Sentences with phrase «unequal countries»

Their research also concluded there is a wider gap in education in the most unequal countries, which leads to a...

But the evidence of more unequal countries is clear: being able to charge whatever you like does not result in enough housing being made available.

The UK, Latvia and Portugal are the three most unequal countries in Europe ``.

Take obesity as an example: our research shows obesity rates are higher in more unequal countries, and also that poor people are more likely to be obese.

A 1 % increase in incomes in the most unequal countries produces a mere 0.6 % reduction in poverty; in the most equal countries, it yields a 4.3 % cut.

«The more unequal a country's income distribution... the higher its Gini index,» according to the CIA's website.

The Labour leader said Britain was a more unequal country than at any time in history and told MPs:

Housing everyone in a profoundly unequal country is so difficult that governments give up.

«We've done good things as the Labour party to improve and give people more life chances, and for instance getting more young people to university is something that will in time make this a much fairer country and a less unequal country.

«By enshrining selection into our education system the prime minister is wilfully ignoring the overwhelming evidence that selection at 11 leads to a more unequal country.»

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Moreover, the unequal performance across companies in the same industry and same country implies that diversity is a competitive differentiator that shifts market share towards more diverse companies.

Because lower consumption discourages businesses from building new factories or otherwise expanding production, higher savings often come with lower investment, and so countries with highly unequal income distribution tend to run large trade surpluses.

At the same time, some countries have become more unequal than others.

In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right.

Until 1791 Jews had unequal legal standing in Muslim and Christian countries and so had to rely on their wits, bribes or the enlightened self - interest of the governing majority.

I worry that many of the children of those immigrants will assimilate all too well into the actual country we live in, with its horrendously unequal distribution of social capital and family stability.

In our own country millions of people especially American Negroes are subjected to discrimination and unequal treatment in educational opportunities, in employment, wages and conditions of work, in access to professional and business opportunities, in housing, in transportation, in the administration of justice and even in the right to vote.11

The continuing father involvement deficit across developed countries reflects three key factors: the gender pay gap between men and women which worsens when people become parents; unequal entitlements to parenting leave during the first year when long - term parenting patterns and core competencies are established; mother - focussed services that can easily marginalise fathers and send a message that dads don't really matter.

If Togo and other fragile states want to strengthen democracy, empowering women — in both economic and social senses — is one of the most effective ways to do so because in a country where the economic and social institutions are weak or unequal, the political institutions will be stunted as well.

Most people who have crossed that border will recognise those contrasting impressions, which are symbolic of the two countries» unequal standing.

«We are now the most unequal state in the country,» Nixon says as narrator of her campaign video.

«Our leaders are letting us down; we are now the most unequal state in the entire country.

New York has become the single most unequal state in the country.

Today New York schools are the second most unequal in the entire country.

New York State itself is the single most unequal state in the country.

According to him, one of the problems facing the country is the unequal distribution of resources.

«One of the banes of the country is unfair and unequal distribution of national wealth.

«It's really a huge problem and it's a bigger problem here than in any other European country — the voter turnout is more unequal in the UK.

But where is our Governor in the most unequal state in the country on income and equality?»

David Miliband, the Cabinet Office minister charged with writing the Labour manifesto, admitted: «Our country remains deeply scarred by unequal life - chances,» citing the pay gap between men and women and for certain ethnic minorities.

Under this governor, New York is the single most unequal state in the country, and the gap between our richest and poorest schools is wider than it's ever been.

The permanence of British institutions like the monarchy comes from their perceived neutrality in a grossly unequal and diverse country.

«New York's schools are the second most unequal in the entire country,» Nixon, the former Sex and the City star, said in her kickoff speech in March, «and the gap between the richest and the poorest schools has grown wider today, under Andrew Cuomo, than it's ever been.»

«But New York is the single most unequal state in the entire country, and it's become more and more unequal under Andrew Cuomo.»

She noted that New York is the most «unequal state» in the country, home to «both incredible wealth and extreme poverty.»

«We are now the most unequal state in the entire country with both incredible wealth and extreme poverty.

In his Hugo Young lecture at the end of last year, the Conservative leader cited in support of his thesis our research that found, in his words, that «among the richest countries, it's the more unequal ones that do worse according to almost every quality of life indicator».

«We are now the most unequal state in the entire country, with both incredible wealth and extreme poverty,» she said in a video posted on Twitter announcing her candidacy.

«One example is the unequal distribution of resources, such as formal conflict resolution, in countries with high levels of inequality.

The model is the first to consider how the effects of climate change impacts — and the policies designed to address them — will produce very unequal outcomes between the rich and poor in the same country.

However, in fostering a new relationship of partnership between Africa and the international community, especially the highly industrialised countries, we will all need to work to overcome the mistrust borne out of the colonial era and to ensure that the development chasm that has widened over centuries of unequal relations is closed.

In a statement, NIH Director Francis Collins commended Ruffin for his «extraordinary service» and called him «a tireless champion» who «has done everything in his power to bring attention to and find solutions for the unequal burden of illness affecting minority, rural, and poor populations in this country.»

The issue of climate change and emissions will always be discussed and no agreeable solution will be settled on as long as unequal economic environment exist in different countries.

Popular destinations are primed to be engines of broad economic growth for countries, but as demand rises, an unequal distribution of wealth occurs along with it.

At least since the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, this has been interpreted to give the federal government the power to intervene in cases of legally sanctioned discrimination, like the segregation of public schools across the country; to mandate equal access to education for students with disabilities; and, according to some arguments, to correct for persistently unequal access to resources across states and districts of different income levels.

How American schools are making inequality worse The Conversation, October 26, 2015 Study: Schools Exacerbate Growing Rich - Poor Achievement Gap U.S. News & World Report, October 19, 2015 Schools exacerbate the growing achievement gap between rich and poor, a 33 - country study finds The Hechinger Report, October 19, 2015 Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access Diverse Education, October 14, 2015 Inequality should scare us: Create great school options now The Seattle Times, October 11, 2015 Studies Probe How Schools Widen Achievement Gaps Education Week, October 6, 2015 New study reveals vast gap between rich and poor students The Educator, October 6, 2015 Low - Income Students Shortchanged on Math Curriculum U.S. News & World Report, September 30, 2015 Math content in schools adding to achievement gap, new study finds The Washington Post, September 30, 2015

The new ESEA, or No Child Left Behind law, exposed grossly unequal educational outcomes and motivated a range of efforts across the country to address the low performance of low - income children and children of color.

We also can combat other forces that lower the confidence of children of color in their academic ability and their worth, such as the pervasive belief in this country in the bell curve of ability, school practices for tracking, disproportionate placement in special education, biased application of discipline procedures, and unequal access to Advanced Placement classes.

This country can not continue its acceptance of separate, unequal schools.

The gap in achievement between 15 - year - old pupils in England in key subjects is one of the largest and most unequal among developed countries, a release of international test data showed.