Sentences with phrase «poor little country»

«just to keep the poor little country from disappearing or being absorbed by one of its neighbors?»

We're doing the stuff and giving it to the world, and now it's evil because all these poor little countries like Bermuda want to profit somehow from this data.

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There are those who argue that even many of the poorest countries have gained a little, but my own view is that this gain is in numbers that do not measure true, sustainable well - being.

I am thinking here of Jubilee 2000 which was launched by the Christian Churches, in an area many of us would find a little too limited, since they propose debt cancellation only for the poorest countries and not for countries such as Brazil or other economically important countries.

It is not surprising then that after an exhaustive study of the impact of the green revolution in five countries, Keith Griffin concluded that the transfer of capital - intensive, market - oriented technology not only had little positive effect on malnutrition, but actually increased the range of inequality, wiped out many subsistence farmers (usually women in most of the poorer countries), and plunged them further into destitution.

In recent years the poorer regions of the earth have been swept by a «population revolution» which, though it has attracted comparatively little attention, is nevertheless both unprecedented and pregnant with consequences for the peoples of the countries affected.

In the poor countries, most of the grain is eaten directly; little can be spared for conversion into animal protein.)

Being the poorest country in Europe gives it little leverage.

The most resource - poor countries in the world are probably Hong Kong and Singapore, where millions of people are crowded together on a little island, and they have to import almost all their consumption goods.

The contrast between the pictures you get from film and media and life in some poor countries is so stark that it's natural to think that among so much wealth, there must be a little something left for you.

Oh, lucky little poor little Peyton.Dierks Bentley's Monday night show at the Erie County Fair grandstand was the 5 - year - old boy's first - ever concert.The country rocker set a standard that nobody will ever meet.That's not just because Bentley and his five - piece band were impressive.

If all you look at are standard metrics such as gross domestic product (GDP) and total income, he says, then in most countries you're seeing only rich people: The poor have so little money that they barely register.

Poor countries will get little if any vaccine

With little money for treatment, diagnosis of mental illnesses in poor countries was not a priority.

Survey responses from 19,000 people in 18 European countries, including the UK, showed that «the notion that big welfare states are associated with widespread cultures of dependency, or other adverse consequences of poor short term incentives to work, receives little support.»

A large study of child growth patterns in 36 developing countries finds that, contrary to widely held beliefs, economic growth has little to no effect on the nutritional status of the world's poorest children.

Poor people in developing countries suffer the highest rates of anemia, because their diet mostly consists of grains containing little iron, and they can't afford to buy dietary iron supplements.

developing country A relatively poor nation with little industry and a lower standard of living than industrial countries, such as the United States, Germany and Japan.

Other dating sites employ people for very little reward in some of the world's poorest countries to create false profiles and then message you using them.

At the centre of the story is child beauty pageant hopeful Olive Hoover (Abigail Breslin) who at the last minute has the opportunity to compete in the Little Miss Sunshine beauty pageant, providing that her cash - poor family can make the cross country trip and get her there in time.

But the Sutton Trust said it was concerned that this would have «little impact on the country's most prestigious universities outside the country's major urban areas», because of the low numbers of the poorest students attending them.

There are surely few phenomena more remarkable in American business than the periodic ability of cash - poor but swashbuckling newcomers, using little or none of their own money, to seize control of some of the country's most valuable corporations.

The gathered nations, as had been anticipated, agreed on little more than a pledge to enter «full negotiating mode» to complete a new climate treaty within a year and a legal structure for a new global fund to help poor countries deal with the effects of changing climate patterns.

But there was little disagreement that playing what amounts to two games of high - stakes poker at the same time by driving up greenhouse - gas concentrations is a bad idea, particularly as ever more people concentrate on coastlines in both rich and poor countries.

Strip it back however, and converting to renewable energy costs about 1 % of a countries income, so is achievable even in poor countries, maybe with a little help.

Please do as a gentleman, worring earth, worring poor people, worring your grandchildren, Please do not think about your own country's benefit, you should know your country is one part of little earth.

Little good will come of the Green Climate Fund cash the United Nation says industrialized nations should transfer to kleptocratic rulers in poor countries as reparations for supposedly causing climate change.

Others argue that it's fundamentally unfair to ask poor countries to contribute to the solution when they have contributed so little to the problem to this point.

