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As a latecomer to urbanization, India will benefit from technological
innovations
– including digital technologies, cleaner energy, innovative construction materials, and new modes of transport – that will enable it to leapfrog some of its more developed counterparts.
The good news is that, on vector control – that is, mosquito eradication – promising
innovations
are already emerging.
Such
innovations
promise to accelerate substantially efforts to curb deadly mosquito-borne diseases.
Although older workers’ health, disability, and life-insurance costs are higher,
innovations
in health-care treatment and access mean that age-related health problems do not impede one’s capacity to contribute economically or socially as much, and not until much later in life.
Important institutional
innovations
have also been introduced, including creation of the Financial Stability Forum.
But the unscientific standards and regulations that she defends in the name of the global public actually harm the environment and public health, stifling the development of environmentally friendly
innovations
that can increase agricultural productivity, help clean up toxic wastes, conserve water, and supplant agricultural chemicals.
Of course, some political
innovations
that work in one context may cause real damage in another.
Many of the
innovations
highlighted in the report are meant to enhance citizen engagement.
But Abe is also pressing for change in medical research and the technology sector by embracing long-shunned
innovations
such as iPS cells (artificial stem cells).
He is also emphasizing the development of renewable energy and power-saving innovations, which became an urgent policy objective following the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant two years ago.
Obama has introduced important
innovations
in US nuclear policy, but much important continuity with previous policies exist.
Thai Rak Thai’s populism featured income redistribution, cheap health care, micro-credit schemes, and a dazzling array of policy
innovations
that ushered Thailand into twenty-first-century globalization.
Fortunately, a growing arsenal of solutions is available through local
innovations
that are increasingly well adapted to Africa’s unique needs.
As the obstacles created by previous government policies and past population growth are gradually removed, adopting successful
innovations
will yield increasingly large payoffs and faster per-capita growth over time.
The same is true of today’s digital
innovations.
Often embodying the properties of “natural monopolies,” they are not only shielded from disruption but can also repress and delay beneficial
innovations.
Over the last 15 years, scientific
innovations
spearheaded by developing countries contributed significantly to progress on the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), particularly those related to global health.
Health
innovations
developed in the world’s poor countries have passed the test of scalability and applicability in the places that need them most.
One of the most significant
innovations
being embraced by the world’s planning agencies is the concept of “open data,” information that can be used by anyone to improve any aspect of public life.
Instead of viewing these changes as a threat, and trying to resist them, developing economies should be getting ahead of them, by embracing disruptive
innovations.
Likewise, much of the rapid advance in communications in recent years reflects
innovations
– smartphone and tablet hardware and software, for example – that has been indigenous to the US.
Best practices should be clarified,
innovations
identified and tested, and knowledge and experience shared.
There is much talk of great leaps forward, of modernization,
innovations
and nanotechnologies – the sort of myths with which fading rulers console themselves as they look for magical solutions to cure the dysfunctions of their regimes.
So, whether
innovations
come from the UK, the EU, or elsewhere, there will be opportunities in the international marketplace for African countries that have prepared for them.
Latin America will need a great deal of fresh thinking and many policy
innovations
if it is to keep growing in a post-commodity-boom era.
Again, China’s authoritarian politics means that it cannot profit from the
innovations
that depend on software, as that is an instrument through which dissent can flourish and become subversive of total control.
Reformers will also need to keep experimenting to find the right way to measure standards – to make sure that teachers are competing on the correct dimensions – and to provide the many other kinds of organizational
innovations
and support that schools, teachers, and students need.
But today, new technologies, and the ability to combine them with old innovations, have given people more say over their economic fortunes.
This year’s report focuses on the nature of work: how the way we earn a living is being transformed by economic globalization, new technologies, and
innovations
in social organization.
In other words, rather than bringing about the end of brick-and-mortar education, MOOCs and other
innovations
will spur the progression to so-called “click-and-mortar” education.
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