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Private investors and philanthropic organizations finance the upfront costs of the pilot projects, and local or state governments (sometimes supplemented with federal money) pay the investors only if the project produces the promised results.
Utah was an early pioneer, launching a novel pilot project in preschool education that is funded by $7 million from Goldman Sachs and the Pritzker Foundation.
The city of Chicago has launched a similar but larger project for $17 million, with upfront funding from some of the same investors as in Utah.
Massachusetts has a $27 million project to test a program for reducing recidivism among young men on probation.
Santa Clara County, California is introducing a pilot project aimed at reducing the cost of supporting people with acute mental illness.
For example, a project to reduce recidivism among juvenile inmates at Rikers Island in New York City produced disappointing results.
The Brexit crisis gives the remaining EU members a chance to reconceive the European project.
But if this emerging hierarchy of rights isn’t managed carefully, the legitimacy of the entire human-rights project could be imperiled.
The danger in this is that cherry-picking certain rights to enforce secular norms will not just undermine the overall project of human rights, which aims to unite the world’s peoples and improve lives through a shared understanding of the minimum conditions necessary to advance the “inherent dignity” and equality of “all members of the human family.”
A project carried out in El Alto, Bolivia, used soccer to enable more than 600 girls to learn leadership and other useful life skills.
But if the countries of eastern Europe remain outside the core of European integration built around the Franco-German axis, implications for the European project will be vast.
This challenge is not a new one, as powerful World Bank shareholders have been trying to sink the project since its inception in 2002.
The project has been a rare World Bank success, recording almost 2,000 reforms over the past decade, and has proved to be a valuable tool for policymakers in developing economies to spur reform and enhance investment.
Countries like France, China, and India, dissatisfied with their low rankings, should not be allowed to eliminate or cripple the project.
More broadly, backing away from such a project would undermine the Bank’s promotion of rule-based systems and legal certainty – and would weaken the reformers in developing and emerging economies who seek to transform clientilist and patronage-based economies.
If the project is eliminated, European policymakers will be denied important information that could help to guide discussions about enhancing competitiveness.
If it can renew the European model at home, it will be able to project that success much more widely, particularly in southern Europe, in turn reinforcing confidence and belief in the EU, particularly among the young generation.
Rather, the EU should be reaffirmed as an attractive political project.
The intellectual leadership provided by Frenchmen like Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman as founding fathers of the European project is a fading memory, because Germany has yet to generate a comparably robust strategy for reviving the EU’s prospects and popularity.
Yet, to make the most of data sharing, donors should also shift their mindset and invest more in quality data collection and management during project implementation, and sustain funding for curation and continued analysis of datasets.
But the differences between Europe’s economies were never so dramatic as to form an insurmountable barrier to embarking upon the most ambitious project of all: adopting a common currency.
But even that limited functionality has lately been obscured, owing largely to Trump’s treatment of multilateral fora not as important mechanisms to coordinate international action, but rather as opportunities to project strength.
The Copenhagen Consensus project brought together top-class thinkers, including four Nobel Laureate economists, to examine what we could achieve with a $50 billion investment designed to “do good” for the planet.
The Bush administration’s efforts to assist our peace-making project faltered in part because our conflict was neglected during the early part of its tenure.
And, as if this were not enough, another menacing fault line has appeared along the former Iron Curtain, with governments of formerly communist countries openly defying the spirit of solidarity that used to characterize (at least in theory) the European project.
If our project is utopian, it is also the only alternative to a dystopia in the making.
The growth pact can be properly financed by new sources of revenue, such as a financial-transaction tax and joint project bonds for infrastructure investment, or by curbing tax evasion and tax fraud and eliminating tax havens, as well as by more efficient and intelligent use of structural funds.
The European Investment Bank would be a good vehicle – in addition to new project bonds – to boost spending on major infrastructure projects (for example, in the energy sector).
Its last big project was the single market as conceived by Jacques Delors, the European Commission's then-President.
That project has still not been completed, but the missing bits are a continuing process, not a new idea.
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