Sentences with phrase «people in developing countries in»

On the eve of the first board meeting of the UN's Green Climate Fund, Friends of the Earth U.S. — along with GAIA and the Institute for Policy Studies — has released a report that begins to tackle the conundrum faced by just about every development finance institution: how to design and operate a large - scale fund that actually meets the needs of ordinary people in developing countries in an ecologically sustainable...

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Citizens of the country have even developed a reputation for having their guns ready in the closet at a moment's notice, which has led some people to wonder if the Swiss are all required to own arms in order to protect their state.

In developing countries, many people don't and won't have the luxury of finding meaning in worIn developing countries, many people don't and won't have the luxury of finding meaning in worin work.

Since its inception, Idealz has been partnering with Dubai Cares, a part of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, which works towards providing children and young people in developing countries with access to quality education.

The world needs a better toilet — one that can work for the millions of people in developing countries who lack running water and sanitary waste - removal systems.

The more progressive line argues, as Wolman does, that reliance on cash transactions «perpetuates [poor] peoples» exclusion from banking and the formal economy» and makes it hard for governments, especially in developing countries, to efficiently serve their citizens.

Cheaper phones aren't just important for developing countries, where incomes are lower, they're also key to the monthly fees that people in advanced economies pay.

Unlike BlackBerry, Apple and other Western - focused vendors, the search giant is far more focused on getting people in developing countries onto the internet and using its services.

As the founder of Watsi, a nonprofit that allows people to donate small amounts of money to crowdfund medical treatments for individuals in 20 developing countries, Adam, 29, is doing his part to remedy this imbalance.

There are over 70 mobile subscriptions per 100 people in this country, and yet that's fewer than any other developed nation.

That is, there are people in developing countries who only have jobs because people in the industrialized West buy clothes from retailers who subcontract to manufacturers in places like Bangladesh.

And by robust, Zuckerberg doesn't mean the entire world will be streaming House of Cards on Netflix, but people in developing countries may be willing to pay for add - on services like weather and food pricing data.

Its goal is to connect the billions of people in developing countries who aren't yet online by giving them access to certain portions of the Internet for free.

Facebook (FB) proposed its Free Basics program, dubbed Internet.org, was designed to give people, especially in developing countries, some Internet services at no charge by partnering with local mobile carriers.

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

She pointed out that the US isn't the only place with angry, impulsive people on the loose, yet «we are the only developed country in the world where this happens on a regular basis.»

This way they maintain their razor - sharp edge, and a complete mastery of the very same methods, strategies and tools that Tony Robbins continuously develops and uses as he helps millions of people — in more than 100 countries all over the world.

In developing countries, we focus on improving people's health and wellbeing, helping individuals lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty.

9 OUT OF 10 AIR POLLUTION DEATHS OCCUR IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES About 7 million people die annually from exposure to polluted air, according to the World Health Organization.

Finally, Bitcoin could be a lifesaver for people in developing countries with dysfunctional banking systems.

Not sure if people noticed this - but almost every developed country has a national broadcaster and many of them are recent formations in the fabric of e-space.

The world's population, mainly in the developing countries, is growing at a rapid pace, with over nine billion people projected by 2025 - many more mouths to feed.

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.

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At the time, there were no official statistics comparing foreign debt levels in developed countries, and in their absence there was a tendency for people to assume the worst — that is, to assume that Australia was the highest on the list.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

However, unlike other developed countries, in India people are yet to adopt the sales process of build - test - use - pay.

In less developed countries where capital markets are restricted this mistrust is a given as people are threatened by devaluations, seizure of property and political risk.

Many think this level of poverty is exclusive to people living in developing countries, but the number of people in America living in extreme poverty has reached a record high: 20.5 million in 2010.

The outsourcing of U.S. jobs overseas, the subject of much discussion in this year's presidential campaign, is part of an economic movement that promises a better life — indeed, a new beginning — for many people in developing countries.

Over 1 billion people in the world today live under unacceptable conditions of poverty, mostly in developing countries, and particularly in rural areas of low - income Asia and the Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the least developed countries.

Instead, I focus on the millions of dollars in no - interest loans made by thousands of Christians to American and developing countries» entrepreneurs through kiva.org, decisions made mostly $ 25 and one enterprising person at a time.

After watching the clip it was clear that there is lack of Gvt presence and proper republic in that country to take care of it's people and that locals are taking matters into their hands to fill the wide gap of Gvt presence that they are left with... No wonder now why many are taking into immigration out of that caveman country who went into developing it's weapons rather than developing it's people....

The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

The majority of people in the developed world don't have a day - to - day battle on their hands to survive but the instinct never goes away and it's in proportion with the situation; self, family, friends, community, country and the level of threat.

Sometimes people in developing countries think everyone in the U.S. is rich, white and happy.

They are just too lazy and selfish to take the actions necessary move religions and make a real statement that would help people in developing countries get the aid they need.

In the less developed countries, approximately 400 pounds of grain per year is available to the average person, nearly all of which must be consumed directly merely to meet minimal food energy needs... Contrast this example to the average North American who uses nearly a ton of grain per year.

It doesn't work for large numbers of marginalized people in the so called «developing» countries, nor for the homeless in the «developed» countries, nor for the environment, nor for the earth itself.

The same may apply in other countries: when one seeks to develop theological forms which arise out of «people's» culture, what sources are being used to identify people's culture and what is the role of the interpretive power of the media in shaping those sources?

Therefore we convert rice field for rubber cultivation and other cash - crops, including horticultural plantations, develop capital intensive production units (in countries like India where the major strength is its labour power), thereby denying majority of people their right to work.

In developing countries there has always been a substantial gap (now widening) between what medical science can do and what the vast majority of people can afford to have done for them.

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

While many diseases kill people prematurely, the majority of people in developed countries die after the age of sixty - five, with more and more reaching the eighties, nineties, and beyond.

Because of the slowing birth rate in developed countries which have a higher than average amount people who profess no religion (minus the united states), the developing countries, such as Brazil who are highly religious, account for an increase in religious profession.

One reasons that there are so many people starving in developing countries is that the Catholic church has fought international funding of programs that provide birth control.

You mean like waste thousands of crops on Ethanol while people starve in developing countries?

Of the 4.4 billion people in developing countries, nearly three - fifths lack basic sanitation.

Part of the answer is that the «proportion of people going hungry in developing countries has fallen sharply from more than one in three in 1970 to one in five in the mid-1990s.»

The former Home Secretary, who became the UK's first blind cabinet minister, has highlighted the challenges faced by disabled people in developing countries.