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Although a very large number of girls drop out after primary school, the number completing higher education is now large.
Despite unequivocal evidence of its positive social and economic impact, education – particularly at the preschool and primary levels – suffers from chronic under-investment.
Holding free and fair elections may not be the primary issue, but nor are they issues that should be shelved in the interests of stability and expediency.
Foreign Policy ForgottenDENVER – For many foreign audiences, the United States’ primary elections for the 2012 presidential vote – which will, alas, continue to rage into the summer – must be a frightening display of what Americans and their leaders do not know about foreign policy.
In Turkey, the only religious education that is tolerated is under the strict control of the state, whereas in France a wide variety of privately supported religious education is allowed, and since 1959 the state has paid for much of the Catholic Church’s primary school costs.
The primary goal of the program – initiated in 2009 by the previous Congress party-led government – was originally to manage government benefits and eliminate “ghost beneficiaries” of public subsidies, thereby preventing the pilfering of state funds.
Their primary objective is to forge a consensus for Lebanon’s future in the wake of the withdrawal of Syrian forces last year.
Whatever the outcome, the benefits are marginal; the primary benefit of market-economy status for China is that it would preclude anti-dumping charges under WTO regulations.
This highlights the problem inherent in using the US dollar, a national currency, as the global economy’s primary international-reserve currency.
Secondary Schools’ Primary ImportanceDHAKA – The world has made remarkable progress in providing primary education to children worldwide.
In the 1960s, fewer than half of the developing world’s children were enrolled in primary school.
In many regions, a higher proportion of girls than boys enroll in primary school.
To be sure, too many children remain out of school in countries like Nigeria and Pakistan, but the real problem lies in what happens after the primary years are over.
This group has pledged more than $600 million over five years to enable 14 million girls to “attend and complete primary and secondary school.”
Access to secondary schools can also boost enrollment in primary schools, reducing the likelihood that parents will keep their children at home to work or, as is often the case with girls, to help with domestic chores.
If children have no choice but to return from primary school to the farm, why send them to school at all?Providing secondary education need not cost a fortune.
Most village primary schools are used for education only a small fraction of the time.
Producing scholarly papers is critical for career advancement, but studies show that women publish fewer articles than their male colleagues, are less likely to be primary authors, and rarely serve as reviewers.
This diagnosis seems to misread the historical evidence from the period between the early 1970s and the late 1990s, and is thus based on a fundamentally flawed assumption about the primary driver of inflation in the global North since World War II.
This idea would play well in the Democratic primary elections (which start in early 2016).
Clinton’s barely discussed economic plan was to expand Obama’s left-leaning agenda, so that it looked more like the socialism of her opponent in the Democratic primary, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders.
Indeed, the IMF/World Bank meetings also grappled with a second fundamental change in the world economy: high and volatile primary commodity prices are now a major threat to global economic stability and growth.
Growing world demand for primary commodities, especially in China, is pushing hard against the physical supplies of global resources.
Narrow policies like the government’s recent credit tightening will make it difficult to direct financial resources to the real economy – one of the primary objectives of “Likonomics.”
The Philippine government has proposed that half of all scheduled debt payments be withheld for a specified period, to be invested in reforestation, clean water, housing, food production, primary healthcare, sanitation, basic education, farm-to-market roads, ecologically sound tourism, micro-finance, and related MDG projects.
In fact, wealth accumulation remains the primary objective of Chinese households.
The primary causes behind declining global biodiversity include habitat loss and fragmentation as a result of human activity.
As much as Kim may enjoy threatening the most powerful country in the world, the United States has never been North Korea’s primary target.
Greece will need to reduce its debt ratio considerably before it can return to the capital markets, which implies – even under an optimistic scenario – creating a primary surplus in excess of eight percentage points of GDP.
Among advanced-country governments, none (except oil-rich Norway) has managed to achieve a durable primary budget surplus (revenue less non-interest expenditure) exceeding 6% of GDP.
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