Younger leaders are more likely to be able to cope with the chop and change of difficult times.

Latin America s Adaptive Gangsters

Committing to massive cuts in carbon emissions will leave future generations poorer and less able to adapt to challenges.

With a long history of cataclysmic, often violent change, Chinese society is perhaps more adaptable than most.

This is bound to outstrip the ability of many societies and ecosystems to adapt.

The dynamics of adjustment within the eurozone exacerbate the underlying imbalances Germany is becoming more competitive while the periphery remains uncompetitive.

The Least Developed Countries Fund of the Global Environment Facility provides funds for the enhancement of those countries' adaptive capacity and the implementation of their national adaptation plans of action and grants for their environmental projects.

The Toronto summit will provide a first opportunity to assess the G 20 s ability to adapt to new conditions.

The new structures were to be more capable in a situation with no front line, and more capable of independent action at all levels.

(iv) Field projects pilot projects to develop and test adaptation models and institutional arrangements for increasing dissemination of climate data and early warning systems to farmers to improve India's capacity for sustaining agricultural production through microlevel adaptations (2).

But the pace of change needs to be speeded up, ensuring that the IMF in particular is able to adapt to post crisis challenges.

Consumers have better access to credit.

But in spite of strains and adversity, the family has proved resilient and a source of strength and inspiration for their members.

The ability of nomads to adapt to the whims of nature and to live in harmony with it has produced different techniques and ways of protecting and using land in a sustained manner.

But it is already clear that the capacity of some communities to adapt will quickly be exceeded if climate change goes unmitigated.

They are better at adjusting to external economic shocks (such as terms of trade declines or sudden stops in capital inflows).

Though special, computer chess nevertheless offers both a window into silicon evolution and a barometer of how people might adapt to it.

Less fragmented industries also lobby better.

It is now more, not less, able to deal with terrorism.

Its democracy would not grow weaker by becoming tidier rather, it would grow up.

Healthy children attend school more regularly, are better able to learn, and become more productive adults.

With such progressively smaller circuits, more can be fitted on a computer chip.

We're smarter, we're more flexible, we can learn more, we survive in more different environments, we migrated to cover the world and even go to outer space.

These trends will become more difficult to reconcile and keep orderly if governance systems fail to adjust.

I should have cried then, but maybe today I am more resilient.

Nothing works as potently to inflame protectionist sentiment as large trade deficits.

He pointed out that conducting a TNA for technologies for adaptation is more complex and challenging than for mitigation technologies and highlighted several key aspects in the identification of technology needs for adaptation.

One of the essential skills involved is that of group decision making bringing together diverse views, searching for the best solution, and generating commitment and solidarity to carry the decision through.

(g) Identifying, documenting, analysing, testing and disseminating good practices in poverty reduction in the region, and building the capacity of Governments at all levels and their partners in civil society to adapt and apply the lessons learned

As a result, European citizens' elected representatives will be better able to scrutinize the work of the Commission.

As a result, the capacity of manufacturing to absorb labor has become much more limited.

It will begin the process of the reform of the Organization so as to render it better able to respond to the challenges of this century.

Iran s threat, therefore, is an expression more of discontent with Turkey than of genuine concern that the Malatya facility will adversely affect its deterrent capacity.

Monitoring of ADR s must be more pro active.

It will depend just as much on the ability of the international community to deliver a fairer system of world trade.

In Europe, monetary intervention has greater potential to help but with a similar risk of making matters worse.

The Council must be not only more representative but also more able and willing to take action when action is needed.

Not only does it make you happier, it turns on all of the learning centers in your brain allowing you to adapt to the world in a different way.

He underscored also some factors that determine adaptive capacity of human systems, including the level of economic wealth, access to technology, information, knowledge and skills, and existence of institutions, infrastructure and social capital.

This appears to be one of those times. Labor markets have been knocked out of equilibrium as new technology and shifting global supply chains have caused demand in the labor market to change faster than supply can adjust.

The insurgents remain capable, adaptable and intent on carrying out attacks against Iraqi civilians, officials and security forces, with the goal of destabilizing and de legitimizing the Iraqi Government in order to pursue their own goals.

Asians constantly adapt and change.

First, its currency would naturally depreciate, making exports more competitive and imports more expensive.

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