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A report reflecting the joint judgment of US intelligence agencies warned last year that the use of water as a weapon of war or a tool of terrorism would become more likely in the next decade in some regions.
That is why hurricanes occur in hot tropical regions, and at the end of the summer months, when the sea surface temperatures are at their annual maximum.
Why not devolution for Yorkshire, a region with a population equal to Scotland’s and an active separatist movement, and for other English regions?
A not-so-United Kingdom of regions need not be a disaster.
This implies that transferring the majority of revenue-raising capacity to the regions would be a mistake for the UK, because doing so would give the country a banking union without a fiscal backstop.
Large increases in public and private expenditures will therefore be required in many regions of the world to counteract falling demand.
This time, he argued that the US needed to take a tougher stance in regions with communist connections and sympathies.
Entire regions could experience catastrophic declines in food production.
African households obtained access to modern medicine much later and more suddenly than people in other regions.
Likewise, while the share in total employment of unpaid family members and own-account workers declined to 58% in developing regions in 2011, from 67% two decades earlier, their overall number has increased by 136 million since 2000.
Moreover, 2.5 billion people – nearly half of the population in developing regions – still lack access to improved sanitation.
And, although the 2010 target of universal access to antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS was not reached, 6.5 million people in developing regions had access by 2011, following an increase of more than 1.4 million in 2010 alone – the largest annual increase ever.
On the contrary, in most regions, it should be embraced.
We believe, for example, that EU integration needs to be wider as well as deeper, thereby maintaining its positive transformative influence in neighboring regions.
At the same time, some countries will enjoy temporary gains, owing to longer growing seasons and increased access to minerals, hydrocarbons, and other resources in polar regions.
But, in the aftermath of setbacks in regions where it intervened, and with heightened economic distress at home, the US finds itself uncertain about how to respond to changing global events.
Moreover, in 2010, for people aged 25 and above, the female-to-male ratio in average years of schooling was almost 100% in advanced countries and about 85% in developing regions.
China should begin by restructuring unviable companies in its fastest-growing regions, where workers will find new jobs more quickly and reforms are not likely to hurt growth.
Policymakers can then be more selective when it comes to restructuring in slower-growing regions and cities where a single company dominates the local economy.
We might see prolonged and high unemployment in the construction sector, and in regions that had seen the biggest previous construction booms.
The security interests of Georgia and the EU coincide least when it comes to the so-called “frozen conflicts” in the Kremlin-backed breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia – it is no accident that “Promoting Peaceful Resolution of Internal Conflicts” ranks only sixth among the ENP Action Plan’s priorities.
Since the dawn of the Age of Exploration, large numbers of people have crossed the seas for myriad reasons, and marine-based commerce has connected the world’s regions.
Rubble is equivalent to 11 years of waste in Iwate prefecture, and 19 years of waste in Miyagi prefecture – enormous volumes that exceed these regions’ disposal capacity.
The heads of local governments in various regions are attempting to convince residents not to fear radiation and to allow for dispersal of rubble.
It has already been discovered that the brain regions used to deal with problems when probabilities are clear are different from those used when probabilities are unknown.
While thousands of Americans soak themselves to benefit ALS research, Ebola has become a public-health catastrophe in West Africa, one of the world’s poorest regions.
The broad picture is that the population of the world’s less developed regions is expected to rise from 4.9 billion today to 8.2 billion in 2050, whereas the population of the developed regions will, in aggregate, remain roughly stable at 1.2 billion.
Countries in these other regions, for their part, also will benefit from the additional trade.
The consequences of this would be devastating: inland areas desiccated, low-lying coastal regions battered and flooded as polar ice melts and sea levels rise, and possibly further warming and a runaway greenhouse effect due to an increase in atmospheric water vapor.
Can multinational companies bring similar benefits to other needy regions, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where a legacy of colonialism, apartheid, and economic mismanagement create a fundamentally different business environment?
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