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In September, when UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon convenes a summit in New York to renew the drive toward reaching the MDGs, the world leaders in attendance should endorse their use to address MDG priorities in areas other than health.
But those losses have been in low-wage positions, and have been offset by new employment in other areas.
The continuing rise in migrant deaths in transit poses a conundrum: as these migrants are pushed toward trafficking and smuggling networks, they are dragged further into the grey areas of the international community’s response.
The size of the oceanic areas involved was enormous, thus earning the term “Blue Amazonia.”
The objective was to bring digital oversight to two major markets – the Asia-Pacific (under the TTP) and the European Union (under the TTIP) – as an important first step toward global rules in these areas.
Data and DevelopmentWASHINGTON, DC – Since the turn of the century, the international development community has rallied behind the Millennium Development Goals, which set specific targets in eight key areas, including poverty, child mortality, and disease, to be achieved by 2015.
While the AMF’s benchmark isn’t designed to address all ten, it does touch on the areas that are most relevant to the health-care industry.
Two areas that would benefit from their own quantifiable benchmarks are diagnostics, to prevent antibiotics from being prescribed unnecessarily, and agriculture, where antibiotics are used excessively to promote livestock growth.
While cities will never replace rural areas as the world’s main source of nutrition, a higher percentage of food can be cultivated in urban areas.
During that visit, Japan and Vietnam agreed to expand defense cooperation into new areas, especially modernization of Vietnam’s maritime defense agencies and military technology.
This will be expensive, but probably not more so than maintaining the current fossil fuel structure, and will most likely start as station clusters or corridors in metropolitan areas that gradually spread outward.
Cluster seeds are already underway in the Los Angeles and New York metropolitan areas and, very significantly, in Japan.
Indeed, it is the world’s poor – particularly those in rural areas – that suffer the most from these combined factors.
Such opportunities would allow young people to thrive in their rural communities, rather than being forced to search for work in urban areas.
Thus, even when regulatory agencies are crucial to encouraging competition in telecommunications, regulators are often given control over areas where there is no particular reason for government oversight.
Their only concern is to make better predictions, by transforming more and more areas of human life into data sets that can be mined.
It is within our power to cast privacy nets around sensitive areas of human life, to protect people from the harmful uses of data, and to require that algorithms balance predictive accuracy against other values such as fairness, accountability, and transparency.
Its retail sector is already growing quickly, but it lags behind in areas like e-merchandizing and supply-chain efficiencies.
Saudi Arabia has a long coastline on the Red Sea, as well as other unspoiled areas of natural beauty that could attract visitors.
To strengthen the Fund’s financial stability role, we propose action in three related areas.
Action in these three areas would help to create a multilateral institution with the authority and expertise to advise countries on supervisory and regulatory issues of systemic importance.
Progress in some areas need not wait for progress in others.
It should be noted that liberalization does involve some economic tradeoffs, as protection can, in some areas, serve an important purpose.
Over the past decades, various interest groups staked out powerful claims to protection and subsidies, while ambitious politicians regulated most areas of the European economy.
But, rather than pursuing joint initiatives aimed at advancing the two countries’ shared interests in these areas, the US proposed nuclear-weapons reductions as the primary mechanism of the diplomatic reset.
Most of the vulnerable population in conflict areas are women and children.
The tragic result is that some of the world’s poorest countries cannot export their agricultural goods, one of the few areas where they might realistically compete with the likes of China and India.
They may, therefore, like to consider another option: discouraging tree-felling only in those areas that have high recent rates of deforestation.
This unprecedented intrusion into areas historically reserved for the states would handcuff directors and boards, shut out the vast majority of retail shareholders, and exacerbate the short-term focus that is now seen as one of the root causes of the financial crisis.”
Biofuel technology kills four birds with one stone: It improves energy security, recycles waste, reduces greenhouse-gas emissions, and produces jobs (often in rural areas).
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