Sentences with phrase «of poorer nations»

Without that happening (and Europe) obviously no progress is made, but the intent of Doha is reductions by rich nations without restricting the growth of poorer nations.

Japan won over scores of poorer nations with a campaign that played on fears a ban would devastate their economies.

Developing countries also say some wealthier countries − in particular, the US − are seeking to weaken the financial negotiating position of poorer nations by questioning long - held definitions of what constitutes a developed and a developing country — «differentiation», in UN jargon.

Among the spending choices for governments of poorer nations, kick - starting the technological revolution may at first seem like a low priority.

A lot of these poorer nations have examples such as the United States to look up.

Despite being one of the poorer nations on earth, Laos is a very safe country to travel in.

U.S. Advocates Human & Property Rights Solely for Those Nations Who Have the Power to Demand Them Dean Baker, of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, took note this morning of the Obama Administration's perverse rationale regarding the compensation of the poorer nations bearing the earliest and worst effects of climate change, as spelled...

It would be interesting to see a dialogue of posts between believers of poorer nations with believers of richer nations on these topics.

For almost 20 years, one of the poorest nations in Europe had lived an economic fairy tale, becoming the «Celtic Tiger» after which so many other envious nations hoped to model themselves.

In the late 1990's, we were confronted with pleas to forgive the debts of poor nations.

These Western economic interests established symbiotic relationships with the ruling elites of the poor nations.

How well I remember that day not long ago when I sat next to a self - described «missionary» to one of the poorest nations on earth who was complaining about the cost in that country of imported American breakfast cereal and other imported American food.

We catch glimpses, however, of how Jesus» teachings could provide a new way for us to live together: in the U.S. Marshall Plan's assistance to former enemies following World War II; in the recent work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa; in the World Bank's partial forgiveness of the debts of poor nations at the urging of church coalitions.

IN America's south east, the first crop is being gathered from Calgene's genetically engineered strain of a rapeseed plant — and along with it, the inevitable complaints that biotechnology threatens the economies of poor nations.

With a per capita income of around 300 dollars a year, it is one of the poorest nations in the world.

To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds.

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.

Those nations who have consistently emitted ghgs above their fair share of safe global ghg emissions are responsible for the reasonable adaptation costs and damages of poor nations and people who have not caused climate change.These responsibilities are required both by basic ethics and justice and international law.

Friends of the Earth believes that Contraction and Convergence under - estimates the cuts needed in developed countries because it fails to take into account responsibilities for historic emissions and it also underestimates the development needs of poor nations.

The countries that left claim to have the support of other coalitions of poor nations, including the Least Developed Countries, the Alliance of Small Island States and the Africa Group.

It has a population of 3.2 million and is one of the poorest nations on earth with GDP per capita of just $ 1,000, partly a result of the civil war that seethed there for 14 years and left 150,000 people dead.

Nicaragua is one of the poorest nations in the Americas.

Not exact matches

And it could cost just $ 300 for 12 weeks of treatment in poor nations like Malaysia.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

But technologically challenged companies in poor rural areas and developing nations remained out of reach.

Kevyn Orr, a partner in the Washington law firm Jones Day and best known for his work on the restructuring of Chrysler after it filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, will assume financial control of Detroit, the nation's poorest major city.

He noted that the more a state spends, the worse its health outcomes are; the U.S, which spends 18 % of its GDP and more than any other nation, has similarly poor results.

It does note that there are «studies» that show «raising the federal minimum wage — which has not changed since 2009 — to just $ 10.10 per hour would pull more than half of the nation's working poor out of poverty.»

Research shows that kids born to the poorest 20 % of the nation have a 50 % chance that they will remain that poor their whole lives, he says, citing Raj Chetty's research at the Equality of Opportunity Project.

Half a century ago, Samsung was selling dried seafood and noodles, and South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world, with income levels equal to sub-Saharan African nations.

Obama's jobs plan (speech transcript) has to win the approval of the same debt hawks in Washington who recently gave Standard & Poor's an excuse (read the press release here) to downgrade America's credit by threatening to not raise the nation's debt ceiling.

BERLIN — Despite bitter opposition in many quarters to the austerity - first policies Germany has imposed on Europe's poorer nations, Chancellor Angela Merkel's government has hung on to its role as champion of integration on the Continent through deft use of diplomacy and the country's economic clout.

The treaties promised First Nations farming equipment and instruction, but it was often of poor quality, and Indigenous farmers could not sell their produce without the approval of Indian agents, who were sensitive to the concerns of white settlers who resented the competition.

The problem is: these millions of hardworking men and women behind the wheel are traversing roads that receive a «D» grade from the American Society of Civil Engineers; moreover, the ASCE found nearly one - third of our roads are in «poor or mediocre» condition, and one in nine of the nation's bridges are structurally deficient.

The lack of discipline and fiscal responsibility in Washington led to a downgrade of the nation's sea of debt by Standard & Poor's.

CIFAR is finding the root causes of human diseases, developing technology to improve quality of life, bridging the divide between rich and poor nations, and meeting our future energy needs.

When the central banks of other, and especially poorer, nations do this sort of thing, economists (including some who work for the Fed) refer to their policies, not as examples of enlightened monetary management, but as instances of financial repression.

Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how to distribute responsibility for the $ 100 - billion in annual aid that wealthy nations have promised to give poor countries to enable them to adjust to climate impacts.

Stockton could become the first city in the nation to give some of its poorer citizens a $ 500 a month basic income, Mayor Michael Tubbs announced Wednesday.

The move was entirely surprising to investors since Standard & Poor's downgraded the nation in January of this year.

The new world order is basically a social change that is happening right now because of: the advent of networking and networking communications, the degree of inequality that is starting to surface across the developed worlds, the richer getting richer and the poorer getting poorer, and a number of other factors that we'll get into, but it's changing the forms governance, it is going to change the forms of institutions that haven't changed since the Breton Woods at the end of the Second World War which were predominantly US - based institutions if you would: IMF, World Bank in Washington, the United Nations in New York.

That could set up another showdown like those that took place in 2011 and 2013 — when lawmakers brought the government to the brink of defaulting on U.S. debt, leading Standard & Poor's to downgrade the nation's credit rating for the first time.

If Puerto Rico were a US state — which it is not, and which is part of the problem — its per capita income would be half that of the poorest state in the nation: Mississippi.

During his address at the United Nations World Environment Day last summer, Pope Francis likened it to a moral issue, saying, «Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of the poor and the hungry.»

Conservative spokesmen have pointed to the «trickling down» of the benefits of economic growth as the ultimate solution to racial problems; they have at times seemed to court the support of segregationist elements; and they remain at this late date without a positive program of action aimed at narrowing the yawning chasm separating the black poor from the rest of the nation.

No compendium of social statistics is needed to see the vast disparities in economic advantage which separate the inner - city black poor from the rest of the nation.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

Due to mostly uneducated and poor nations the political forces in Muslim nations take advantage of religious ignorance and spread hate among the populations against other religions and the west.

Over half of black children in public primary and secondary schools are concentrated in the nation's twelve largest central city school districts, where the quality of education is poor, and where whites constitute only about a quarter of total enrollment.

The quid pro quo is that developed nations are to transfer hundreds of billions to the poor countries, in essence, a bribe to keep from fully exploiting the bounteous resources of the continent.