To the contrary, criteria based assessment examines capacity from the perspective of whatever context and set of resources exist and asks, given a particular set of circumstances, Which choices and objectives did the government pursue and did those choices contribute to or constrain longer term capacity?

Choices must be made, and choices matter.

Choices

The Elephant s Choices

Of course, difficult choices lay ahead.

It would only cost 16 billion to set up 20 percent of the ocean as marine protected areas that actually give new living choices to the fishermen as well.

Europe has three choices.

Nowadays, people have more choices and more opportunities to make the wrong choices than ever before.

He should be thinking about how to express vividly and compellingly the principles that have guided his choices so far, and that set a path for America s future.

The Right Choices for 2015

Obama s Hardest Choices Lie Ahead

Thus far, the quality of our choices has been unimpressive, reflecting little sensitivity to sustainability and the impact of our choices on future generations.

If we make these choices poorly, growth will suffer and future distributional choices will be far more painful.

The devastating and widening conflict in Syria does not present any good choices, only choices between bad and worse.

The devastating and widening conflict in Syria does not present any good choices, only choices between bad and worse.

If choices of compensation structures can be expected to affect financial firms stability, regulating these choices can also be useful for protecting this stability.

The IMF s Tough Choices on Greece

So choices have to be made.

The following selection represents their choices.

All of these choices helped return slack to energy markets.

Now all of the choices that Egypt faces are ugly.

There are hard choices to be made.

The IMF cannot substitute for governments choices.

The gap, instead, reflects recent historical choices.

7... Qb6 one of the most popular choices at master level.

So perhaps incomplete knowledge of the consequences of our choices is responsible.

But it also reflects non cooperative policy choices.

Many voters changed their choices after watching these.

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions.

These choices were made democratically, in parliaments, as part of budget decisions.

Their choices are framed by their societies dominant culture.

These choices are as false as they are intolerable.

We seek out environments that reinforce our personal choices.

Fewer choices are sometimes the hallmark of maturity, and not only in politics.

Education and values are the foundation of sound individual and, ultimately, collective choices.

They are given only three choices (Muslim Christian or Jew).

That makes it even more important to clarify the choices.

China s leaders will make their choices, as will German voters.

Our choices will result in different outcomes and different costs.

Individually rational choices were giving rise to collectively irrational results.

This brings us to the choices that Obama s budget embodies.

With an overvalued rupee, there are no good policy choices.

Yet these are the choices offered by our influential doctrinaires.

Make more efficient and knowledgeable choices as to investment priorities.

Too many valid choices are ignored or skirted through the routine of short cuts.