The Tories would allow charities, churches and groups of parents to open schools, even where existing ones have plenty of capacity.
But that spending hasn't been adequate enough to produce many new jobs or even maintain existing ones.
While Muslims can build mosques anywhere they like – even illegally, and the state never dares to knock them down – Copts face often-insurmountable bureaucratic hurdles to obtain planning permission, not just for new churches, but even to renovate existing ones.
SINGAPORE — Every year, watchmakers try to outdo one another, inventing new complications or tinkering with existing ones, even though in most cases experts agree that the innovations bring little in terms of time accuracy.
In recessions, they tend to take steps to discourage new migrants and even get rid of existing ones.
The trick will be to keep adding new players and, even harder, to keep existing ones fully engaged.
Public administration of universities devolves on to a new Office for Students, composed of government appointees, which will be able not only to award degree-conferring powers to new entrant, for-profit institutions – soon Britain too could have a Trump university – but to take them away from existing ones (even, in theory, Oxford and Cambridge).
Yet even if free schools fail to compete head on with existing ones, Mr Gove thinks they can still raise standards through what he calls the "beacon effect".
But the biggest challenge in improving Manila's infrastructure or even to make sure that the existing ones function properly is political and probably cultural, experts say.
QUESTION FROM ANDREW: If the debt ceiling isn't reached, does that bar the government from taking any NEW debt or does it even prevent it from renewing the existing ones?
And with an unemployment rate of 2percentthereere are not enough workers to allow many new businesses to open, or existing ones to expand or even replace retirees.
