The officials at the helm of Brazil's state-controlled companies argue that the nation still needs such sprawling projects to consolidate the gains in reducing inequality.
My wish for 2012 is that the world makes serious gains in reducing social, political and financial exclusion, in advancing participatory and accountable governance, and in achieving a better distribution of power and resources.
According to people with knowledge of the census figures, the bureau made sharper gains in reducing the number of blacks, Hispanics and children who were missed in last year's census.
In Liberia, we have seen important gains in reducing child mortality and an increase in budgetary government funding to the water and sanitation sector, from $200,000 in 2006 to $524,000 last year.
But some of the government's gain in reducing its deficit has come from not paying its bills to Greek companies, making things worse for the economy when thousands of such companies are going out of business.
We observed that there is no significant gain in reducing the refinement interval below 5000 wall-clock ticks for both the LP graph generation models.
And all of the parameters needed for EM update are computed by the general approximate message passing (GAMP) [9, 10] algorithm, which provides a huge gain in reducing the computational complexity.
There the epidemic rages on, with at best modest gains in reducing the global burden of disease.
They conclude that the diminishing gains in reducing late life mortality suggest a possible limit to human lifespan.
In recent months lawmakers, the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and the U.S. Department of Justice have all started to work on initiatives to reduce prison populations, though their efforts have largely resulted in small gains, with projections showing that the Bureau of Prisons' gains in reducing prison populations are expected to shoot back up to current levels by 2023.
