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Consider his announcement, after the completion of the nuclear tests, that France was willing to give up such measures "for ever."
Poverty makes medical treatment expensive, so poor people with AIDS often hide their disease because there is no point in having tests if treatment doesn’t follow.
Indeed, the technology has led to the development of highly specific diagnostic tests; blockbuster anti-cancer drugs such as Rituxan (rituximab), Erbitux (cetuximab), and Herceptin (trastuzumab); and Avastin (bevacizumab), which is widely used to treat both cancer and diseases of the retina that commonly cause blindness.
Indeed, students from Latin American countries consistently score at the very bottom of international achievement tests such as the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the Third International Math and Science Survey (TIMSS).
Albania, Mongolia, and India successfully passed more complicated tests – and offer some useful lessons in democratic transitions under unfavourable conditions.
Distressing Stress TestsFLORENCE – The stress tests applied to American banks last year are widely credited with restoring financial stability in the United States and removing the fear that major financial institutions might fail.
Europeans hope that the recent publication of the results of stress tests that were applied to their own banks will have the same effect.
But, while the results of the tests may be good for the financial sector, they may be bad for the real economy.
Indeed, financial stress tests – designed to estimate the likelihood of bank failures in the event of bad economic news – are intended to be the equivalent of cardiac stress tests.
And, like most cardiac stress tests, the primary aim is to reassure.
The European stress tests, by themselves, were reassuring and produced no surprises.
Regulators and governments view the main purpose of financial stress tests as being to persuade some institutions of the urgent need to improve their capital ratios.
In the US, the turning point came with the authorities’ stress tests of banks in early 2009.
The tests were seen as credible; indeed, their results prompted US officials to force several major banks to increase their capital.
This did not happen in last year’s European version of the US stress tests, and this year’s stress tests in Europe are unlikely to be tougher.
But this should compel a strong recapitalization program – not weak stress tests.
Europe is making a fundamental mistake by allowing the two key elements of any resolution of the crisis – namely, debt restructuring and real stress tests for banks – to remain taboo.
The developing countries were disappointed with the results of Europe’s EBA initiative, and Europe has responded by committing itself to dealing with at least part of the problem that arises from the rules of origin tests.
The current European stress tests of nuclear-power plants are a first step; but, as long as they are voluntary and under the operators’ control, they will be nothing more than political window dressing.
Worries that parents would be reluctant to allow postmortem tests on their children have proved unfounded.
The only attempt in this direction was the publication, in July 2010, of the outcome of stress tests on more than 90 of the EU’s largest banks.
Then came the revelations that Volkswagen installed software on 11 million diesel cars that reduced emissions of nitrogen oxides only when the cars were undergoing emissions tests, enabling them to pass, even though in normal use their emissions levels greatly exceeded permitted levels.
Indeed, all that was required to lose the bet was an attempt to confirm that the emissions results obtained when the vehicles were undergoing federal emissions tests were similar to those resulting from normal driving.
Whether this thaw yields more meaningful fruit hinges on the North maintaining its freeze on nuclear and missile tests.
By most tests that hypothesis fails.
Again, evidence from migration tests this hypothesis.
The Financial Education of the EurozoneLONDON – In 2017, Europe’s leaders will confront an array of severe tests, including tumultuous elections featuring populist insurgencies, complex negotiations over Britain’s departure from the European Union, and a new American president who thinks that the transatlantic alliance is “obsolete.”
Unsurprisingly, the intervention in Argentina passed all three tests: the market suffered a coordination failure that was addressed effectively through public policy carried out by appropriate institutions.
Once governments identify an opportunity that passes these three tests, they are in a much better position to use measures like temporary subsidies or targeted incentives effectively.
But it is entirely out of place when appointees to scientific advisory committees are subjected to tests of political loyalty.
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