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Several recent international reports, including two this month by UNESCO and the International Commission on Financing Global Education, headed by former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown, show that annual global development assistance for
primary
and secondary education needs to rise from around $4 billion to around $40 billion.
Only this ten-fold increase can enable poor countries to achieve universal
primary
and secondary education (as called for by Goal Four of the new Sustainable Development Goals).
In the United States, the federal government has
primary
responsibility for defense, public old-age pensions (Social Security), and health care for the elderly (Medicare); sub-national governments are responsible for education and law enforcement.
And Greece should not have to run a substantial
primary
budget surplus for now.
One can understand why change is slow to take root at the
primary
and secondary school level, where the social and political obstacles are massive.
That is why, for all of its success, the ICT sector in India has not been a
primary
driver of economic growth.
About 80% of the world’s
primary
energy comes from carbon-based sources: coal, oil, and gas.
But the
primary
objective for intervention would remain unequivocally humanitarian, and as such would be much less susceptible to anti-Western blowback than any other mission.
If the campaign against the Islamic State is defined and conducted with humanitarian protection as its
primary
and overwhelming objective, it should succeed not only in stopping further atrocities, but also in making large inroads into curbing the wider terrorist threat at its source.
If the West strays from that
primary
goal, the enterprise is likely to end in tears, like so many others in the Middle East.
In fact, nicotine has been the
primary
target of anti-tobacco campaigns for more than three decades.
No surprise, then, that Republican members of Congress, wary of being challenged in party
primary
elections, are reluctant to take on that base, which Trump has been cultivating.
When “access journalism” leads senior editorial decision-makers to identify with political elites, explaining the government’s thinking to the public becomes their
primary
purpose.
Instead, China should exercise
primary
political custodianship of North Korea in the event that a political vacuum emerges.
It also is unclear whether oxidative stress is a
primary
cause or a secondary phenomenon of chronic diseases, as well as of the aging process.
Nonetheless, the
primary
goal of Russian gas policy isn’t economic, but political, namely to further the aim of revising the post-Soviet order in Europe – a quest that is not about the EU as much as it is about Ukraine.
What should universities’
primary
focus be – research, professional training, or social inclusion?
Foreign investment is still viewed as desirable, but no one attaches
primary
importance to attracting it anymore.
Among Iraqis,
primary
self-identification in national terms jumped from 23% of respondents in 2004 to 57% in 2011.
Among Saudis, the figure jumped from 17% in 2003 to 46% in 2011, while the share of those claiming a
primary
Muslim identity dropped from 75% to 44%.
Basic research is the
primary
organism in the food chain of scientific endeavor.
Still, the G20 has long positioned itself as a global problem solver, having been conceived after the 1997 Asian financial crisis and then emerging as the
primary
global forum for addressing the crash of 2008.
On the other hand, I don’t imagine those former Republicans would have had any difficulty endorsing Kasich, a successful conservative governor whose
primary
motivation is plainly not hating people, whether in his own party or in the Democratic Party.
Trump wants a broader tax cut, but one that will increase the deficit dramatically – which the Freedom Caucus will have a hard time swallowing, in part because doing so would expose them to
primary
challenges.
They find that holding durations for two of America’s
primary
shareholders, Fidelity and Vanguard, have not budged since 1985.
In any case, foreign policy probably will play little role in the decision, as the issues that most concern voters likely to participate in the Democratic
primary
elections are domestic and economic in nature.
The
primary
cause of the regime’s fears is growing political uncertainty, which is the direct result of the failing health of Kim Kyong-hui, Kim Jong-un’s aunt and the power behind the throne.
The ECB’s argument that the OMT program’s
primary
purpose is to prevent a eurozone breakup is unconvincing to the German court, for only a nearly insolvent sovereign would risk breaking up the union.
Yes, the General treated Franco-German reconciliation as of
primary
importance in building a new and secure Europe.
Last year, when world leaders adopted the Sustainable Development Goals to succeed the MDGs, they included targets for both education (to ensure that all children “complete free, equitable, and quality
primary
and secondary education”) and child marriage (to eliminate “all harmful practices” against girls and women, “such as child, early, and forced marriage”).
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