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The question, then, is to divide the bill among current and future generations.
The real political divide in France, as in so much of the West, is now between those who defend global openness and those who favor a return to nationalist isolation.
Every government should be setting targets aimed explicitly at narrowing education disparities – linked to gender, wealth, and the rural-urban divide – and aligning their budgets with those targets.
Soon after the crisis – when the US-Soviet relationship was at an all-time low – both superpowers decided that it was time to work across the divide, through small and concrete steps.
As a result, there is a deepening divide between the half of the world’s children who have access to a decent education and the half who do not.
Moreover, an intrinsic and often neglected problem is how to divide management of aid-and-trade schemes among international and domestic institutions.
It is this ideological divide that is undermining the development in East Asia of institutions that establish principles, rules, and decision-making procedures for the region.
To make sure NATO enlargement will not lead to a new European divide, an institutional link between Russia and NATO could be in place.
Teenagers can’t even send text messages across the divide.
And when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, he could find a way to bridge the divide between the EU’s eastern and western flanks, which want, respectively, to contain and engage Russia.
The DPJ has even weaker grass-roots support, so the mandarins will most likely use their standard techniques of divide and rule to cajole the party by teaching it to mimic the LDP in using state money and contracts to underwrite its major constituencies, such as labor unions and other interest groups.
If we can teach children to recognize what they have in common with those from other cultures, we can also help them to resist the prejudices of those who seek to distort the truth and divide people.
Thus, one of the UK’s most effective negotiating strategies would deeply divide Britain itself, and especially the governing Conservative Party.
Just as Obama and Brown led the way then, German Chancellor Angela Merkel must respond purposefully and powerfully to the widening divide between rich and poor, which has become an acute danger to the world economy, and to social cohesion and political stability.
But his plan, which subordinates the human rights of asylum-seekers and migrants to the security of borders, threatens to divide and destroy the EU by renouncing the values on which it was built and violating the laws that are supposed to govern it.
Fortunately, China’s 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015) recognizes the need to deepen market-oriented reform, change the country’s development model, and focus on the quality of growth, structural reforms, and social inclusion to overcome the rural-urban divide and stem the rise in income inequality.
Indeed, the only people to introduce religion into the protests have been rulers, such as those in Bahrain, Yemen, Libya, and Syria, who have tried to use fear of the Shia or Sunni “other” to continue to divide and misrule their societies.
The way both governments operate is quite similar: party bosses, tycoons, and corrupt bureaucrats divide the spoils, while promoting chauvinism and “traditional values” – whether those of the Orthodox Church or Confucianism.
The greatest divide between the Roma and majority populations is not one of culture or lifestyle – as is so often portrayed by the media – but poverty and inequality.
The divide is physical, not just mental.
While war often unites countries, peace tends to divide them, because it inevitably requires concessions and sacrifices.
It is time to seek out best practices that bridge this putative divide, and scale them up.
But, behind all the smiles and banquet toasts, serious issues and perception gaps continue to divide the world’s two great powers.
It will try to divide the country between Russian and Ukrainian speakers.
But it is too late for divide and misrule strategies to work.
The Sunni-Shia divide, Assad’s political future, and doctrinal disputes are of decidedly lesser long-term importance to the region than the unmet need for quality education, job skills, advanced technologies, and sustainable development.
But the digital divide is no immutable gap.
The growth in mobile-telephone technology demonstrates that the digital divide is shifting, and the focus of development efforts must change with it.
Moreover, the widening urban-rural divide has increased the country’s income and wealth disparities.
Although migrant wages have now caught up, inequality in public services (access to which requires an urban hukou) ensures that this divide persists, risking migrant children’s lifetime prospects and welfare, and deterring future migration.
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