Sentences with phrase «lack of access in»

Commissioned by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the report detailed the low quality of existing education programs in some countries and the lack of access in others.

Cultural and social stigma, and lack of access in resource - limited countries, may prevent men from seeking an evaluation.

On education, Mr. Diaz backed up Bronx Councilman Andy King's call for universal gifted and talented testing and programs on - site at all schools, calling the current lack of access in lower - income communities «unacceptable.»

Not exact matches

Boeing had taken Denmark to court over a lack of access to documents used in the government's decision to buy the Lockheed Martin jets.

While roughly a third of its portfolio companies are in St. Louis, the fund also invests in startups located in places where founders face a similar lack of access to venture capital.

That same rural / urban divide is evident in my home state — Missouri — where as many as 60 % of rural residents lack access to high - speed Internet.

Nowhere is the lack of access to capital more conspicuous than with aboriginal people in Alberta.

In addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capitaIn addition to the difficulty that many potential business owners face in accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capitain accessing capital, aboriginal people have unique challenges to securing financing including legislation prohibiting the use of on - reserve assets as collateral, lack of local financial institutions to work with, and lack of access to angel investment or venture capital.

Last month, the professional group updated its stance, saying it had growing concerns over what it calls a «lack of clinical oversight» in the use of medical marijuana if pharmacies don't play a «front - line role» in providing access to the drug.

But instead of bringing expansive, overwhelming menus to people in smaller cities, Good Uncle wants to cook and sell just a few items from the world's most iconic restaurants — the two most popular salads from a place like Sweetgreen, for example, or the most popular pizza from Roberta's in Brooklyn — in smaller, non-NFL cities, like New Haven or Syracuse, places that have dense populations but lack easy access to great food.

But the lack of competition in search means Google has enormous power over what we see and access on the internet, and critics have charged repeatedly that it has used that power to favor its services.

After all, the two top reasons small businesses fail in the first five years are a lack of access to capital and a lack of access to expertise.

In their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workerIn their deliberations, they agreed to 20 specific actions to address global economic and social problems, ranging from building a corps of community health workers in poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workerin poor regions of the world, to creating digital identities for the 2 billion people who lack access to financial services, to educating and training displaced, unemployed and underemployed workers.

«Children are particularly vulnerable to waterborne diseases and as there have been no vaccinations in Syria for more than four or five years due to a lack of access, young children are more likely to get sick.»

Foreign businesses in China, as well as foreign governments, have long complained about a lack of market access in China and restrictive policies that run counter to its pledges to free up markets.

After all, Canada is oil independent, yet refineries in Quebec and the Atlantic provinces, lacking access to western Canadian oil, import crude from Algeria and the U.K. Subject to no tariffs and few other import restrictions, raw energy is a freely traded commodity that follows the dictates of the market.

The Fed first adopted press conferences in response to reports that its lack of transparency was giving some investors with contacts at the central bank an upper hand in the form of early access to key details of the Fed's highly - market moving deliberations.

Those policies include giving access to free land to select businesses (there is no land ownership in China), offering below - market loans, the near total lack of environmental standards, and policies that suppress wage growth.

Countries and other public and private sponsors have traditionally presented opportunities in an old - fashioned word - of - mouth format, and infrastructure investors lack a point of access into bankable investment opportunities.

In the past, gaps in the public insurance system and lack of access to affordable private coverage left millions without health insurancIn the past, gaps in the public insurance system and lack of access to affordable private coverage left millions without health insurancin the public insurance system and lack of access to affordable private coverage left millions without health insurance.

The key problem for the Russian oil industry, in addition to the low oil prices, is the lack of fresh capital and access to technology created by the sanctions regime.

One of the major barriers for women CEOs of startups is a lack of access to the networks that lead to funding, says Natalie Zfat, founder of Poison Ivy, an entertainment blog in the New York entertainment scene.

* Several factors could lift housing prices: An increase in potential home buyers, fueled by the growing ranks of Millennials — those born between 1980 and the early 2000s — poised to form their own households, combined with a near - historic lack of single - family homes for sale and growing access to mortgage credit.

Connecticut: Nearly 600,000 workers lack access to a workplace retirement plan in the state of Connecticut.

«There's just a lack of capital and funding gap for small businesses, and it's really magnified in the U.S., where the financial meltdown of 2008 left a lot of businesses unable to access bank financing,» he says, adding social media has also been an immense help in promoting crowdfunding platforms.

