"It is nothing more than a smokescreen to cover the Lib Dem and Tory record in Westminster and we won't be diverted from delivering the progress our city needs".
And why shouldn't it, given the failure of either democracy or the free market to deliver the political progress and economic reform Latin Americans crave?In fact, this is a caricature.
For advocates of a tougher line on China, the fact that Beijing overplayed its hand reinforced their argument that economic engagement has not delivered the once-hoped-for progress on other fronts.
Thanks to breakthroughs in computing, electronics and materials engineering, the last several years have delivered the biggest burst of prosthetics progress ever, say researchers and builders.
But the peace treaty that ended decades of war between the north and the south has yet to deliver the kind of progress many expected.
Does not Chinese authoritarianism, besides, deliver the goods: material progress and social stability?The authors of both these books argue convincingly against such views.
Page A24 Op-Ed THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Presidents never come out of the box and deliver the scale of progress and change they have promised, according to one of America's most experienced pollsters.
They never come out of the box and deliver the scale of progress and change they promise — not because they are cynical, but because events conspire against them and they encounter competing power centers.
As The Economist went to press, Barack Obama was about to deliver the results of the progress review he promised a year ago when announcing his decision to commit a further 30,000 troops to the fight.
Kenny says the two-day summit has delivered real progress, citing the EU budget deal, the agreement on how to deal with failing EU banks, and the €8bn plan to fight youth jobless.
