Through Race to the Top, states have made more progress in reform over the past two years than in the previous decade.
Her historic first trip to Europe after years of house arrest signals the progress toward reform in Myanmar over the past year.
What is predictable, however, is that President Yeltsin will once again come away from the G-7 meeting with hundreds of millions more in Western pledges of assistance and misplaced kudos over the progress of reform in Russia.
Often the result has been simply breakdown in any progress toward reform, even when the imperative of and specific agenda for reform has been clear.
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And the record will be even stronger if Mrs Gregoire makes the progress she hopes on education reform, health-care costs and government accountability.
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The Council will review the measures set forth in this resolution when appropriate, but no later than 30 November 2010, with a view to adjusting them in light of the security situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in particular progress in security sector reform and in integrating the armed forces and reforming the national police and disarming, demobilizing, repatriating, resettling and reintegrating Congolese and foreign armed groups.
But in the main countries there is almost no progress on the micro-economic reform needed to boost sagging competitiveness, argues Joyce Chang of J.
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However, it expressed concern at the progress of several reform programmes.
Overall, progress has been made in moving ahead on the Cannes and previous summit reform commitments, but more progress and new actions are required in several important areas.
Unfortunately, they concluded that the U.S. is lagging well behind the rest of the world in corporate reform and, worse, the odds of any serious progress anytime soon are slim.
In mid-December the European Council, which comprises the heads of state and government of the EU's 27 member states, had disappointed Turkey by endorsing the conclusions of an earlier meeting of EU foreign ministers, which criticised the limited progress Turkey had made on political reform in 2007 and warned that long-awaited reforms in the areas of freedom of expression and religion should not be delayed any further.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, efforts to secure political and economic reform in the wake of the Arab Spring were making progress, the UK said in the report.
The progress of the health care reform plan was not a great guide for stock market action.
Difficult reform leading to real progress in the fight against crime.
Progress on monetary reform is the overlooked, all important variable that will shape the outlook for financial markets, economic growth and the prospect for balancing the budget of federal, state and local governments, to say nothing of the budget of the average American family.
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There has been little progress on the thorniest issues of financial reform.
The State Department said the move both rewarded progress and aimed to prevent backsliding on reform.
It's not easy to achieve reform of the tax code, spending on infrastructure, and progress on green energy.
Some members have delivered on their commitment to reform the pension system (Italy) and others are making progress on pension reforms (France, the UK).
Baroness Hayman said there was a need for reform of the upper house in the form of "incremental progress" and cited areas including the size of the chamber, term limits for appointees and enabling members to retire, around which consensus might be reached.
For all the talk of aspirations, voters do not seem to connect reform with progress.
Efforts are nevertheless under way to reform the CAP, but if they fail, the chance of progress in the Doha talks will shrink.
One fast-growing grassroots organisation is Working America, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO which links union members and non-union workers to campaign for better jobs, higher standards in education and, above all, health-care reform. (Any progress on this front under the Obama administration will be claimed as a success by both AFL-CIO and the breakaway coalition led by Mr Stern.) Moreover, grassroots union activism in several swing states helped Mr Obama to victory.
Although the end of the decade was more stable, there was little tangible progress with economic reform.
One can only wonder how much faster progress on tax reform or school choice would have been if the political capital devoted to income inequality had been devoted to fighting entrenched institutional resistance to useful reforms.
Reform is taking hold in many societies that are eager to join in the progress and prosperity of our times.
Mr Cameron also used his speech to hail progress on welfare reform, immigration and cutting income tax, saying the coalition government programme of "national renewal" was on track.
Reviewing progress over the 10 years of the Lisbon Agenda, the Centre for European Reform awarded top marks to the Netherlands.
Mr Johnson would need to govern competently for the remaining months of Labour's mandate, and perhaps make progress on public-service reform.
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