«Today, seven out of ten people lack access to even the most basic electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa.

However, the lack of access to markets in the Northeast will cost those states jobs and revenue, which is also covered in the report.

Clean the World recycles partially used bars of soap and bottled amenities from resorts in the United States and distributes the new soap and hygiene kits to communities that lack access to these essential items.

The documents — dating from 2006 to 2010 and obtained by The Canadian Press under the Access to Information Act — show officials getting increasingly exasperated with the Afghan government's lack of interest in investigating the crime.

Asset holdings are lower in states with high exemptions, suggesting that the consumption smoothing result is driven by lack of self - insurance, not by less access to credit.

The bank also became a «corresponding bank» with mainstream banks, making banking services available to those in the favela: like many areas of the UK, Brazil's favelas have lacked access to basic financial services15.

«More and more residents in the Outaouais are going to Ottawa to receive treatment, because of a lack of access,» Mercier candidate AmirKhadir said.

Other challenges he cited include lack of access to capital and a lack of business networks, two components often essential in expansion.

Lack of support for poor and single - parent families, lack of access to programs like free or affordable childcare, a growing preoccupation with population control, and the continuing dependence on international aid organizations that supported orphanages in South Korea, all contributed to the growth of international adoptions well beyond the crisis of the Korean War perLack of support for poor and single - parent families, lack of access to programs like free or affordable childcare, a growing preoccupation with population control, and the continuing dependence on international aid organizations that supported orphanages in South Korea, all contributed to the growth of international adoptions well beyond the crisis of the Korean War perlack of access to programs like free or affordable childcare, a growing preoccupation with population control, and the continuing dependence on international aid organizations that supported orphanages in South Korea, all contributed to the growth of international adoptions well beyond the crisis of the Korean War period.

There is a glaring lack of access to financial services in several parts of the world.

Another risk that's harder to excuse is a lack of transparency: The ETN's issuer — Goldman Sachs — doesn't provide a working website for investors to access in order to learn more about the mechanics and methodology.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

Consumers who currently shell out over $ 2,400 a year in interest and fees to payday lenders lack access to a traditional bank could tap the benefits of banking at the post office, argues this 2014 white paper from the Inspector General of the U.S. Postal Service.

Access to finance and business finance advice for SMEs in the UK Successful businesses may sometimes find further growth hampered by a lack of funding.

What I mean is in emerging markets there is a great lack of access to financial instruments to save or participate in commerce outside of their region.

In addition, almost a third of West Bank villages will suffer from lack of access to healthcare.

Caring in a pastoral way about these larger contexts means, in part, exploring the needs of those who are underserved and who lack access to necessary support systems because of race, economic class, gender or sexual orientation.

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Last week, representatives from Compassion International went before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and talked to them about their obstacles with serving children in India, mainly that the Indian government's regulations would result in the organization being driven out of the country because of a lack of access to funds.

It's entirely relevant that Christians were just as brutal centuries ago because it speaks to the fact that the abuses in the Middle East are more about poverty and a lack of access to education than it is about the flaws of Islam.

«That has had a direct impact on people's capacity to engage in productive employment... limited earnings in the family, and that has resulted in a lack of purchasing power to be able to access the food and access the market.»

And supporting policies that attend to the sick in a more compassionate and effective way with a more sensible system of affordability and access in no way suggests any lack of trust n God.

My last point and Im out... Throughout our great nations history... we always found a way to fight through national issues and come up with solutions... Giving the problems we have now to people in the 50's and 60's... and they may actually come up with a solution... if you earnestly care about making a change... start at the lowest levels of government... go do something... find out costs... expenses... how to get more health care to people... do things like that... quit waiting on the government to provide all the answers... its not the way this country was founded... and not the way we get through problems... If you or ur family does nt have insurance... get a job that can provide you that... instead of hoping the government will do so... If you or ur family lacks access to education... move to an area that excels at it... education is invaluable... Do something about your problem... and quit waiting for the next big lotto...

And a lot of mis - interpretations are generated by lack of access to the Greek or Hebrew — such as today's «rapture» nonsense, based an a misunderstanding of the Greek and the original setting / culture in which the relevant texts were first written.

I feel like a dope for not having considered a lack of access to shortening, since shortening is ultra ubiquitous in the States.