Sentences with phrase «face of developing countries»

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As an entrepreneur since 16, and founder of Sughar Empowerment Society in Pakistan, Brohi shed light on the challenges some young treps face in developing countries.

While the experiences of women entrepreneurs in the developing world are as diverse as the countries they inhabit, since the difficulties facing a small woman - owned business in Vietnam looks nothing like that of a new venture in, say, Turkey or India, there are some common challenges.

(Reuters)- U.S. regulators directed five of the country's biggest banks, including Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to develop plans for staving off collapse if they faced serious problems, emphasizing that the banks could not count on government help.

In several of my earlier essays, I have referred to this model of high - savings, investment - driven growth as the Gerschenkron model because its two main characteristics derive from Alexander Gerschenkron's description of the main growth challenges faced by developing countries.

China faces what Euromonitor International's head of countries analysis, Media Eghbal, calls a «demographic timebomb, because of rapid ageing, before the country has reached developed economy status.»

In the face of arguments that say we should move away from talk of privilege, I simply ask this: If exposure to the developing world and poverty can create a greater sense of moral perspective and responsibility, can't a deeper interaction with the historic and contemporary forms of racial injustice in our country also lead to a deepened moral perspective and greater sense of stewardship and responsibility?

«We need some new young faces,» she wrote, «and every time we go around the country I urge the Public Television stations to develop some of their own.

In other words, obstetricians are faced with a population that suffers poorer health than other developed countries, yet manage to save the lives of the babies under their care at a comparatively higher rate.

In 2018, the Ministry will continue to address the vaccines challenges that the country has faced over the last eight years and develop a clear sustainability plan for vaccines and antiretroviral medicines in anticipation of our exit from GAVI.

11:35 - But the IMF said the UK is facing the most severe slowdown of any developed country.

The population of patients overwhelms the population of available doctors, hence, the available doctors are overworked while some patients die or face critical conditions while waiting in long hospital queues to meet with a doctor.The World Economic Forum has suggested that it would take economically developing countries 300 years with the existing infrastructure to achieve the same doctor to patient ratio that exist in many western countries.

«Gradual warming of the earth's atmosphere is caused by the developing countries as well as the developed countries,» says English professor Wang Xiansheng of Zhengzhou University, which is also facing rolling blackouts as a result of the current coal shortage.

Countries in the developing world, however, are facing a variety of different challenges.

International action The contract for an interoceanic canal in Nicaragua represents a classic example of the challenges faced by a developing country in balancing economic growth and environmental protection.

Fast developing countries with rapidly falling fertility rates also face the prospect of having to support a faster aging population, becoming old before they are rich.

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.

«Given the deep fiscal constraints in the United States and much of Europe and the enormous challenges universities in less economically developed countries face in attaining «world class» status, one questions the wisdom of investments in forms of competition that seem to produce only additional competition,» the study says.

The study by King's, UCL and Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia) found that wealthier, urban and larger households and more economically developed countries had higher odds of facing CDHE.

But in a world where 75 million girls between the ages of 10 and 19 drop out of grade school, and one of every three girls in developing countries is married by the age of 18, the report argues that young women face unique risks.

Crop breeders in developing countries are facing challenges in their efforts to improve yields to feed growing populations, battle crop diseases, and counter the effects of drought, salinity and poor soils.

Such extremes have led to millions facing food and water shortages, as well as thousands of deaths globally, pointing to the need to not only mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, but to also invest in adaptation and improving the forecast systems of developing countries, Taalas said in his forward to the report.

«This gives cause for considerably more optimism that developing countries, such as Tanzania, can effectively manage their reefs in the face of climate change.»

But it's not just the most developed countries that face this saddening problem — childhood obesity has become a global phenomenon affecting all socio - economic groups, regardless of age, sex or ethnicity.

An exceptional suspense thriller elevated by Fincher's tightly controlled direction and stand - out performances by Jodie Foster — a rare female protagonist for Fincher — as a recently single mother and a preteen Kristin Stewart resourcefully facing off against a trio of indelibly drawn and developed home invaders — a testament to Hollywood veteran David Koepp's underrated screenplay — played by future Oscar winners Forest Whitaker and Jared Leto, and country - singer - turned - actor Dwight Yoakum.

«Real problems that face democratic countries here and now, point out that we can not expect to progress nor even survive unless we develop and draw upon the creative potentialities of the entire population.»

