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One well-known example is that, starting in the 1980s, CBA was used to argue that the returns on
primary
education were much higher than the returns on higher education.
The World Bank went around the world encouraging or requiring governments to cut subsidies for universities and expand those for
primary
schooling.
Analysts have concluded that basing the choice to favor
primary
education on a narrow CBA has disadvantaged many developing countries, by preventing them from competing internationally on the basis of a more educated labor force, rather than on low-wage labor.
Yet, in 2014, Lomborg commissioned a study by an economist that, with another narrow CBA, came to the same – if not discredited, at least debated – conclusion favoring investment in
primary
education over higher education.
The emergence of the G-20 as the
primary
forum of international cooperation and the peer-review process agreed in Pittsburghare steps in the right direction.
Researchers who looked at early childhood development programs in Latin America have concluded that program participation is associated with improved school readiness, a higher probability of on-time
primary
school enrollment, lower rates of grade repetition and dropout, and improved academic performance overall.
More precisely, debt reduction must be accompanied by a reduction in the target for the medium-term
primary
budget surplus, from the current 3.5% of GDP to no more than 1.5%.
This relative prosperity lasted until the second oil shock of 1979, when global stagflation depressed prices for the
primary
commodities that comprise the Ivory Coast’s narrow export base, while rising interest rates increased the cost of servicing the debt contracted by the Houphouet regime.
These dramatic shifts and daunting challenges mean that the World Bank’s next president will have to be someone whose
primary
task is to initiate and sustain change while commanding support and legitimacy across the Bank’s membership.
One of the
primary
problems with cleaner approaches to aquaculture is that they are energy-intensive.
How long will the American public tolerate the almost-daily doses of new evidence of conflicts of interest, starting with the licensing to Chinese investors, at the height of the presidential primary, of the Trump brand for use on spas, luxury hotels, and other real-estate projects?
By the end of the 1990s a majority of Chinese citizens regarded America as their
primary
adversary.
At the ramshackle Rubaya
primary
school, in a small town in the lush green hills of North Kivu province, bordering Rwanda, one gets a glimpse of that possibility.
As crowded as the Rubaya
primary
school’s classrooms are, every child I spoke to there had a sibling not attending school, because their family couldn’t cover the fees – around $10 per term.
The former should be handled by an independent central bank with
primary
responsibility for monetary and currency policies, whereas the latter should be the responsibility of the new Central Leading Group on Reforms, which has just been established by the Third Plenum.
The new budget is also likely to do little to improve India’s poor education and
primary
health-care systems.
Although developing countries are the
primary
sites of the world’s most threatening population problems, the wealthy industrial countries face some rather vexing problems of their own.
Marco himself was elected deputy on the Socialist ticket, but he defected when the party denied him the chance to contest Frei’s nomination in a
primary.
The 2010 program committed Greece to turn a
primary
fiscal deficit (excluding debt service) of 5% of GDP into a 6% surplus; but the austerity needed to deliver that consolidation produced a deep recession and a rising debt ratio.
Now the eurozone is demanding that Greece turn its 2015
primary
deficit of 1% of GDP into a 3.5%-of-GDP surplus, and to maintain that fiscal stance for decades to come.
In 2010, the IMF described how Japan could reduce net debt (excluding government bonds held by quasi-government organizations) to a “sustainable” 80% of GDP by 2030, if it turned that year’s
primary
fiscal deficit of 6.5% of GDP into a 6.4%-of-GDP surplus by 2020, and maintained that surplus throughout the subsequent decade.
Its latest forecasts suggest a 2020
primary
deficit still above 3% of GDP.
And in Mexico, structural reforms to increase competition in the telecommunications and electricity sectors, alongside other policies, have curbed inflation and boosted resilience to external shocks, and are expected to help return the country to a
primary
budget surplus.
At the
primary
and secondary levels, charter schools (publicly funded independent schools) run by for-profit companies are 20% less likely than non-profit institutions to meet proficiency standards, with some of the weakest results coming from the largest for-profit institutions.
In the US, that would include such coveted funding as Title I grants for
primary
and secondary education, and Title IV subsidized student loans for higher education.
In fact, bolstering growth might have been the
primary
motivation for the country’s political leaders, even as the PBOC remained focused on advancing the longer-term objective of strengthening the market’s role in determining the exchange rate.
BP predicts that in the Middle East, with its extensive fossil-fuel reserves,
primary
energy consumption will grow 77% by 2035.
Just how dramatic cannot be known, but the normal assumption that candidates play to their party’s core supporters during the
primary
season but then tack to the center for the general election cannot be relied on in Trump’s case.
It is a
primary
driver of GDP growth (especially in countries where labor-force growth is slowing) and income gains.
But this does not mean that policymakers’
primary
goal should be more productivity growth.
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