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.

But these are overall such poor targets that many scientific reports warn that the developed countries by 2020 may decrease their emissions by only a little or even increase their level.

And poor countries are becoming less enamored about signing on, as they realize hard economic times mean there will be little climate «mitigation» and «restitution» money coming their way from (formerly) rich countries.

They include, among many others, principles on what is each nation's fair share of safe global emissions, who is responsible for reasonable adaptation needs of those people at greatest risk from climate damages in poor nations that have done little to cause climate change, should high - emitting nations help poor nations obtain climate friendly energy technologies, and what responsibilities should high - emitting nations have for refugees who must flee their country because climate change has made their nations uninhabitable?

Not surprisingly, the fear is that rich countries are conspiring to do to little and to push too much burden onto poor countries.

Yet questions of distributive justice about which nations should bear the major responsibility for most GHG reductions at the international level have and continue to block agreement in international climate negotiations, as well as questions about which countries should be financially responsible for adaptation costs and damages in poor countries that are most vulnerable to climate change's harshest climate impacts and who have done little to cause the problem.

Coastal areas will be affected by sea level rise, with poorer countries with little adaptive capacity suffering the worst of it.

If the United States is a very large emitter of gigs compared to most other nations in terms of historical and per capita emissions, why doesn't the United States have an ethical duty to fund reasonable climate change adaptation measures in and losses and damages of poor developing countries that have done little or nothing to cause human - induced warming.

Poorer countries have done little, and in some cases nothing at all, to cause this crisis.

Groundwater is very deep across much of the country and so not easily available to the poor little tree.

How can you be so certain that future generations would not say we panicked on very little information, ignored the many unknowns and allowed ourselves to be diverted from real and pressing problems of poverty, much of it caused by lack of energy — to chase a phantom problem that could be resolved as technological progress followed the wider prosperity achieved as poor countries developed?

It is only sensible that we should do so, and if we do, and if in particular we reach the conclusion that they should use the methodology implied in the impact assessment and not the absurd methods used by Sir Nicholas Stern, now Lord Stern — he received his reward — they would reach a conclusion very similar to that advocated by the hon. Gentleman on Second Reading: that we should put far more emphasis on adaptation to helping poor countries cope with climate change, rather than on crippling our industries — aviation, shipping and all the other industries — to little avail.

However, remarkably little has been said or written about the people who will feel the impact most — the poor rural people of developing countries — and even less attention has been given to how they can contribute to slowing its advance.

Originally posted on Reuters The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is meant to be a new, innovative institution that will directly support climate action in developing countries, with a particular focus on the poorest and most vulnerable who thus far have had little access to climate finance.

The Green Climate Fund (GCF) is meant to be a new, innovative institution that will directly support climate action in developing countries, with a particular focus on the poorest and most vulnerable who thus far have had little access to climate finance.

Especially when you look at what they consider «poor» countries to be, which means that the real «poor» countries will get little or nothing out of this «deal.»

And the intensification of farming that is needed, especially in poor countries where agricultural productivity is low, must be achieved while doing as little extra harm to the environment as possible, the report says.

Yet climate change is an analogous problem because some very high - emitting countries are largely causing great harm to very low - emitting poor countries who can do little by themselves to protect themselves from the great harm.

These impacts will likely be most harshly experienced by poor countries around the world which have done very little to cause theca climate problem.

The country of her birth was desperately poor and offered few opportunities and little hope.

In addition, little knowledge is available on the effect of parenting support programmes delivered to immigrant parents.24 The few studies available have mostly shown little or no improvement in the mental health of immigrant parents25 26 or even poorer outcomes for immigrant families27 and families with low socioeconomic status.28 Scarcity of studies in this area may simply because few immigrant parents participate in such programmes.24 Several studies have reported difficulties in recruiting and retaining immigrant parents in parenting support programmes.29 30 Factors such as belonging to an ethnic minority, low socioeconomic status, practical aspects or experienced alienation and discrimination all contribute to low participation.28 31 Other studies have demonstrated that low participation and a high dropout rate of immigrant parents are associated with a lack of cultural sensitivity in the intervention, poor information about the parenting programme and lack of trust towards professionals.24 A qualitative study conducted with Somali - born parents in Sweden showed that Somali parents experienced many societal challenges in the new country and in their parenting behaviours.