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The six biggest Middle Eastern oil-producing countries officially hold around 740 billion barrels (Gbs) of proven oil reserves.
Some of South Africa’s institutions – including the judiciary and the public protector – have proven resilient in the face of immense pressure to capitulate to Zuma’s agenda.
Companies with proven track records, technical skills, experienced management teams, and established sales channels are sources of innovation that no country can afford to squander.
It has been proven repeatedly that military intimidation of civilians does not break their morale and turn them against their own leaders, however terrible the regime.
All stick and little carrot has failed to quell Chechen nationalism, and President Vladimir Putin’s similarly heavy-handed attempts to control Russia’s so-called “near abroad” – as in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution – have proven no more successful.
This approach enables government to raise private capital that would otherwise not be available to support such services, and to cut their costs by working with proven providers to achieve measurable outcomes.
History has proven him right a thousand times.
The eurozone has proven itself unable to develop a convincing economic strategy to revive economic growth, reduce public debt to normal levels, and raise credible liquidity walls around its distressed sovereigns.
Kurds in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, for example, certainly feel more secure having their own soldiers, the Peshmerga, and have proven to be a better fighting force as a result.
Often, political leaders and military and security elites have proven as shrewd and tenacious in avoiding justice as they showed themselves cunning and brutal in doing injustice.
But experience has proven that this approach leads nowhere.
On disease, malaria could be controlled by 2008 using proven, low-cost methods.
It has proven that there is no way back to the status quo in Lebanon, and it revealed Iran’s hegemonic aspirations to the entire world.
It can quickly scale up and make large investments in new markets – including for education – without bureaucratic delays, while building on proven models and international experience.
Startups are proven hubs of innovation and drivers of economic growth, employment, and development.
By and large, that prediction has proven to be correct.
And ISIS has proven adept at doing just that, drawing fighters from all over the world who are willing to die for its cause – to create an expansive caliphate – and inspiring many more to carry out attacks in their home countries.
As Deng had crushed the protestors in Tiananmen Square in June of 1989, Hu had proven himself to be “firm and resolute” in quelling anti-Beijing riots in Lhasa, Tibet, two months earlier.
In their eagerness to embrace development policies that are proven failures, all of the candidates in the presidential election scheduled for December 18 appear unaware of this risk.
Teams of researchers have written 18 papers identifying the most effective ways to tackle the epidemic, looking at what has been proven to work, and at what could be scaled up or replicated elsewhere in Africa.
For Europe – and for the rest of the world – the financial crisis has proven to be an accelerant of far-reaching changes.
Of course, many people now say that Obama has proven that the “Bradley effect” is a thing of the past.
The doubters were proven wrong in the 1990s.
All of the key aspects of the technology – capturing the carbon dioxide, putting it into pipelines for shipment, and then depositing it underground – have already been demonstrated, but they have not yet been tried, and proven, on a large scale.
The first step is improved education and skills training, which have been proven to raise female labor-force participation.
In short, there were no lasting negative effects from the short-term dose of austerity, and, to the extent that austerity was essential to post-crisis healing, the long-term benefits have proven to be both enduring and astounding.
The Life You Can Save recommends proven interventions because we think donors are likely to do more good by helping individuals with unmet needs than by aspiring to eliminate the root causes of poverty without a realistic strategy for achieving that goal.
Science has since proven this to be the case.
Moreover, Malawi has a proven track record of sharply higher food yields when impoverished farmers are helped with inputs.
As for financial regulation, while the recent crisis has highlighted the need for stricter rules, agreement on many issues has proven to be elusive, partly because the Obama administration is too close to the financial sector.
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