Sentences with phrase «even on a developing country»

By demonstrating that high - performing schools are possible even on a developing country's limited budget, Bridge has empowered governments and others to make informed decisions on how to improve learning.

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Bigelow first started his space company, Bigelow Aerospace, in 1999 to develop habitats for use as research labs for corporations and countries without space programs, housing for missions to Mars, or even as hotels for tourists on the final frontier.
A climbdown from Ms Lagarde's office is even less likely after the Leftist Syriza government crossed the rubicon and became the first developed country in the IMF's 71 - year - history to default on the world's «lender of last resort» this week.
Certain Western European countries are even toying with the idea of a «Digital Silk Road,» which places an emphasis on developing ICT and digital connectivity platforms to deliver services like e-commerce and e-medicine to harder to reach regions that are still currently underdeveloped.
Ultimately, we see a bifurcation of strategies to mitigate an increasingly protectionist trade agenda in the U.S. — the China approach, which focuses on developing countries and developing new markets through the BRI, and the «rest» that seek to participate in open intra - and inter-regional trade agreements that are a mixture of 21st century trade rules that leave the doors open for U.S. participation, even if that means renegotiation or modification of agreed - upon rules.
@KatMat: your analogy would begin approaching realism if: — during the pledge of allegiance kids were forced to say «one nation under The Orioles» — our nation's currency said «In Dallas Cowboys We Trust» — if millions were slaughtered, tortured and burned to death because they weren't fans of The Pittsburgh Penguins — if NASCAR fans endlessly attempted to have Intelligent Car Driving taught beside Evolution in science class as a possible explanation for how mankind developed — if «the 5 D's» of Dodgeball (Dodge, Duck, Dip, Dive, Dodge) were constantly attempted to be made into law so everyone would live by the same ridiculous notions, even if those notions knowingly discriminate — if nutters constantly claimed America was founded on the principles of Darts, even though our country SPECIFICALLY calls for a separation between Darts and State because the founders knew the inherent dangers of Darts becoming government instead of staying in the realm of sport where it belongs
According to Peter Drucker: «On Taylor's «scientific management» rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above any level recorded before, even for the well - to - do.
@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................
(In fact, breastfeeding experts believe at least 98 % of women - even those on nutritionally deficient diets in developing countries such as Bangladesh - can make sufficient milk to feed their babies, given proper advice and support.)
Even the energy - hungry US could in theory supply all of its electricity use, according to one study, using solar PV on an area equivalent to 0.6 per cent of the country — just a fraction of the existing developed and urban space.
Yet, even if every planned reactor in China was to be built, the country would still rely on burning coal for more than 50 percent of its electric power — and the Chinese nuclear reactors would provide at best roughly the same amount of energy to the developing nation as does the existing U.S. fleet.
Under this scheme, investors could earn credits for projects that cut emissions in developing nations even though the host country faced no binding restriction on its output of these gases.
«Although generating methane from wastes is one of the oldest bioenergy strategies and is practiced even in small villages in developing countries, its application on a large scale has been limited because it is slow.»
But that model of a new system, supported by the United States, Europe and even some coalitions of developing countries, is viewed as threatening to many governments worried about the implications of having to take on new responsibilities.
It turns out even the developing world countries are already so dependent on the international system, they too will suffer massive population losses.
In addition to those times away from home, I've gone on vacations and humanitarian service missions, where I've taken my entire family to developing countries for several days or even weeks at a time.
Now these same researchers have focused their efforts on data from the top 30 developed countries, with even more alarming findings.
Thousands of Internet users from North America, Europe, and other developed countries are seeking quality Chinese partners for friendship, dating and even marriage on CNCupid.com.
Worldreader has begun an initiative to put e-readers in the hands of young students in several countries, but even she had some considerations for publishers to take into account when developing content for children, factors such as keeping the file size manageable and not making it so graphics - intensive that it can not be used on lesser capable devices in foreign countries.
However, even in developed countries with stable markets, price - to - earnings ratios are generally more attractive than they are in the U.S. (See supplement on... Read More
Industrial powers are already in transition (note research on «peak travel,» for instance) while fast - rising developing countries are still sprinting and the world's poorest places are not even at the starting line.
He would have to push for far more engagement and investment by the United States in developing countries — the main source of such emissions in coming decades — even though many lawmakers and citizens perceive these countries more as economic foes than potential allies on energy innovation.
Consumption will inevitably grow in developing countries as they industrialise and urbanise, even if they take on board the need for sustainable lifestyles.
The position taken by the Australian government in UNFCCC negotiations has been largely counterproductive, including: its membership of the Umbrella Group of delayer countries; its prioritization of a post-2020 agreement over raising ambition as is urgently required; its insistence on a meaninglessly weak Kyoto Protocol second commitment period target for Australia; its unreasonable conditions for Australia to increase its Kyoto target; its refusal to countenance even conditional targets deeper than 25 % below 2000; its pursuit of creative accounting rules for LULUCF (land use, land use change, and forestry) in both Kyoto commitment periods [v]; its intended reliance on international offset mechanisms; and its failure to provide finance for developing countries.
