Sentences with phrase «poor nations say»

Poor nations say wealthy countries got rich using coal, oil and gas and they must be allowed to develop their way out of poverty.

Poorer nations say they are fed up with foot - dragging by richer countries on finance and carbon - cutting commitments.

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Poorer nations say they are fed up with foot dragging by richer countries on finance and carbon cutting commitments.

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Research shows that kids born to the poorest 20 % of the nation have a 50 % chance that they will remain that poor their whole lives, he says, citing Raj Chetty's research at the Equality of Opportunity Project.

The nation may need another $ 15 billion, according to the European Union, and Standard & Poor's said a debt default may be inevitable as it cut Ukraine's credit rating to CCC - last week, nine steps below investment grade.

During his address at the United Nations World Environment Day last summer, Pope Francis likened it to a moral issue, saying, «Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of the poor and the hungry.»

The four - term Missouri Democrat continued his Twitter diatribe against the deal to raise the amount of money the nation can borrow and make a down payment on the federal deficit saying, «This debt deal is antithetical to everything the great religions of the world teach, which is take care of the poor, aged, vulnerable.»

Meanwhile Mitt says «We have to bring this nation back to a fundamentally Christian viewpoint and standing» but to do so he has to remove all the protections and equality Obama has fought to get in place, opress the poor and middle class of the nation (again!)

The minute - long spot attacking Boehner's plan says the book of Proverbs «teaches that where there is not leadership a nation falls and the poor are shunned while the rich have many friends.»

When the law - abiding, kosher - eating, Roman - hating Peter encountered a Roman centurion who feared God and gave to the poor, Peter — to his own astonishment — says, «I now realize how true it is that God does not show favoritism but accepts from every nation the one who fears him and does what is right.»

Arguments favoring international trade are based on valuing community, emphasizing immediate improvement of the lot of the poor, avoiding extreme gaps of income internal to nations, and retaining the ability of people through political processes to have a say in determining what happens to them.

«Much poorer nations like Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt have been accommodating the thousands that the United States is turning away,» he said.

if people want to quote the Bible proverbs says when a nation shuts its ears to the poor God will shut his ears in that nations time of need.

In 1776 Adam Smith wrote his famous Wealth of Nations in order, as he said, to provide «hope for the poor of London.»

Wisconsin Atty. Gen. James Doyle said Wednesday that his office filed civil antitrust charges against the nation's two largest makers of infant formula, Abbott Laboratories and Bristol - Myers Squibb Co., accusing them of working together to reduce price competition in bidding on a state - federal program to provide infant formula to poor families.

«The time to stop the House's cuts in vital services and supports for the nation's poorest and most vulnerable families is now, before they become part of the final budget resolution,» said Renwick.

He said the problems of the nation are too huge that it requires a competent, dynamic and capable personality such as that of the NPP Flag bearer to address them, claiming that Ghanaians are tired and lost hope in the poor leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).

«We hear the same issues from coast to coast: the state of our nation's infrastructure is poor and something must be done,» said Ross Pepe, president of the Construction Industry Council of the Hudson Valley.

We are a nation of bridges, not walls, and a great many of us still believe in the words «give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,»» he said.

He said the State Government took it upon itself to undertake the reconstruction of the road being one of the busiest roads in the State with vehicular volumes averaging 50,000 vehicles daily, and that its poor state was not acceptable for the status of the State as the fifth largest economy in Africa and the nation's commercial hub.

Rhodes said education is supposed to be the great equalizer but that the nation has two education systems, one that serves the rich and the other the poor.

We are a nation of bridges, not walls, and a great many of us still believe in the words «give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses,» he said in a statement.

«Mr. President you ought to know this nation is more a tale of two cities, than it is just a shining city on a hill,» said Cuomo, who chided Reagan for ignoring the poor and caring more about tax cuts for millionaires and funding missiles.

Cuomo also says he will cut the cost of the state's Medicaid program for the poor, considered one of the most generous programs in the nation and now serving a quarter of New Yorkers.

Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has decried the poor remuneration of journalists in Nigeria, saying despite their role as reliable and dependable pillar of nation building, many of them are suffering.

