In terms of basic health services, Iraq has long been among the region's most problematic cases, with dangerously high rates of neonatal mortality and one of the lowest vaccination coverage rates.
With the pace of urbanization, policy makers, economic actors and vulnerable populations will face considerable challenges in terms of quality of basic services, employment, housing, and safety equipment.
Because there are simply basic problems in terms of responsibility of the leaders, in terms of foreign intervention, in terms of basic irresponsibility.
Social care is often discussed in terms of basic needs: being clean, dressed, and fed.
In terms of basic research, that is very short".
Elite biases in policy making result in skewed distribution of basic services that reflects the lack of voice of the poor in determining the types of public services that should be available, their physical location, terms of access to services, and nature of interactions between providers and users.
It's not the same, yet, because there have been en years of solid economic growth – Ely is a very different place in terms of investment and quality of basic services and feels different.
The fundamental economic indicators for Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in terms of income per capita, unemployment and lack of basic services such as electricity and drinking water are very much alike.
You're seeing a retrenchment in terms of family income, you're seeing the abandonment of basic services, such as public education, functional public education.
