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The common denominator among these
interventions
is the need for sufficient well-trained health workers serving impoverished communities.
This – together with other critical interventions, such as the provision of clean water and effective sanitation facilities – will require a strong and sustained political commitment, one that civil society and the media, by keeping their governments accountable, can help to secure.
The repository will enable rigorous analyses that provide policymakers with a deeper understanding of how girls’ lives and needs evolve during adolescence and which
interventions
are most effective for which groups (and under which conditions).
By investing in more inclusive and peaceful societies and in minimizing the risk of disasters, we will be able to reduce the need for spending on humanitarian
interventions.
Tens of thousands of people are alive today because of his
interventions.
This would purchase a bundle of interventions, including micronutrient provision, complementary foods, treatment for worms and diarrheal diseases, and behavior-change programs, all of which could reduce chronic under-nutrition by 36% in developing countries.
And comprehensive research now shows that such
interventions
would stay with them for life: their bodies and muscles would grow faster, their cognitive abilities would improve, and they would pay more attention in school (and stay there longer).
But such
interventions
inevitably translate into more holdings of US government securities.
That is why all public-health
interventions
must focus first and foremost on scientific facts, and avoid emotional or panicked responses.
Only education remains as a future investment sector, given its impact on productivity, but the rest of the much-needed social sector
interventions
have been abandoned in favor of investment in infrastructure, the environment, regional integration, and finance.
The humanitarian sector is working to improve its performance in a variety of areas, from clarifying outcomes to promoting evidence-based programming and value-for-money
interventions.
It also heralds the beginning of a new era in geopolitics, in which large-scale military
interventions
are not carried out by Western coalitions, but by countries acting in their own narrow self-interest, often in contravention of international law.
An acute awareness of the magnitude of civilian suffering in conflicts such as the Syrian civil war or the ongoing horrors in the Congo Basin, and an appreciation of how cycles of violence perpetuate themselves over generations, can actually make women much more likely to urge the use of force in
interventions.
The new fund aims to establish a permanent source of finance to bridge the gap between humanitarian
interventions
during crises and long-term post-crisis development.
The lesson of the Iraq War should not be that all armed
interventions
in the Middle East or elsewhere are to be avoided, but rather that they must only be undertaken when they are the best available strategy and when the results are likely to justify the costs.
Governments are increasingly looking for ways to mitigate the negative effects of trade through labor-market policies and broader interventions, and scholars are generating a new wealth of knowledge that could make globalization work for everyone, provided the significant trade-policy risks looming on the horizon are addressed.
Whether to prevent the appearance of inadequate insurance or to avoid losing export share, sizable
interventions
in currency markets became widely accepted among Asia’s emerging economies as a natural response to large capital inflows – directly contradicting these countries’ commitments to floating exchange rates.
The moral authority that Francis exudes makes his
interventions
in controversial contemporary issues – such as his condemnation of the Armenian genocide, Islamic jihadi violence, Mafia criminality and corruption in Italy, and the deaths of African and Middle Eastern migrants in the Mediterranean – extremely powerful.
Likewise, basic nutritional
interventions
– especially for pregnant women and infants – can have far-reaching effects for individuals and communities.
For example, conservation agriculture, which aims to reduce or eliminate the need for damaging and labor-intensive
interventions
like mechanical soil tillage, can increase yields while protecting vulnerable areas from erosion and improving soil fertility.
In the Review on AMR, we showed that global GDP could suffer a $100 trillion loss over the next 34 years if we do not make certain public-health
interventions
between now and 2050.
Those
interventions
would cost around $40 billion over a decade, which is to say that the investment needed to prevent $100 trillion in lost growth costs less than 0.1% of current global GDP.
Last year, US official statistics reported a 43% decrease in childhood obesity since 2004, mainly during the second half of the decade – a shift that may have been driven, at least partly, by targeted
interventions.
Indeed, a root of the Bush administration's diminished interest in NATO can probably be found in the
interventions
of small countries in the military decisions - such as the choice of bombing targets - during the Kosovo War.
In 2008, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared the goal of ensuring universal access to malaria-control
interventions
by the end of 2010 for all those at risk of the disease, with the ultimate goal of reaching near-zero malaria deaths by 2015.
They are taking concrete actions, such as ensuring that essential malaria-control
interventions
are exempted from taxes and tariffs that add unnecessary costs to life-saving items, and that supplies are purchased in bulk to reduce costs.
Through a review of 500 intervention trials around the world, MGI has identified 74 potential
interventions
that could be used to address obesity.
MGI was able to collect enough data on 44 of the 74 potential
interventions
to develop an initial assessment of their impact if they were scaled up to a national level.
If the United Kingdom, for example, were to deploy all 44 interventions, it could rein in obesity rates and help roughly 20% of its overweight and obese population return to a healthy weight within 5-10 years.
Over the long term, savings from reduced health-care spending and gains from higher productivity could outweigh the investment needed to deliver
interventions.
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