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One course of action must be to help impoverished African regions to “adapt” to climate change and to escape the poverty trap.
Water-stressed regions like Ethiopia and Sudan can adapt, at least in part, through improved technologies such as “drip irrigation,” rainwater harvesting, improved water storage facilities, deep wells, and agro-forestry techniques that make best use of scarce rainfall.
Now is the time for countries and regions to embrace genomics research and technologies, and to start translating them into effective solutions to major global, regional, and local challenges.
Fisheries remove more than 25% of the primary production in upwelling ocean regions and 35% in the temperate continental shelf.
To be sure, different economies are at different phases of convalescence, and faster growth in some regions – for example, China and India – will help feebler ones like Europe and America.
Warm and humid air will increase melting of ice in low regions at the edges of the ice sheets while boosting snowfall over cold high regions in the interior.
Third, the new stimulus package is mainly aimed at infrastructure, equipment renovation, and industrial upgrading, which have suffered serious under-investment in the past, especially in China’s central and western regions.
After a spate of AIDS deaths during the 1980’s, the Swiss came face to face with a problem that has destroyed millions of lives in the United States, Russia, Latin America, the European Union, southern Asia, and other regions.
But, just as those regions have been improving their public and corporate governance – Hong Kong just witnessed a breakthrough court decision against a telecom tycoon who is the son of the province’s richest and most powerful man – crony capitalism is taking root in the United States, a country that the world long considered the gold standard of a level playing field in business.
So the big question now is whether Putin will seize on the restiveness of Russians in Crimea (and eastern Ukrainian cities like Kharkiv) to recover parts of former Soviet territory, as he did with Georgia’s Abkhazia and South Ossetia regions after the 2008 war.
If we can succeed in one of the most war-ravaged regions of the world, progress elsewhere would become much more likely.
Earlier this month, researchers at the United Kingdom’s Institute of Cancer Research identified five new gene regions associated with breast cancer, taking the total up to 18.
Recently, Michael Heseltine, a former minister in Margaret Thatcher’s government, stressed the importance of wind energy for deprived regions of the United Kingdom, such as the northeast of England.
But while rushing to construct clinics and other medical facilities in even the remotest regions may seem like a straightforward approach to ensuring universal health coverage, that has not turned out to be true.
For regions such as Central and Eastern Europe, where the EIB argues that it is more difficult to find investment opportunities, the bank must develop targeted instruments and technical assistance that supports small-scale renewable-energy projects.
The necessary transfers are not being made to make the common currency bearable to regions that lose out and are already in recession when the ECB tightens policy.
Unfortunately, any country that taxes capital too aggressively will only succeed in chasing it to regions where the tax burden is lighter.
But, for the most part, a universal set of maladies has emerged over the past decade, accounting for the vast bulk of ill health and preventable death in all regions of the world.
Imaginative solutions are needed to make Spain’s restless regions, particularly Catalonia and the Basque Country, fit comfortably within Spain.
Without initiative here the prospect of both regions drifting away is real.
Unsustainable production systems, combined with wasteful and excessive consumption in some regions of the world, have had serious consequences in terms of climate change, disease transmission, and nutritional balance.
But there are vast regional disparities, with familial ties most likely to drive female leaders to the top in Latin America and Asia – regions with low gender equality overall and little respect for women’s rights.
The surpluses and deficits grow larger during the upturn, and the burden of adjustment falls disproportionately on debtors during the downturn, leading to a debt-deflationary process that takes root in the deficit regions before dampening demand everywhere.
Nineteen other countries (or regions of countries) – mostly in Europe and North and South America – now allow gay couples to marry legally.
Between 2002 and 2006, Brazil’s SME support services and the Milan Chamber of Commerce created partnerships involving furniture, shoes, designer lingerie, and handicrafts from different regions of the country.
At first, the Socialists and their allies seemed to have done rather well, by pulling ahead in 10 of the 21 regions, compared with seven where the conventional right were ahead, and four where the result was neck-and-neck.
Uproar broke out when five local conservative barons sought to hang onto control of their regions by accepting the National Front’s support.
These are averages across whole countries, but some regions are more overvalued than others.
The goal is not to absorb shocks but to reduce income gaps across regions.
This is another form of solidarity, which also exists in the EU, where regional development funds are allocated to poorer regions to foster catch-up growth.
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