Sentences with phrase «country meets basic needs»

We find that no country meets basic needs for its citizens at a globally sustainable level of resource use.

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Whenever I speak at events across the country, I break down leadership to its most basic and practical form: It's about meeting the needs of people and developing them to their fullest potential.

We have millions of kids in this country who do not have just their basic needs met.

At the official launch and live test of the National Identification System in Accra on Friday, September 16, the President said the card would meet all basic biometric needs of the country and would enable the harmonization and integration of all other data services in Ghana.

The majority of these children — 11 million globally — live in countries with overstretched education systems, many residing in camps unable to meet their basic needs.

For instance, Fass estimates a family of four living in a lower - cost region of the country needs between $ 37,000 and $ 41,000 to meet its basic needs; in locations where the cost of living is higher, the same family needs $ 52,000 to $ 67,000.

In rich countries it doesn't make much sense to define poverty as «not having enough to meet basic material needs.»

If a country finds a way to meet the basic needs of women by taking loans that the whole society must pay, but the national constitution, and the various policies and services do not show the timely commitment for equity and equality, the chance to eradicate poverty and hunger will only be about the alleviation of these two major indicators of real development and sustainability It is then urgent and important not to fall in such a trap, which only comes to add to the financial and economic indebtedness of the society, and nations, to say the least, and to maintain the system of inequality and impoverishment as it basically exist..

As a result, these countries will face numerous challenges in meeting the needs of their growing urban populations, including for housing, infrastructure, transportation, energy and employment, as well as for basic services such as education and health care.

Develop recommendations for the U.S. role in identifying and addressing global water problems, including how to significantly accelerate efforts to meet the large and devastating unmet basic human needs for water in poorer countries.

The examples are many, but the point is the same: if the people are poor and their basic need are not met, no country can afford tighter environmental regulations, emission cuts and renounce resource exploitation, even if that is oil.

«In contrast, countries that are using resources at a sustainable level, such as Sri Lanka, fail to meet the basic needs of their people.»

In particular, the report cites the effects increased temperatures and heat waves have on essential food crops — in most cases lowering productivity — and warns of food availability and price swings that could lead to civil unrest in countries that are already having problems meeting the basic needs of their citizens.

The work that I do around the world, particularly in developing countries, is primarily focused on showing how meeting basic human needs using the world's best practices in sustainable technology can leverage the creation of real jobs and real businesses that lead to genuine economic progress for even the most marginal of peoples.

And, we're combining that body of work with the work we've been doing in Afghanistan and other developing countries: using best practices in sustainable technologies to meet basic human needs.