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China can help by stiffening the resolve of Pakistan’s military to move more aggressively to contain Taliban extremists on its territory; open border regions to help resupply NATO forces in Afghanistan; and invest in the country’s infrastructure.
In cities, the poor must contend with the effects of “heat islands” – developed areas that trap the sun’s warmth and make temperatures significantly hotter than in rural regions.
The EU is not deprived of instruments – the so-called “structural funds” that finance investment in poorer regions – but it does not have a strategy to use them.
In UN Security Council resolutions passed this year on Somalia, Haiti, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and others, the Security Council has appropriately observed that serious human rights abuses pose a threat to peace and security in the regions where those states are situated.
When Pakistan was carved out of India by the departing British in the 1947 Partition, the 562 “princely states” (regions nominally ruled by assorted potentates, but owing allegiance to the British Raj) were required to accede to either of the two new countries.
Two leaders who will remain in power for the foreseeable future are Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping – both of whose countries have generated instability in their respective regions.
The selection process is constrained further by an informal – but, after 43 years, essentially requisite – agreement to rotate through regions every two terms.
Instead, regions and countries are quietly finding their own ways to manage finance, create pooled emergency funds, and strengthen development finance – an outcome that heralds a more fragmented and decentralized set of regulatory regimes and a modest de-globalization of finance and aid.
It is among the fastest growing regions in the world, but it is also home to the largest concentration of people living in debilitating poverty, conflict, and human misery.
The leading regions have experienced rapid growth.
Some leading regions in India are now the envy of other middle income countries.
Indeed growth can eliminate poverty in leading regions in a generation.
But the lagging regions are doing no better than many Sub-Saharan African countries.
South Asia’s worst problems – poverty, conflict, hunger, and gender inequalities – are largely concentrated in its lagging regions, where there are limits to growth, because geography, institutions, and globalization will continue to favor the concentration of economic activity in the leading regions.
With migration to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.
While economic growth is critical for poverty reduction, reviving growth in lagging regions will take time.
Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.
But simply directing financial resources to lagging regions will not be enough to solve their problems.
Likewise, slow agricultural growth has constrained economic opportunities for the vast majority of poor people in lagging regions.
First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence.
In Libya, Islamist militias control entire cities and regions, rendering it impossible for the central government to assert its authority.
In isolated regions, health workers often travel on foot for hours to receive training, and many inevitably end up without the training they need.
Shock and PanicCARDIFF – No medical therapy is treated more differently by countries, regions, hospitals, and doctors than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
Some people now warn of a “Lebanonization” of Syria – partition of the country into rival fiefdoms and quasi-independent regions.
Even so, the explosion of exports coming out of low-wage regions like China and India is at least a piece of the puzzle.
Doing so would enable China’s leaders to advance their goal of developing the country’s vast inland regions.
So, how do we keep the best of what is familiar and foster the identity of our local neighborhoods and regions while embracing the sort of changes that make most of us better off?
It would have a prosecutor and a reasonable number of judges, nominated with a view to balanced representation of the world’s principal legal systems and geographical regions, and to gender equity.
Despite today’s problems, the eurozone is not only richer, but also economically sounder, than most other countries and regions.
During the global recession in 2009, Africa and Asia were the only two regions where GDP rose.
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