Sentences with phrase «middle income nations»

In contrast this effort sharing approach makes much less of a difference to the efforts required of poorer and middle income nations.

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A series of research papers show there are 7,000 stillborn babies born every day, with 98 % of the stillbirths occurring in low - to middle - income nations.

As lower income nations move in to the middle class they start to eat more protein and beef so if you have income growth of 7 per cent then you have an extremely strong case.»

So the con - dem - nation administration, will raise the income tax threshold, disproportionately benefiting the middle class, only to be paid for by a VAT increase, which disproportionately hurts the low paid.

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

The most comprehensive affordable housing plan in the City's history and largest municipal housing plan in the nation, its goal is to create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing for very low - and middle income families to help address New York City's affordability crisis.

Mulgrew and other speakers denounced the mounting disparity in income between rich and poor in the nation that has angered many middle - class voters as the battles over state budgets and the attack on union benefits have unfolded across the country.

Klein presented policy proposals to preserve the nation's largest housing stock and increase the funding and construction of new affordable housing units for middle - income and low - income New Yorkers.

Once thought to be endemic mostly to richer nations with their longer life expectancies, malignancies now confront denizens of lower and middle - income nations.

At the same time, in middle - income nations with long - standing shortages of ophthalmologists, improved survival of premature infants has expanded the numbers of babies at risk for ROP.

A deep dive into the numbers reveals the U.S. lagging behind other wealthy and even middle - income nations in wide - ranging aspects of health, from preterm birth and maternal mortality rates to life expectancy.

The study, published in the June issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, reaffirms numerous small - scale studies in the United States, Western Europe and Japan, but it does so using data compiled across six middle - income nations and involving more than 30,000 subjects for a long - term project that began in 2007.

What's surprising is that half of the world's countries — including wealthy and growing middle - income nations — still struggle to extend quality care so that it reaches all women.

About Blog Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low - and middle - income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high - income nations.

Australia has been ranked 39 out of 41 high and middle - income countries in achieving quality education, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).

Many of these new schools are focused on solving one of our society's most intractable problems: how to close the achievement gap between low - income minority students in our nation's inner cities and their white middle - and upper - class contemporaries in the suburbs.

«In our nation's public schools today, most teachers are white, middle class, and female, while most of their students» families are people of color living in low - income neighborhoods.

Both middle - and low - income U.S. students are outperformed by dozens of other nations on the PISA exam.

While the enrollment rate for children from middle - income families in U.S. private elementary schools has declined significantly over the last five decades, the level for high - income families has been relatively steady, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research study released this month — a trend that could come to perpetuate the nation's growing wealth divide.

The state's Republican - controlled government already has one of the nation's largest voucher programs, with 150,000 low - and middle - income students and children with special needs or disabilities receiving tuition assistance at an annual cost of nearly $ 1 billion.

Lowering the cap of the Grad PLUS loan program will force many students to borrow from private sector lenders, returning the nation to an environment where many low - and middle - income individuals will be unable to obtain a student loan under reasonable terms, or even obtain a loan at all.

Low to middle income economy typically undergoing significant economic and political reform as it transitions from a developing to a developed nation.

To do so with any semblance of fairness towards developing countries will require the rich and middle - income nations to do much, much better.

Yes, the biggest users of all energy, and fossil fuel energy especially, are the global corporations (bigger than nations), and government, and the rest of business... not the residents of either middle - income US suburbs or farming villages and cities in China.

The company is also cautiously entering other developing and middle - income nations.

About Blog Environment and Urbanization aims to provide an effective means for the exchange of research findings, ideas and information in the fields of human settlements and environment among researchers, activists and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in low - and middle - income nations and between these and researchers, international agency staff, students and teachers in high - income nations.

For example, few differences have been found when examining the views of African Americans and Whites, rural and urban adults, and low - and middle - income people as to what constitutes minimally adequate care for children.4, 5 Similarly, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child offers remarkable testimony to what diverse countries and societies consider to be the basic needs or rights of children.

Buoyed by the success of the model marriage education programs with middle - class families, and following the lead of former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating, who was determined to end his state's embarrassing status as the nation's divorce capital, practitioners of marital education programs have begun applying and adapting these models to the needs of low - income couples.

Congress needs to thoroughly review the tax code with an eye toward simplifying it and reducing the tax burden on Americans, particularly middle - income households who today pay a disproportionate share of our nation's taxes.