The seemingly laudable plan is part of the Bush administration's rush to show measurable progress in Afghanistan -- by number of schools and clinics built, miles of road paved and tons of wheat seed distributed.
Although both staff retention and mechanisms to address quality of care are highlighted in various policy documents (49, 56, 57), a key challenge in South Africa has been in translating laudable plans and strategies into action (58, 59).
Only time will tell, however, whether and how these laudable plans will actually be put into practice.
On the other hand there is ITV, as chairman Archie Norman observed, with a laudable strategic plan set in 2007 by his predecessor Michael Grade – based around targets to boost production to over a £1bn annually and online revenue to £150m this year – on which it comprehensively failed to deliver as the company was engulfed the worst advertising recession for decades.
For all its laudable goals, the plan will amount to nothing if it is left to collect dust in Foggy Bottom.
In our case-study countries, there have been laudable attempts to plan for the impact of fee removal or reduction, and sometimes concomitant supportive change, even if not specifically responding to the needs of financing-policy change.
Realizing the plan's laudable intentions will not be easy.
But like the curate's egg, some of the localism and big society plans are laudable.
The plan is laudable in its ambition but lacks detail: one developer worries that the corporations will find it hard to overcome objections from NIMBYs.Labour also sees expensive houses as a potential source of new revenue.
Such ambitious plans are laudable, but let's hope they do not suffer the same fate as the Iridium satellite venture.
Given all of this, Pena Nieto's effort is laudable but perhaps badly planned.