This implies that Uruguayan youths face a similar situation to their peers from some of the least developed countries in the region.

The Committee strove to clearly define the progressive nature of the obligations deriving from the ICESCR and, in doing so, it acknowledged a stark reality: the realization of ESCR faces huge difficulties owing to the lack of economic resources in many countries, hence their progressive nature; as states become more developed, they will be better able to assume greater responsibility in the area of ESCR.

However, many countries, particularly the developing countries, are facing an acute shortage of qualified teachers, while serving teachers are paid poorly (and sometimes irregularly) and, because of the scant qualifications needed to enter, suffer from low social and professional status.

«Not only do these opportunities expand my professional learning and challenge me to share my own expertise with others, but I also really appreciate the opportunity to expand my network of colleagues across the country and develop thought partners who understand the difficult nature of the work and the challenges we face in the superintendency,» said Spence.

Arthur Attwell, CEO of South African digital publishing company Electric Book Works, spoke to me in July about the state of e-book publishing in the country and the challenges that developing countries face when it comes to e-books.

In addition to the weakening dollar, another theme affecting stock prices is the idea that developed and emerging countries outside of the US will continue to prosper even in the face of a slowdown in the US.

But hyperinflation is extremely rare in developed countries, and it needs to be weighed against all of the other risks your portfolio faces.

In the longer term, the country faces an aging population, with a birth rate of 1.2 children per woman — the lowest in the developed world.

With a hard currency, gold will flow out of the country or the country would face shortage of capital to develop.

Famous for putting a human face on economic and political oppression in developing countries, Mr. Salgado is photographing the most pristine vestiges of nature he can find: pockets of the planet unspoiled by modern development.

The challenges that the world faces in the next decades regarding climate change will likely have to be addressed by changing consumption patterns and technological innovations; changes in population size in the most developed countries, with the possible exception of the United States, is a relatively slow process that occurs over many decades and that will unlikely to have a significant impact on how the world resolves the challenges of climate change and resource constraints.

Our story on the punishment of a woman in Sudan who dared wear pants brings to mind a theme that has percolated on Dot Earth for a while: the relationship among the conditions facing women (and girls) in developing countries, progress toward prospering, stable populations and, in the end, societal and environmental stability.

First, another fine photographer, Eric Lafforgue, was on the ground in Rabaul after the eruption and captured some absolutely stunning pictures of daily life there, reflecting the realities facing millions of people in developing countries who live in places deeply vulnerable to geological hazards.

The bottom line, of course, is that coastal communities in many developing countries, from flood - prone agricultural delta lands to crowding cities, face a very soggy future.

As the first nation to get adaptation money from the Least Developed Countries Fund, Bhutan is something of a pioneer among developing nations in their quest to adapt to a warmer future, and the struggles at Thorthormi glacier illustrate the enormous obstacles that adaptation efforts still face.

Meeting these adaptation challenges is the responsibility not only of the African nations that are facing them, but also of developed countries that bear the historical responsibility for most global warming emissions.

It takes at face value the developing country negotiators» claim that they can only accept a regime that protects development, and just as importantly it tests the willingness of the industrialized countries to step forward and offer such a regime.

Developing countries have been among the leaders in research and development of renewable energy projects in recent years, although some face legal and regulatory hurdles.

«The brutal disconnect between what developed countries are willing to provide and the reality of climate impacts developing countries face must be urgently addressed.

It presents the potential of ICTs towards adaptation and mitigation through the concrete case of Ghana, illustrating the challenges and opportunities faced by developing countries in this field.

However, the disappointing outcomes on loss and damage and finance make it clear there is a brutal disconnect between the support developed countries are willing to commit to and the reality of climate impacts developing countries face.

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala brought the attention of world leaders to the climate change impacts faced by Nepal and other Least Developed Countries (LDC) during his address to the UN Climate Change Summit - 2014 in New York on Tuesday.

With the Paris Climate Agreement concluded in December 2015, developing countries are now also facing the question of how to frame and deliver their contributions in climate action.

On the eve of the first board meeting of the UN's Green Climate Fund, Friends of the Earth U.S. — along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies — has released a report that begins to tackle the conundrum faced by just about every development finance institution: how to design and operate a large - scale fund that actually meets the needs of ordinary people in developing countries in an ecologically sustainable...