The minister said the plan was to deliver affordable homes and ensure compliance with decent homes standards.

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The IMF is projecting regional growth of just over 3%, which looks decent by global standards but experts say it is about half of what is required to generate enough opportunity for those who are part of this unprecedented youth bulge.

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It was a decent summer by English standards, and Tony set a stately pace to the day.

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More and more people were getting decent-paying jobs (by Haitian standards), which enabled them to begin pulling themselves up the economic ladder.

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Productivity growth over the past two years has been at very low levels by historical standards even though productivity normally rises at a decent pace during expansions.

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Are those who want to impose import restrictions against countries with low labor standards willing to lift those restrictions against countries that start to pay decent wages?

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Although it is solid enough, by Japanese standards, in corporate lending, like all Japanese banks MTFG faces a hard time making decent returns.

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He believes that every child has a basic human right to decent education, but also that the education process itself should be as inclusive as possible to ensure high standards are achieved regardless of gender, nationality or social background.

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Buying Fair Trade is a start, but I think the answer is to bring in laws that raise standards, to make sure food we buy in the UK is being produced by workers that are living decent lives, rather then just surviving for our benefit.

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