily in the US – productivity – may be the clearest sign of the problem.
Educating residents of low-lying coastal areas about the warning signs of a tsunami (tremors and a sudden recession in the ocean), establishing a warning system involving emergency broadcasts, telephoned warnings, and air-raid-type sirens, and improving emergency response systems would have saved many who were killed by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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