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To achieve this, the McKinsey study recommends that governments, non-profits, and businesses emphasize progress in four key areas: education, legal rights, access to financial and digital services, and unpaid care work.
Despite a global pledge to reduce significantly the loss of biological diversity by 2010, huge
areas
of rainforest and oceans continue to be destroyed.
Scientists have found that demand for krill has begun to exceed supply in some
areas
of the Southwest Atlantic.
As a result, penguins and albatrosses already experience difficulty rearing their offspring in
areas
such as South Georgia.
Although the needs of krill-dependent species were previously considered for large
areas
of the Southern Ocean, the CCAMLR must still scientifically subdivide the overall catch limit into smaller units.
This would help avoid local competition between krill vessels and the creatures that need krill to live, since krill fishing closely overlaps with the critical foraging
areas
for penguins and seals.
There are an estimated 215 million international migrants today – a number expected to grow to 400 million by 2040 – and another 740 million internal migrants who have moved from rural to urban
areas
within countries.
On my two trips to discuss the project with locals in the affected
areas
of Burkina Faso – first accompanied by two activists, and then by a translator – a clear pattern emerged.
As globalization increases competition, it also reinforces certain narratives – such as those dictating which research
areas
deserve the most funding.
They trumpet the importance of science to their countries’ futures, and then identify the
areas
that they “uniquely” are spearheading.
The
areas
are usually the same.
Just as “trending” topics in the media can come to dominate public attention, trending research
areas
attract the vast majority of funding.
Support for parallel research in the same
areas
reduces the efficiency of each investment, and such herding behavior by donors may even preclude some of the most significant advances, which often come as a result of combining the results of seemingly unrelated research.
Given the direct role development can play in exacerbating human-rights conditions in
areas
it affects, it is incumbent upon distributors of aid to stop the cycle of violence.
More generally, China has made recent progress in boosting labor productivity, encouraging technological innovation, and improving service quality in key urban areas, despite severe financial repression and inadequate access to funding by small and medium-size private enterprises.
But, despite stark differences, there are
areas
of existential common interest.
There are five key
areas
that such initiatives should cover.
Increased military activity in
areas
where NATO and Russia both operate now poses an unacceptably high risk to civilian air traffic.
In addition to its air-strike deficiencies, Europe demonstrated serious shortfalls across all of the
areas
required to sustain any air campaign.
The harm caused by budget cuts is likely to multiply if all European governments slash spending in the same
areas.
European governments must now work to ensure that they invest their limited resources in the right
areas.
Only when public health is deemed the highest priority will such infrastructure be created (or enhanced) and funds channeled to the neediest
areas.
Licensing restrictions in a number of key
areas
have been loosened.
Militants have also attacked non-governmental organizations, particularly those located in the undeveloped tribal Northern
Areas
that lie beyond the writ of Pakistani law.
What Bashar al-Assad’s government achieved with chemical weapons – gaining control of rebel-held
areas
in Douma and eastern Ghouta – outweighed the price it paid.
The US is reportedly attempting to persuade Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan to create a Sunni force that would maintain order in
areas
liberated from ISIS.
There is no realistic hope of engineering a political transition in Damascus, but it may be possible to arrange local cease-fires and create
areas
where Syrian civilians (but not government forces) could live in safety.
Easy access to cheap funding and high commodity prices alleviated the need to press ahead with difficult reforms of infrastructure, utilities, education, and health care, to name a few
areas.
The Fund, by delivering financial and technical assistance to people and places that need it the most, has helped create more than nine million hectares of new protected
areas
– a region larger than Portugal.
There is nothing wrong with central bankers considering challenges in
areas
like growth, trade, and investment.
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