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...There are two reasons to hope that he is right. The first, naturally, is that India's 1.1 billion people deserve to have better life chances than they have had. Its villagers deserve power and clean water, its girls deserve to be able to stay in school beyond the primary grades and its sick deserve a functioning health care system. But second, the world could do with an example of rapid development on a massive scale that is not beholden to an autocratic, closed political system. China proves that such a system can provide better living standards for hundreds...
...Bank, "is governance." Behind that new buzzword lies a fundamental truth. The successful modernization of societies, it turns out, is not just a question of economics - of getting the macroeconomic fundamentals right and letting market forces and the private sector do the rest. It depends also on having effective, clean governments, at every level down to the village, which do not waste economic largesse or appropriate it for the use of their own politicians and officials. That has long been understood in true exemplars of development like Singapore. It now needs to be adopted, seriously and comprehensively, by India...
...town hall, but this time Barack Obama was not in Iowa or New Hampshire. There were no hay bales, no bunting and no activists with questions about universal health care, clean coal or legalizing marijuana. This forum, after all, was being held in a nation controlled by the Communist Party...
...adapt. Getting people to take the right treatment has also proven to be a public-health challenge. As a fast-acting drug that typically clears out the parasite in less than 72 hours but doesn't remain in the body, artemisinin is prescribed with a slower partner drug to clean out any straggler parasites that might have developed resistance. Taking a partner drug with artemisinin, called combination therapy, is required by law in Cambodia and Thailand, but it's difficult to enforce. Since the partner drug - typically mefloquine in Southeast Asia - has more side effects, some people take only...
...story that both leaders and their respective diplomatic corps want to broadcast. Japan and the United States stand together, connected by history and, as Obama announced, "bound" by the Pacific Ocean. Fact sheets were distributed to reporters as further evidence, showing agreements on climate change, on nuclear nonproliferation, on clean energy technologies...