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Finally, I am pleased and honored to be part of a new “knowledge network,” the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, created by Ban to bring together scientists, technologists, businesses, and development specialists from all regions of the world.
We, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are but two voices among representatives from more than 6,600 cities in 160 countries and regions worldwide who support this historic goal.
The second would aim to secure semi-autonomous regions.
For a normal country, the national income-tax system constitutes a huge automatic stabilizer across regions.
In particular, while each of the global economy’s major regions has a plausible growth strategy, these strategies may not add up.
Some of the most stressed aquifers are in the driest regions, including Asia, up to 88% of which is water-stressed.
More than ten million people are fighting for survival, mainly pastoralist communities in the hyper-arid regions of Somalia, Ethiopia, and northern Kenya.
The immediate cause of this disaster is clear: the rains have failed for two years running in the dry regions of East Africa.
That value lies on the lower end of the range of estimated fiscal multipliers for countries or regions experiencing recessions.
Point estimates of multipliers associated with non-defense spending for regions or countries in recessions range from 1.09 to 3.5.
And even outside of high-cost regions, nearly two-thirds of US households lack the savings to cover a $500 shock such as a car repair or health-care expense.
So, while measuring nucleotide similarity in homologous regions is indeed in the 98-99% range, this number does not incorporate or acknowledge the measured difference in the size of the human and chimp genomes, or the widespread differences in chromosome or genome structure.
These women are now hosting a new flood of displaced civilians from Abkhazia and South Ossetia after Russia’s aggression in those regions, as well as within the Georgian territories that Russian forces have occupied since the invasion.
In fact, outside of East Asia, progress has been modest, with the situation worsening in some countries and regions – despite several economic-growth spurts, sustained expansion in some large developing countries, and public commitments by the international community to the 2000 Millennium Declaration, which led to the MDGs.
And yet, in the regions with the highest mortality rates, we lack the most basic information about why children die.
Four out of five child deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, regions where there are few doctors and even fewer pathologists.
Indeed, this year's annual session of the Academy of Military Sciences saw army commanders and military theorists try to prove that a future source of conflict will be America's desire to control the world's oil-rich regions.
Look at the rogue breakaway regions in Moldova and Georgia that exist only because of the Kremlin’s backing.
The definition of Russia’s true frontiers, and its relations with the former Soviet republics and the Federation’s own non-Russian regions, is obviously a complex task.
The greater the demand for oil and gas from these regions, the more likely these regions are to seek higher prices, and to maintain them by deferring investment and limiting production.
Allowing more informal financial institutions to channel foreign payments would ease the money flow to remote regions.
Current reliance on coal, natural gas, and petroleum, without regard for CO2 emissions, is now simply too dangerous, because it is leading to climate changes that will spread diseases, destroy crops, produce more droughts and floods, and perhaps dramatically raise sea levels, thereby inundating coastal regions.
The West has established the economic model of the twenty-first century, with its hitherto unheard of standard of living, and almost all nations and regions are trying to equal it, no matter what the cost.
Economic shocks are destabilizing countries and regions, and inflicting great social and financial hardships on families and their communities.
When policymakers ignore losses in particular regions or sectors, the result is anger and social division – and negative views about the economy’s trajectory.
Specific interventions to help these regions’ people would have massive benefits.
Given climate change, that means accounting for whether, say, entire low-lying coastal areas or agricultural regions will be able to cope.
Effective financial markets should also channel far more global saving from high-income countries with relatively weak long-term growth prospects to low-income regions with relatively strong growth prospects, owing to new opportunities to leapfrog development with smart, information-based infrastructure.
This implies the continued globalization of finance, which will be essential to allocate money from capital-rich regions to their poor, capital-scarce counterparts, as well as to develop local capital markets that can facilitate capital formation and protect countries from the vagaries of global sentiment.
Compared to other regions, the impact of the crisis in Latin America, with the exception of Haiti, has (so far) not been dramatic.
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