He welcomes the latest report card because it highlights the progress of poor and minority students.
But a lacking mental capacity or poor attitude might impede their progress towards maximization of potential.
While results in its former strongholds of Italy and Spain remained poor, it made good progress in the more buoyant markets of Russia, Germany and the UK. Furthermore, improved brand awareness through its Olympics sponsorship should translate into increased sales in the second half of the year.
But, in an interesting illustration of how modern campaigns by activists against companies can gather momentum, the top-tier companies now complain that lesser ones get away with poor labour practices, and so impede progress in the whole sector.
Dilapidated teaching facilities, such as old blackboards and even a lack of benches, can hinder educational progress in schools through creating a poor learning environment.
Even poor countries such as Chile and Ghana have made progress.
Georgia, for all of the real and laudable progress it has made, is still incredibly poor and its economy still terrible at producing jobs.
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However the hours before the drama either side of the tea interval will be best forgotten by the tourists, with poor catching a major factor in the hosts' comfortable progress.
By building competitive, commercially viable financial institutions that provide a healthy return on capital and by taking bold risks and investing in innovative ways to expand financial services to the poor, Accion and our partners are spurring new opportunities and sustainable progress throughout the developing world, and helping to bring billions more into the global economy.
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But even I knew that, despite all of the admirable progress that was made under Saakashvili, the country remained extremely poor and unequal and that its unemployment rate was shockingly high.
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And while progress is being made in reducing extreme poverty, gaps between rich and poor are widening almost everywhere.
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Abolishing patents would more or less halt progress in pharmacology, but there is a strong argument for charging different prices for drugs in poor countries.
The bill provides more money for schools, particularly those in poor areas, but, unlike similar efforts in the past 40 years, it ties that money to progress in annual tests.
"Poor nutrition is driving a literacy and numeracy crisis in developing countries, and is also a huge barrier to further progress in tackling child deaths, " said Jasmine Whitbread, Save the Children International's Chief Executive.
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