Sentences with phrase «of poor people in developing countries»

The project uses an AI system known as TSUMUGI to calculate the credit score of poor people in the developing countries and then uses its Proof of Lending system to finance those who qualify.

Not exact matches

But for many poor people in Brazil, a developing country, those prices remain cruelly out of reach.

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper's support for the mining industry has gone as far as outspokenly accusing those opposed to mining as being «in favour of keeping people poor» in developing countries.

They have shown how what has been called development in their countries has not «developed» the mass of the poor people.

1.35 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diarrhoeal diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, poor hygiene and overcrowding.

However, the survey also revealed consistently more sympathetic attitudes to the HIV / AIDS pandemic in developing world countries than in the UK, for example, almost seven out of ten (69 %) agree that rich countries should ensure that drugs to treat HIV / AIDS are cheap and available to all people in poor countries.

«In many of the specifics of the way people view climate change — for instance, seeing it as a moral issue and understanding that climate change is going to hurt people in developing countries and the world's poor the most — we saw really large shifts.&raquIn many of the specifics of the way people view climate change — for instance, seeing it as a moral issue and understanding that climate change is going to hurt people in developing countries and the world's poor the most — we saw really large shifts.&raquin developing countries and the world's poor the most — we saw really large shifts.»

Writing in the journal Science, researchers note that helping developing countries» small farmers find ways to make better use of marginal land and cope with overfarmed fields is key to feeding the world's poorest people.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

The researchers warn that failure to curb climate change, causing global temperatures to rise far above 2 °C, will radically alter tropical reef ecosystems and undermine the benefits they provide to hundreds of millions of people, mostly in poor, rapidly - developing countries.»

As part of this exercise, Pearce and his colleagues have placed values on human lives that range from $ 1.5 million for people from the richest countries down to $ 100 000 for those in poorer developing nations.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

Poor people in developing countries suffer the highest rates of anemia, because their diet mostly consists of grains containing little iron, and they can't afford to buy dietary iron supplements.

And let's not overlook India and numerous other developing countries, where many of the poorest people in the world, using their own money, attend for - profit schools that outperform the free public schools.

But for the moment, twin trends are exacerbating the threat: the urban rush in developing countries, in which millions of poor people are settling on fragile slopes and floodplains, and rising odds of rain falling in dangerous downpours in a warming world.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

I suppose I could play the same game, and say that through CO2 controls Romm is trying to impoverish billions of poor people in lesser developed countries by halting development, but I don't think that is really his motive, and it would be grossly unfair for me to write.

First, climate change creates duties because those most responsible for causing this problem are the richer developed countries, yet those who are most vulnerable to the problem's harshest impacts are some of the world's poorest people in developing countries.

First, climate change creates duties, responsibilities, and obligations because those most responsible for causing this problem are the richer developed countries or rich people in developed and developing countries, yet those who are most vulnerable to the problem's harshest impacts are some of the world's poorest people around the world.

The IPCC said yesterday that the effects of this rise are being felt sooner than anticipated with the poorest countries and the poorest people set to suffer the worst of shifts in rainfall patterns, temperature rises and the viability of agriculture across much of the developing world.

First, climate change creates duties, responsibilities, and obligations because those most responsible for causing this problem are the richer developed countries or rich people in developed and developing countries, yet those who are most vulnerable to the problem's harshest impacts are some of the world's poorest people.

Women and girls represent 50 percent of the people living in poor households in developing countries.

... 尽管中国是一个发展中国家 ， 仍然有1.5 亿贫困人口 ， 但是我们在南南合作 和双边合作的框架内为最不发达国家 、 小岛屿国家和非洲国家提供了力所能及的帮助 ， 以便提高他们应对气候变化的能力和手段 。 (roughly:... although China is a developing country, there are still 150 million poor people, but we have, in the framework of the South - South cooperation and bilateral cooperation, provided assistance to the least developed countries, small island countries and African countries, and help to improve their ability to cope with climate change and means.)

In fact there are very likely to be groups and individuals exceeding their fair share of safe global emission in developing countries because wealth differences in many developing countries are great and there are wealthy and middle classes in most countries even in countries where the vast majority of the people are very pooIn fact there are very likely to be groups and individuals exceeding their fair share of safe global emission in developing countries because wealth differences in many developing countries are great and there are wealthy and middle classes in most countries even in countries where the vast majority of the people are very pooin developing countries because wealth differences in many developing countries are great and there are wealthy and middle classes in most countries even in countries where the vast majority of the people are very pooin many developing countries are great and there are wealthy and middle classes in most countries even in countries where the vast majority of the people are very pooin most countries even in countries where the vast majority of the people are very pooin countries where the vast majority of the people are very poor.

Each person living in a developed country does far more damage to the planet than any poor African; every extra Briton, for instance, has the carbon footprint of 22 more Malawians — and the poor will suffer first and worst from climate change.

These conditions are already causing problems for people all over the world, with the people in poorer countries being pushed further into poverty and hunger, whilst in the developed countries, the rising cost of food has led to civil disputes and unrest.

In a bid to defuse political objections from poor countries, their study also proposes a way of adjusting the formula for emission targets so developing world nations aren't penalized for allowing fossil fuel consumption by the 2 billion people who barely generate any emissions — or roughly under 1 ton of CO2 per year.

A recent U.N. survey of environmental ministries worldwide showed that only four or five countries actually included gender and economic inequality concerns in their climate change policies, despite the warning from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the impact climate change «will fall disproportionately upon developing countries and the poor persons within all countries.»

«unnecessarily increasing the cost of energy so that it is out of reach of poor and underdeveloped countries (not to mention, poor people in developed countries).

Asad Rehman head of climate and energy at Friends of the Earth had this to say «A weak and dangerously ineffectual agreement is nothing but a polluters charter — it legitimises a do - nothing approach whilst creating a mirage that governments are acting in the interests of the planet and its people,» «Doha was a disaster zone where poor developing countries were forced to capitulate to the interests of wealthy countries, effectively condemning their own citizens to the climate crisis.

[2] The new data raises doubt on how serious EU Member States are in their attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change, the impacts of which are increasingly felt across the globe already today, mostly by poor people in developing countries who had no role in creating the problem.

Among those mechanisms: bilateral trade programs that let wealthy importing countries subsidize the production of carbon - neutral beef in poorer exporting countries, or the use of carbon offsets that people and companies to reduce their own carbon footprints by subsidizing the distribution of Mootral in developing countries.

By the time adequate sources were to be developed and perfected untold damage would occur in the poorer countries affecting the lives of billions of people, mostly children.

And Visa's Barnes noted that while there is a need for extra promotion in countries where payments systems already work pretty well, there are plenty of places in the developing world where credit - card systems are poor or nonexistent, people use mobile phones constantly and distrust of banks is high.

The current debate has seen reference made to the views of economist Hernando de Soto, who argues that legal title to property is fundamental to its exploitation as an asset.135 He suggests that poor people in «developing countries» can accumulate capital in the form of land in shanty - towns for example but they are unable to realise its potential wealth because without legal title to such property, it can not be used as collateral.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world, in poor and developing countries, lack access to credit due to absent or inadequate credit histories — credit that that could help in starting a business, pay for an education, or buy a home.