Given the tensions being created by the apparent vulnerability of the health systems strengthening agenda, and the increasing rhetoric around the need for greater harmonization in development assistance, an examination of the positioning of the World Bank in this context is vital.
Greater harmonization of data protection rules is certainly an impetus for updating the EU's legal framework around privacy.
This improvement will enable greater harmonization of laboratory autoimmune tests, greater accuracy of test results, and a better outcome for patients with autoimmune diseases.
The Asian financial crisis, if anything, unleashed more trade and prompted greater harmonization of economies there.
Many companies are seeking greater harmonization in regulations coming out of Washington and Brussels, as well as lower tariffs on both sides of the Atlantic.
Mr. Phillips at Betfair said greater harmonization could bolster the European economy by helping Europe-based online gambling operators maintain the competitive edge they now enjoy over betting companies in other regions, where the practice remains illegal.
In this way, TPP membership would help Taiwan to achieve greater harmonization with standard international practice; over the long term, this would further enhance the benefits to Taiwan from TPP membership, and reduce the negative impacts.
That this aspect of policy and program delivery is referred to by both sets of data (at the international/regional level and at the national level) is important in terms of highlighting that there are possibilities for greater harmonization and coherence between international, regional and national goals and priorities in policy making.
The commission said that there must be "greater harmonization of security of supply standards and predefined emergency measures at regional and EU levels" and added that so far there is "insufficient evidence at this stage" for making strategic gas stocks obligatory.
