Sentences with phrase «despite decades of development»

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Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

At the end of the United Nations Development Decade, almost all of the Third World countries had met their growth targets in terms of increased Gross National Product, but despite more than 35 years of «development,» absolute poverty was on thDevelopment Decade, almost all of the Third World countries had met their growth targets in terms of increased Gross National Product, but despite more than 35 years of «development,» absolute poverty was on thdevelopment,» absolute poverty was on the increase.

Despite the rapid advances in plant - based meat product development and new endeavors to support novel ingredient sourcing, most of today's plant - based meats are created using the same machinery employed decades ago, and that outdated technology poses significant limitations.

This statistic has not changed for the past five decades, despite the development of many new anti-seizure drugs.

Despite decades of failures in Alzheimer's drug development, scientific attention continues to focus on drugs that «attack» a molecular compound called beta amyloid, with the goal of curing the disease.

WHY: Stuck in Development Hell for nearly two decades despite being a passion project for co-star Jeff Bridges, «The Giver» probably would have languished there forever were it not for the recent success of «The Hunger Games» and «Divergent.»

But despite the competence, it feels somewhat unrefined and a bit agricultural — not quite hiding its age and showing just how far development of newer rivals has come in the last decade.

And for almost a decade, one browser maker held back technical progress in web development by not fully, reliably supporting web standards: this is no different than the Kindle entirely ignoring the recommendations of the International Digital Publishing Forum, despite Amazon being a paying member.

Despite a heavy dose of developments, upscale hotels, and golf courses, Bali still retains much of its original magic discovered decades ago by a small handful of travelers.

Despite nearly a decade of «will they, won't they» development, The Last Guardian is, in fact, a very real game landing in the hands of some very patient players today.

By contrast, despite spending over $ 2 trillion in 5 decades, aid programs have much less to show in terms of poverty reduction — or its ancillary benefits, e.g., reductions in hunger, disease, better health care and education, and greater adaptive capacity to deal with climate change and natural disasters — than does fossil fuel - powered economic development.

Despite billions of dollars in research and decades of development, only one full - scale CCS power plant is up and running.

Unfortunately, despite decades of research and development on these submodels, they remain far from perfect.

lots of very promising transit developments for new york which is very good to see for a city that despite being so pedestrian - oriented, public policy-wise has remained for decades under the spell of robert moses.

That, despite decades of warnings, the wealthy nations have neglected to demonstrate that low - carbon development paths are actually possible.

The company has failed to prioritize the development of a fully recyclable cup, despite repeated promises to do so over the past decade.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.

PICTURED ABOVE: A report by Realogics illustrates the supply of new condominiums in their year of substantial completion, as well as the present status of sales — clearly the boom of new for - sale developments a decade ago is not replicated in more modern times, despite the market fundamentals being substantially better.