Poor countries are unattractive places to innovate, with bad public services, unappealing workplaces and a gloomy outlook.
We get bad public policy because people vote for it, enthusiastically.
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Seth Diamond, the commissioner of the city Department of Homeless Services, said it was "bad public policy" to give people in shelters priority for public housing.
Films such as Waiting for Superman and The Lottery focus on heartstrings stories of students trying desperately to get out of bad public schools into excellent charter schools.
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He came under fire from the Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg who accused Gordon Brown of being unable to distinguish between "good public spending and bad public spending".
Other voters, doubtless, were protesting against the Belgian system in general, with its lack of openness and accountability, its huge weight of bureaucracy and its bad public services.
It's a plan that's aimed directly at the bottom line despite the risk of more bad public relations on worker issues, something the company believes shareholders are ready to cheer.
It also argued it was bad public policy to allow Nike to unilaterally end a lawsuit threatening to invalidate its trademarks, leaving it with the power to harass other competitors over the same claims.
It would be bad public relations, Cardwell said, to fight a case before one Florida court arguing that all ballots should be counted, while arguing before another that thousands of ballots should be thrown out.
As his first initiative, he proposed sweeping changes to America's schools, including the annual testing of elementary-school pupils and the use of vouchers to help parents of children in bad public schools to pay for private or religious education.
However, this leaves the MPAA with the arduous task of prosecuting single users one at a time, a prospect that is both expensive and, as some of the musicians complaining about Napster are finding, bad for public relations.
The advocate of public pension plan reform did, however, point to bad outcomes for public employees in selected states that substituted 401(k)-style retirement packages for traditional defined benefit plans.
But the former prime minister won't say a bad word in public about Mr Lexa.
In the category of livability, however, bad infrastructure for public transport is one of the Auckland's largest detractions.
Some professionals are even predicting that we are just at the beginning of a really bad period for public finance.
However, it's certainly not as bad as the public markets, where Nasdaq, for example, had -7.4% returns for the same quarter.
Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke says the current system is in need of urgent reform but critics say the changes will be bad for the public.
Since the higher wage automatically forces up pension payments to many better-off Brazilians, the vote was bad for shaky public finances as well as reflecting ill on Mr da Silva's ability to govern.
Is this good or bad for the public?
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The rapid loss of market value so soon after a bullish comment from a chief executive may, judging by one reading of Enron's experience, get prosecutorial juices going, should the financial crisis get so bad that the public demands locking up some prominent Wall Streeters.
That brings out the short-sellers, who need more of the bad information in the public domain.
Another, unofficial, proposal is for traders to increase their provision for bad debts until a public-education programme persuades people to behave better.
In politics, there are constant conflicts of interest, and many of those involved have a vested interest in getting information, good and bad, out in public.
Schering wants to make this entirely about LDL (the bad cholesterol) and public health, but there is a valid scientific debate about the place of Zetia in the anti-cholesterol armamentarium.
But they cannot expect to continue their bad old ways and win public support in recessionary America.
An ad, a promoter or a broker from the firm that took the company public are all bad omens.
When things went from bad to worse, the public-relations machine began rolling out releases, including love letters from Leo to Thailand.
Treating income as the only number that matters reinforces one of our worst bad habits in private and public life: ignoring net worth.
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