Sentences with phrase «problem on the developing countries»

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«In the long run the way to avoid refugee problems is to help countries develop by having good health, education and governance,» the Microsoft cofounder wrote in his fifth «Ask Me Anything» session on Reddit.»

D'Alessandro counters that such poor international performance is more likely because of a lack of leadership, a problem extending back to the less - developed - country debt crisis of the late 1970s, when many developing countries defaulted on their bank loans.

(Reuters)- U.S. regulators directed five of the country's biggest banks, including Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, to develop plans for staving off collapse if they faced serious problems, emphasizing that the banks could not count on government help.

Reminding all in attendance «the complex picture of on farm loss» in both developed and developing countries according to the most recent studies was a great start on the significance of the problem and the need for quick actions.

Countries communicate more efficiently about common medical problems thanks to her, and researchers know that drugs — and viruses — that appear to have little or no side - effects on pregnant women can be devastating to their developing babies.

But it is a technology that has proven problematic in developed and developing countries — witness the ecological problems brought on by the Three Gorges — and most of the undeveloped locations for hydropower are located in the west of the country while the majority of electricity use is in the east.

Smart Vision Labs, a start - up in New York City, wants to make it easier to diagnose vision problems in developing countries with an iPhone camera add - on.

Once Jaeger and his co-authors had developed the WUP method, the research team combed through detailed data sets on 32 European countries to map out general trends and pinpoint problem areas.

Instead, the report focuses on problems that are likely to disproportionately hit developing countries: coastal inundation from rising sea levels, plummeting food production and associated malnutrition, unprecedented heat waves, increasing fresh water scarcity, more frequent and intense tropical cyclones, and the loss of biodiversity.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

James E. Galvin, M.D., M.P.H., one of the most prominent neuroscientists in the country, and a professor of clinical biomedical science in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and a professor in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University, has developed eight myths and truths about AD to shed light on this form of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior.

He has been a member of several delegations focused on water problems in developing countries, including the Israeli delegation to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Namibia.

Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).

Wagner takes readers into the most forward - thinking schools, colleges, and workplaces in the country, where teachers and employers are developing cultures of innovation based on collaboration, interdisciplinary problem - solving, and intrinsic motivation.

Andrew Burbidge: Yes, I think that having a transmissible virus as the vector for immuno - contraception or whatever other technique's available is not really a viable option because the feral cat has been bred from the wild cat of Africa, Europe and Asia, and if that transmissible disease, that virus escaped Australia or was taken out purposely by someone who, you know, wanted to cause problems in another country, then we would have actually have developed a technique for eradicating native animals in other people's countries, and I just think that's not on.

If you've ever gone diving in a developing country, you've probably witnessed poverty first hand, maybe wondered how you can help but assumed the problems were too big to solve on your own.

The problem is that the success of most economic systems in developed countries has been predicated on growth.The conundrum is how do we stifle growth in America without causing economic collapse.

Mr. Roston, who also writes a weekly online «Climate Post» and is affiliated with the Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions of Duke University, sent the following thoughts on how this divide exists within developing countries as well, and how it shapes how people in such places perceive the climate problem:

The paper did not look at how food waste could be shrunk, but initiatives to tackle the problem are already on the rise in both developed and developing countries.

(maybe most of you are too cool to remember that sort of moment... but think of something equally bad like the time you accidentally set something on fire and it started getting out of control...) I think it will be worse than that... Seems like to me we need to be much, much, more certain before we go making policy all over the earth that could actually harm us... or maybe not quite so bad, but really not desirable, harm many developing countries and distract them from addressing real environmental land use and energy production problems that would actually help the environment and save human lives now, today... but keep an eye on the future... not suggesting head in the sand stuff... just let's stop the panic... if you have to panic it's probly too late... most people don't behave terribly rationally while panicing...

• Human health — Effects of global warming on humans» health includes exacerbating health problems that already exist, increases in ill - health in many regions and especially in developing countries with low - income, and greater likelihood of injury, disease, and death.

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?

The company highlighted the problems of e-waste on developing countries and the massive damage done when unregulated shipments of broken gadgets are sent to areas that lack facilities for proper recycling.

«Right now, consumers can't tell whether their local recycler will actually recycle their old products or dump them on the developing countries — and this bill will solve that problem, as well as create new recycling jobs here in the U.S.»

On the other hand, if China and other countries develop models of small wind turbines, even without subsidies, maybe people will have solution for local electric energy problems.

[2] The new data raises doubt on how serious EU Member States are in their attempts to avoid catastrophic climate change, the impacts of which are increasingly felt across the globe already today, mostly by poor people in developing countries who had no role in creating the problem.

On the other hand are the bulk of developing countries who argue that they should not be required to reduce their emissions given that the current accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere causing this problem were emitted by developed countries and that their development needs outweighed emission reductions for the present time.

He also served as co-investigator with OSLC scientist Dr. Charles R. Martinez, Jr. (now director of the Center for Equity Promotion in the College of Education at the University of Oregon) on a variety of projects through the Oregon Social Learning Center Latino Research Team, including the Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project I and II, which developed and tested a culturally specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems; the Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study, which was designed to learn more about how Latino families and their middle school youth who have immigrated to the U.S. adapt to life in this country; and PREVENIR, which developed and refined a culturally specific parent and teacher training program in four countries in Central America.