Sentences with phrase «help poorer parts of the world»

Guardian: Efforts by developed countries to redistribute promised funds to help poorer parts of the world avoid environmental disasters have been described as «dismal» by the foreign minister of Bangladesh.

Not exact matches

Take a look at last week's post to find out more on why buying fairtrade chocolate helps growers in poorer parts of the world.

In establishing an international rice futures market, Singapore could also play an important part in helping the world achieve food security, keeping rice prices affordable for poor rice consumers, and ensuring its own supply of rice into the future.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.

The advance, reported here this week at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, could help farmers in the poorest parts of the world increase their crop yields and combat chronic malnutrition.

With examples from different parts of the world, GRALE III shows that ALE can help empower poor and disadvantaged populations and improve their social connections, networks and communication skills but that often these are the very groups that are excluded from adult education.

Walk In Her Shoes encourages schools to take part in a sponsored walk, odd shoe day or whatever imaginative idea they like, to raise funds to help girls in some of the poorest communities around the world.

PERU, LIMA - The meeting in Lima started in a buoyant mood, helped in part by pledges of nearly $ 10bn — including $ 3bn from the US — to the Green Climate Fund, a mechanism for rich countries to give financial aid to help the world's poorest countries to cope with climate change.

The market will make the transition naturally over time (free sunlight and wind is a hard proposition to beat), but time is the one thing we haven't got, so subsidies, hard targets and money to help spread the revolution to the poorest parts of the world are all crucial.

While the money certainly helps, the remittance costs are astronomical and to an average family in the poorest parts of the world, the remittance cost itself would likely support a family for a week.