Sentences with phrase «systems on developing countries»

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Turkey hopes that the deal would allow it to acquire the technology to develop its own defense system, and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in an interview with Turkish newspaper Aksam, said the two countries had agreed on joint production.

No analysis on how systematic wage arbitrage allowed by trade globalization between countries of very different income level within an exchange rate system allowing massive an persistent trade imbalances led to a massive opening up of compensation scales in developed countries, as well as substantial under - employment.

The winners include Laura Deming, 17, who is developing antiaging therapies; Faheem Zaman, 18, who is building mobile payment systems for developing countries; and John Burnham, 18, who is working on extracting minerals from asteroids and comets.

Most developed countries have set up systems of welfare that depend on population growth to sustain them.

This strategy, which will be recognized by many of us in developed countries, is based on the assumption that land, labor and capital are all there is, that the real world is a closed - end system.

Vandana Shiva makes, this point in more detail with regard to the social systems of developing countries — the Green Revolution, she writes, has in fact impoverished most of the people it sought to help, and the Gene Revolution now following on its heels will only increase the damage.

Recent evidence from certified and non-certified organic systems in developing countries Twenty - nine case study narratives Key lessons learnt on processes for improvement Conclusions on scaling up experiences in organic agriculture

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

Presents ethnography on midwives in 3 industrialized and 5 developing countries, through the analytical lens of Davis - Floyd's concept of the «postmodern midwife» — one who takes a relativistic stance toward disparate knowledge systems.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

While these are steps in the right direction, it is important that developing countries are taken on board while creating these new international systems.

«If the U.S. pulls out and China delivers on its commitment in both the qualitative and quantitative terms, China will have a much stronger case in its effort to have a global energy governance system that is much more multi-polar in nature and has greater voice from [developing] countries,» she said in an email to E&E News.

Billions of dollars in public and private capital for energy investment are up for grabs as developed countries like the United States and emerging economies like India get down to brass tacks on how they will hit their greenhouse gas emissions pledges and move their energy systems away from fossil fuels.

Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.

In proposing a system that the United States and China might agree upon, Ramesh in no uncertain terms told U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern and Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman that money and technology assistance to developing countries must be part of any deal on formulating a transparent system.

India is pushing a global emissions monitoring system in Cancun talks that could become the centerpiece of a compromise with the United States if other developing countries sign on.

And, referring to his public health background, Kim noted that some of the discussions this week focus on ways to help developing countries build comprehensive, universal health care systems.

But that model of a new system, supported by the United States, Europe and even some coalitions of developing countries, is viewed as threatening to many governments worried about the implications of having to take on new responsibilities.

It turns out even the developing world countries are already so dependent on the international system, they too will suffer massive population losses.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.

Fifteen Letters on Education in Singapore Fernando Reimers and E.B. O'Donnell In the fall of 2015, a delegation of educators from Massachusetts traveled to Singapore to learn more about the country's journey from developing nation to major manufacturing and financial center, with one of the most high - performing education systems in the world.

Catholic school systems developed in many other countries, but their size depended on the percentage of Catholics living in that country during this critical period (see sidebar).

Those matter more than a little in contemporary American K — 12 education as she is (a) close to the Obama administration, (b) the intellectual and spiritual leader of one of the two major «consortia» of states that are going to develop new assessment systems to accompany the new «common core» standards, and (c) she is at the epicenter of much work on multiple fronts — with big bucks from major foundations — to transform how the country views assessment and how states engage in it.

Developed Maine's first statewide school accountability system (A-F school grades) to ensure transparency in school performance for families and students; joining other states and cities around the country who offer these grades on schools — grades that are based on information Maine already collected but that had been sitting in file cabinets at the Department of Education.

One reason D.C.'s education reforms attracted significant attention across the country was their timing: DCPS started using IMPACT to evaluate teachers during the 2009 — 2010 school year, just as the education reform organization The New Teacher Project (TNTP) released a report recommending that districts develop evaluation systems that rate teachers «based on their effectiveness in promoting student achievement.»

A high - quality education system - for all young people — should be a given in a rich and developed country and we must see spending on education as having value not costs.»

While teacher evaluation systems vary across the country, no state or district has attempted to develop or implement a system that evaluates teachers solely based on student test performance.

«Principals in the Pipeline,» a feature article sponsored by Wallace, profiles six districts across the country taking part in a six - year initiative to establish principal «pipelines» — local systems ensuring that a large corps of school leaders is properly trained, hired, and developed on the job.

If I develop a diesel system for our country and I spend a huge amount of money to do that, I won't see a return on the investment.

The environmental example noted that, with the assistance of the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, a Federal agency created to assist parties in resolving environmental conflicts around the country that involve Federal agencies or interests, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is working on developing an ADR system that would be applied during the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process.

