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This is mostly not the case today, but the situation is improving as the Obama administration links more of its spending to evidence of success, and as non-profit groups, like America Achieves, develop sophisticated new techniques to evaluate government programs.
With the government acting as a venture capitalist, the private sector can create effective new programs to address social problems.
But scaling up these programs will require government resources.
Monetary policy – in particular, the vast money-printing “quantitative easing” programs pursued by central banks in recent years – has run out of space, too, with price inflation ticking up and central-bank balance sheets a record size.
For countries that are following agreed reform programs, the ECB should commit itself to bringing down interest rates to levels compatible with projected inflation and growth rates, and announce how long (say, nine months) this will continue.
Finally, the adjustment programs themselves must be carefully re-calibrated.
If these three steps – an ECB bond-buying program to hold down sovereign interest rates, concrete progress on establishing a real economic union, and realistic revision of current adjustment programs – could be achieved as a package, the resources that the ECB would need to use for its bond purchases would drop, because credibility would be restored.
There are more than 450 research programs in America developing genetic tests.
As the career outcomes associated with specific institutions and degree programs become more transparent, education and training providers will become more accountable for preparing their students for prosperous and productive lives.
Although the schedule for my most recent trip was overwhelming, and offered little real contact with ordinary people, I could still grasp – from daily newspapers, TV programs, and conversations with friends – the profound economic, political, and moral crisis engulfing the country.
We do not yet know what combination of black-box computer programs and electronic trading algorithms, interacting across more than 50 market centers, caused this catastrophe.
More disturbing is that all of the countries the World Bank didn’t help had similar success and failure rates – suggesting that the Bank’s programs made no difference.
Voucher programs for reproductive health care in Uganda and Kenya are now providing access to quality services from the private sector.
The 100 most indebted countries still find the burden of servicing their collective $2.3 trillion in official debt increasingly hard to bear, leaving them hard put to finance national programs spelled out by the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), which seek to halve global poverty by 2015.
Look at our television programs.
From November 2008 to November 2014, successive QE programs added $3.6 trillion to the Fed’s balance sheet, nearly 25% more than the $2.9 trillion expansion of nominal GDP over the same period.
These programs are designed to reduce poverty by making welfare programs conditional upon the recipients’ actions.
Evidence from this and smaller-scale programs show significant increases in household consumption, reducing poverty in the short run, and that such programs improve school enrollment and attendance rates, although they do less for achievement levels.
Research also shows that these programs improve the health of children and adults.
Moreover, there is no evidence that these programs generate major negative incentives, such as lower employment among adults or higher fertility rates.
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.
When countries create tax regimes that are effectively designed to steal tax revenues from others, the result is also less money for education, health care, poverty-reduction programs, and measures to address climate change.
Indeed, its programs currently reach more than 100,000 students each year, including more than 1,600 university students who receive scholarships.
The programs developed by the REF ought to be scaled up by governments, with the help of the EU, and made available to all Roma children in Europe.
Stronger safety net programs might reduce the need for precautionary savings in the future, but such reforms cannot be accomplished overnight.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, most economies failed to respond to the adjustment programs demanded by the IMF and World Bank.
If they believe that the Bank has a meaningful future worth supporting, it is the rapidly growing emerging-market countries, not the indebted West, that can provide the resources (this means China, of course, but even Brazil and India have growing aid programs).
For example, the generosity of major pharmaceutical companies, which provide medicines free of charge, has enabled treatment programs to be scaled up.
It is critical that the US continue its strong leadership on NTDs by maintaining funding for treatment programs in the federal budget, this year and in the years to come.
In his UN speech, Francis reminded us of a crucial point: “Above and beyond our plans and programs, we are dealing with real men and women who live, struggle and suffer, and are often forced to live in great poverty, deprived of all rights.”
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