It's hard to be anything less than enthusiastic about such a laudable outcome, but I can't help but think we can do better.
The goals gained international credibility and have facilitated laudable poverty-reduction outcomes [ 5, 6], despite some early political resistance [ 7, 8], and less promising progress for some goals in particular MDG 5 (Improving Maternal Health) [ 9- 11].
Despite this laudable effort, an outcome like that in the Tyson case — in which a company admits the facts and pays a fine but no individuals are charged — hardly seems isolated.
This is a laudable win-win outcome – but it responds to a crisis in traditional development assistance, not to the need for collective action to supply GPGs.
Cassandra reproduces it in full, proudly noting that though his girth has increased over the years, his BMI is 24.5…SIR – Using taxes to encourage better diets and improve health outcomes is laudable.
The screenplay is by Steve Knight, who wrote "Dirty Pretty Things," and his impulse to probe the multiracial London of today — in particular, the influx from the former Eastern bloc — is a laudable one, yet the outcome reminded me of nothing so much as late Dickens.
Though none spoke out against education, several participants emphasized that their primary motivations had little to do with learning outcomes or the laudable goal of fostering an informed citizenry.
"When people have access to information about their own bodies," she said, "they can change outcomes". That sounds unexceptionable, even laudable, but healthcare is more complicated.
Therefore, the reports serve neither the interests of good medical practice nor the laudable EBM goal of achieving better patient outcomes through use of relevant research information.
Deemed ethically laudable and found to yield improvements on outcomes in physical health [ 12], both parties are encouraged to take steps to reach consensus about treatment, engaging in patient-centric communication that accounts for individual preferences.
As with social lending, the laudable and legitimate expectation of a measurable social outcome is sitting alongside the new, and pernicious, belief that academia and charity must also provide a financial return.