Mercedes - Benz, one of the inventors of modern voice - operated control systems, has continued to further develop the LINGUATRONIC system in recent years, meaning that the navigation system in the new E-Class can now be controlled based on the principle of whole - word voice input: the driver no longer needs to spell out the names of countries, towns or streets, but is able to speak them as whole words.

For that, the U.S. health system generally delivers worse health outcomes than any other developed country, all of which spend on average about half what we do per person.

Libraries around the country are developing mobile applications and online discovery systems that make it easier to explore books and authors on the go.

The International Fund may invest in emerging markets, which are generally more volatile and can have relatively unstable governments, social and legal systems that do not protect shareholders, economies based on only a few industries and securities markets that are substantially smaller, less liquid, more volatile and may have a lower level of government oversight than securities markets in more developed countries.

Ticks can pass on diseases such as Lyme disease, so if you live in an area with ticks (most of the country now), do frequent tick checks all over your Cavalier King Charles Spaniel's (dog's) body — especially for Cavalier puppies, whose immune systems are not yet developed.

When travelling and diving in developing countries please enjoy the sites, sounds and culture of that nation, but don't deprive its people of a scarce resource by imposing on what is often an under - resourced health system.

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.

When evaluating how much we spend on our military defense or keeping nasty, awful, unconscionable murderers and child molesters alive in jail... then it seems ludicrous we or any other wealthy country can't assist the poorer countries to develop better sanitation systems and practices.

NUSA DUA, Indonesia: Governments at the United Nations meeting on climate change agreed in principle Friday to a system that would compensate developing countries for protecting their rain forests, a deal that officials described as a nascent but innovative effort to mitigate deforestation and global warming.

eg pg xii To improve our predictive capability, we need: • to understand better the various climate - related processes, particularly those associated with clouds, oceans and the carbon cycle • to improve the systematic observation of climate - related variables on a global basis, and further investigate changes which took place in the past • to develop improved models of the Earth's climate system • to increase support for national and international climate research activities, especially in developing countries • to facilitate international exchange of climate data

that developed countries will be willing to cover the difference and little evidence that the world is serious about a much more ambitious push on large - scale demonstration of integrated systems for capturing and storing CO2.

While various studies in the valley and nation have focused on ways to enhance regional food systems and distribution of produce grown on local farms, this is the first study in the Northeast, and likely the country, to develop a comprehensive, data - driven methodology for strategically protecting the farmland — the most fundamental ingredient for securing the productive capacity of the metropolitan region's foodshed.

Higher density sources of fuel such as coal and natural gas utilized in centrally - produced power stations actually improve the environmental footprint of the poorest nations while at the same time lifting people from the scourge of poverty... Developing countries in Asia already burn more than twice the coal that North America does, and that discrepancy will continue to expand... So, downward adjustments to North American coal use will have virtually no effect on global CO2 emissions (or the climate), no matter how sensitive one thinks the climate system might be to the extra CO2 we are putting back into the atmosphere.

We also need to improve the systematic observation of climate - related variables on a global basis; to investigate further past changes; to develop improved models of the Earth's climate system; to increase support for national and international climate research activities, especially in developing countries; and to facilitate the international exchange of climate data.

Regional reports on climate finance from the OECD Creditor Reporting System for 2010 to 2015 in the Pacific and the Caribbean, and recent analysis for Indian Ocean and African SIDS show that, with the exception of the Pacific, there is no dramatic increase of flows from developed to developing countries in SIDS regions.

This paper focuses on methodological guidance for activities relating to reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and the role of conservation, sustainable management of forests and enhancement of forest carbon stocks in developing countries (REDD +), specifically related to systems for providing information on how safeguards referred to in appendix I to UNFCCC decision 1 / CP.16 are addressed and respected.

The Cancun meeting in fact made it more likely for the developed countries to shift from the Kyoto Protocol and its binding regime of emission reduction commitments, to a voluntary system in which each country only makes pledges on how much it will reduce its emissions.

This analytical report presents the concerted action taken by the UN system to assist people and communities in developing countries to adapt to climate change through: (i) risks, impacts and vulnerability assessment; (ii) adaptation planning, including creating an enabling environment; (iii) the implementation of adaptation measures, which includes UNISDR's work on climate change related disaster risk reduction and risk sharing; (iv) awareness raising; and (v) knowledge sharing and facilitate learning.

This analytical report, prepared for the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) in Istanbul, Turkey in May 2011, assesses the efforts made through the United Nations system, in particular through the Rio Conventions and by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), to address climate change and environmental vulnerability in the LDCs over the last decade.

«Given the quantifiable impacts of climate change in India and other developing nations in the coming decades, both rich and poor countries should be ramping up our efforts to combat global climate change instead of turning our backs on commitments we have made to the international community,» said Steven J. Davis, an earth system scientist at the University of California Irvine and one of the partners in the Science Advances study.