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It was an absence of coordinated medical care, especially basic primary care, and a lack of attention to people’s underlying risk factors.
A recent study by UNESCO shows that in developing countries up to 60% of children do not complete primary school.
Primary amongst these is the widespread use of part-time and temporary employees.
And some in the West consider the new states that emerged from the wreckage – Ukraine and the Baltic republics, in particular – to be the primary source of Russia’s ressentiment and revanchism in the post-Cold War world.
One thing they all have in common is that their primary focus was on the social, political, and economic makeup of the Western European world between 1450 and 1900.
Moreover, US schools, particularly at the primary and secondary levels, continue to slip down the global scale, constraining Americans’ ability to benefit from globalization.
More than one in five Africans aged 15-24 is unemployed, only one-third have completed primary school, and, despite some progress, the rate of higher education remains low.
Ben Carson – the retired neurosurgeon who endorsed Trump after bowing out of the Republican primary – is no fan of social programs or fair-housing initiatives.
In past years, South Korea has been the primary external source of food, through either direct food assistance (for the immediate problem) or deliveries of fertilizer.
According to that view, investors punish profligate states by demanding higher interest rates to hedge against the likelihood of inflation; so the best way to ensure low borrowing costs is to give central banks as much independence from politicians as possible, and then make price stability their primary mandate.
Such reinvestment is the primary reason why technological change has benefited employment in the past.
Given that less than 10% of the world’s states are homogeneous, treating self-determination as a primary rather than secondary moral principle could have disastrous consequences in many parts of the world.
The safety net to protect the primary residences of low-income households was also fine-tuned.
The Senegalese government spends about 40% of the state budget on education and provides free public schooling to almost 85% of all primary school age children.
By contrast, Pakistan, spends just 8% and six million primary age children have no public schooling.
Roughly 15 million people suffer from co-infection of HIV and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the primary causative agent in most TB cases.
Not only did he and his entourage fail to achieve their primary diplomatic goal of building alliances to help in the fight against the Ottoman Empire; they also left a slew of stately homes in a state that might have made Keith Moon blush.
The plan demands the restoration of health-care services in 40 hospitals and 1,300 primary health-care facilities across the country, so that children and mothers can receive free essential care, vaccinations, and treatment for diseases like tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, and malaria.
For most healthy men, however, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) – a leading independent panel of experts on prevention and primary care – has publicly recommended against widespread PSA tests.
And, because an estimated three billion people depend on seafood as their primary source of protein, pirate fishing has significant food-security and humanitarian consequences as well.
The IMF would then have primary responsibility for assessing the credit worthiness of all 160 member governments and perhaps government agencies.
The Persistence of Global ImbalancesJACKSON HOLE, WYOMING – The primary focus of this year’s Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, which convenes the world’s leading central bankers, was not explicitly monetary policy.
On the finance side, international capital flows and global imbalances were the primary focus.
Any eurozone political leader whose primary consideration now is re-election will face certain failure by meeting this historical challenge.
But European priorities have to be the primary concern in this crisis – even at the price of losing office.
It is impossible to imagine her surviving a primary campaign.
In this sense, it is promising that China’s leaders admitted at the latest Congress that China is and will remain in the primary phase of socialism.
State and local governments were leaders in establishing public primary and secondary education systems, as well as state colleges and universities.
The European Central Bank would then have to intervene to maintain the credibility of its commitment to price stability, which is its primary mandate.
In a study of the congressional vote on the McFadden Act of 1927, which sought to boost competition in lending, Rodney Ramcharan of the US Federal Reserve and I found that legislators from districts with a highly unequal distribution of land holdings – farming was the primary source of income in many districts then – tended to vote against the act.
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