Yet the long-term challenge remains: making European economies converge — that is, assuring that their domestic macro-economic behaviors are sufficiently similar to one another to permit a single monetary policy at a reasonable cost.
"Part of the democratic process is assuring that people are going to get a piece of the cake, and that has been lacking in Bolivia," said Marta Lagos, a pollster and political analyst from Chile whose firm, Latinobarimetro, has done opinion surveys here.
A first step is assuring that all necessary data requirements are made explicit.
There will almost certainly be no White Knight or other buyout offer coming to the table – the sorry state of the debt markets is assuring that.
Among the recommendations in the report, one she sees as especially crucial is assuring that graduate students, starting early in their graduate work or even before, get information about the career outcomes of Ph.D.s and postdocs that is accurate, specific, and timely and, as the report states, "broken down by field and institution".
Many student protests against the Bologna Process have stemmed from what Deca calls the "lack of attention to [the] social dimension" -- that is, assuring that the student body entering, participating in, and completing degree programs at all levels reflects the diversity of the national populations.
