Sentences with phrase «poor in developing countries»

Many of the world's poor in developing countries — nearly 2 billion, according to the World Bank — struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't have a bank account or financial services.

Furthermore, it is willing to sacrifice massive resources to that «cause» while having little regard for widows and orphans, especially the 1 billion extreme poor in developing countries.

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri - biotech Applications (ISAAA) is a not - for - profit organization that delivers the benefits of new agricultural biotechnologies to the poor in developing countries.

He clearly opposes the present steps toward the globalization of the economy, for he believes that it will damage the poor in developing countries, reduce the political will to upgrade welfare in the United States, make it more and more difficult for political power to control the corporations, and most particularly exacerbate those pressures for growth that will degrade the environment.

At present this depends on the willingness of the poor in developing countries to sacrifice so that their governments can pay on their international debts.

I have tried to go beyond this by starting the conversation around environmental issues faced by the poor in developing countries and around small - scale non-political solutions.

The poor in developing countries are sometimes just as guilty of that.

Many of the world's poor in developing countries — nearly 2 billion, according to the World Bank — struggle to lift themselves out of poverty simply because they don't have...

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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.

Diplomatic observers said the European Union was wary of China's growing investment in the Balkans, central and eastern European countries and poorer EU members - which Beijing sees as gateways into the more developed European market - as it threatened unity and solidarity.

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

The Gates Foundation has donated more than $ 36 billion, including for projects that expand access to immunizations in developing countries and provide financial services to poor communities.

Stocks in Standard & Poor's 500 index — up 14.8 percent; socially responsible stocks — up 14.9 percent; smaller U.S. stocks — up 28.3 percent; emerging markets — up 16.1 percent; total international stocks (counting stocks in both the developed and emerging countries)-- up 9.6 percent; total U.S. stocks (both large and small companies)-- up 17.2 percent; and Real Estate Investment Trusts — up 28 percent.

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.

It ushered in the age of globalization, it allowed countries like China to be revolutionized from a very poor, developing country, to the second largest economy in the world.

According to Bloomberg, «the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, whose increase in the past three months was the steepest in seven decades, is rallying in tandem with benchmark measures for raw materials, developing - country equities and hedge funds.

One of the greatest problems the poor have in this country and developing countries is that they tend to have too many children.

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.

Economists and policymakers know that the best and most enduring form of assistance developed countries can give to poor nations is not in direct grants but in open markets.

Sustainable development is an idea developed in World Council of Churches circles in the 1970s and 1980s, and focuses attention on how much poor countries should be allowed to develop before they jeopardise the environment on which we all depend, although Mr. Carr does not put itquite that way.

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

The only places it's growing are in poor uneducated developing countries, and the only hope the church has of remaining significant is to keep those countries that way.

Lifting the wretched of the earth out of their misery will require a combination of thoroughgoing economic and political reforms in the poor countries and substantial aid from the developed countries.

Equality before the law, separation of church and state, the humanity of women, peasants and children, free education and healthcare for the poor, even the idea that nature is subject to laws — all these developed in Christian countries, and nowhere else!

I believe that people, poor as they were by our standards, had more control over their own lives in those days than is possible today for most workers, especially in the developing countries.

If a poor mother in a developing country chooses to bottle feed rather than to breast feed her infant, she thereby chooses greater chances of sickness and death for the baby.

The genetically modified rice was developed by IRRI to supposedly address Vitamin A Deficiency (VAD) in poor and developing countries, including the Philippines.

MASIPAG has been at the forefront of the sustainable agriculture movement in the country for almost 30 years putting emphasis on developing food security among the resource - poor farmers in the country.

The inventors of Golden Rice, Professor Ingo Potrykus and Dr. Peter Beyer, donated the technology in 2000 as a gift for resource - poor farmers in developing countries because of its enormous potential to benefit public health.

The inventors» desire to donate Golden Rice as a gift to resource - poor farmers in developing countries led to a public - private partnership with Syngenta to help further develop Golden Rice.

FOOD LOSS Postharvest food losses - occurring at the production, harvest, postharvest and processing phases - are the most important source of FLW in developing countries, due to poor infrastructure, poor temperature management, low levels of technology and low investment in the food production systems, especially the cold chain.

While in developing countries like India losses occur more from poor supply chains due to poor infrastructure, in developed countries it is wasted at the retail and consumer end due to higher standards or sheer neglect.

