Sentences with phrase «other poor nations»

Innovative forms of insurance could unshackle a green revolution in Africa and other poor nations

US doing to many wrong things to other poor nation and mother nature is going to hammer the US once again.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Another issue is «Third World debt», and many Christians with others are campaigning through the Jubilee 2000 Coalition for the cancellation of unpayable debts by the poorest nations.

In the opinion of the Council the poor have been promised the kingdom of heaven not in order that others, whether individuals or nations, should alone be and remain rich.

But don't they all have to do with how we relate to each other and to Jesus Christ — whether we relate vertically as child to parent, as serf to free person, as baron to king, as alien to citizen, as tribal member to colonial usurper, as subject - wife to master - husband, as Third World country to powerful nation, as sharecropper to landed gentry, as migrant laborer to union or employer, as novice nun to mother superior, as female to male, as poor parishioner to monsignor - pastor, and on and on; or whether we relate horizontally as the grown - up heir now equal to his father, as world citizen to world citizen, as worker to worker, as minister to minister, as partner wife to partner husband, as sister to sister, and sister to brother?

For this is thee has blessed this land with liberty that shall remain untouched, and may over poor other nation for such blessing that they shall treasure praying to thee freely and abundantly.

These questions arise most obviously out of our situation of belonging to a social framework that has already opted for an economic system whose policies often have questionable implications for the poor within our own country and in other 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.

To work with the leaders of other nations, and as their hearts are touched, the poor, the oppressed, the widows, and the youth of their country will be impacted in a positive manner.

In other words, richer nations have a greater responsibility than do poorer nations in being open to immigrants.»

Already two basic values have come into view: (1) our attitude toward our nation and the needs and claims of other nations, especially the poorer ones, and (2) our attitudes toward individual consumption.

We seek through the vitality of influence and power to arrest the injustice of others but impose in turn new forms of injustice because we are never as just as we claim to be: parent with child, children with parents, protesters with establishment, majorities with minorities, minorities with majorities, rich nations with poor, and poor nations with rich.

Are those going to the poorest of their country land nations before any other neighboring or overseas nations...!

One of the tragedies of the present economic order between nations is that the flow of goods is greater from the poor to the rich countries than the other way around.

Infrastructure such as cycle lanes is also poor in the UK compared to other European nations and many claim that private gyms remain prohibitively expensive.

Others include capping the numbers of foreign jobseekers, reserving more jobs for British workers and excluding the poorest EU nations altogether.»

Rhodes said education is supposed to be the great equalizer but that the nation has two education systems, one that serves the rich and the other the poor.

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.

To make matters worse, U.S. companies often ship old equipment to poor nations whose landfills and incinerators are ill equipped, subjecting already struggling populations to lead, cadmium, beryllium, and other contaminants.

But other IPCC work — on trends in emissions of greenhouse gases, for instance — assumes poor nations will grow richer.

Writing for nonspecialists, Acemoglu and Robinson explore the interplay of economic forces, politics, and policy choices to explain why some nations are rich and others poor.

Of course, the rest of the world does not consist merely of other industrial nations, and poor countries in the grip of the AIDS crisis want antiretroviral therapies at a price they can afford.

Due to the poor health infrastructure in the affected West African nations it is unlikely that, if other survivors have been affected in a similar manner, they will have received the same level of care Ms Cafferkey has.

This means that there would be the need to overcome the root causes of violence, within each nation, with the elimination of disparities in wealth between the «top» and «bottom» in the social scale and at international level with the elimination of disparities in economic and social development between rich and poor nations, for one hand, and the dispute between the great powers for world power, on the other hand.

As a nation we do a poorer job than some other countries in ensuring that we prepare an appropriate number of teachers in the areas in which they are most needed.

Intelligence is one of the most divine gift to all human whether he / she is poor or rich which itself a self - responsibility to protect the same by respecting interdependency.The fragmentation of societies and nations has not brought us isolation from the troubles of others.

