Sentences with phrase «affected countries understand»

Currently living in Lebanon and observing both Lebanese and Syrian teachers, Adelman's dissertation looks at how teachers working in conflict - affected countries understand their responsibilities towards displaced students.

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Judging by my Twitter feed, most foreign observers simply can not understand why a man serving his country in one of its highest and most sensitive positions should step down over something that happened in his private life - something that directly affects only those involved and their families.

While some countries still enact mercantilist policies that directly affect the relative prices of traded goods in ways that David Ricardo would have understood two hundred years ago, in today's global trading environment, persistent trade surpluses are usually caused by distortions in income distribution that force up savings rates.

Tax laws vary greatly country to country, so if you're a business that has grown accustomed to the laws of the past, or you're used to tax laws in other countries, it's important you take some time to understand how these changes can affect you.

Sociologist and theologian Elaine Storkey, author of Scars Across Humanity: Understanding and Overcoming Violence Against Women, explains that a global pandemic affects women regardless of culture, region or country, or even to particular groups of women in a society.

In his time with World Vision, Rich has traveled to more than 40 of the nearly 100 countries where World Vision works, and has a firsthand understanding of the issues that affect those in poverty.

While I now have a deeper understanding on many of the «big» issues that affect developing countries, the trip also provided profound insight into the «small» things of life that impact us all day - to - day.

He said the NDC understands the issues affecting Ghanaians and has the people of the country at heart better than the NPP; hence their massive infrastructural development to ensure the provision of jobs for the people.

More work is needed, he added, to understand how «hard driving» is having an affect on air quality and further evidence is required as to the impact the country's existing fleet of vehicles is having on pollution levels.

The new study is one of the first to monitor recent large - scale glacier change in Bolivia, to better understand how receding glaciers could affect communities in the country.

They sought to understand not only the issues facing the country's top researchers, but how government policies might affect their capacity to innovate.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

Markus Rex summarizes the global importance of the research: «To understand how the monsoon will respond to human emissions of pollutants and to climate change is obviously of crucial importance for the countries directly affected by it.

Use this selection of Climate Week resources and activities to help your pupils to understand how climate change is already affecting African countries and get involved using their website.

Use this selection of Earth Day linked resources and activities to help your pupils to understand how climate change is already affecting African countries and get involved using their website.

This is an important lesson if you are investing in single countries, particularly for the short term: Understanding the factors that may affect the currency, and by extension, your investment in that country is crucial.

This paper attempts to disaggregate the differing effects of geography (countries / US states), and economic sector over time to try to understand how the boom, bust and recovery have affected public companies.

There are several forces behind exchange rate movements and it is useful to have a basic understanding of how these affect one country's trading relationship with other countries.

With the extension of PIJAC membership to pet owners, we will be able to ensure legislators understand that the actions they take affect a great number of pets and their owners across their districts and across the country.»

Cirera has spent three years travelling through South America to give soy and the uncharismatic workings of agriculture a face, «along several trips I visited rural areas in those countries - leading exporters of soya, corn and beef - meeting with landowners, labourers, activists, jobless farmers and those affected by toxic pesticides put on the land, to understand and illustrate the complexities of land issues and its effects on the local communities.»

Why, because if IPCC is right, we have to mitigate CO2, promote new energy solutions, understand climate more deeply, assist those countries most affected.

The co-chairs will lead the group's work in developing a comprehensive report that offers the evidence, suggested solutions and understanding of how we can accelerate the uptake of cooling solutions to create sustainable cooling access for all, including the poorest countries and their citizens who are often disproportionately affected.

Zooming in on key regions of the country yields a more robust understanding of how the energy technologies we choose to power tomorrow's world affect water resources.

Needless to say this has been deeply disturbing to an «ordinary Joe» (with 5 grandchildren) who has made an effort to understand the science and the politics that underlie the climate change «debate», especially since my country has become such an important player in the fossil fuel business with its tarsands and pipeline industries that affect us all, so I've tried to find out more about Judith Curry's recent contributions to the debate, not so much the hair - splitting, angels on the head of a pin, esoteric dissections of graphs and stats that I see here on your website but the ethical stance that you take on the larger issue of «killing» the IPCC and all it represents.

Understanding which countries are likely to be worst affected, and which groups of people are most vulnerable, will better enable people to prepare and perhaps mitigate the problem.

For queer people considering foreign options to grow their family or who are considering moving to another country, it's important to understand how they'll be affected by international laws.

«Our officers will interact with government agencies and officers of the IT Ministry to understand the gravity of the data breach witnessed in the US and its affect on their elections and suggest preventive measures that can be adopted to avoid similar problems in our country,» Rawat told The Indian Express.

Bitcoinist talked to Bitkan to better understand the current situation with Bitcoin exchanges and how it has affected peer - to - peer trading in the country.

Understanding Reactive Attachment Disorder — An Overview of One of the More Misunderstood Conditions Affecting Child Welfare A few years ago, I spent a good bit of my time crisscrossing the country lecturing on the topic of Reactive Attachment...