Sentences with phrase «economic disadvantage compared»

[3] One of the central reasons invoked is that the Agreement is economically unfair to the United States because it places them at an economic disadvantage compared to other parties.

It isn't simply that any country attempting to move away from carbon could be temporarily at an economic disadvantage compared to the ones who drag their feet; it's that no one country can do enough to stop global warming alone.

A report published by the Atlantic Provinces Economic Council shows that trade barriers are putting Newfoundland and Labrador at a major economic disadvantage compared to other provinces.

Not exact matches

The researchers compared pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) in England with disadvantaged pupils in other countries using PISA's economic, social and cultural status index.

24 percent of economically disadvantaged students were chronically absent, compared to 6 percent of those with no economic disadvantage.

Each of the charts shown via the links to state pages (above) permits users to get a bird's - eye view of how their school's 3rd graders compare with all other schools in terms of both achievement and economic disadvantage.

In part because it is difficult to associate decisions taken during the marriage to particular advantages or disadvantages, and in part because it may be a useful indicator of those advantages and disadvantages, courts have looked to post-separation standards of living and compared it to pre-separation standards of living, with a view to determining whether there has been significant economic advantage or disadvantage as a result of the breakdown of the marriage (see generally W. v. W., 2005 BCSC 1010 at para. 12).

In studies of sequencing per se, declines in income have been found to be associated with poorer developmental outcomes.6 13 27 Furthermore, economic fluctuations seem especially consequential for children living in poverty, 6 22 and it has been suggested that economic fluctuations may pose even greater risks to development compared with disadvantaged, but stable, economic circumstances.28

In comparing the birth cohorts from 1958 and 1970 we investigate whether differences in the relationship between indicators of childhood disadvantage and development and adult health outcomes for these two cohorts are evidential, given the changes in health policy and provision and in social, demographic and economic conditions in Britain over the life course of these two birth cohorts.

Exploring concepts of privilege, disadvantage, equality and discrimination in the context of inequality in access to and distribution of resources and socio - economic rights (for example, comparing the situation of rural and urban communities in Australia, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities and / or developed and developing countries)