Sentences with phrase «even poor nations»

The rest of the world — even the poorest nations on the map — have quite simply skipped those painful desktop decades and gone straight from the pre-internet (and even pre-telephone) era to the age of 4G internet and smartphones.

Not exact matches

Even among the affluent nations of the western world, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting the poorer.

Funny how we had been geographically relatively protected and OUR creation of weapons for national security renders us now a target of even very poor nations with not much to lose.

But Heilbroner also envisages the possibility that tensions between the rich and the poor nations could bring disaster even sooner than ecological attrition.

If anything its time to get back to basics, as last time I checked even the homeless live much better here than many poorer nations.

That would certainly skew the premise that rich nations are less religious than poor nations, even if the oil nations derive wealth from natural resources and not industry.

Modern culinary extravagances include high caloric fantasies lacking even a twig's worth of nutrients, and poor nations are among their most avid consumers.

But it's also a sign of how much of the developing world is willfully making itself more vulnerable to climate change, even as poor nations ask rich ones to spend hundreds of billions per year on helping them to adapt.

These nations also tend to be poor, making the task of adapting to sea - level rise even more challenging for them — and potentially existential.

The multiplicity of ills facing our nation's public schools can depress even the most optimistic.How can we be hopeful when we have 30 million illiterate children?And it is no longer just the well - being of our poorest children that we need worry about; our top - performing public schools are no match for the international competition.

Even if we overlooked the shortcomings of testing as a measure of learning, a single - minded focus on reading and math would not be a cure for what ails children in the nation's poorest - performing schools.

Debunking the stereotype that the nation's poorest, most unhealthy, and most undereducated children are members of minority groups living in urban areas, the report says 14.9 million, or one - fourth of, American children living in rural areas face conditions «just as bleak and in some respects even bleaker than their metropolitan counterparts.»

Connecticut has the nation's largest achievement gap between poor students and their more affluent peers, and it's acute even in higher - income towns like West Hartford.

The fact that university schools of education do such a poor job of recruiting aspiring teachers for subject - matter competency — and fail to train them properly once they get into their classrooms — also means that children, especially those attending the nation's dropout factories and failure mills, are poorly prepared to handle the even - more complex work that will come once they get into college and the workforce.

The fact that poor and minority children are often shunted onto academic tracks that deny them rigorous college - preparatory curricula — even in the Fairfax County district near Dropout Nation «s headquarters — is one of the greatest obstacles to systemic reform.

And, I'm afraid that even as we integrate, we are walking into a place that does not understand that this nation needs to be deeply concerned with the plight of the poor and disenfranchised.

Our nation's public school funding is in a shambles, and the schools attended by the poor are, by and large, funded at far lower levels than even the public schools attended by wealthier students.

Charters currently educate more than 600,000 students at 3,000 of the nation's 88,000 public schools; they have grown tremendously over the past decade and appear likely to grow even more as No Child Left Behind identifies thousands of schools across the country for possible closure because of poor test scores.

Recent observations show that societies are highly vulnerable to even modest levels of climate change, with poor nations and communities particularly at risk.

But most of all, the poor nations of the world and even the poor in the wealthy nations are experiencing the destruction of their means of subsistence.

My friend and colleague Neil MacFarquhar, who is our new United Nations correspondent, mentioned that Norway is bucking the downward trend in foreign development aid and, even in a deteriorating global economy, committing to funneling more money toward making life better in poor countries.

In our video chat, he and the other authors acknowledged the challenge in gaining traction, even with such findings, given the deep - rooted human bias toward immediate gratification and the development and energy gaps that mean today's poorer nations have few affordable choices other than fossil fuels.

As a poor nation without even its own helicopter, Bhutan lacks the resources to combat global warming.

Accelerated depletion, which SCOTUS found in 1911 to be a scam, the practice of writing down your inventories in the ground even while they become more valuable over time, that's just begging poor while getting rich to avoid shouldering a fair share of the cost of upholding the nation.

UNITED NATIONS — Aid to poor nations has slumped even as higher food and energy prices and slowing global economic growth have made such assistance more urgent, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki NATIONS — Aid to poor nations has slumped even as higher food and energy prices and slowing global economic growth have made such assistance more urgent, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki NATIONS — Aid to poor nations has slumped even as higher food and energy prices and slowing global economic growth have made such assistance more urgent, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki nations has slumped even as higher food and energy prices and slowing global economic growth have made such assistance more urgent, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki nations has slumped even as higher food and energy prices and slowing global economic growth have made such assistance more urgent, according to a report released Thursday by the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki Nations secretary general, Ban Ki Nations secretary general, Ban Ki - moon.

Cutthroat competition between nations has deadlocked U.N. climate negotiations for decades: rich countries dig in their heels and declare that they won't cut emissions and risk losing their vaulted position in the global hierarchy; poorer countries declare that they won't give up their right to pollute as much as rich countries did on their way to wealth, even if that means deepening a disaster that hurts the poor most of all.

Even in industrialized nations, some populations, such as children, the elderly, and the poor, are most vulnerable to a range of climate - related health effects.

Moreover, even in countries that do have coal reserves — such as India and South Africa — there is no «regulatory compact» of the kind that led the US and most other developed nations to provide electricity at affordable rates to poor and rural areas via the principle of universal service.

Megaprojects (coal, oil, or renewable) seldom much benefit the poor, or even the middle class, in lesser developed nations.

If one compares the quality of life, standard of living and average life expectancy at birth of those of us who are fortunate to live in nations that have profited from this access with those poor, unfortunate souls in the nations that have not done so, it is clear that inexpensive energy from low - cost fossil fuels have brought us far more benefits than the damage, which climate models could imagine for the future, even in the worst CAGW incarnation.

Taking a lesson from the old «You can give a man a fish» adage, their charitable Web site Gifts4Good allows users to shop online for a range of gifts, from seeds for a garden project, fruit trees for a school, and even solar panels to power a home for disabled adults — gifts that will keep on giving long after today's fancy electronics are considered obsolete, and for a fraction of the price.Gifts4Good, which is part of A GreaterGood SA's «Making Christmas Matter» campaign, is based in South Africa and will go towards the nation's poor.

And yet even in one of the wealthiest nations on earth the defences were inadequate and the response plan poor.

Even though the nation remains one of the poorest in the world, Ethiopia's government has successfully opened up the country to foreign investment.