Essam Sharaf, prime minister of the military-backed government, postponed a visit to the Gulf to convene an emergency cabinet session, and announced compensation payments for the dead and nearly 200 injured as well as strict implementation of tough new laws banning gatherings outside places of worship.
Unfortunately, little has changed on the ground due to the tardy implementation of the new laws by the states.
Although full implementation of the new laws requires further reform at the state level, to get the junior professorships off the ground, the BMBF has dedicated a chunk of its current budget for grants.
Some $10 million has been set aside to fund implementation of the new laws for the first year.
Despite the sheriffs' concerns, a report released last year from the Brookings Institution concluded that the implementation of the new laws has been largely successful.
"They won't stop the implementation of the new laws," he said, but rather would "only hurt the [hotel's] employees".
In May the Indian government cut in half long-term capital gains taxes on private equity investors while simultaneously postponing the implementation of new tax laws until at least April 2013: a good sign in a nation plagued by bureaucracy.
It will provide the necessary impetus for the national level advocacy and government to buy in and ultimately benefit the processes towards the implementation of the new Law of the Child Act, 2009.
More than ten years after the implementation of the new law, the majority of workers still perceive that the real power within the hospitals is held by the physicians (whereas these feel that it has shifted to the administrators).
