Sentences with phrase «bottom of the developed countries»

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«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

«The bottom line of the new paper is that the very large gap in reported HFC emissions is from developing countries,» said Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD), who was unaffiliated with the study.

It is a consortium of eleven research funding organizations from ten European countries with the goal to develop and implement joint bottom - up European funding programmes.

One of many factors in the 4 - decade slide of the health status indicators propelling the US to the bottom among developed countries.

By estimates I have done, eliminating the bottom 5 percent to 8 percent of teachers could move achievement of US students from below the average for developed countries to near the top.

Natalie Perera, executive director and head of research at the Education Policy Institute, said: «The biggest cause for concern is the huge gulf between England's top performing primary pupils, and those lagging behind at the bottom — one of the largest out of all developed countries.

The AFT and community partners from 12 cities throughout the country have organized a series of town hall community conversations aimed at developing «bottom - up» solutions for struggling schools.

Bangladesh has a program which covers 80 percent of teacher salaries in private schools.15 Vouchers or various other financial support structures from the government appear to be widely available in and embraced by developing countries as a means of increasing enrollment at the bottom end of their socioeconomic ladders.

The activity set off by the contest has enabled Schnur's network to press as never before its frontal challenge to the teachers» unions: they argue that a country that spends more per pupil than any other but whose student performance ranks in the bottom third among developed nations isn't failing its children for lack of resources but for lack of trained, motivated, accountable talent at the front of the class.

Current Market Perspective: Moderately bearish based on three pieces of information: Our bottom - up security selection process is revealing few bargains; Total public and private debt in developed countries is unsustainably high relative to GDP and will require long, painful de-leveraging... Continue reading →

So the bottom line from these two points is that there is a lot China is doing domestically, but how these get translated into international commitments still to a significant extent will rest on whether China perceives other countries as living up to not just to earlier rounds of commitments (such as the commitments for developed countries to act first in the original Framework Convention) but to the commitments in the Copenhagen Accord itself.

The bottom line remains, as the International Energy Agency warned in its 2008 World Energy Outlook, that 97 percent of projected growth in emissions of carbon dioxide from energy use through 2030 (without aggressive action) will come in developing countries, with three - fourths of that growth in China, India and the Middle East.

The bottom line, of course, is that coastal communities in many developing countries, from flood - prone agricultural delta lands to crowding cities, face a very soggy future.

These bottom - up pressures would likely render such an agreement a dead letter, or at least make it in effect a tax applicable only to the law - abiding developed countries that represent an ever - shrinking share of global carbon emissions.

It argues that a combination of a targeted carbon intensity level with an emissions cap on a particular sector at some point around or beyond 2020 is the bottom line, beyond which China can not afford to go until its per capita income catches up with the level of middle - developed countries.