Alfonso shared that Golden Rice was invented by Professor Ingo Potrykus, then of the Institute for Plant Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and Professor Peter Beyer of the University of Freiburg, Germany, and is a gift to resource - poor farmers in developing countries by these inventors.

This can be attributed to the fact that replacement feeding in poor resource settings carries higher risks than in developed countries.

In other words, obstetricians are faced with a population that suffers poorer health than other developed countries, yet manage to save the lives of the babies under their care at a comparatively higher rate.

In a North American context, most babies are likely to get most of the nutrients they need from breastmilk, but in developing countries it may not be sufficient after six months and evidence has shown that babies who aren't introduced to solids during the second half of their first year do have poorer health outcomeIn a North American context, most babies are likely to get most of the nutrients they need from breastmilk, but in developing countries it may not be sufficient after six months and evidence has shown that babies who aren't introduced to solids during the second half of their first year do have poorer health outcomein developing countries it may not be sufficient after six months and evidence has shown that babies who aren't introduced to solids during the second half of their first year do have poorer health outcomes.

Because even in a developed country like the UK, poor breastfeeding practices are costing the UK at least # 40 million in costs for infant health and # 18 million in costs for women's health (UNICEF reports ***)

Besides cost, the U.S. is showing poor results in both infant and maternal mortality rates compared to other developed countries.

In the 50 poorest developing countries, infant mortality averages over 100 deaths per thousand live births.

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.

There is consistent evidence of a protective effect of exclusive breast feeding against diarrhoeal disease in the first 4 — 6 months of life.4 Likely causes are the immune properties of breast milk and less exposure to pathogens in contaminated milk, food, bottles, or teats.5 Contamination and inadequate sterilisation pose less of a problem in developed than developing countries, and this explains the greater protection of breast feeding in developing countries where poverty, poor hygiene, and infectious diseases are common.

In developing countries, outcomes are sometimes worse in kids that breastfeed for longer, probably in part because this might be occurring in poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picturIn developing countries, outcomes are sometimes worse in kids that breastfeed for longer, probably in part because this might be occurring in poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picturin kids that breastfeed for longer, probably in part because this might be occurring in poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picturin part because this might be occurring in poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picturin poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picturin iron, is probably part of the picture.

This is an animation showing a method of screening for cervical cancer in resource poor, developing countries.

This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.

The 1980s African debt crisis was created by a variety of factors (much more complex than the commonly attributed «poor African leadership» theory), including irresponsible over-lending by private creditors seeking high returns, the tendency towards one product commodity economies, the targeting of developing countries for high interest loans, the global monetary shock of 1979 - 81, trade protectionism in Northern countries, the depreciation of the US dollar, the prolonged drought of 1981 - 84, among other factors (see African Debt Revisited).

They have called on Alistair Darling, as host of the conference, to take a lead in championing the interests of poor countries by spearheading the closure of such tax loopholes - which it says cheat developing countries out of # 160 billion annually.

Maternal mortality is increasingly high, Nigeria has one of the poorest maternal and child health indices in the world with maternal 800-3000 deaths per 100,000 live births, life time risk of dying from pregnancy related complications of 1:8 compared to 1:10 in developing countries (Nigeria Demographic Health Survey 2004).

In developing countries with very poor healthcare system, like Nigeria, the average life expectancy is 40 years, with the lowest in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland which is 35 years, Nigeria has a life expectancy of 44 years compared to life expectancy of 82 in Japan and 80 in Switzerland (Population Reference Bureau, 2007In developing countries with very poor healthcare system, like Nigeria, the average life expectancy is 40 years, with the lowest in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland which is 35 years, Nigeria has a life expectancy of 44 years compared to life expectancy of 82 in Japan and 80 in Switzerland (Population Reference Bureau, 2007in Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland which is 35 years, Nigeria has a life expectancy of 44 years compared to life expectancy of 82 in Japan and 80 in Switzerland (Population Reference Bureau, 2007in Japan and 80 in Switzerland (Population Reference Bureau, 2007in Switzerland (Population Reference Bureau, 2007).

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 which developed country is the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor now at its widest since the Victorian erIn which developed country is the gap in life expectancy between rich and poor now at its widest since the Victorian erin life expectancy between rich and poor now at its widest since the Victorian era?