Wim Duisenberg, its president, said recently that "countries with remaining imbalances must avoid deficits in excess of 3% of GDP and implement determined policies in order to progress towards budgets close to balance or in surplus".David Walton, an economist at Goldman Sachs, says that the pact aims at the wrong thing.
76 % of the GDPs have taken notice of the KNMT's RCD and 51%% of the GDPs have implemented the reporting code in one form or another in their practice.
These GDPs are more often female (52%% versus 28%%; p < 0.01) and on average younger (43.7 versus 51.1 years; p < 0.01) than GDPs who have not had any suspicions of DV or CA. Moreover, these GDPs have implemented the RCD much more often (71%% versus 45%%; p < 0.01).
When society regards these issues as highly important, it will be easier for GDPs to implement this new legislation in their daily practice.
"The most similar change we did to this was back in 1999, when we first capitalised [included in GDP] computer software," says Brent Moulton, head of national accounts at the BEA and the man tasked with creating and implementing the GDP revision formula.
It appears that GDPs who properly implemented the RCD have discerned signs of DV and CA more often and they have also acted on these suspicions.
The study gives some insight in why almost half of the GDPs have not implemented the reporting code into their practice.
Indeed, even though the Department of Health has provided the dentist with the evidence for preventive treatment, it has failed to support GDPs, or primary care services generally, in practically implementing these preventive measures [ 36].
From China, Yunnan Communist Party Secretary Qin Guangrong spells out how China's policy shift of putting a clean environment ahead of GDP growth is being implemented in his province.
Implemented as GDP, it is already proving an essential tool for interrogating the molecular pathogenesis of glaucoma.
