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The development approach that dominates global thinking today emphasizes economic growth and state-building over social progress.
Progress is impossible without change.
During the Obama years, there has been progress on other fronts – the small but significant steps that add up to strengthening the sinews of a relationship.
If this can be done, the chances of progress in the run-up to the 2010 elections will be strengthened.
With voters heading to the polls in early 2018, genuine progress toward resolving the energy crisis would presumably be good for Pakistan’s political leaders.
Nonetheless, in an increasingly open global environment, characterized by strong growth (and demand) in the advanced economies, the emerging economies managed to make huge and rapid progress.
Moreover, with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s announcement of his intention to withdraw Israel’s army unilaterally from Gaza, the occupation itself is once again an open question, offering opportunities for further progress.
Even Sharon ventures a few favorable comments, and American diplomats express visible sighs of relief that progress toward peace can at last be made.
Only genuine progress towards a just peace settlement will neutralize them as a political force.
What makes today’s downward spiral particularly disheartening is that the economic crisis has hit at a time of the first glimmerings of progress, notably in health care.
Moreover, 536,000 women a year die in childbirth, and maternal health is also the one MDG progress towards which has stagnated since the targets were established 10 years ago.
No surprise, then, that the Chinese quickly released a statement blaming the lack of progress with North Korea on the US.
The Indian media are doing their part to strengthen the illusion of progress, latching onto the phrase “closest partners” in their acclaim for the agreement.
Unfortunately, little progress has been made in this area.
Though the country has made significant progress on this front since 2008, its total trade-to-GDP ratio (37%) and export-to-GDP ratio (18%) remain significantly higher than those of the US, Japan, and other large economies.
Member states are divided on how to address this, and recent discussions in Brussels have only begun to make some progress.
Until the dust settles on the new Middle East, the old roadmaps seem dated, and conventional wisdom holds that progress toward a peace agreement in the face of regional upheaval is wishful thinking.
In formulating the post-2015 development agenda, measuring the MDGs’ successes – and identifying where progress has lagged – is critically important.
Given their value in measuring – and propelling – social and economic progress, this shortage must be addressed urgently.
I see a danger of retreating from the progress we have made, particularly in the realm of economic development and fairness in sharing the fruits of global growth.
But progress here has been uneven.
We did so after Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar, where the challenge now is to push for political progress, including credible steps on human rights and democracy.
While members of the new middle-class appreciate economic progress, they no longer want it to come at the expense of political rights.
That progress is likely to be interrupted, but not halted.
Only with a new approach – and tangible progress – can solidarity within Europe be regained.
First, although Europe might be able to scrape through the current crisis on austerity alone, it would be left ill-equipped to address deeper structural shortcomings, to say nothing of making progress on fiscal, banking, and political union.
Even after the international community adopted the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992, the fossil-fuel industry managed to block meaningful progress – to the point that, if serious action is not taken soon, the entire process could unravel.
Is it plausible that the Serbian authorities remained in the dark while the killing was in progress and reported in the press all over the world?
This model held a moral umbrella over the existing Westphalian state system, by creating a universal structure within which national governments could collaborate in the pursuit of progress.
The world has pushed off from the shore of a rules-based system that was founded on the Enlightenment idea of universal progress.
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