China is very dependent on foreign direct investment for technological progress.
We have repeatedly seen that investing in women's progress is one of the most effective, high-yield investments for economic and social progress around the world.
The company offers many standard reasons for progress – online investment, wider ranges, better infrastructure, blah, blah – but founder Julian Dunkerton deserves a nod for recognising two years ago that it would best to hire an old hand to instal some basic nuts and bolts of retailing.
Without successful entrepreneurs and wealth creation that finances investment, there is no possibility for progress.
This fatalism, lack of attention, and lack of investment are the reasons behind lagging progress in reducing newborn deaths – and even slower for progress in reducing stillbirths.
Access for all women, everywhere, to simple, proven, lifesaving technologies -- family planning and antiretroviral drugs chief among them -- needs continued investment if progress is to be sustained.
As economic elites quantified the nation as a for-profit, capitalized investment, the progress of its inhabitants, free or enslaved, came to be valued according to their moneymaking abilities.
At Rockefeller, we are grateful for Julian and Josie's extraordinary generosity, which enabled the University to make tremendous investments and progress in cancer research.
Hooray for progress, then?
Thank goodness for progress.
