As a result, a significant proportion of past sector investments have not resulted in lasting benefits.

Collaboration has led to some stunning gains.

These government failures include rent seeking, pork barrel spending, social engineering, regulatory capture, and induced dependency.

Working closely with the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States, it has been able to make significant gains in countries such as the Sudan and Guinea Bissau.

The stress on the need for education in order to enhance women's awareness of their rights in the area of justice required considerable effort and time but paid dividends in the long run.

Aftermath The Slovak part of Czechoslovakia made major gains in industrial production in the 1960s and 1970s.

The equivalent of today s policy rate rose to 22 as he launched a bold anti inflationary crusade, accepting significant upfront costs for gains down the road.

International trade and trade negotiations geared towards assuring development gains can contribute to the Millennium Development Goals.

Toward this goal, UNRWA aims to achieve a series of efficiency gains and savings.

Recognizing that forests and trees outside forests provide multiple economic, social and environmental benefits, and emphasizing that sustainable forest management contributes significantly to sustainable development and poverty eradication,

Most important, significant gains in health could be attained with adequate financial resources.

Cuba developed important geriatric and gerontological health resources and universal coverage of social security and health benefits for older persons.

A reinvigorated tracking programme has yielded dividends in the last six months.

We cannot rely on private enterprise alone. As with medical research, early innovations will not reap significant financial rewards, so there is no strong incentive for private investment today.

We are trying to extrapolate the past experience of a small fraction of the world population that we have chosen to examine because they made a lot of money.

In fanning vicious anti immigrant passions for short term political gain, he will have dishonor first and then defeat.

China s stability hinges critically on its government s ability to deliver steady economic gains to the vast majority of the population.

He might not find that very difficult.

The difficulty in reaching substantial results is not only a prerogative of this Conference.

98. Emphasizes that management restructuring should produce clearly defined gains in productivity and or economies

The new millennium has bought with it the burden of financial gain, with mahouts (elephant owner) having to work their elephants seven days a week to earn a living.

Member States, led by Security Council members, must be conscious of the critical transition from the gains of gender mainstreaming in peacekeeping missions to the achievement of sustainable capacities at the local level.

The West, for its part, stands to gain in myriad ways from a solid partnership with the Arab world to improve its societies economic future.

They tend to look for short term gains at the expense of others, reinforcing a generalized skepticism about the market.

The majority of project proposals in the industrial sector target energy efficiency gains, in particular the improved efficiency of industrial boilers and furnaces.

As with medical research, early innovations will not reap significant financial rewards, so there is no strong incentive for private investment today.

Indeed, wood production in some areas could be significantly increased.

Preconditions for ensuring development gains include measures aimed at the appropriate sequencing of reform, domestic supply capacity building and increased competitiveness, and universal access by all, especially the poorest, to essential services.

Financial Gain, Economic Pain

That effort is said to have been the closest the two parties have ever been to a breakthrough.

In that regard, the Forum had been a major step forward in achieving that agenda.

They have to cut wages, pensions, and other costs in order to achieve the same gain in competitiveness needed to substitute external demand for internal demand.

Perhaps ordinary citizens always knew that when they sold houses for real gains, ultimately they were profiting at someone else s expense.

The review and evaluation of the services negotiations which is to determine the extent to which Article IV is being implemented will also prove crucial for assuring development gains.

Priority is being given to seeking further efficiency gains, in particular through the restructuring of the secretariat, and an increased engagement of external partners and expertise.

1. We were greatly shocked that the president's office has turned into a department offering bribes to some students, tempting them with scholarships and future jobs, in pursuit of temporary and narrow political gains. 2.

There is also a danger that the Sudan could become a theatre for external forces seeking to influence the implementation process for parochial advantage or bidding for large economic gains.

Africa s Eurobond Bonanza

There are rich opportunities for gains.

Australia's current goal is a 40 per cent reduction in the per capita fatality rate over the decade to 2010. We have taken a broad based approach to our task, recognizing that substantial gains can only be achieved through a range of measures that address different parts of the road transport system.

In the real world, of course, such countries political economies demand short term gains, beginning with basic services like potable water and electricity.

They also warned against high expectation of short term gains and a piecemeal approach, highlighting the need for a coordinated strategy to deal with the multiple problems.

Adherence to these principles ensures that private rent seeking and appropriation of oil profits, a major dimension of the so called resource curse, is avoided.

An open MTS was not sufficient to assure gains from trade to developing countries and address the issue of marginalization of many countries from international trade.

(e) Unrealized exchange gains and losses