His tour through the history of government learning is sobering, suggesting there may be a growing policy gap.
Growing policy co-ordination between African embassies in Beijing is a useful first step in improving African bargaining power.
Fed economists reckon the size of the central bank's balance-sheet is what matters most: so long as its asset pile is growing, policy is getting looser.
She didn't blame anyone for this state of affairs, but said "given the growing policy relevance of climate data, increasingly higher standards must be applied".
There is nothing new about this as a long-term economic goal, but in recent years there has been a growing policy emphasis on the industrial and (especially) tertiary sectors.
And it underscored the growing policy debate over whether federal officials and private groups can adequately police such a fast-growing and constantly changing new medium as the Net.
Laura Bush made a roomful of self-important media oligarchs twitter at her scripted jokes, but not even her soft porn act can reverse her husband's growing policy failures and his falling poll numbers.
Another growing policy is to try to steer people away from the iconic sites: for instance, English Heritage now hopes to relieve pressure on Stonehenge by guiding visitors towards the area's wider neolithic landscape.
On the other, there is the growing policy concern about the unintended consequence of financial exclusion that is resulting from robust pursuit of these objectives without great enough precision".
Although the Bain study suggests that a big divide occurred between Europe and America over the past decade, and that the gap is likely to continue to grow, policy shifts in either place could profoundly alter the picture.Also typically ignored when assessing the overall drug-pricing regime is how patients fare.
