Councils face an unenviable choice of priority for vulnerable children or for vulnerable adults.
"I suppose you might have trouble working, and be drinking too much, if you'd just lost a house, or just lost a partner" – interesting choice of priority – was as far as any would concede.
The choice of priority countries (Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu as well as Federated States of Micronesia and Marshall Islands) was justified with reference to a number of very general criteria: their recognised LDC status (Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu) and their poor social indicators (Federated States of Micronesia and Marshall Islands).
There are important and difficult questions, too, about the best methods of development, such as the importance of security, and the choice of priorities between supporting economic development or providing health facilities.
Next year, initiatives put forth by the House Budget Committee chairman, Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and his Republican colleagues, and those presented by President Barack Obama and the Democrats may offer the opportunity for a much needed debate and a choice of priorities.
Alongside slick marketing, what is needed is the skilful choice of priorities, the nurturing of alliances for change, and persistence as well as popularity-seeking.Setting an exampleThe advent of President Fox is an important milestone for Latin America as well as for Mexico.
It is easy to question that choice of priorities from the United States, but a quick look at the historical arc of the other Central Asian post-Soviet states suggests that the idea may not be wrongheaded.
Such choice of priorities creates a wrong picture that juvenile violence is on a rise, which does not depict the truth, the participants asserted.
Given the unfeasibility of reaching the three objectives at the same degree simultaneously, a choice of priorities must be made explicit.
