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In fact, with far fewer people, Asia would have a better balance between population size and available natural resources, including water, food, and energy.
It requires more schools and fewer guns; more universities and fewer aircraft carriers.
Moreover, Sisi has offered even fewer institutional channels for political expression than existed under the Mubarak-era one-party system.
It condemns politicians, from the moment they are elected, to engage immediately in a new fight for every vote - and since fewer and fewer people bother to vote, the support of those that do must be solicited even more strenuously.
Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, entry visas are fewer and more difficult to obtain, stanching the flow of young talent into US universities.
When child mortality is reduced, poor families choose to have fewer children, because they are more confident that their children will survive to adulthood.
At a time when there are far fewer jobs than workers, declining faith in the competitive examination system as a fair means of evaluating students could undermine social peace.
Moreover, because the services sector also requires fewer commodities and less energy, this transition will help China address its serious environmental problems.
In Africa, climate change may already be responsible for falling water levels in West African rivers; declining coral reefs in tropical waters; lower fruit production in the Sahel; fewer fish in the Great Lakes region; and the spread of malaria in the Kenyan uplands.
Globally, there are fewer than 40 women for every 100 men in leadership positions (including in politics), and in the Asia-Pacific region, that figure falls to around 25.Though the share of women sitting on company boards across the region did double between 2011 and 2016, from 6% to 13%, it remains far too small.
By contrast, a higher growth rate would require fewer golf breaks for salarymen and significant immigration in a nation that is unaccustomed to foreign intrusion and different cultural habits.
Teenagers know that they will have fewer opportunities than their parents had.
In fact, service and delivery providers in Manhattan, among others, would benefit from shorter travel times and fewer delays.
Moreover, the proportion of the population engaged in farming will tend to fall, since fewer farmers are needed to feed the entire country.
Based on research that I conducted with colleagues at the RAND Corporation, Emory University, and health departments in India, impoverished communities in central India are at the highest risk, as are populations that are less educated and have fewer amenities.
Venture capital has pulled back from early-stage life-sciences companies, and big pharmaceutical companies have seen fewer drugs reach the market per dollar spent on research and development.
Further simulations suggest that funds specializing in some drug classes, such as therapies for orphan diseases, could achieve double-digit rates of return with just $250-500 million dollars and fewer compounds in the portfolio.
I propose an initiative that rates pharmaceutical companies according to their contribution to solving the antibiotic-resistance problem; those that do not contribute should be punished with fewer sales.
PlantLab’s pitch is that a PPU the size of a city block and just a few stories high could produce the same volume of high-quality crops as a large farm, while consuming fewer resources.
Many young men are drawn to the fantasy of violence; far fewer feel the need to act it out.
In 21 of those 57 countries, fewer than half of the population has access to adequate sanitation.
Few expect such a colossal achievement, of course, but far fewer expect anything remotely similar from Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign policy czarina, or, for that matter, any European leader.
With fewer students from Afghanistan going to Pakistan, Pakistan could turn its attention to the country’s own madrassas and to the mullahs who convert students into suicide bombers.
The reason is simple: with most fish populations nowadays hit hard by over-fishing, fewer fishermen will mean more fish.
Some of the unease about ECT stems from psychiatry’s dark past, when patients in many countries had fewer legal rights than prisoners.
Labor productivity in manufacturing industries rose much faster than in the rest of the economy: The same or higher quantity of steel, cars, and electronics could be produced with far fewer workers.
With fewer safe, money-yielding assets in the financial market, the price of safe wealth rises.
As university attendance becomes more common, fewer capable young people enter vocational training.
Improving WASH infrastructure is the most effective path to prevention, though implementing these services will take time in countries with fewer resources.
And evidence suggests that these taxes, once implemented, did indeed result in a change in price for customers, who subsequently bought fewer sugary drinks.
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