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A more telling indicator of progress – or lack of it – is the minimal improvement in education.
But evolutionary progress is always preferable to revolutionary upheaval, and, despite all the difficulties of genuine incremental reform, the prospects are not absolutely hopeless.
Finally, reliable data will be critical to guiding efforts and evaluating progress.
The world is ready for a new, comprehensive metric for national and global progress and prosperity, one that tells us whether people really are better off – and how to ensure that they are.
The US and others have made progress in punishing domestic firms that engage in corrupt practices abroad.
Why are the Wahhabi clerics, the main opponents of reform and progress, continually indulged as the Kingdom’s de facto co-rulers?
Unlike more established democracies, in which politics only effects the economy at the margins, Poland cannot coast along; it needs leadership from its politicians if the economic gains of the last few years are not to be wasted through lack of progress on privatization, fiscal and banking reform, and modernization of the legal system.
Major progress in fixing these problems has already been achieved.
Another factor behind the upturn is the meaningful progress that a number of European countries, such as Spain, have made on structural reform.
Yet, given intense opposition to further fiscal and political integration, progress, if it is to occur, will entail difficult and divisive negotiations.
But, though the road back to full employment and sustainable growth will not be built overnight, progress on it may be faster than most observers expect.
Now the scientific community must use its capacity for self-correction – based on new information, discoveries, experiences, and ideas (the stuff of scientific progress for centuries) – to address these threats.
A major hindrance to scientific progress is the increasing scarcity of research funding – a trend that has been exacerbated by the global economic crisis.
While this competitive mentality is not new in science – the seventeenth-century mathematicians Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz spent more than a decade fighting bitterly for credit for the discovery of calculus – it has intensified to the point that it is impeding progress.
But addressing them requires a prudent strategy that accounts for the structural fragility of the scientific enterprise, in which scientists must complete extensive training, regulation can easily stifle creativity, and funding limitations can substantially delay progress.
From 1850 to 1970 or so, rapid technological progress first triggered wage increases in line with productivity gains.
Personally, I think the greater risk is that the pace of technological progress will accelerate too much for societies to adapt, though the experience so far has basically been positive.
Expertise in a wide variety of different areas – molecular and cell biology, mathematics and statistics, nutrition and diet, food chemistry, and social science – is fundamental to progress.
This was hardly the first or only time that China has used central planning to implement short-term solutions that fail to bring about – or, in some cases, even impede – long-term progress.
It is to be expected that the majority of research findings are rapidly contradicted and refuted; indeed, it is part of how progress of science occurs.
Science is a noble pursuit, but genuine progress in scientific research is not easy to achieve.
The implementation of the Goods and Services Tax – a form of value-added tax on which the government has made admirable progress – would be a major accomplishment and a huge boost for the economy.
His administration needed to address the fiscal and external imbalances, without undoing the progress in social inclusion that had been made over the previous decade.
Only when the fighting has stopped can Syria make genuine progress toward a political transition.
This is not guaranteed, however, as progress in establishing social insurance – crucial to increasing consumption – has been relatively slow, while monetary transfers to families (such as those that have been implemented in Brazil, Mexico, and elsewhere in Latin America) might not be feasible, given the logic of China’s political system.
But that was written in 1997, and progress since then has been very slow, on both sides of the Atlantic.
No one can doubt that the EU has been a guarantor of peace, democracy, modernity, and progress for all of its members.
UEFA is unhappy with Ukraine’s progress in building the necessary infrastructure, but Ukraine should be given time to get its act together.
The performance of the IOSCO and the IAIS has similarly been sharpened by the need to report progress through the FSB.
Sadly, in view of today’s needs, macroeconomists have made little progress on policy since John Maynard Keynes explained how economies could get stuck in unemployment due to deficient aggregate demand.
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