However, the review also confirmed that while accelerated disease control programmes have reached more children in marginalized families, they have tended to divert attention from routine immunization.

Other efforts worthy of attention include formalizing the huge informal economy in states such as Ghana.

China deflects attention from its refusal to share water, or to enter into institutionalized cooperation to manage common rivers sustainably, by flaunting the accords that it has signed on sharing flow statistics with riparian neighbors.

So did inflation targeting the excessive focus on inflation had diverted attention from the more fundamental question of financial stability.

At the Yaroslavl meeting with Medvedev, attention shifted to the connection between democracy and modernization.

If not, Obama will try to shift attention from the overall economy by emphasizing his plan to raise taxes on high income individuals.

The sub prime crisis has diverted attention from rising fears about Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF s) as the new bogeyman of global finance.

Though nationalist sentiment directed against external foes tends to divert attention temporarily from internal turmoil, the country s serious domestic problems need to be addressed.

Although the numbers were never as rosy as market enthusiasts seemed to think, they did divert attention away from the shaky foundations of the newfound prosperity.

But the focus on agriculture diverted attention from a far broader agenda that could have been pursued in ways that would have benefited both North and the South.

Mr. Daratzikis (Greece) said that Turkey had once more repeated its allegations against Greece in an effort to detract attention from its own heavy responsibility for the situation in Cyprus.

A similar drachmatization of euro debts would be necessary and unavoidable.

It also believes that those commitments must not foster a general sense of complacency or divert attention away from our fundamental goal of nuclear disarmament.

The Committee draws attention to the significant synergies in substantive content between the Convention and the Beijing Platform for Action.

First, it means shifting demand back to the private sector when it is strong enough to carry the load.

Conflict resolution, if it is to be successful, requires channeling the energy generated by conflict toward constructive and nonviolent alternatives.

Obama is surrounding himself with accomplished female advisers without calling condescending attention to that fact.

It's time to pay attention to Bosnia again, if we don't want things to get nasty very quickly.

If a reformer is to win he must prove that he will be able to sway Iran s political structures toward a reform agenda.

Some have already been forced to do so, and many could conceivably be targeted in connection with ongoing campaigns to draw international attention to various human rights issues ahead of the Olympics.

But, at the end of the day, we ourselves must be willing to work toward a region of peace and cooperation.

Thus, it can perpetuate the cycle of economic and military war that runs counter to attempts to move the world toward a culture of peace.

And Americans have shifted greatly toward political philosophies on the right and on the left that regard public debt merely as a distraction.

Finally, as a step toward making the renminbi a reserve currency, China signed currency swap agreements with the Philippines, South Korea, Japan, and Australia.

But the basic point is that the market has a way of transforming jobs and opportunities in ways that no one can predict.

Since the New Partnership for Africa's Development was launched four years ago, there has been a transformation of the African peoples' forward movement towards greater integration and unity.

Much criticism has focused on the use of these numerical targets and indicators, which, skeptics argue, are misspecified, mismeasured, and divert attention from equally important areas.

Women like attention.

Layla didn't attract attention.

Sami was distracted.

The Rise of the Attention Economy

A group to definitely keep an eye on!

Turning Privacy Threats Into Opportunities

To be sure, Sarkozy is right to note the enormous risks that workers and their communities face in this rapidly globalizing world.

For example, the excitement generated by major sporting events has attracted lots of attention to the idea that sports could be a genuine vector for development.

One suggestion is that Putin is seeking to divert attention from his support for Syria s government and from increased repression of his domestic opponents (as the leading economist Sergei Guriev s recent flight from Russia, following police harassment, demonstrated anew).

Typically, the leaders gathered there share their optimism about how globalization, technology, and markets are transforming the world for the better.

It was a gradual process in which more sympathetic, albeit firm, US engagement might have helped sway Japan in a different direction.

American families are hurting, and elected officials want to pin the blame on China, thereby deflecting attention from the difficult task of rebuilding saving, restoring competitiveness, and living within the country s means.

We must pay attention to the traffic light.

Layla wanted to attract attention.

Sami liked drawing attention.

Rather than focusing on the major short and long term challenges facing the oil industry, the debate about peak oil diverts attention to the wrong problems.

Having gained time, EU governments, the European Commission, and the European Central Bank have now turned their attention to improving future governance.

This amounted to transferring annually 8 10 of Germany s national income, or 65 76 of its exports.