Improved performance or higher quality service does not occur on demand.

The metadata supporting the MDG database is of unacceptably poor quality.

Can fundamental performance information translate into broader information about quality, effectiveness and transparency?

Their performance might be very positive or very poor, yet they would continue to occupy that position.

This idea of capacity as a platform for performance is central to the rationale for capacity assessment (although the term used here is capacity for performance, the criteria based approach can be applied to other dimensions of performance, such as quality, as well).

Poverty impact the demonstrable effect of the project on improving the quality of life of poor communities and individuals

It had launched an industrial modernization programme in support of national institutions, and programmes aimed at quality performance and regional balance.

Nobody, and no country, can afford to be there, where performance is poor and there are large social disparities.

Another study found that Indonesian firms that invested abroad improved their performance dramatically in terms of management expertise, exports, quality and assets relative to their past performance and to the performance of firms in the sample that did not make such investments (Lecraw 1993).

The Unit should also be involved in quality assurance of vendor certification and vendor performance in terms of adherence to safety standards.

A criteria based approach allows analysts to focus on data collection in terms of explicitly stated dimensions of quality, effectiveness and performance.

We know that a host of issues can cause a student s performance to decline scorching summer heat in classrooms without air conditioning, problems at home, or poor quality teachers, to name a few. But when one gathers results on a large scale, variables flatten out, and the important differences emerge.

The programme includes the development of the Standards of Performance Manuals for hotels and restaurants, as well as a programme of quality inspections.

The petroleum products are poor in quality due to high sulfur content and become one of the causes of environmental pollution.

According to Iran, the differences in prices were due to the poor quality of the crops produced in the Southern Provinces.

From this analysis, the Fund will identify the process changes that will lead to an overall improvement in performance, productivity and quality of service.

The net effect of this strategy would be to increase the legitimacy of the foundations, principles, quality parameters and performance criteria of public administration.

The quality in healthcare services remains poor, and access to them was difficult for women, especially in the mountainous and rural areas.

The resulting automated linkages will significantly reduce the manual processing effort now necessary and will, in turn, provide performance, productivity and quality of service improvements.

And last summer, more than 10,000 workers protested for the non payment of wages, for the poor quality of food, and inadequate housing.

While various countries have implemented free basic education, there is a sense that it is of poor quality and inaccessible to many youth.

Such constraints are frequently referred to in the reports and appear to explain the poor performance of monitoring and assessment systems currently operating.

Specific policy instruments that can be considered include incentives, performance requirements, investment targeting, and the provision of public goods (notably low cost and high quality infrastructure).

IP International Professional TBD to be determined PER Performance Evaluation Review QA quality assurance ISO International Organization for Standardization SMART specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time based.

This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering.

Fourth, the inadequate volume and poor quality of ODA had compromised its true potential, resulting in a misguided perception that aid would not work.

Meanwhile, enormous investment did not bring about the corresponding economic benefit, which was a key factor leading to poor quality and benefit in economic growth.

This suggests that companies offering cheap, poor quality, unbranded products are unlikely to succeed in the long term. For apparel consumers, for example, quality is second only to price when choosing a store, and second only to fashion when choosing a specific item.

The range of leading causes of death has been slightly altered in comparison to pervious years, which is most probably the consequence of poor quality mortality data.

Declining investment rates represent the principal cause behind poor economic performance as they were on average 4 per cent below the investment rates for the developing world.

My wish is that TED assist us in our work and help us to build a high quality rural health system in a poor country, Rwanda, that can be a model for Africa, and indeed, for any poor country anywhere in the world.

The poor quality of infrastructure imposes heavy costs on the producers of tradable goods and on the rest of the population, given the low population density in Africa.

Laboratories and other scientific institutions will be able to work more effectively, meet internationally accepted performance standards and provide reliable evidence in court, through ongoing access to expert advice and guidance, methods, guidelines, reference standards and materials, training opportunities and a quality assurance programme to monitor overall performance.

Furthermore, the poor quality of some education, resulting from irrelevant and obsolete curricula, overcrowded classrooms, untrained teachers and gender discrimination, cause high dropout and repetition rates especially among girls.

Community infrastructure will support, in the form of grants on a cost sharing basis, small scale community infrastructure sub projects to improve the quality of life of the poor.

They're not the largest number of people, but they are some of the most expensive and in terms of the likelihood for domestic abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, poor performance by their kids in schools and also poor health as a result of stress.

Wang Shun's two idols are Phelps and Lochte. Phelps has obtained his 4th gold medals in Rio while Lochte, due to his poor performance, has ended in ranking fifth.

The whole issue of involving the citizens in the evaluation of the performance of public administration underpins the necessity to devise and sharpen bottom up approaches and methodologies for determining its quality.

And the problem of poor vision, is actually not just a health problem, it's also an educational problem, and it's an economic problem, and it's a quality of life problem.

The result should help India to continue not without occasional turbulence its journey toward becoming a high growth economy that raises the standard and quality of life for the poor.

The reason for poor quality has been overly high pesticide and heavy metals quantities cadmium, lead and arsenic, coupled with incomplete and unharmonized declarations on the original packing of food.

Quality of data from laboratories has been enhanced further through regional training for heads of national forensic laboratories in Central American countries, giving special focus to quality performance, improving the skills and expertise required for drug and precursors identification and analysis, and practical implementation of best practice in the laboratory.

By contrast, a country riddled with regulatory shortcomings will find its arteries of commerce clogged and foreign investors spooked by unpredictable quality and unfair competition from unscrupulous producers. In developing countries, poor quality regulation and implementation are formidable barriers to entrepreneurship and investment, according to a World Bank report.

Ethical responsibility and quality management measures should also be swiftly implemented, together with common procurement management systems, model lease and contract templates, performance rating and evaluation systems, and vendor registration and review measures.

Even if you only cared about AIDS in Africa, it might still be a good idea to invest in malaria, in combating poor indoor air quality, in improving maternal mortality rates.