Sentences with phrase «developed nation status»

Yet the fact that American high school sophomores from highly - educated households rank 28th in the world in math proficiency on PISA — lagging behind both top - performing nations in math such as South Korea, and recent entrants into developed nation status such as Estonia — is one clear sign that their beliefs are not so.

Not surprisingly, education is the top priority for Malaysia's achievements of developed nation status as laid out in Vision 2020.

Not exact matches

But the latest carries special importance: this will be the first budget of the country's 11th Malaysia Plan, generally referred to as 11MP, a five - year plan aiming to plot a course for the country to leave its «emerging» status behind to become a developed nation by 2020.

There is a good deal of pride in the political and economic institutions in Mexico, despite Mexico's still «developing nation» status.

The nations of the South, in particular, are being urged to deregulate and open up their economies to free trade and foreign investment to ensure their speedy transition to the status of developed economies.

In the early 2000's, India and the US began working on an agreement which would allow India to begin working with the US to develop nuclear energy, with a good part of the rationale being that India has «de facto» status as a non-proliferation nation.

Singapore evolved from a developing nation to first world status towards the end of the 20th century.

Aid was never meant to be what would bring us to the status of a developed nation.»

It is difficult to determine exactly what proportion of those losses are due to maternal malnutrition, but recent research indicates that 60 percent of deaths of children under age 5 are associated with malnutrition — and children's malnutrition is strongly correlated with mothers» poor nutritional status.17 Problems related to anemia, for example, including cognitive impairment in children and low productivity in adults, cost US$ 5 billion a year in South Asia alone.18 Illness associated with nutrient deficiencies have significantly reduced the productivity of women in less developed countries.19 A recent report from Asia shows that malnutrition reduces human productivity by 10 percent to 15 percent and gross domestic product by 5 percent to 10 percent.20 By improving the nutrition of adolescent girls and women, nations can reduce health care costs, increase intellectual capacity, and improve adult productivity.21

On behalf of the children that attend our nation's public schools, the I Love Public Education campaign is a year - long effort to highlight why public schools are essential to developing the future generations that will maintain our country's status as a world leader.

Nonschool factors — such as a teenager's socioeconomic status — affect American students» achievement in ways similar to the effects on students in other developed nations, concludes a study by the National Center for Education Statistics.

Continue to kick the can down the road, and allow our status of «the nation most responsible for total GHG emissions yet still doing nothing» to provide cover for India, China, Brazil, and the rest of the developing world.

Although the world is still led by the developed nations, the status and negotiating strength of the developing world is also on the increase.

Also, while poor nations see the amounts as insufficient, powerful countries, including China (which long hid behind its status as a developing country), have pledged money and technical aid to help shield the world's most vulnerable communities from climatic and coastal hazards.

That led to cracks in the firewall that the Kyoto pact establishes between developed to developing countries — a firewall that allows for no shift in status from developing nation to developed nation, says Ms. Ladislaw.

Canberratimes: Doha's failure shows they must develop their own solutions, writes William Pesek New York's brush with developing - nation status is an even bigger warning for Asia than it is for the United States.The city could be excused for wondering if it had suddenly been transported to Bangladesh in October.

But developing nations are, understandably, not content to condemn themselves to second -, third -, or fourth - rate economic status forever.

China may be having some trouble coming to grips with its status as a nation that no longer truly qualifies as «developing» — its per capita emissions are higher than France's now — but it looks like it may not have much trouble realizing that

The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) which released its comprehensive report on the current status of bioenergy today, says the conflict between growing crops for food versus biofuels is artificial and can be resolved if the United States, Europe and other rich countries drop protectionist policies and work with developing nations to increase the use of the eco-friendly fuels.

While groups like the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations) worked to represent those who had status, others, like the Canadian Métis Society, developed to represent those without status.

However we are not afforded third world status and therefore do not have access to international programs such as those climate change programs facilitated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), specifically developed for building sustainable Indigenous communities in third world countries.

Australia is alone among comparable developed nations in its failure to make significant inroads into the health status of its Indigenous population over the past 30 years.