The WHO recommends two measures for assessing progress towards financial protection: the incidence of catastrophic health care expenditure and the incidence of impoverishment resulting from OOP payments for health care [ 25].
After appeals by Clegg and Joseph Stiglitz, the final text of the conference recognised the need for "broader measures of progress to complement GDP".
In this pivotal presidential election campaign already under way, all candidates must talk about how their leadership will serve to end homelessness, joblessness and despair for so many Americans, and tell us how their administration should be measured for its progress in reversing this human tragedy in the world's richest nation.
Although time to degree is a valuable measure for assessing progress of full-time, entering-freshmen students who do not transfer to another university, it's an almost useless metric for transfer students, part-time students, and students who stop and start their degrees based on financial needs.
DURBAN / GENEVA, 11 June 2003 – The Executive Director of UNICEF today called on African leaders attending an economic summit here to embrace child-centred standards as the primary measure for gauging progress across their continent.
In order to establish reaction conditions that would lead to complete cleavage of the tethered molecules, we used cleavage of LPRTG-fam as a surrogate measure for reaction progress.
Comedy, when it's funny, risks rejection and revulsion; it is, in large measure, the quest for progress through regressive feelings.
During an appearance before a Congressional committee in 2007, he said the focus on Iraq should not be measured by benchmarks for progress and deadlines for troop withdrawals but by the informal ways in which Iraq had begun to improve.
Of all measures for gauging the progress of the economy, the one that really counts is employment.
