Sentences with phrase «countries poor citizens»

Corruption, affects all countries and societies but more seriously poor countries poor citizens and the vulnerable in society.

Not exact matches

The more progressive line argues, as Wolman does, that reliance on cash transactions «perpetuates [poor] peoples» exclusion from banking and the formal economy» and makes it hard for governments, especially in developing countries, to efficiently serve their citizens.

In Burundi, one of the ten poorest countries in the world, the Church provides indispensable aid to many of the state's ten million citizens.

For another, citizens concerned about the plight of the poor, should, vigorously lobby the industrialized countries to lower their protectionist trade walls against LDC exports.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

Few people are willing to share so that communities can provide the physical well - being and spiritual care needed by all our country's citizens (male and female, white and of color, rich and poor) Too often we take the easy way out and pass responsibility to the next generation.

Rush Limbaugh is embarrassing enough for this country without every second random citizen showing how poor our education system is.

The citizens of very poor countries are at the elephant's back end.

But while America can ensure the safety of its citizens after 9/11, in countries, like the Philippines, where terrorists train to attack America and its Western allies, the governments are too poor to protect their citizens.

For example, providing education to foreign citizens from poorer countries can also be regarded as a form of development aid.

«We're literally going to take from the poor and the sick in this country and this state and we're going to give it to our wealthiest citizens,» Helgerson said.

And he argued the arrival of a poor country with 77 million citizens would make Britain's problems much worse.

There will always be someone poorer, some country willing to accept these types of working conditions in order to give its citizens something they never had.

I admit my hope wanes as I watch my own country's leaders take away services for our senior citizens, the middle class, and poor and give to the wealthiest 1 percent, a group who already have 40 percent of the wealth.

If individuals do not understand the global interdependencies that influence public affairs in every country, regarding trade for example, or environmental degradation, they are likely to make poor decisions as individual consumers, producers, or citizens.

However, as Reimers warned in an interview for Usable Knowledge, «If individuals do not understand the global interdependencies that influence public affairs in every country, regarding trade for example, or environmental degradation, they are likely to make poor decisions as individual consumers, producers, or citizens.»

The responsibility of each citizen and community to ensure meaningful decision - making that is based on the twin principles of ecological integrity and socio - economic equity, conditioned in the interim by a «common but differentiated responsibility» in which those currently rich within the country take on a greater role and / or are incentivised or forced to to give up their excessively consumptive lifestyles in order for the poor to have adequate levels of human security.

Bulgaria is one of the poorest countries in Europe and many of the poorest citizens live in ghettos.

When the U.S. with its vast wealth, doesn't want to help poor countries adapt to problems that we have helped create, then we should wonder about our political and economic systems, not about our citizens, most of whom are good - hearted and busy.

According to this logic, the individual «good - hearted U.S. citizen» — although he or she possesses «vast wealth», and although he or she «helped create» the problems caused by global warming & climate change — is not to be held individually responsible for helping (the people in) poor countries adapt to probems caused by CO2 emissions.

Gary Peters: «When the U.S. with its vast wealth, doesn't want to help poor countries adapt to problems that we have helped create, then we should wonder about our political and economic systems, not about our citizens, most of whom are good - hearted and busy.»

This gap almost certainly reflects the unyielding view of China and India that the United States and Europe, with many times more emissions per citizen than poorer countries, have an outsize obligation to step first.

American politicans, if you do not want worry other poor countires people, please worry about your own country's citizens, they are still suffering from global warming.

At the meeting, former Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright proposed an intermediate step through which rich countries could help speed the progress of poorer ones, creating new ways citizens can serve overseas to help foster freedom, economic development, and improve lives.

If successful, the CIC's efforts will make the next ice age worse than it otherwise would be, the economies of countries they influence much weaker, the citizens of such countries much poorer, and the poor everywhere much poorer than they otherwise would have been.

For example, Florida has the third - highest solar generating capacity potential in the country, but is hampered by poor solar energy policies prohibiting citizens from purchasing electricity from third - party suppliers that are not utilities.

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.

Disclosure would provide citizens of resource - rich but poor countries, investors and civil society with accurate information about the flow of revenues to governments from oil, gas, mining and logging.

And citizens of democratic but poor countries may have more urgent needs to press their government to meet.

Asad Rehman head of climate and energy at Friends of the Earth had this to say «A weak and dangerously ineffectual agreement is nothing but a polluters charter — it legitimises a do - nothing approach whilst creating a mirage that governments are acting in the interests of the planet and its people,» «Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.

Your statement was «my political views are that I find it difficult to accept that the major western powers are trying to enforce, on countries which are much poorer than they are, actiions that will disadvantage the citizens of those countries in their efforts to attain the standards of living approaching those of the developed world.»

In addition, in many countries, citizens generally view the government backed currency as unreliable for various reasons, such as corruption or a poor economy.