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TIME: How real is the transition? Tsvangirai: This transitional inclusive government can already record some significant progress, in critical areas like education, health, water and sanitation and food. Inflation has gone from around 500 million percent to 3%. But there are very serious challenges, and there is accumulated frustration at the slow implementation of the Global Political Agreement [the power-sharing deal with Mugabe]. But the challenges are not insurmountable. Zimbabwe is changing. It's on an irreversible path of transition. The reforms we have implemented, democratic and economic, are building the foundations for a prosperous future, for a democratic...
...this year for a required third-year medical clerkship from $600,000 to $800,000. Tarbell and Dienstag said that the number of people taking the clerkship, which lasts for eight months and provides students with one-on-one faculty interaction in treating patients, would be increasing by 20 percent this year...
...accelerating health care reform movement as factors driving the enthusiasm behind the growing petition, as well as reasons that HMS ought to commit more firmly to improving primary care education. According to a 2008 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, only 2 percent of medical students said that they were planning on becoming general internal medicine physicians, even while the number of older Americans who depend on such first-stop doctors is expected to double between 2005 and 2030. A similar study two decades earlier had seen roughly 9 percent of students saying they would...
...government could have painlessly enabled this development of the free market through selling state-owned businesses, loosening regulations on foreign direct investment, and creating a plan to reduce the deficit. India achieved 6.7 percent growth this past fiscal year only on the back of intensive government spending by the previous Congress-led coalition. Public-sector spending provides a short-term stimulus, but a more open economy is necessary for sustainable growth...
...India’s economy to return to the 9 percent growth it enjoyed in the 2007 and 2008 fiscal years, liberalization must continue. State control over public enterprise and limits to investment still create massive inefficiencies in the economy that prevent India from realizing its full potential. The Congress Government was overwhelmingly reelected on the promise of greater reforms and more growth—and they should have followed through on those promises in the budget. Having failed to do so, they cannot delay the reforms any longer. There are a billion people who should not have to wait...