Lord Freud responded that the NAO acknowledged the coalition's scheme addressed "significant weaknesses" of previous programmes.

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Implemented with the support of the Office of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, first lady of Qatar and UNESCO special envoy for basic and Higher Education, this new project brings new hope to disadvantaged Iraqi children and builds on the achievements of previous programmes conducted by UNESCO in Iraq.

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Morgan Stanley notes that two of the previous Fed programmes have been launched when the equity market has been falling sharply (see chart).

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The government has said it would not embark on a new round of building until and unless a solution had been found for waste from previous nuclear programmes.

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Mehmet Simsek, the finance minister, wanted to retain the IMF at the time, but Mr Babacan, who is now deputy prime minister, points out that none of Turkey's previous IMF programmes was ever completed (even Mr Dervis's was interrupted by the 2002 election).

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Previous governments have fitfully undertaken titling programmes, inspired by Hernando de Soto, a Peruvian economist who argues that enforceable property rights are the key to development.

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Over half the recruiters polled warned that graduates with no previous work experience at all would be unlikely to get jobs on their graduate programmes.

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