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And, although the government has raised teachers’ salaries to attract fresh talent, offering up to $6,000 annually, teachers still lack adequate support and remain unmotivated and largely unaccountable.
So far, with half the year gone, only about a third of this sum has been raised.
Indeed, from now on, the central government will take over social-security expenditure, establishing nationally unified pension and health-insurance systems, while the retirement age will be raised gradually.
The generals know that another coup would further weaken the military’s popular standing – as well as Pakistan’s relations with the US – at a moment when Bhutto and Sharif have raised expectations at home and abroad for a permanent return to civilian rule.
More remarkable news has just emerged: despite slowing economic-growth rates, China, together with Hong Kong, has recorded $29 billion in initial public offerings so far this year – almost twice the funds raised in US markets.
Third, the amount of lending available from the IMF is being raised substantially.
The US debt-ceiling fiasco has raised doubts in the minds of central bankers about the advisability of holding dollars, while Europe’s failure to resolve its sovereign-debt crisis continues to fuel doubt that the euro can survive.
But the effort to preserve one’s power, the need for a distinct “Asian” identity, and the desire to settle historical scores will not solve the normative question raised by China’s emergence as the century’s dominant power.
This means that he will be accountable to and dependent on those who raised him to power, not in a symbolic sense, but in the quite real sense of fulfilling promises and facing sanctions if he does not.
While Venezuela remains mired in economic malaise, its allies – China, Russia, Brazil, and OPEC – have raised output by 14 million barrels per day, laughing all the way to the bank.
Sharply rising income inequality has raised the stakes of the economic game.
After her father, Kim Il-sung, remarried, she was raised by various surrogates away from the family.
Thus far, only a fraction of the funding needed for even basic care has been raised.
They ensure that key legal and factual issues get raised, that the best evidence is obtained – often through diplomatic means, but often at risk of life and limb in hostile territory – that guilty pleas do not dilute the truth, and that sentencing recommendations are commensurate with the crimes’ true dimensions.
The climax was reached on February 25, when the central bank introduced import controls and raised interest rates to 30%.
But, in 2011, India raised more in drug taxes than the government spent on medicines for the public.
Hitler then immediately raised his demands to include German military occupation of the area.
Bin Laden, born, raised, and educated in Saudi Arabia, is a product of this pervasive ideology.
But having Macri’s chief of staff seated at the table during the announcement, alongside the economic team, raised concerns of political meddling.
The IMF has raised its forecast for eurozone growth this year to 1.2%.
After all, the attacks on the Madrid train system in 2004, and on London’s public-transport system in 2005, were not carried out by Saudi or Taliban immigrants, but by young men born and raised in Spain and the United Kingdom.
This year, one of the issues on the ballot was an act to prohibit tethering or confining a pregnant pig, or a calf raised for veal, in a manner that prevents the animal from turning around freely, lying down, and fully extending his or her limbs.
Today, however, about 90% of US breeding sows – the mothers of the pigs that are raised and killed for pork, bacon, and ham – spend most of their lives locked in cages that measure about two feet by seven feet (0.6 meters by 2.2 meters).
The engagement of private actors in the collection of intelligence raises a problem similar to the first one raised by PMSCs.
In the past two decades, Mozambique has become a functioning democracy; grown its agriculture sector; raised literacy rates; increased water supply and electricity in rural areas; and reduced child mortality dramatically, from 219 per 1,000 live births in 1990, two years before the civil war ended, to 135 per 1,000 in 2010.
In this respect, the handover raised essential and complex questions about political morality.
The IMF estimates that these cyclical effects on revenue and outlays have raised the overall deficit by nearly 5% of Greek GDP.
Saudi Arabia’s Theater of ReformHaving raised expectations for real political reform in Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah has instead announced that the time for change has not yet arrived.
Recognizing this, the Fed ended QE at the end of last year and raised its policy rate by 25 basis points.
And, finally, when have investments stemming from Republican tax cuts ever raised more in national savings than has been depleted by the ensuing budget deficits?
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