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Unfortunately, the reality is that the Global Fund – and I suspect, other development-assistance programs – will bear the brunt of their rage.
European regulators have already introduced sophisticated monitoring and surveillance programs, blocked market access to countries with a record of illegal fishing, penalized European rogue operators, and helped support “yellow or red carded” countries reform their fisheries laws.
Advocates suggest – rightfully, I think – that scarce tax dollars should be spent only on programs that “work.”
Even if technological change causes that market – and Chile’s share of it – to grow, primary lithium production will not provide the revenues needed to fund Chile’s social programs.
The key to Bangladesh’s success was government programs that created an enabling environment for private investment through micro-credit, risk guarantees, and small installation grants.
The Joint Operating Agreement guiding the venture, in which the Nigerian government has 55% equity, stipulates that while all parties share in the cost of operations, Shell prepares the annual work programs and budget.
Governments should not concoct programs to lend directly, guarantee loans, or invest in renewable projects on the theory that the private sector somehow lacks this capability.
Training programs should be able to impart new skills in a matter of months, not years, and they should be complemented by programs that support workers’ incomes during retraining, and that help them relocate for more productive work.
Technological support for Iran’s nuclear programs could impede the ongoing international negotiations aimed at preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, especially as the Iranians are looking for leverage in the talks.
Second, one of the necessary conditions of a functioning democracy are clear and sufficiently distinct party political programs.
Parties’ programs changed with the public opinion polls, and their economic proposals were either too complicated or too muddled for voters to grasp.
Those who advocate both democracy and security-sector reform must show consistent unity of purpose, build societal consensus and political coalitions for their programs, and formulate coherent, sustainable policies.
A few months ago, Olivier Blanchard, the International Monetary Fund’s chief economist, had already criticized his colleagues and policymakers in advanced countries for systematically underestimating the recessionary impact of fiscal consolidation programs.
Similarly, an international survey found that HIV infection among intravenous drug users decreased by 5.8% per year in cities with syringe exchange programs, and increased by 5.9% per year in cities without such programs.
No major study has shown that syringe exchange programs increase rates of drug use.
In fact, much of the business community around the world, including in the West, is still trying to figure out how to make inclusion and diversity programs successful, including with respect to leveling a playing field that is still tilted against women.
Specifically, they should expand individual and collective apprentice-based and vocational programs, modernize their methods for measuring performance, and intensify their efforts to include recent research on the benefits of cognitive diversity and “superadditivity” in internal and external communications.
But the real change will come only when all STEM programs provide students with the tools they need to carry out a credible assessment of their work’s effects on humanity.
Authorities elsewhere are considering or adopting similar programs.
Progressive economists argue that the weakening of unions in the US, together with tax policies favoring the rich, slowed middle-class income growth, while traditional transfer programs were cut back.
Such programs cannot dispense with the need for government resolve, as Greece’s travails demonstrate.
But determined governments, like those of Brazil and India, have negotiated programs in the past that set them on the path to sustained growth.
At the same time, computer programs began to exploit huge databases of games between grandmaster (the highest title in chess), using results from the human games to extrapolate what moves have the highest chances of success.
Today, chess programs have become so good that even grandmasters sometimes struggle to understand the logic behind some of their moves.
Many commercially available computer programs can be set to mimic the styles of top grandmasters to an extent that is almost uncanny.
Indeed, chess programs now come very close to passing the late British mathematician Alan Turing’s ultimate test of artificial intelligence: can a human conversing with the machine tell it is not human?
Taking all of this into consideration, we have created the Al Ghurair Open Learning Scholars Program, aimed at making some of the best education in the world available to Arab youth through online degree programs.
Together, MIT and the Open Learning Scholars Program will create two new “MicroMasters” programs consisting of five 12-week courses in so-called STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) that are not currently taught in the Arab world.
We expect these programs – accessible to young people in Arab countries and beyond – will attract significant interest from students and strong support from employers.
Indeed, Arab educational institutions must begin to explore the development of high-quality online programs.
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