Sentences with phrase «among poor nations»

This concern has also determined distribution of aid among poor nations.

To encourage Olympic participation among poorer nations, the International Cycling Federation has outlawed much of the SuperBike technology, including aerodynamically refined frames that had no top tube.

SciDev.Net: The interests of rich countries can seem to dominate climate change negotiations, but a study that models such talks as a «bargaining game» shows that side deals among poorer nations could boost chances of an international agreement.

Not exact matches

Due to mostly uneducated and poor nations the political forces in Muslim nations take advantage of religious ignorance and spread hate among the populations against other religions and the west.

For example, the 1999 UNDP Human Development Report records that the gap between the rich and the poor among nations as well as within nations has widened.

The 1999 UNDP Human Development Report records that the gap between the rich and the poor among nations and within nations has widened.

Marxist Liberation theology is popular among Catholics in poor nations and especially in Latin America where the Pope comes from.

Even among the affluent nations of the western world, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting the poorer.

But just as equal opportunities within a society are unlikely to become reality without general access to high quality education, so free trade will not in practice be generally accepted, especially among the poorer countries, until the huge discrepancies between nations in technical and commercial skills are diminished.

Before corrective action can be taken, one needs to have as clear a picture as can be had of the constellation of factors that have led to life - frustrating situations that call for change, whether the issue be poverty, pollution, overpopulation, or the rich - poor gap among the nations.

Christocentrism could no longer cope with the challenge of religious pluralism; universalism did not grasp the depth of alienation among the poor and the marginalized; salvation history did not do justice to the plural histories of the world's many cultures and nations; the unity of the Church in Christ offered no power or guidance in overcoming sexism, racism and human exploitation.

With so many health problems among American youth being attributed to poor diet these types of food programs can have a profound effect on the future of the nation's health.

Still, the mayor knows he must confront arguments that poverty still abounds on the east and west sides, and that surveys continue to rank Buffalo as among the nation's poorest cities.

Brown acknowledges Buffalo continues to rank among the nation's poorest cities.

Modern culinary extravagances include high caloric fantasies lacking even a twig's worth of nutrients, and poor nations are among their most avid consumers.

The illicit trade in wildlife and wildlife parts is now a multi-billion industry decimating iconic animal populations, undermining security across nations, and threatening ecosystems, food security, human health, and livelihoods among the world's poorest communities.

Another unexpected finding: Among people who were aware of global warming, those in the poorer nations tended to judge it as a far bigger threat.

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Jordan is among the world's most water - poor nations, and a new, comprehensive analysis of regional drought and land - use changes in upstream Syria suggests the conditions could get significantly worse.

There appears to be no strong relationship among nations with primary enrollment of 20 percent to 90 percent: all these countries are poor.

They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).

But the «we need to spend more» mantra has been blown up countless times, most recently by Minnesota reformer / writer Chris Stewart who pointed out that North High, one of the poorest performing schools in Minneapolis, receives budget allocations that amount to $ 17,460 per student, while Southwest High, a school ranked among the best in the nation, gets just $ 7,782 per student.

The task force, chaired by Joel Klein, former head of New York City public schools, and Condoleezza Rice, former U.S. secretary of state, cites mediocre U.S. showings on international assessments; high dropout rates, particularly among black and Hispanic students; poor civics performance; limited study of foreign languages; and lack of college preparedness as evidence that the nation's security is at risk.

Governing magazine looks at what poor road conditions in Utah's portion of the Navajo nations mean for, among others, school children.

While there always have been inequalities among the nation's public schools, the gap in spending between public schools in the poorest and most - affluent communities has grown during the past decade.

Among those failings were the poor quality of content standards and assessments and the variability in content expectations and proficiency targets across states, as well as concerns related to the economic competitiveness of the nation's future workforce.

This may have a certain intuitive logic and hearkens back the Reagan administration's «A Nation at Risk» which lamented how many of America's teachers were among the poorest students in college.

Mississippi students rank among the last in the nation; this is true when comparing Mississippi's poor students to other poor students as well as its non-poor students to other non-poor students.

We are talking about children and families that are among the poorest in the entire nation.

Aperture's forthcoming Prison Nation issue accompanies a related exhibition and programming featuring Nigel Poor, Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick, Deborah Luster, Jamel Shabazz, and Lorenzo Steele Jr., among others.

From now through early next week, much of the discussion will center on «non-papers» bristling with bracketed phrases that will be the subject of intense [negotiations][tussles][fights] among 196 nations rich and poor, dry and wet, north and south, bountiful and barren.

It and other oil - producing nations have, among other things, claimed a need for adaptation funding — normally reserved for the poor nations that have done little to cause climate change but are bearing the brunt of weather disasters and other problems — because of rising sea levels that threaten offshore oil rigs.

They include, among many others, principles on what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, who is responsible for reasonable adaptation needs of those people at greatest risk from climate damages in poor nations that have done little to cause climate change, should high - emitting nations help poor nations obtain climate friendly energy technologies, and what responsibilities should high - emitting nations have for refugees who must flee their country because climate change has made their nations uninhabitable?

UN News Center: The water, sanitation and sustainable energy crises are the among the world's pre-eminent development challenges, senior United Nations officials warned today, urging Member States to adopt coherent integrated policies and innovative strategies to tackle these issues, which take a tragic toll on the lives of millions of poor people, especially women and young [continue reading...]

This is so because in addition to the theological reasons given by Pope Francis recently: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

This is so because: (a) it is a problem mostly caused by some nations and people emitting high - levels of greenhouse gases (ghg) in one part of the world who are harming or threatening tens of millions of living people and countless numbers of future generations throughout the world who include some of the world's poorest people who have done little to cause the problem, (b) the harms to many of the world's most vulnerable victims of climate change are potentially catastrophic, (c) many people most at risk from climate change often can't protect themselves by petitioning their governments; their best hope is that those causing the problem will see that justice requires them to greatly lower their ghg emissions, (d) to protect the world's most vulnerable people nations must limit their ghg emissions to levels that constitute their fair share of safe global emissions, and, (e) climate change is preventing some people from enjoying the most basic human rights including rights to life and security among others.

If each nation had to reduce their ghg emissions only to conform to the rates described in the reduction curves in the above chart despite their steepness, it would lead to grossly unfair results because of great differences among countries in per capita and historical emissions levels and urgent needs to increase energy consumption to escape grinding poverty in poor developing countries.

Among the spending choices for governments of poorer nations, kick - starting the technological revolution may at first seem like a low priority.

They have been among the most vocal critics of the current process on the grounds that it puts too much pressure on poorer nations.

Will backroom deals among rich nations lead to death and devastation for poorer ones?

Extreme weather events and disasters are undercutting food security for millions around the world, especially among poor developing nations, the WRO wrote, adding that 23.5 million people were displaced in 2016 by weather - related disaster, creating a flood of climate refugees throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America.

Major powers on board include all five permanent members of the UN Security Council while representation from developing nations has been poor, particularly among states from Africa, Asia - Pacific, and the Middle East.

However there exists within this wealthy nation another nation whose people are among the poorest and most materially deprived in the world.

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