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In Liberia, data collectors on motorbikes used mobile phones to map 10,000 previously unknown water points – an initiative that informed the country’s first water investment plan, launched last year.
Figures like Senators Pete Domenici and Alan Simpson, who talked a good game about the long-run deficit, never met a budget-busting Republican program that they would oppose or a deficit-reducing Democratic initiative that they could support.
a new worldwide initiative to ensure that all children on the planet can attain at least a secondary education.
On a sunny day in Malawi recently, Madonna and the CEO of Ericsson, Hans Vestberg, attended the groundbreaking for a new girls’ school and launched the new global education initiative.
If Beijing is serious about building strategic partnerships with the West, it should back up its charm offensive with deeds and take the initiative in fostering more effective cooperation.
The initiative represents the first time a developing country has committed to 100% transparency in its fishery operations; if it succeeds, it could trigger a transformation of how seafood is managed worldwide.
The commitment to full transparency and the launch of a CDQ-type initiative for PNA states are intended to keep more tuna wealth in the Pacific.
While Yomiuri’s unique public effort is not a government initiative, it comes as close as Japan will probably ever get to conducting an acceptable “official” inquiry and offering an adequate apology.
In September, South Africa, along with seven other countries, founded the “Open Government Partnership,” an initiative that aims to promote transparency, access to information, and civic engagement in public affairs.
But the proposed secrecy law is utterly at odds with this initiative, and with South Africa’s reputation as a defender of freedom.
Despite being legally non-binding, the initiative provides an important forum to reach agreement on policies ensuring that any exploitation of migratory shark populations is sustainable.
Beyond lifting the eurozone economy out of deflation, such an initiative would have massive political benefits, as it would reduce resentment toward European institutions, especially in struggling countries like Greece and Portugal, where an extra €500 would have a particularly strong impact on spending.
This initiative, originally presented by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the magazine Nature , proposes to create a pan-European funding agency to organize international competition in “hard” and “soft” basic science.
One potentially constructive initiative would be to establish a security system similar to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
Through this initiative, we have committed to support all the children and youth displaced from Syria, a country that before the war had achieved near universal enrollment.
Nonetheless, there remains time for a diplomatic initiative that includes Europe, Russia, and China.
The renewed fighting, coming eight months after a promising peace initiative known as the “Goma Agreement,” means more civilian deaths and little chance of normality returning to the eastern part of Congo.
But every now and then, the Summit – an American initiative launched by US President Bill Clinton in 1994 – actually helps to place key issues on the hemispheric table.
Arab governments feel provoked by President George W. Bush, particularly as he announced his initiative with little regional consultation.
In practice, the banks have consistently dragged their feet on mortgage restructuring – and are laying off staff, rather than hiring people who could help them deal with an initiative of the required scale.
President Bill Clinton’s administration ignored the overtures and allowed the US Congress to take the initiative.
The aggressive rhetoric of Clinton’s successor, George W. Bush, who called Iran part of an “axis of evil” prior to the US-led invasion of Iraq, made Khamenei apprehensive, and he endorsed an initiative for a dialogue with the Americans in 2003.
The Bush administration, in thrall to the idea of regime change, ignored this initiative and rejected the “Big Deal” on nuclear energy negotiated with the EU-3 in Paris in November 2004 by Rouhani, who was then Khamenei’s representative and Chairman of Iran’s National Security Council.
A decade ago, the original Schumer-Graham proposal was a thinly veiled anti-China initiative.
The good news is that a framework is already emerging that could facilitate this initiative.
India, Iran, and the Case for Double StandardsAll but lost in the controversies surrounding Iraq and Iran is a major initiative involving a third “I” country: India.
The Next Einstein Forum (NEF), an initiative of the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS) and the brainchild of Turok, supported partly by the Mastercard Foundation, is demonstrating that Africa produces strong scientific talent.
Turning his attention from the Atlantic to the Pacific, US President Barack Obama – with his eye, once again, trained on China – has now unveiled a new regional trade initiative.
The TPP initiative should be viewed against this background, and not just in the context of the collapse of the Doha Round.
These leaders also agreed to fast-track the TPP initiative, and to consider opening it to other members – most importantly Japan, a late convert to the idea of a Pacific region free-trade agreement.
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