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...become an increasingly generous backer of private education, with a funding formula that pivots on the socioeconomic status of the students' district of residence and takes no account of a school's facilities or fees. Still, when funding from all levels of government is tallied, private school students drain between $A2,000 to $A7,000 a year from the public purse, compared to the state student...
...grants - has the World Bank worried about bankrupting its aid funds. Not every country is a good candidate for debt relief. In nations wracked by civil unrest, like Ivory Coast or the Central African Republic, there is no guarantee that the money will be wisely spent. And defaulters can drain a lot of resources away from other worthy recipients. Sudan is estimated to owe over $21 billion, $18 billion of which is in arrears, while Somalia has around $2.5 billion in debts and lacks a functioning government. "Countries that are most indebted are not necessarily the ones that have...
...find him. As July drew towards its end, we knew the best bathrooms in Kyoto, yet still didn’t have an essay topic. I, however, did get the epiphany: when it comes to family, sometimes you just have to flush your carefully laid plans down the drain...
...these days even good intentions don't add up to much. Chiarelli last month had hoped to drain recruits from al-Sadr's Mahdi militia by hiring 15,000 Sadr City men to clean the district's filth-filled streets. When a truce between coalition forces and al-Sadr broke down, however, the work project collapsed. The state of the district helps explain, Chiarelli says, why "a guy in Sadr City feels there is no hope." There's sewage in his yard, he gets one hour of electricity out of six, and he has no job. "If someone offers...
...kills within 5 to 10 years of onset. Partly because the majority of patients spend the last stages of the illness in government-subsidized aged-care homes, Alzheimer's is extremely costly: an Access Economics report, also to be released next week, estimates that in 2004 the disease will drain more than $A3 billion from the public purse. The thrust of the report is that any measures that can delay the onset of dementia by a few years - or at least delay the need for institutionalized care - will save billions of dollars over coming decades...