Mr. Akerson said G.M. had improved its accounting and regional framework to focus on more profitable vehicles and markets.
"The Chinese government has also been proactive on developing the North's Rason area and working on a railway, so it can improve its regional economies," Lim said.
China is also developing new medium-range systems that will "improve its regional targeting capability".
Some observers think that Iran, too, wants the bomb primarily to improve its regional position and protect itself against regime change — not to annihilate Israel.
Secretary Geithner ended his testimony with proposals for ensuring that the World Bank and its sibling regional banks improved their financial discipline, transparency and accountability, and concern for impact and results.
"The earnings of the regional carriers improved," Eita Yashiro, minister of posts and telecommunications, said at a news conference today.
These two factors are often indistinguishable especially at regional level since improved infrastructure stimulates relocation of activities.
In the 1990s survival among the Singaporean women with localized cancer and regional cancer improved and was comparable with the Swedish women.
Availability of essential newborn care supplies, which was high at baseline in the regional hospitals, improved at the lower-level health facilities.
The publisher of the Daily Mirror, the Sunday People and more than 100 regional newspapers said revenue trends had improved across its print and digital operations in the 17 weeks to 27 October, in a trading update on Thursday.