The nation's schools are poorer for the estrangement of Stotsky and others.

California's extraordinarily liberal charter - school law, which gave birth to the nation's first charter - management organization (Aspire), differs from those of other states, partly because it does not require a focus on poor and minority students.

The concept of sustainable development is being criticized, in Brazil and in other Latin American countries, since the word development is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

Unquestionably, Friedman will ridicule the whiners who complain that No Child Left Behind is leading to too much homework and too little summer vacation for poor little Susie, while other nations leap ahead.

It's no secret that the American educational system today lists under the weight of some massive, seemingly intractable burdens such as poor college preparation, modest achievement results compared with other nations, high dropout rates, significant teaching and performance disparities across racial and socioeconomic backgrounds, and a deficit of graduates equipped with the necessary skills for tomorrow's workforce.

The first international survey of adult literacy shows that Americans» reading skills — as poor as they may be — are on par with those of citizens of some of the world's other richest nations.

The other problem with 529s for school choice: Yesterday, Dropout Nation explained why the plan by Congressional Republicans and the Trump Administration to transform 529 higher education savings vehicles to expand school choice does little for poor and minority communities who lack the incomes and wealth to use them.

Trump's desire to see federal dollars follow poor children to the public or private schools of their choice echoes proposals that other Republicans have floated, including during last year's overhaul of the nation's main federal education law.

Sadly, the US does a very poor job at distributing qualified teachers equally compared to other nations (Akiba, LeTendre et al. 2007).

Governing magazine looks at what poor road conditions in Utah's portion of the Navajo nations mean for, among others, school children.

The Connecticut Parents Union, on the other hand, is as fierce a foe of the AFT and the NEA as they come; but its president (and Dropout Nation Contributing Editor) Gwen Samuel is skeptical of the propensity of some reformers to be as disdainful as traditionalists about the role families (especially those from poor and minority households) should play in education decision - making.

He said the gap between white British children from poorer families and those from other ethnic groups needed to be closed for England to catch up with the world's leading nations.

Issue # 1: As has been noted repeatedly, no other Democratic governor in the nation has proposed doing away with tenure for all public school teachers and repealing collective bargaining for teachers in the poorest and lowest performing public schools.

Mississippi students rank among the last in the nation; this is true when comparing Mississippi's poor students to other poor students as well as its non-poor students to other non-poor students.

Putting aside the reality that the actual number of poor parents with four or five children in the school system is extremely low, the stunningly ignorant and disturbing approach to «doing something» about the crippling impact of poverty in Hartford is a stark reflection about how out - of - touch many in the Corporate Education Reform Industry actually approach the real issues that are limiting educational achievement in Hartford and other poor communities across Connecticut and the nation.

From the so - called gifted - and - talented programs that end up doing little to improve student achievement (and actually do more damage to all kids by continuing the rationing of education at the heart of the education crisis), to the evidence that suburban districts are hardly the bastions of high - quality education they proclaim themselves to be (and often, serve middle class white children as badly as those from poor and minority households), it is clear that the educational neglect and malpractice endemic within the nation's super-clusters of failure and mediocrity isn't just a problem for other people's children.

On June 30th, our school was shut down, joining the 50 other charters that were shuttered in the 2016 - 17 fiscal year in California and the 200 - 300 charters that are closed each year across the nation because of poor performance, financial issues, low enrollment, nepotism, violations against students with disabilities and English language learners, and fraud.

Congress created the program to improve highway safety on tribal roads and other transportation facilities — statistically, some of the most hazardous in the nation because of poor physical condition and other factors.

Since most of the measures required to slow the warming, from greatly increasing energy efficiency to land reform in poor nations, would carry other great benefits, and since the probability of unprecedented change appears to be in the vicinity of 50 percent, a very large social effort, one incurring substantial costs, seems to us not simply justified but virtually mandatory.