Working out the costs and benefits of a program is a complex enough task for something concrete like providing a clean water supply, but for a wider issue like women's rights it is fiendishly difficult.
But outside his own circle that is, among diplomats, local and foreign businessmen, other politicians and ordinary folk the consensus is that his long political career has been tainted all along.The wider issue for Mongolia is that all politicians, from all parties, are seen as no better.
"I think the wider issue for dealing with the past, I think we have to do that in the context of Haass (talks) and I think that is the place where this needs to be discussed, where we get an overall framework for dealing with issues of the past but one which puts the victims and their families and those who are traumatised - and there were many of them - at the centre of what needs to be done".
The migration pressures at Calais are a Europe-wide issue for the whole continent to address, Britain's immigration minister has said.
Aside from the fact that half of the population is under-represented, there are wider issues for society stemming from the lack of women in ministerial roles.
The review was commissioned by Aberdeen city council, Police Scotland and NHS Grampian following the court case to establish whether there were "wider issues for the whole of Scotland".
The cross-bench peer said the problems she faced while travelling by rail highlighted wider issues for the disabled, adding that she had experienced far worse.
What these types of evaluations do not consider are the wider issues for participating students.
12 13 The potential effectiveness of antibiotics must also be balanced against wider issues for the National Health Service (NHS), particularly the mounting concerns about increasing workload for self limiting illness 2 and the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.
(district nurse 6, practice D) The constraints to enabling patients to die at their preferred place relate to contingent factors or wider issues (for example, family capacity or service availability).
