Sentences with phrase «poor nations out»

There are poor nations out there Rush.

It is to raise the poorest nations out of poverty through democratic governance, free trade, access to birth control, and the education and economic empowerment of women.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

But technologically challenged companies in poor rural areas and developing nations remained out of reach.

It does note that there are «studies» that show «raising the federal minimum wage — which has not changed since 2009 — to just $ 10.10 per hour would pull more than half of the nation's working poor out of poverty.»

But in its neoliberal form it becomes a nightmare lived by the victims of unemployment, young people traumatized by the future, workers shut out of the productive system and nations subjected to structural adjustment, labour deregulation, the erosion of social security systems and the elimination of networks serving the poor.

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.

Blaming the poor for their poverty is counter-productive; effectively arguing for the best way out of poverty is a winning argument with plenty of empirical evidence from developing nations around the world.

The report pointed out that all over the world the churches were part of the establishment assisting in the maintenance of the status quo that exploited not only the nations and nature, but the poor in their own country.

Further, although Australia has high food safety standards when compared to many Asian export markets, it was only ranked 14th out of 17 OECD countries, outscored by competitor nations within Europe and North America.86 Industry interviews suggested this was largely due to poor R&D support from government, the patchwork of auditors and poor information flow across the country.

It is the reason President Akufo - Addo must be cheered on at his first appearance at the United Nations General Assembly as President in about a fortnight from now and it is the reason we shouldn't endorse the growing tendency to wish ill of the Black Stars though I am not unaware of leading NPP officials making provocative statements about how the NDC Government was responsible for the poor results in earlier qualifiers and how only NPP supporters will be sent to Russia, but we must regardless always learn to rise above the misguided few and reach out for the Ghana Flag anytime it is about our dear country.

Instead, the Pakistan which remained tried to carry on, pretending that it was still the land of South Asia's Muslims, just smaller... It never figured out why it should exist as a nation - state, and that combined with poor governance and major geostrategic factors have brought the country to a pass where its further dissolution is now argued increasingly in terms of when and how, not if.

You don't suggest to gut a program that serves many poor people who would not receive the necessary health care they deserve as citizens of the greatest nation in the world, because you can't root out and eliminate fraud.

The Fiscal Policy Institute issued a report today on the widening gap between New York's rich and poor, pointing out fun facts like: «Wall Street, with its stratospheric profits and bonuses, sits within 15 miles of the Bronx — the nation's poorest county.»

Poor nations say wealthy countries got rich using coal, oil and gas and they must be allowed to develop their way out of poverty.

They're part of the environmental justice movement, a crusade that grew out of the recognition that it was mainly the poor and people of color who were forced — by circumstance, finances, lack of political power and what activists call «environmental apartheid» that callously targets the disenfranchised — to live and work in some of the nation's dirtiest environments.

Almost 200 nations kept a plan to reach a new U.N. climate pact in 2015 alive on Saturday when rich and poor countries reached a compromise on sharing out the efforts needed to slow global warming.

But poor nations argue that more pressing issues need to be ironed out, for example the overarching dispute between rich and poor countries over how to share efforts to cut emissions, before more market - based mechanisms are developed or the groundwork for a global trading scheme is laid.

Stuart Shalat, director of the Division of Environmental Health at Georgia State University's School of Public Health, points out that the nation's aging infrastructure is making it increasingly difficult to protect kids from any number of environmental risks, particularly in poor communities.

The new law dramatically ramped up Washington's investment in K - 12 education, carving out a role for the federal government in educating the nation's poorest children.

Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

But the «we need to spend more» mantra has been blown up countless times, most recently by Minnesota reformer / writer Chris Stewart who pointed out that North High, one of the poorest performing schools in Minneapolis, receives budget allocations that amount to $ 17,460 per student, while Southwest High, a school ranked among the best in the nation, gets just $ 7,782 per student.

As Dropout Nation has pointed out ad nauseam since the administration unveiled the No Child waiver gambit two years ago, the plan to let states to focus on just the worst five percent of schools (along with another 10 percent or more of schools with wide achievement gaps) effectively allowed districts not under watch (including suburban districts whose failures in serving poor and minority kids was exposed by No Child) off the hook for serving up mediocre instruction and curricula.