As Indur Goklany has shown, even assuming that the climate models on which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) accurately predict (rather than exaggerate by 2 to 3 times) the warming effect of added CO2 in the atmosphere, people the world over, and especially in developing countries, will be wealthier in warmer than in cooler scenarios, making them less vulnerable than today to all risks — including those related to climate.
At UN-sponsored talks on global warming in Warsaw last month, the Western countries of Europe, North America, and Australia refused to even discuss a proposal from developing countries that would limit emissions in the future.
A corollary concern is that developing countries, especially China and India, may rapidly recapitulate the developing pattern of the rich countries of the North on a larger and even more environmentally destructive scale.
Even worse is that China and other developing countries rely heavily on coal for power, which is a large CO2 contributor (as well as other pollutants that China does not regulate well).
we also, in developed countries have too much a thirst for energy now to continue using non-renewable energy, even if we all cut back on our consumption, it is simply not going to go away now it is here, short of just turning off the power plants and going back to Victorian times.
What even worse, due to the outside pressures to require revaluation of Chinese Yuan, and things like border tax in the U.S on Chinese imports, some influential economists, whom I would label strong nationalists, are totally tearing apart the global warming fact and ridiculously propagandizing that climate change is entirely a plan faked by developed countries in order to suppress China's economic development.
He said India would not have reached even two tonnes per capita by 2030, and emissions per head would always be less than the average in the developed world, which needed to do more on finance and technology for the poorer countries.
Limiting warming to 2 °C or less will require reductions in global ghg emissions below current emissions by as much as 80 percent by mid-century for the entire world and as we explained in the a recent article on «equity» at even greater reduction levels for most developed countries.
The language on emissions peaking did not specify a 2020 target year, as some countries were pushing hard for, but instead strove for peaking «as soon as possible,» and even then, with very elaborate and unambiguous qualifying language on developing countries» right to develop («recognizing that the time frame for peaking will be longer in developing countries and bearing in mind that social and economic development and poverty eradication are the first and overriding priorities of developing countries and that a low - emission development strategy is indispensable to sustainable development»).
Even though there is no legal obligation on India in this respect, the Prime Minister of India made a commitment that India's per capita emissions will at no time exceed the average of the per capita emissions of developed, industrialized countries.
«Will countries be able to achieve a climate agreement in Paris based on science and justice when developed countries can't even cobble together US$ 4.7 billion for the Green Climate Fund?»
GENE SPERLING, Natl. Economic Adviser, 1997 - 2001: Developing country leaders uniformly saw the effort to put a binding climate change regime on them as an effort by the United States, the most advanced, productive economy in the world, to now stunt their growth before they could even have a chance to catch up.
World leaders were given a «D' on developing indicators, since it took countries until 2009 to even develop indicators.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)'s technical paper on the subject says that the negative effects of slow onset events are already affecting developing countries and the resulting loss and damage associated with slow onset events is likely to increase significantly, even assuming that appropriate mitigation and adaptation action is undertaken.
This has been the cornerstone of the UNFCCC for nearly two decades, but is now challenged in Durban as even some developing countries, including China, are ready to negotiate on this.
From the standpoint of some developing countries, even the «equity» scenario is inequitable, since it is based on calculated fair shares of the pie going forward.
The U.S. would give Developing Countries (e.g., Southeast Asia other than China) special trade incentives (shoot, let's even immediately eliminate bans on exporting U.S. natural gas to just these Developing Countries)-- for products (like clothing) that have a verifiable Carbon and Air Quality Standard.
They are already having a very real impact on the finances of consumers in the USA and other developed countries, and in the developing world, where they manifest as food shortages, they are already a major factor contributing to social unrest and even violent revolution.
Very few reporters followed the path of TreeHugger: examining the complexities of sourcing our gadgets in low - wage countries, even daring to say that multi-nationals like Apple Corporation are a force for good on the occupational safety scene in developing countries.
On the other hand, if China and other countries develop models of small wind turbines, even without subsidies, maybe people will have solution for local electric energy problems.
Now, scientists meeting at World Water Week in Sweden are reinforcing and broadening that point, saying that without serious reforms to the way many Asian countries manage water chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries
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.
Guiyang's legislature even passed a regulation on developing the circular economies, which is the country's first of its kind, Wang said.
Yet even though each of these theatres is comprised of external military forces advancing their objectives on civilian terrain within each of these countries, causing massive humanitarian disasters in the process, Washington has failed to develop a strategy to calm the flames, and may in fact be fanning the embers.
As my former colleague Leo Mirani once eruditely uncovered, for millions of people in developing countries, Facebook is the internet, and many don't even realize they're on the internet when they're using Facebook's services.
One of the major advantages of Blockchain - based decentralized lending is the fact that it offers accessibility to global capital and reduces the dependence on bank procedures or even the access to banking infrastructures in developing countries.
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