Sentences with phrase «between rich»

But poor nations argue that more pressing issues need to be ironed out, for example the overarching dispute between rich and poor countries over how to share efforts to cut emissions, before more market - based mechanisms are developed or the groundwork for a global trading scheme is laid.

But the path forward is rife with disputes between rich and poor countries over funding, and how to allocate and enforce emissions reductions.

The behavioural differences between rich and poor that Michael Bond notes are not some corrupting desensitisation that overcomes the rich at the expense of the poor (21 April, p 52).

Daytime satellite images, like this one of the border between rich and poor neighborhoods in Nairobi, do a better job of predicting poverty than images taken at night.

The behavioural differences between rich and poor that Michael Bond notes are not some corrupting desensitisation that overcomes the rich...

As the ranks of children in Norway's universal child care program increase, the language skill gap between rich and poor children narrows, according to the study of more than 60,000 children.

As a result, states marked by shuttered factories or dormant mines also show a widening gap in college attendance between rich and poor, the authors write.

During a time of increased concern about income inequality and climate change risk, natural disaster exposure risk could become another cause of rising quality of life inequality between the rich and the poor.

With their concentration only on custom - built, suburban - type dwellings, these so - called energy choices are available only to wealthy Americans — at a time when the gap between rich and poor is widening daily and rates of homelessness and poverty are skyrocketing.

In the world of 2154 the divide between rich and poor has been actualized in space — literally.

Both countries are working to reduce gaps in health services accessibility and in health outcomes between rich and poor, urban and rural and indigenous and nonindigenous people.

«Kyoto divided the world... between rich and poor, developed and developing... our task now is to unite the world behind the shared vision of low carbon growth.

Infectious diseases can differ at a basic biological level between rich and poor locales, and these differences can cripple vaccines intended to fight them.

At this critical time of tax reform, widening gaps between the rich and poor and growing public support for higher taxes and redistribution to combat inequality, policymakers should consider joint federal tax and redistributive policies to reduce the burden of mortality among Americans,» said Professor Kim.

In which developed country is the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor now at its widest since the Victorian era?

Alan Johnson, the Secretary of State of Health, admitted yesterday that Labour needed to close the gap between rich and poor.

The Tory leader endorsed his policy chief Oliver Letwin, who angered the party's traditionalists last December by saying he supported redistribution to try to narrow the gap between rich and poor.

There is greater popular unease about the gap between rich and poor than when Clinton's husband was in the White House providing a blueprint for Tony Blair's Labour.

At (the) launch of her presidential campaign she identified the gap between rich and poor as her central concern.

JON SOPEL: The Oral Health unit, the independent national forum, says that screening does not lead to any improvement, does nothing to reduce inequalities between rich and poor.

Actress Cynthia Nixon jumped into the primary race against Cuomo last week, kicking off her campaign at a Brownsville, Brooklyn, church and making the worsening gap between the rich and poor in New York a key campaign theme.

Despite Cuomo's comments about the differences between rich and poor districts, his address brought a lukewarm response from the Alliance for Quality Education, which focuses on the wealth disparities among schools.

So in all those years of plenty, when Labour claimed it was closing the gap between rich and poor, as well as pouring money into public services, the underlying rate of poverty and its causes were actually growing.

De Blasio ran in 2013 by promising to end the divide between the rich and poor, and will focus this race on trumpeting his record doing that, Walzak said.

Around half thought the financial gap between rich and poor is too wide — as was shown by the «poverty audit» published by Harriet Harman this week.

The key determinant affecting the disparity between rich and poor in thsi country is, as it always has been, class and not ethnicity.

Mulgrew and other speakers denounced the mounting disparity in income between rich and poor in the nation that has angered many middle - class voters as the battles over state budgets and the attack on union benefits have unfolded across the country.

The speech also marks out clear territory on the left of the party where he will base his campaign, with demands for a limit on the gap between rich and poor and rules on pay differentials in the private sector.»

The gap between rich and poor in New York State is the most extreme in the nation.

«The government must do more to reduce the pay gap between rich and poor, Labour leadership contender Ed Miliband has said.

On one side, she pointed to the growing gulf between the rich and poor, and stagnant wages for middle and lower - income earners.

Certainly, the widening gap between rich and poor is a terrible indictment of government policy.

It is also an unbalanced recovery with huge areas of the UK and millions of ordinary people yet to feel the benefits, while the gap between rich and poor gets ever wider.

«Governor Cuomo's policies have caused the spending gap between rich and poor school districts to grow 24 percent to a record setting $ 9,923 per pupil,» said Jasmine Gripper, AQE's legislative director, in a statement after the budget passed.

Other supporters framed the push as a moral issue, citing the fact that the gap between the rich and the poor continues to grow.

A leading member of pressure group, Occupy Ghana, Ace Anan Ankomah has spoken about the failure of the country's middle - class to effectively bridge the gap between the rich and poor in ensuring that devevopment is equally spread across the country.

If economies need to be made, let them address the real divide in this country: that between the rich and the rest.

When so many people are fearing for their modest livelihoods, unglamorous homes and shrinking pensions, this is precisely the worst moment for the Tories to be embroiled in a squalid squabble between rich kids about huge yachts, banking dynasties and Russian billions.

Howie Hawkins will join us to discuss America's police state, the growing disparity between the rich and poor, a nation that is in a permanent state of war.

The rally comes as a study released by the teacher union - affiliated Alliance for Quality Education finds that under Cuomo, funding inequality between rich and poor schools has grown wider.

Yet under Labour the gap between rich and poor has grown.

We want the gap between rich and poor school districts to close and all school and educators be treated fairly.»

By supporting Grant Shapp's Right To Move policy, Iain Duncan Smith's proposals to end welfare dependency, George Osborne's raising of the personal allowance threshold, and Michael Gove's free schools - am I not supporting policies that will narrow the gap between rich and poor?

First, that Liberal Democrats in government should not support measues that widen the gap between rich and poor — indeed we must work to narrow it.

(PS In the City — friends make the distinction between rich and very rich by the use or ownership of a private plane).

Far from fair, as the Chancellor argues, the withdrawal of vital services and spending will only widen the gap between the rich and the poor.

The rally comes as a study released by the teacher union affiliated Alliance for Quality Education finds that under Governor Cuomo, funding inequality between rich and poor schools has grown wider.

Income inequality fuels terrorism, NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said, pointing to recent attacks in Belgium, Pakistan and elsewhere as evidence that the world needs to confront the gap between rich and poor.

The central role which education should play in tackling the widening gap between rich and poor has been highlighted in an international report, launched today at the Financial Times by the Inclusive Prosperity Commission.

«Films can do many things, they can entertain, terrify, they can make us laugh and tell us something about the real world we live in - sorry it's early for a political speech - and in that real world it's getting darker and in the struggle that is coming between rich and poor and the wealthy and the privileged and the big corporations and politicians who speak for them.»