Increase of access to education and equity

1.82 To ensure equity and equality of access to quality learning for children with special educational needs.

Texas ranks close to last in access to healthcare, quality of care, avoidable hospital spending, and equity among various groups.

Affirm gender equality and equity as prerequisites to sustainable development and ensure universal access to education, health care and economic opportunity.

These principles should include transparency and accountability, participation and pluralism, subsidiarity, efficiency and effectiveness, and equity and access to services.

Though Aruba has no problems with respect to access and equity issues, it does have problems in the domain of the real emancipation of girls.

The new India Partnership Forum has formulated a social code for business adopted by 319 companies committed to take specific actions to ensure gender equity and women's equal access to employment.

A bankruptcy system that allows entrepreneurs to survive the inevitable failures that accompany innovation, as well as stronger protection of intellectual property and improved access to equity finance, are also needed.

Although decentralization has achieved contradictory outcomes, in many cases it has contributed to improved equity in access to forest resources, the distribution of economic benefits from these resources, and to sustainable forest management practices.

The basic principles of the System are decentralization, with a single administrating body at each level of government equity universal access full assistance and social participation, among others.

Higher equity capital requirements, for example, require banks to fund themselves with relatively more equity and relatively less debt.

Start with equity.

It was also mentioned that there was a need to create the capacity for developing countries to engage their development framework in a context of international cooperation that did respect equity, e.g. to enable developing countries to access markets.

i. Gender Equity Policy

Promoting greater gender equity.

As a further enhancement to the Australian Government's equity provisions for higher education students, the Higher Education Equity Support Programme was introduced in 2005 following a review of higher education equity measures under the reforms.

Equity markets were subjected to disclosure and transparency requirements.

The Special Rapporteur is now pleased to transmit to the Commission his fourth annual thematic report, pursuant to Commission resolution 2004 62, which deals with the problems faced by indigenous peoples in education systems, including problems of access and equity.

With the difficulties of access due to limitation of the school network, and having no clear policies on the promotion of gender and equity, it is obvious to assume that the barriers that girls have to fight against are enormous.

Taming the Private Equity Locusts

Employment equity and workplace diversity

This form of financing is often used by private equity investors to reduce the amount of equity capital required to finance a leveraged buyout or major expansion.

To effect these plans, an Equity Desk was established under the Department of Strategic Management and a Social Equity Task Force with representatives from both Government and civil society organizations were appointed to monitor the development and implementation of the Gender Equity Policy.

Equity structures have also benefited from logistical support (computers, office facilities) and from technical assistance (National Equity Committee).

Regulators might consider imposing pro cyclical equity requirements increasing the equity percentage in boom times in order to offset losses in the inevitable bust times.

The goals can be grouped under four main headings involvement of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in educational decision making equality of their access to education services equity of educational participation and equitable and appropriate educational outcomes.

As indicated in the Background section, the Gender Equity Policy of the Comprehensive Reform Programme highlighted the directive to Ministries to incorporate gender equity policies in their programmes.

Recognizing the role that competition policy plays in promoting competitiveness, building entrepreneurship, facilitating market access and entry, enhancing the equity of the international trading system and ensuring that trade liberalization brings about development gains,

Subprogramme 4 Social development and equity

Warren Buffet showed another way, in providing equity to Goldman Sachs.

The equity capital of banks urgently needs to be substantially increased.

to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity

To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity

Not to be forgotten is the unfulfilled agenda of gender equity.

Finally, the bankers are paid according to return on equity, unadjusted for risk, so it is very much in their interest to continue running their business with very little equity.

Use more equity, and equity becomes less leveraged and less risky, which causes investors to demand lower returns to hold it, and again the overall financing cost remains the same.

The governance structures have to function according to democratic principles, founded on equity.

Gender Equity Policy and The Nine Benchmarks

This has led to heightened volatility in equity, money, and debt markets.

Secondaries Secondary investments refer to investments made in existing private equity assets.

Fiscal reform should enhance government legitimacy by paying greater attention to equity.

But then, a lot of people think there are things that should have been in the original package that weren't agreed back then that should now be included, like sustainable development targets, natural resource governance targets, access to opportunity, to knowledge, equity, fighting corruption.

Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

Indeed, if, as some believe, only a fraction of the banks equity is at risk, the potential debt equity swaps would be minuscule.

The advantage of equity capital is that it is loss absorbing, meaning that only after losses wipe out all of the equity do they need to be apportioned between creditors.