Sentences with phrase «between rich nations»

The division between rich nations and poor nations continues to grow; the contrast between northern and southern regions of our planet becomes ever more marked and intolerable.

On global level the gap between the rich nations and the poor nations has increased.

The obvious practical meaning of all this is that the fundamental problems we face today — nuclear war, population growth, pollution, the intolerable gap between the rich nations and the poor ones, the intelligent use of scarce world resources — are global in scope.

This vision, if taken seriously in this country, for example, would lead to more emphasis upon a positive strategy to overcome the growing gap between the rich nations and the poor and less on the dominant negative strategy of containing the enemy by filling him with fear of our power to destroy him.

On the global level the gap between the rich nations and the poor nations has increased.

Not exact matches

SYDNEY (Reuters)- The dollar rose to its highest in over four years against a basket of currencies on Thursday after the Federal Reserve's guidance on interest rates highlighted the diverging pathways between the United States and other rich nations.

CIFAR is finding the root causes of human diseases, developing technology to improve quality of life, bridging the divide between rich and poor nations, and meeting our future energy needs.

They are found to be a very Rich & Powerful Groups and Mother of Groups that control lives of Millions... Now Finding Peace means that we should think on how to get those Master Keys or Super Master Keys of Super Powerful Groups that are to be gathered all in one Ring lock that works to getting them to work towards One Purpose only and that is on how to make Human Life better Globally and that by investing in them human populations worldwide not minding their Race or Faith or Political interests such will work towards Building Bridges between all Nations holding and calling one Message of Love and Sharing in some form of Brotherhood that works towards a Greener Planet Earth!?

The more closely nations follow the ideals of economism, the greater the gap becomes between the rich and the poor.

Another reason for regarding the global economy as unstable is the expanding gulf between rich and poor nations.

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.

And if fuel shortages are a bother for us, they are devastating to the poor countries; the energy crisis is widening the gap between the rich and the poor nations of this world at a terrifying pace.

The media promote luxuries, encourage waste, and praise the life of things, while the gap between the rich and poor increases both within and between nations.

The already noticeable gap in per capita income between the rich and the poor (whether nations or individuals) will continue to widen.

The gap between the rich and the poor nations is growing, and this inequality is already building up explosive tensions.

But it is also held that globalization has brought in its wake, great inequities, mass impoverishment and despair, that it has fractured society along the existing fault lines of class, gender and community, while almost irreversibly widening the gap between rich and poor nations, that it has caused the flow of currencies across international borders, which has been responsible for financial and economic crises in many countries and regions, including the current Asian financial crisis, that it has enriched a small minority of persons and corporations within nations and within the international system, marginalizing and violating the basic human rights of millions of workers, peasants and farmers and indigenous communities.

They were uttered after a review of the growing economic gap between rich and poor nations and of the escalation of military defensiveness in the world.

It would be interesting to see a dialogue of posts between believers of poorer nations with believers of richer nations on these topics.

This implies that income differences exacerbate already existing disparities between information - rich and information - poor within and between nations.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.

If you agree that environmental deterioration is important, that net international capital is a significant consideration, and that a nation is better off economically when the gap between the rich and the poor is narrowed, then our figures will be useful to you in evaluating how much correlation there is between changes in per capita GNP and economic welfare.

Economics is about win - win growth, not about winners and losers; across the world, the gaps between rich and poor nations are closing.

The gap between rich and poor has increased, the number of homeless is growing, the nation has come to accept 7 per cent unemployment as economic success, and the existence of a trapped underclass is perceived as normal.

The gap between the rich and poor nations and between the rich and the poor within most nations is growing.

He remarks, «The growing inequality between the rich and the poor nations, and between the rich and the poor in each nation, is the fundamental threat to global harmony.

But Heilbroner also envisages the possibility that tensions between the rich and the poor nations could bring disaster even sooner than ecological attrition.

One of the tragedies of the present economic order between nations is that the flow of goods is greater from the poor to the rich countries than the other way around.

In his 1984 address at the Democratic National Convention, he talked of a nation of haves and have - nots, of a yawning disconnect between rich and poor largely ignored by Reagan.

NOW WE CLEARLY UNDERSTAND THE EXTENT OF DEMENTIA IN AMERICA Dale Benjamin Drakeford 8-31-12 When Clint Eastwood, a self - proclaimed «conservative» (who has lived more like a Joseph Smith liberal spurning nine children with four different women, sporting a clinch fisted personae in his private exenterates over public exhibitions) talks vulgar to an empty chair, Marco Rubio (a small government advocate who loss his roots somewhere between caffeine - free tea and a caffeine rich Cuban cigar) slips Freudian to advocate «large government» in a failed attempt to wax brilliant but came off bane (pun intended) to the capitalization of the nation, Paul Ryan can lie and demonize his role against the truth until his nose is a foot long and not one member of his audience will notice, and Mitt Romney can anecdote on his personal family, business and church goings on as oppose to his solutions for unemployment, banking corruption, housing displacement, militarism, planetary illness and international human rights unrest, we can clearly understand the extent of dementia in America.

The Fiscal Policy Institute issued a report today on the widening gap between New York's rich and poor, pointing out fun facts like: «Wall Street, with its stratospheric profits and bonuses, sits within 15 miles of the Bronx — the nation's poorest county.»

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

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.

This is the amount of the UNFPA's projected budget that Japan would be expected to pay if the rich nations» share of funding was divided between them in proportion to their GNP.

Countries like Singapore — where the economy has more than tripled and whose emissions have jumped by 61 percent since the dividing lines between «rich» and «poor» nations were drawn — face new demands for climate action.

Brazil has also tried to act as a bridge between poor and rich nations that are still at odds over how much each should do to reduce greenhouse emissions.

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 true battle consuming leaders from 198 governments at a U.N. global warming conference that concluded yesterday after two weeks of negotiations and 32 hours of overtime debating was really about just one thing: balancing responsibilities between poor, rich and richer nations.

This includes clauses to: limit global warming to less than 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and endeavour to limit it to 1.5 °C; for countries to meet their own voluntary targets on limiting emissions between 2020 and 2030; for countries to submit new, tougher, targets every five years; to aim for zero net emissions by 2050 - 2100; and for rich nations to help poorer ones adapt.

This means that there would be the need to overcome the root causes of violence, within each nation, with the elimination of disparities in wealth between the «top» and «bottom» in the social scale and at international level with the elimination of disparities in economic and social development between rich and poor nations, for one hand, and the dispute between the great powers for world power, on the other hand.

American membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, they say, will lead to richer collaborations between education researchers in the United States and other countries, more straightforward participation of the United States in UNESCO's agenda, and more opportunities for American educators to land jobs with the international organization.

Connecticut's graduation rates are in line with the rest of the nation, but there are huge gaps between rich and poor districts.

PAA believes that the nation's educational «crisis» is made worse by the widening gap between rich and poor.

In science, the achievement gap between rich and poor is closing, albeit not by enough yet to raise the overall score of the whole nation.

PISA Myth 3: The world is divided between rich and well - educated nations and poor and badly educated ones.

[13] In contrast are nations such as Finland where broad, rich curriculums with diverse, flexible, and rigorous standards are developed at the school level by teachers and school administrators, and where students perform at the highest levels internationally with little variation between schools.

Nicaragua is set between the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, this Central American nation known for its dramatic terrain of lakes, volcanoes and beaches and is rich in culture.

And yet, it is telling... and tells a rich allegory, in light of our nation's recent, magnificent accomplishment, It also lays down before you the stark clarity of the core difference between two sides in this, our tragic Civil War.