• Much like the Clinton administration, the Bush team is banking on trade as an engine of both economic and social progress.

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  • The UNESCO Chair in International Development promotes economic and social progress in developing countries with specific emphasis on the needs of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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  • Social justice is based on equal rights for all peoples and the ideal that benefits from economic and social progress are for all people without discrimination.

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  • While the debates on the measurement of economic performance and social progress more often than not adopt a technical stance, this technicality must not mask the challenges linked to measurement.

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  • All our new products need to contribute to sustainability in at least one of our five focal areas: energy and climate, water and wastewater, materials and waste, safety and health, and social progress.

    FORBES: Sustainability

  • For reasons that I am unable to fathom, for no person is less interested in sports than I, the United Nations Development Program regularly sends me updates on its efforts to promote economic and social progress through athletics.

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  • Stiglitz was chair of the Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress in 2008 and last year was appointed to the United Nations General Assembly as chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System.

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  • One of the other things that has been a steep learning curve for us - painfully so, I may add -is that we have come to have unanimity on the fact that security is a precondition not only for the political progress that we have just been talking about the last 15 or so minutes, but also for economic and social progress.

    NPR: Is the Iraq Surge Strategy Working?

  • That's what success will look like: stable Iraq where you're making political progress, the essential services are being provided, economic progress, and the social progress that needs to be taken as well.

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  • It has presided over the consolidation of Chile's democracy, almost two decades of economic growth and stability, and much social progress.

    ECONOMIST: And it points to the right

  • Yet water and sanitation facilities are a key ingredient of social and economic progress.

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  • For communities and nations, educated citizens provide the foundation for sustainable social and economic progress.

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  • Pat Brown was a committed progressive who actually believed in both social and economic progress.

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  • Brendan Murtagh, an environmental planner at Queen's University and one of the Housing Executive's advisors, argues that areas that are most mixed show the greatest social and economic progress.

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  • He was to become the man who has gone down in history as the most outstanding economist and architect of social progress of the past seventy years, though some would dispute such an assessment.

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  • If one looks past the superficial concern about growth at Brazil's economic fundamentals, its resources, and the extraordinary social progress that the country has made in recent decades, it seems premature to remove the "B" from BRIC.

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  • Disillusionment with limited social progress and free-market reforms swept Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to power in 2002.

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  • Mr Brown, in a speech in London, said that economic progress and social justice should go hand in hand.

    BBC: Brown upbeat on economy

  • Venezuela will continue on its path of social progress and empowering ordinary citizens.

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  • She herself has said that the 'courts are the special friend of liberty ... the dynamics of our rule of law enables enviable social progress and mobility.

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  • The Annual Ministerial Review is organized each year by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs to assess progress made in the implementation of the MDGs.

    UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

  • Afghan civil groups, meeting on the sidelines in Tokyo, demanded stricter conditions attached to the aid to combat corruption, and to guarantee that social progress in the past decade is not sold away for an easier peace with the Taliban.

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  • Although it is widely recognised that eliminating gender disparities with regards to access to education is essential for long-term social and economic development, progress towards this objective has been limited as evidenced by, for example, the limited range of adult literacy programmes targeting women.

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  • This shows that social progress in Venezuela has been consolidated and that there is a desire to further expand this progress.

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  • Measurement and evaluation of social programs and their impact on business is a work in progress.

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  • His classes stress collaboration across disciplines and revolve around projects to advance social progress.

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  • The conversations took place on a tablet computer, varied daily and consisted of a social chat, check of the subject's progress and daily exercise tip.

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  • If consumers and activists have made progress in pressuring companies to be more conscientious and proactive about social impact at a grassroots level, what role do talented job seekers play in developing corporate social responsibility and what can companies do to attract the brightest, and most aware, employees?

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  • Housing Minister Dave Jones said there had been great progress in social rented and partial ownership schemes.

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  • In spite of isolation on the rebate, a real opportunity is emerging for consensus and progress on EU economic and social reform.

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