Sentences with phrase «on middle income countries»

In addition to calling on high income countries to stop building new, unabated coal - fired power plants immediately and accelerate the retirement of their existing plants, the report also calls on middle income countries to limit new coal - fired power plants and begin retiring their existing fleet by 2025.

What are your thoughts on a middle income country like Ghana rolling out free SHS?

Not exact matches

The recent decline in China's GDP to below 7 percent from an average of 10 percent from 1980 to 2010 has some worried that the country is on the verge of hitting the middle - income trap, and a dangerous downward growth streak is ahead.

Among the 30 countries that belong to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Canada is in the middle of the pack in terms of taxes on corporate income.

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

Each year, governments in lower - and middle - income countries spend approximately US$ 250 million on breastfeeding promotion; and donors provide only an additional US$ 85 million.

Understanding just what's going on in these failed middle income countries is an important question in contemporary political economy, and it's something that I'll be researching more closely with a colleague over this summer; look out for a new paper on these issues later in the year...

All parties focus on development since Zambia is a lower - middle income country.

Elsewhere, both parties agree they should abolish child tax credits for those on middle to high incomes and similarly, both say they would abandon Labour's child trust fund that gives # 250 to every newborn in the country to set up a bank account.

A full 84 percent of refugees are living in low - and middle - income countries, UNHCR said, blaming this «huge imbalance» on «the continuing lack of consensus internationally when it comes to refugee hosting and the proximity of many poor countries to regions of conflict.»

Currently the development bank directs a quarter of its income on middle - income countries, compared to DfID's commitment of 90 per cent on low - income countries.

«Half of all children killed or seriously injured on the roads in England come from deprived areas and this is reflected in the fact that 90 per cent of those killed globally are from low and middle income countries.»

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.

· Families in Wales pay more for childcare than in any other country in Europe except for Switzerland and many parents on low and middle incomes are forced to choose between paying high childcare costs, reducing their hours or giving up work completely.

To address this, researchers looked at hospital records — from 66 low, middle and high income countries — for more than 12,000 patients undergoing surgery on the digestive system.

«Evidence on the coverage of postnatal care services and other maternal and child health services is crucial to inform policies and health systems decisions addressing unmet needs in low - and middle - income countries,» Langlois explained.

Economic modeling shows that in some low - and middle - income countries, such as India and Tanzania, «the gross domestic product lost to stunting can be more than a country's spending on health,» explains Richter, who helped produce a series of papers on early childhood development published online in The Lancet last October.

The research was undertaken by the University College London Energy & Development group, a group of researchers and academics at UCL who work on issues related to energy in low and middle - income countries.

It Begins at Ten: How Gender Expectations Shape Early Adolescence Around the World is the most comprehensive analysis to date — and the first to draw equally from high -, low - and middle - income countries — of how children on the cusp of adolescence perceive growing up as a boy or girl.

The results indicate, on a multinational level across low - and middle - income countries, that a diagnosis of psychosis is associated with physical inactivity, especially among males.

Based on other research that examined the economic burden of dengue on low - and middle - income countries elsewhere in the world, the study researchers determined that the direct medical costs of the disease represent only 49 percent of the disease's overall costs.

In low - and middle - income countries, about 80 percent of the total burden incurred by chronic diseases falls on those of working age, 60 or younger, the report points out.

«The best way to address these conditions in low - and middle - income countries is to build on the existing health - care services, so that they can be detected early and managed with effective treatment,» Beard said.

«Support that is given to low - and middle - income countries that need technical support should be given based on their own health priorities,» Alwan says, priorities that countries are tasked with setting.

The world now spends $ 16.8 billion each year on HIV / AIDS, with an increasing amount of the investment — more than 50 % — coming from low - and middle - income countries.

The authors of the review, which focused mainly on low and middle income countries, call for urgent interventions for mothers and children.

On average, 87 % of those from low - income countries, 70 % of those from high - income countries, and 67 % of those from middle - income countries told SED that they intended to live in the United States «after graduation,» the authors write.

The new study focused on low - and middle - income countries, where little research into the IPV - tobacco link has been done.

The CGIAR Research Program on Wheat (WHEAT) is unprecedented global alliance for productive, climate - resilient and profitable wheat agri - food systems in lower and middle - income countries.

He has published and worked for 20 years on issues related to health systems development, equity, and ethics in low - and middle - income countries of Africa and Asia.

You can read the report abstract at: The technical report on sodium intake and cardiovascular disease in low - and middle - income countries by the joint working group of the World Heart Federation, the European Society of Hypertension and the European Public Health Association.

The U.S. is typically in the middle of the pack on education and at highest end in terms of poverty and income inequality among OECD countries.

Researchers found that in areas of the country where 10 per cent or more of pupils attend state - run selective schools, just 15.8 per cent of 11 - year - olds were from «just about managing» families, who comprise about 6m households on low and low - to - middle incomes, according to one definition.

Charge for eBooks on a sliding scale: One of the reasons piracy is so common in middle income and developing countries is that people just don't have that much disposable income.

From these three country experiences, we find that fostering public support to implement lasting reform may depend on four measures: (1) forming a public engagement plan and a comprehensive reform policy that are then clearly communicated to the public in advance of price increases; (2) phasing in price adjustments over a period of time to ease absorption; (3) providing a targeted compensatory cash transfer to alleviate financial impacts on low - to middle - income households; and (4) capitalizing on favorable global macroeconomic conditions.

Based on GFN figures for 2006, the then world population could live sustainably at the living standard of a middle income country such as Algeria or Ecuador.

On the flip side, forest growing stock decreased about.29 percent per year in 27 lower middle income countries, and by.72 percent in 22 low income countries.

«On average, the richest 20 % of households in low and middle income countries capture six times more in total fuel product subsidies (43 %) than the poorest 20 % of households (7 %),» the report says.

It argues that a combination of a targeted carbon intensity level with an emissions cap on a particular sector at some point around or beyond 2020 is the bottom line, beyond which China can not afford to go until its per capita income catches up with the level of middle - developed countries.

He came to the SMC to present the latest information on the medicines situations in low and middle income countries, and describe what he believes can be done to improve them.

The UN's 2015 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction says that, every year between 1980 and 2012, disasters caused the loss of 42 million «life years», and that over 80 % of these were spread across low - and middle - income countries — a setback comparable to tuberculosis.

Note also that increased heat stress due to warming of the past few decades is already enough to affect health and workplace productivity at low latitudes, where the impact falls most heavily on low - and middle - income countries [135].

Until recently, there has been a lack of rigorous empirical evidence on the links between contraceptive access and women's economic empowerment in low - and middle - income countries.

This guidance document reviews and synthesizes the first five years of implementation (2008 — 2013) of projects on health adaptation to climate variability and change in low - and middle income countries worldwide.

Check out this graphic on the number of patent applications filed by nonresidents — the world total is depicted in red, while applications from low and middle income countrie are in green, least developed countries are in blue, and high income apps are in yellow.

None of these companies may seek to expand their businesses to countries such as the US, nor may their models be replicated in the US, because their low and middle income and small business clients do not have a lawyer intervening on their behalf.

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.

Ms Mejia's research examined the dissemination of Triple P into low resource settings in low and middle income countries, reporting on a series of empirical studies in Panama including surveys, measure validation, a randomised controlled trial and follow - up interviews.

The WHO Violence Prevention alliance and partners have released a new document focusing on the role of parenting programs in violence prevention with a particular focus on low and middle income countries.

The volume looks at adolescent development with a distinctive focus on issues that affect adolescents in low - and middle - income countries.