Sentences with phrase «heavy social costs»

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PGS offer a complementary, low - cost, locally - based system of quality assurance, with a heavy emphasis on social control and knowledge building.

By the same token, 2011 promises to be a year of social and economic misery, as the coalition's cuts and the heaviest costs of the bankers» crisis are loaded on to the poorest under the slogan «we're all in this together».

Does private tutoring increase parental choice and improve student achievement, or does it exacerbate social inequalities and impose heavy costs on households, possibly without improving student

Children who do not complete high school, for example, are more likely to become teenage parents, to be unemployed, and to be incarcerated, all of which exact heavy social and economic costs.5 A growing body of research shows that child poverty is associated with neuroendocrine dysregulation that may alter brain function and may contribute to the development of chronic cardiovascular, immune, and psychiatric disorders.6 The economic cost of child poverty to society can be estimated by anticipating future lost productivity and increased social expenditure.