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The West’s Broken Promises on Education AidNEW YORK – The Global Partnership for Education, a worthy and capable initiative to promote education in 65 low-income countries, is having what the jargon of development assistance calls a “replenishment round,” meaning that it is asking donor governments to refill its coffers.
So now comes the GPE’s replenishment round, scheduled for early February in Senegal.
Macron has been polling around 20% for the election’s first
round
in April.
That appears insufficient to advance to the election’s second
round
in May, when the top two candidates will face off to determine the winner.
But if Macron qualifies for the second round, he will pose a greater threat to Le Pen than an outright left-wing candidate would.
The World Trade Organization, meanwhile, has wasted valuable time on the irrelevant Doha
round.
And yet, while Russia has made it through to the tournament’s knockout round, the excitement of the games, and the unlikeliness of Russia’s success, amount to a fleeting distraction.
Iran’s leaders must consider whether to engage in another
round
of negotiations with the IAEA, and the extent to which they are willing to yield on their nuclear activities.
And with the latest
round
of recapitalization, the cost of the Troika’s determination to stick to the practice of extend-and-pretend bailout loans just got higher.
This was French policy after the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) won the first
round
of elections in Algeria in December 1991.
One seemingly unrelated event to watch: in the week before the presidential vote, Iran will play two critical football matches as part of the qualifying
round
for the 2010 World Cup.
If implemented fully, the current
round
of reforms would have a far-reaching impact on China’s political economy, because they shift the balance of power from officials to markets.
Why Iran Won’t BudgeTEL AVIV – No one really believed that the latest
round
of international negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program would produce a breakthrough.
Yet, as the latest
round
of global climate talks in Bonn, Germany, has shown, the world’s political leaders are more committed to the deal than ever.
Instead of trying to explore the possibilities presented by the Brazilian/Turkish opening, the US quickly pushed the UN Security Council for more sanctions (the fourth
round
so far) on Iran.
At their last meeting in Doha in November 2001, ministers recognized the inequities of the previous
round
of trade negotiations, the Uruguay
round.
This
round
was supposed to redress those imbalances.
Here is a short checklist against which to assess whether the outcomes of Cancun represent a move towards a true development
round
.
TRIPS, the intellectual property regime adopted in the last
round
of trade negotiations, deprived millions in the developing world of access to life-saving drugs.
The Uruguay
round
promised the elimination of quotas in 2004, enabling many developing countries to exploit another area of comparative advantage.
Failure at Cancun would confirm the fears of those who resisted a new
round
of trade negotiations.
America’s initial indifference was best reflected in President Harry Truman’s reaction when Chester Bowles asked to be named ambassador to India: “I thought India was pretty jammed with poor people and cows
round
streets, witch doctors, and people sitting on hot coals and bathing in the Ganges…but I did not realize anybody thought it was important.”
India’s detonation of a nuclear device in 1998, however, triggered a fresh
round
of US sanctions.
How Macron Keeps WinningPARIS – Emmanuel Macron’s one-man revolution in French and European politics continued this weekend, as he will soon be able to add a huge parliamentary majority to his cause, if the results from the first
round
of the French parliamentary election hold.
The result of the first
round
of elections to the National Assembly is the clearest indication yet of how successful Macron has been in recasting French politics.
Support for France’s two main traditional parties, Les Républicains on the right (which won 21.6% of votes cast in the first round) and the Socialist Party (down to a mere 9.5%), has fallen to levels unseen in the history of the French Fifth Republic.
And backing for the far-right National Front, whose leader, Marine Le Pen, lost to Macron in the presidential election, fell to a mere 13.2% in the first
round.
If the second
round
of voting next Sunday confirms projections, Macron’s new centrist party, La République en Marche!
How can a party with about 32.3% of the votes in the first
round
win in such a landslide in the second
round?
The explanation is that only candidates winning more than 12.5% of registered voters in the first
round
can participate in the second.
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