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Pursuing this option implies that the EU should push for progress in trade talks with Japan, negotiate an investment agreement with China, modernize the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, and position itself as a world leader on tax reform.
They aim to restore momentum toward an open global trade regime, including progress on contentious issues like trade in services, intellectual property rights, government procurement, and the harmonization of safety, health, and technical standards.
But moving in this direction, even if imperfectly, would mean real progress.
The World Summit in New York last September showed that substantial progress could be made in adapting the UN to today’s world.
But we must also continue to work on the difficult issues where sufficient progress has not yet been achieved and where the international community remains divided.
Furthermore, we agree that revamping the Security Council is an essential element of our overall effort to reform the UN, and we support early action to make the Council more broadly representative, efficient, and transparent, bearing in mind that the General Assembly is to review progress on this matter by the end of 2005.
This is because “[h]ouseholds also have made some progress in repairing their balance sheets – saving more, borrowing less, and reducing their burdens of interest payments and debt.”
Although Unasur aims to progress beyond free-trade agreements, this requires a more streamlined integration within the organization – one that expands its current role as a forum for discussing problems and seeking solutions for Latin America as a whole.
The key to progress is to help turn Iran from a cause into a country, to paraphrase Henry Kissinger.
After Silvio Berlusconi was forced out of the premiership in 2011, the technocrat Mario Monti did take some action, but in the run-up to the election, progress slowed to a halt.
Moreover, since South Korea’s new government took office earlier this year little progress has been made in relations between the two Koreas.
And, so far, the world has not made nearly enough progress on this front, as the continued misallocation of capital shows.
Finance must be made genuinely useful, balancing progress toward agreed goals – guided by existing global targets – with the need to generate sufficient financial returns to ensure that progress is sustainable.
Yet the battle between secularism and religion in the Arab world does not have to last centuries, as it did in Europe, if only because contemporary generations can benefit from the long process of social and scientific progress that enabled the West to pave the way to modern democracy.
Already, Arab countries are making rapid progress in expanding Internet connectivity.
Through online learning, it would be far easier to measure progress and ensure that students are acquiring knowledge and skills they can actually use.
Putin does not deserve all the credit for this sea change, but what he has achieved over the last two years is far more than anyone had the right to expect: a simplified tax code, progress toward WTO membership, legal reform, greater transparency.
Europeans are undoubtedly more pessimistic than Americans about progress in general, and recent events merely seem to have reinforced this stance.
But such moments are crucial for getting children off to a healthy start in life, and for advancing progress on global health and development goals.
Raising global immunization coverage will speed progress toward the MDGs and generate momentum toward a successful post-2015 development agenda.
Over the next 1,000 days and beyond, our progress will be measured by what we have done to improve the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable members of the human family.
But as technological progress accelerated, education failed to keep pace, leaving vast numbers of people struggling to adapt to a rapidly changing world and contributing to widespread suffering.
For countries that fail to equip their residents with the proper skills, technological progress is unlikely to translate into economic growth, and large swaths of the population risk languishing on the margins of society.
Early this year, Abe announced his intention to use the 70th anniversary statement to communicate Japan’s remorse for the war, describe the progress the country has made in upholding peace, and describe the contributions that Japan can make to Asia and the rest of the world in the coming decades.
It did not, however, bring about any progress toward resolving the outstanding issues underlying the dispute between Israel and Hamas, or change the conditions that spurred the latest conflict in the first place.
Yet it has taken nearly seven decades to make real progress toward resolving the anomalies.
This view does not align with the prevailing mechanisms for measuring progress on emissions reduction, which target specific annual outcomes.
But as the storm clouds gather in the coming year, the political coalition that put Bush in power will stifle progress in undoing the fiscal mess.
The eurozone is a remarkable experiment, a genuine vanguard of global progress.
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Muslim thinkers – most famously Jamal al-Din al-Afghani – believed that embracing many of the ideals developed in the West during the Enlightenment was the only way to promote progress.
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