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Whereas EU membership was once regarded as a gateway to prosperity, it is increasingly viewed as a drag on progress.
But that regression has been more than offset by progress in America’s relationships with Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Singapore, and especially Vietnam.
There is a stark contrast between the deteriorating external situation and the continuing progress in internal reforms.
With a bit of investment and foresight, spelled out in a new report, prepared by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), on Data for Development, the data revolution can drive a sustainable development revolution, and accelerate progress toward ending poverty, promoting social inclusion, and protecting the environment.
And yet, despite the urgent need for major policy adaptations at the national level, and much better regional and global coordination, progress has been disappointing.
Simultaneous progress on both substance and process is needed.
Instead, it was meant to take the existential threat of Iran’s nuclear program off the table long enough to build a foundation for more constructive engagement that could bring progress on other fronts.
To be sure, Europe has made some progress towards reducing its carbon-dioxide emissions.
The country’s rapid progress is attributed to strong manufacturing exports, carried out by firms that were able to compete in global markets only with the help of government incentives.
Park’s father, who led South Korea from 1961 until his assassination in 1979, worked closely with the chaebols, helping them first to build comparative advantages in labor-intensive manufacturing and then to progress to more capital-intensive industries, including automobiles, shipbuilding, and chemicals.
Compared to public opinion in 1960, that’s certainly an enormous progress.
But there has been progress on addressing the eurozone’s weaknesses.
In the US, too, policies in individual states such as California will drive technological progress, regardless of the federal government’s approach.
Despite its progress, around a third of India’s population lives in conditions of acute poverty, making the country home to a third of the world’s poor.
Ireland, Portugal, Spain, and Greece have made considerable progress in lowering their unit labor costs to 1999 levels relative to Germany.
Italy and France, meanwhile, have made considerably less progress on improving their international competitiveness.
Traditionally, the US had vetoed such resolutions, though for some time now, administrations had taken the position that such settlements blocked progress on a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict.
These children’s chances now depend on showing that we can make progress in Lebanon.
Many developing countries have made progress since the 1990’s in shifting from dollar-denominated debt toward foreign direct investment and other types of capital inflows, or in paying down their liabilities altogether.
Even barring real progress in the talks, China already looks like a good global citizen.
But the opposite is also true: strong, properly enforced land rights can boost growth, reduce poverty, strengthen human capital, promote economic fairness (including gender equity), and support social progress more broadly.
This is important progress.
Secure land tenure is thus vital to building the inclusive, resilient, and sustainable communities that will propel economic and social progress well into the future.
For, above all, it is in this era of globalization that faith can represent reason and progress.
Only then can they deliver progress to the people they represent.
But this progress could be jeopardized if current debt trends in some countries continue.
To be sure, progress in any field, from commerce and communications to health and environmental science, will become increasingly dependent on technological innovation, and thus on the high-order skills – acquired through intensive technical training – that drive it.
It is time to abandon the “either/or” discourse that pits science against humanities – which the British chemist and novelist C.P. Snow identified more than a half-century ago as an obstacle to human progress.
We have been making progress in China’s remote Xinjiang province through our Jian Kang Kuai Che, or “Health Express” initiative, which gives local health-care professionals access to training at urban hospitals through remote education sessions and consultations.
In order to make genuine progress in Warsaw, climate negotiators must account for the various ways in which developing countries are contributing to the transition toward a low-carbon future.
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