And while in the UK the Beatles were singing We Can Work It Out, in Singapore they were really having to work it out, as this new nation had a poor, unskilled, mostly illiterate workforOut, in Singapore they were really having to work it out, as this new nation had a poor, unskilled, mostly illiterate workforout, as this new nation had a poor, unskilled, mostly illiterate workforce.

The Pisa report argued that the image of a world divided into rich and well - educated nations and poor and badly - educated countries was «out of date».

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.

She handed out two passages, one about Eliza Scidmore, a writer and explorer whose idea it was to plant cherry blossom trees around the nation's capital, and another about George Washington Carver, an African - American botanist born into slavery who taught poor farmers how to grow alternative crops to cotton.

Increasingly disillusioned with American politics and the government's abandonment of its poorest citizens, Guthrie was compelled to speak out, tirelessly crisscrossing the nation to entertain and advocate for the nation's poorest people with his songs, eventually earning himself a permanent place as one of America's great folk heroes.

For those publishers worried that continued poor results at the nation's largest bricks - and - mortar book retailer might mean its demise, Esposito speculated a way out.

That process, which is vital considering there are nearly 200 countries involved, has always led to charges of secret deals and powerful nations shouldering out the smallest or poorest.

He also pointed out the obligation wealthy nations have to poorer ones that are most vulnerable to coastal and climatic hazards that, in many places, will be worsened by the building greenhouse effect.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

«Poor countries walk out of UN climate talks as compensation row rumbles on: Bloc of 132 countries exit Warsaw conference after rich nations refuse to discuss climate change recompense until after 2015»

But, the question now is whether this «right to grow» pitch will find a prominent place in the climate change discourse when rich and poor nations sit together to work out a global climate deal?

India on Wednesday reiterated its commitment to «protecting the interests of the poor» at the Lima Climate Change talks, challenging rich nations who want to keep poverty eradication out of a list of priorities for developing countries in a new climate pact to be signed next year in Paris.

At Copenhagen, where the finance part of the deal was only sorted out at the very last minute, rich countries agreed to supply $ 30bn ($ 20bn) of «fast - start» financial assistance to the poor nations, and they said that by 2020, financial flows of at least $ 100bn a year would be provided.

Not surprisingly, it turned out that the poor would suffer far more than the rich, both between nations and within nations.

Mal T would introduce an ETS if he thought he could get away with it and has said as much, and the Government has sold out to the UN giving them a Billion dollars that poorer south pacific nations could be using to better effect.

The countries still have major issues to hash out, including how to handle the billions of dollars to be funneled from wealthy nations to poorer ones to help them adapt to climate change and develop cleaner sources of energy.

That the United Nations, most governments of the world, and all those involved in carbon trading schemes are salivating at the thought of taxing the snot out of all of us, redistributing wealth from rich to poor countries, making billions on carbon trading schemes, and having a one - world order fired up where we'll all do the United Nations bidding just makes me more suspicious about sending up one - armed satellites.

This time, they have proposed a formula of «concentric differentiation» that sets out three main bands of responsibility: rich developed nations in the centre with large mandatory emission cuts, poorer nations on the outside with zero obligations and great flexibility, and emerging economies in the middle with a basket of options for significant voluntary reductions.

The Oakland Institute has been talking for years about increasing food security by increasing food sovereignty in poor nations, rather than fighting hunger by dumping cheap, overproduced food from rich countries, driving local farmers in those poor countries out of business.

They insist that the differentiation between rich and poor nations — worked out in 1992 — fails to reflect today's reality; so developing countries must commit to control their emissions as well.

Subsidies Not Going To Those That Need It Most As for the concern that in many developing nations keeping energy prices artificially low is needed to help raise people out of poverty, Birol noted that just 8 % of fossil fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20 % of people.

These goals are set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration and are aimed at overcoming extreme poverty and addressing the health and well - being of the world's poorest groups.