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The findings of the Yale University research add to evidence of a widening racial and economic gap when it comes to air pollution.
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This gap surges to over 20 percentage points when calculated to include among the non-employed prime - age black men who are «missing» primarily due to incarceration or early death, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.
If we are already late in an economic cycle when the tendency for company managements to employ a rosy spin on their numbers is at its most acute, then we should worry if this gap between opinion and reality is wider than in previous cycles.»
When it comes to gender equality, the data remains stark, according to the World Economic Forum's 2017 Gender Gap Report, which captures the the magnitude of gender - based disparities across economies, education, health and political engagements.
I have explained elsewhere some of the reasons that determine whether a country's debt is «excessively high», and I hope formally to list these reasons more fully in my next book, but the key is the gap that is created between projected debt - servicing costs and the projected revenues earmarked to service the debt when an economic entity suffers an unexpected surge in debt or an unexpected decline in growth.
When apartheid ended, Iqbal was disillusioned to see that political equality did not close the nation's enormous economic gap and decided that pursuing a business career was the best way he could contribute to his country's transformation.
If you agree that environmental deterioration is important, that net international capital is a significant consideration, and that a nation is better off economically when the gap between the rich and the poor is narrowed, then our figures will be useful to you in evaluating how much correlation there is between changes in per capita GNP and economic welfare.
We've seen tremendous improvement in the economy and at the social level since 1992, the Rawlings regime and that of Kufour all contributed immensely to the growth we seeing, the Mahama administration has added value to what he inherited.The infrastructure development recorded under this government is the highest after Nkrumah, the improvement in the health and education sector can not be downplayed.Policies rolled out by the regime to close the yawning gap between the toiling but highly productive rural folks and city officials is commendable.The IMF director Christie Lagarde was right when she described what we called economic success between 2005 - 2008 as mediocre growth.The base of the economy was still shattered and now being built to restore the confidence of the people.
During the years that filled the gap between that day in 1963 and the day in 2013 when he was sworn in as the nation's fourth president, Kenya, like so many African nations, experienced periods of economic difficulties and political turmoil.
Even the Nigerian government had to postpone its $ 1billion Eurobond which was slated for 2016 to 2017 when a better investment environment had begun to emerge with rising oil prices, larger foreign reserves, a new economic policy document and CBN policy refinements which have significantly increased the supply of foreign currency and narrowed the gap between the various exchange rates.»
Although there is additional revenue available to fund these costs in the coming fiscal year, the agreed upon additions are an added risk to the City's fiscal health in future years, when budget gaps are already projected and when an inevitable economic downturn will erode the revenue required to pay for recurring expenses.»
That 20 - point advantage to the Tories is the widest gap that ICM has recorded on economic competence since December 2011, when — with memories of the Brown administration recent, and with Osborne's «omnishambles» 2012 budget still in the future — the Conservative lead on this score briefly hit 21 points.
«Although there is additional revenue available to fund these costs in the coming fiscal year,» notes the nonpartisan Citizens Budget Commission, «the additions are an added risk to the city's fiscal health in future years, when budget gaps are already projected and when an inevitable economic downturn will erode the revenue required to pay for recurring expenses.»
But anyone that thinks that we're in a serious post-racial period where we're all equal and everything's the same, needs just look at the education statistics, the economic development statistics, the wider gap between black and white when it comes to personal net worth, the wider gap when it comes to opportunity to complete college.
At a time when economic, social and educational inequities have contributed to a widening achievement gap across the nation, Community Schools have emerged as a promising strategy for addressing this opportunity gap and promoting success for all students, in school and in life.
The greatest gains in reducing gaps in achievement and opportunity have been made during periods when concentrated poverty has been dispersed through efforts at integration, or during economic growth for the black middle class and other communities, or where significant new investments in school funding have occurred.
As we celebrate women's social, economic, cultural, and political achievements this International Women's Day, the Indexed Annuity Leadership Council (IALC) wants to raise awareness that when it comes to savings, the gender savings gap is still huge.
In fact, so modest are the economic effects of even strong climate action that when they are depicted on a chart it is quite difficult to pick out the difference between the «No carbon price» scenario and the «High price» scenario, the gap that the Telegraph, and Minister Hunt, claim would «shatter» the economy.
Social tensions can flare up when houseboat and neighbors» lifestyles are separated by a wide social and economic gap.