Astorino, a Republican who has won the county executive seat twice in the Democratically dominated Westchester County, painted a grim picture of New York under Cuomo, saying the state is «dying» from the highest taxes in the nation and is one of the poorest business climates in the country.

The EU has said that there should be a $ 150 billion annual package of public and private finance by 2020 to help poorer nations develop green industries and adapt to climate change.

She went on to reiterate Ed Miliband's «One Nation» message, saying that the country deserved to be united and does not have a «divide of the rich against the poor, the North and South and the public against the private.»

«The Organisation would, undoubtedly, be the poorer for it, as we shall miss her inspiring presence, her calm, her steadiness, and, above all, her great love and belief in the higher purpose of this Commonwealth of Nations, and in its capacity to be a force for good in our world,» he said.

The 14 authors of last week's paper say that state of affairs could complicate poor countries» ability to appropriately participate in agreements like the Paris deal, which calls on nations to formulate and fulfil their own commitments.

President Obama says he's declared war on inequality in the US — he should include a drive against the tropical diseases afflicting the nation's poor

«Our goal was to show exactly how environmental protection can reduce poverty in poorer nations rather than exacerbate it, as many people fear,» says co-author Paul Ferraro, a professor of economics and environmental policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

China will be «flexible» in U.N. talks for a new global climate change deal, but the key to progress is getting rich nations to keep pledges to fund mitigation steps by poorer countries, the country's top climate change official said on Tuesday.

He said the $ 10 billion Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help poor nations address warming «should only be the beginning» of the wealthy world's commitment.

Germanwatch, a think - tank partly funded by the German government, said poor nations had suffered most from extreme weather in the past two decades, and worldwide, extreme weather had killed 530,000 people and caused damage of more than $ 2.5 trillion.

THE Paris climate agreement, sealed last December, was a first in many respects: the first truly international climate change deal, with promises from both rich and poor nations to cut emissions; the first global signal that the age of fossil fuels must end; the first time world leaders said we should aim for less than 2 °C of warming.

Debunking the stereotype that the nation's poorest, most unhealthy, and most undereducated children are members of minority groups living in urban areas, the report says 14.9 million, or one - fourth of, American children living in rural areas face conditions «just as bleak and in some respects even bleaker than their metropolitan counterparts.»

«Texas is frequently heralded as a successful model for the nation of how tests can improve the academic performance of students, particularly poor and minority students,» says Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project.

To say that DCPS had a poor reputation would be an understatement — the national media had long labeled it one of the worst school districts in the nation.

While the short - term economic outlook for the United States is relatively good, the report says, worsening, long - term social problems such as poor - performing schools continue to trouble the nation.

«Five - and 6 - year - old children are inheritors of poverty's curse and not its creators,» President Lyndon B. Johnson said in a May 1965 speech in the White House Rose Garden, announcing the creation of a federally funded preschool program for the nation's poorest children.

The man who launched Sylvan Learning Centers, the for - profit franchises that tutor thousands of students in storefronts and shopping malls across the nation, said the centers have hiked their hourly fees beyond the reach of the middle - class and poor children who really need them.

A Third of Children in Poor Nations Fail to Meet Mental Development Milestones, Researchers Say Fox News (Reuters), 6/7/16 «There are a number of programs and interventions that can be implemented at any age group to really support children's development, help them to thrive in their settings.»

The Obama administration on Friday said legislation passed this week by Republicans on the House education panel would rob vital federal dollars from the nation's poorest schools and redirect them to wealthier schools.

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

He said the gap between white British children from poorer families and those from other ethnic groups needed to be closed for England to catch up with the world's leading nations.

This isn't to say that these officials don't care about these children, but that they are disinterested in taking on the tough work needed to overhaul districts and schools in order provide kids with the schools they deserve — which includes challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations for poor and minority kids held by far too many adults working in American public education in Virginia and the rest of the nation, and the affiliates of the National Education Association which has succeeded for so long in keeping the Old Dominion's status quo quite ante.

In a blog post on the department website, Duncan said when he mentioned the white suburban moms, he had been trying to «encourage a difficult conversation and challenge the underlying assumption that when we talk about the need to improve our nation's schools, we are only talking about poor minority students in inner cities.»

One of the most serious problems facing education today, Jocz said, is the massive decline in enrollment in teacher credential programs and poor retention rates across the nation.