Governments and the private sector in this subregion will be supported by UNIDO to help business close the performance gap with their international competitors.

They could close Japan s salary gender gap wider than in any OECD country except South Korea in part by establishing rules that reward performance rather than seniority.

The key is to close the confidence gap and pave the way for meaningful dialogue.

We believe that the time has come to close the gap between words and reality.

It is important to note that the inclusion of indigenous languages in school curricula has not been enough to close the gap that exists between the academic performance of indigenous students and that of the non indigenous population.

Superficially this looks about right to close the output gap if it is spent this year .

It is not likely that China (or others) will soon close that gap with the US.

The establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission to help countries emerging from conflicts will close an institutional gap.

Furthermore, French competitiveness, and the gap between its performance and that of Germany, is a growing cause of anxiety.

The gap is due mainly to persistent challenges in deploying the full complement of civilian police officers (only 460 out of a mandated 815), but efforts to close the gap continue.

That strategy supported technology transfer, helping to close the knowledge gap and rapidly improving the quality of manufactured goods.

The Global Renewable Energy Fund of Funds should help close the financing gap for developing renewable energy markets and services worldwide.

Yet, even the most cursory analysis reveals the vast gap in economic performance between them and Thailand in the past 50 years.

But, even if that could be achieved, it would close the trade gap only for as long as Greek prices remained competitive.

Moreover, it is clear that northern European countries could help to close the competitiveness gap more rapidly by encouraging faster wage growth.

Current projections showed that there was an urgent need to close in 2005 a multi million dollar gap between income and expenditure.

Experience shows that it is possible to close the gap between relief and development and transform disasters into opportunities for sustainable development.

This gap between Wall Street and Main Street (rising asset prices, despite worse than expected economic performance) can be explained by three factors.

Of course, a government can also close a budget gap by raising taxes, but any sudden shift can significantly magnify the distortions that taxes cause.

A widening gap in economic performance and political dominance is such a dismal prospect for the EU that it must not be allowed to become permanent.

The gap between Haiti s performance and its potential is now so large that great gains can be achieved in income levels, farming, health, education, and more.

The comparative performance of men and women in relation to unemployment reaffirms the picture of previous years although women's unemployment decreases, the gap remains very prominent.

Work done by Parasuraman, Zeithaml and Berry (Leonard L) between 1985 and 1988 provides the basis for the measurement of customer satisfaction with a service by using the gap between the customer's expectation of performance and their perceived experience of performance.

The gap between Europe s security needs and its military capacities is widening, and most European leaders lack the will to do what is necessary to close it.

So lagging countries growth potential is determined by their ability to close the gap with the technology frontier not by how rapidly the frontier itself is advancing.

These increases have helped close the so called financial gap between the estimated resources needed and the estimated resources available for funding an expanded, comprehensive AIDS response.

The first is that the world suffers from a shortage of aggregate demand relative to supply the second is that monetary and fiscal stimulus will close the gap.

Education is the bedrock for progress and educated women will empower Africa, so the focus now must be on those countries that are failing to close the gap.

International regimes did not fail because of one breach, however serious or unacceptable, but rather because of many breaches whose accumulation rendered the gap between promise and performance unbridgeable.

His delegation was pleased that the Special Rapporteur recognized that Canada had taken up the challenge to close that gap (E CN.4 2005 88 Add.3, p. 2).

Remarkably, my research shows that manufacturing industries tend to close the gap with the technology frontier at the rate of about 3 per year regardless of policies, institutions, or geography.

In both of these areas, Roma fall so far behind their fellow citizens that targeted measures to close the gap should be an integral part of the Europe 2020 plan.

However, in 2008, a study of young people and self harm saw the gender gap close, with 32 of young females, and 22 of young males admitting to self harm.

America s colossal fiscal gap readily calculated using projections by the Congressional Budget Office is close to 1,400 of GDP and dwarfs US official debt, which totals 9 trillion (60 of GDP).

Reaffirming that the widening gap between the economically developed and developing countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights in the international community, and makes it all the more imperative for every nation, according to its capacities, to make the maximum possible effort to close this gap,

Reaffirming that the widening gap between the economically developed and developing countries is unsustainable and that it impedes the realization of human rights in the international community, and makes it all the more imperative for every nation, according to its capacities, to make the maximum possible effort to close this gap,

The eurozone s cohesion and future growth depend critically on creating a framework through grants and loans for investment capital to flow to the poorer countries in order to close the competitiveness gap.

Asia s Leadership Gap

Mind the Gap

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

But, while this disconnect could continue for some time if no alternative program emerges, the huge gap between financial markets performance and most people s well being is unlikely to persist in the longer term.

For the alien race in Stephen R. Donaldson's The Gap Cycle, see Amnion (Gap Cycle).

So India s medium term growth potential lies well below that of China in recent decades. A significant boost in infrastructure spending and policy reforms can make a difference, but it cannot close the gap.

The Government also needed to pay close attention to the wage gap of nearly 35 per cent, so that it could adhere to the basic principle of equal pay for work of equal value.