Care Giving and the Moral Impoverishment of Medicine

The State suffers from a serious impoverishment of resources.

The result is moral impoverishment of the practice of medicine.

The route of slavery was an integral part of the flagrant exploitation and the impoverishment of Africa.

If Africans want to change this, they cannot spare themselves a collective debate about their elites complicity in widespread impoverishment.

Failure to do so may result in greater impoverishment of the poorest and regression for those countries which have seen progress.

Malawi today is an urgent case in point. Because of rural impoverishment and a drought earlier this year, dire hunger afflicts millions of people.

But the debtor countries are nonetheless obliged to service these debts by whatever means necessary, including more borrowing and further entanglement, leading to further impoverishment.

Are concerned at the trends and perils of land degradation, soil erosion, drought and impoverishment, particularly in the fragile ecosystems and drylands of developing countries

Among these, many live in situations of legal, economic and social limbo as well as extreme impoverishment greatly impeding their human development and the exercise of countless human rights.

Simply put, North Koreans are not as isolated as they once were, and have a growing appreciation of their impoverishment, owing primarily to greater trade and closer connections with booming China.

In 2004, Puerto Ricans were once again addressing the Committee as representatives not of a free and sovereign nation but of a colonial people exposed to racism, discrimination, impoverishment and exclusion.

(a) Declare formal recognition of past injustices and past practices that have caused the multifaceted impoverishment of indigenous communities reaffirm publicly the value of indigenous communities to the national and international welfare

Africa faces a crisis of leadership and governance, owing to a dysfunctional ethos. If Africans want to change this, they cannot spare themselves a collective debate about their elites complicity in widespread impoverishment.

The rate of illness from tuberculosis had increased after the war in comparison with the rate of illness before the war and is brought directly in relation with the impoverishment of the population.

Consequences Diseases of poverty reflect the dynamic relationship between poverty and poor health while such diseases result directly from poverty, they also perpetuate and deepen impoverishment by sapping personal and national health and financial resources.

Ms. Morvai said she would appreciate the delegation elaborating on the Crisis Group mentioned in connection with the impoverishment of the soil and asked whether there were any plans to promote more soil friendly agriculture.

The result is the accumulation of innovative capital and productive labour in the most developed countries, with a corresponding impoverishment of countries most in need of those resources, generating yet greater divergence and more inequalities.

In 2004, heavy flooding caused by hurricanes in two distinct areas of the country (Fonds Verrettes Mapou Gonaïves) dramatized the consequences of the impoverishment of soil and the increased vulnerability of the country to natural disasters.

For instance, any worsening of unequal terms of trade, as has already happened for some products (such as cotton), can lead to accelerated land degradation and the growing impoverishment of rural populations in African countries affected by desertification.

The military political crises which gripped the country throughout the 1990s and on into the early part of the twenty first century are largely responsible for the impoverishment and growing vulnerability of a large cross section of the population.

The Palestinian people are expected to form and reform institutions in preparation for statehood, while the non sovereign PA attempts to implement a coherent economic policy framework in an environment of systemic disruptions, impoverishment, insecurity and denial of rights.

Today, we are seeing the unparalleled impoverishment of many countries and peoples, as well as the emergence of new abhorrent phenomena, such as terrorism and transboundary crime, not to mention the pandemic of HIV AIDS and the resurgence of other communicable diseases.

Spearheaded by progress in China and India, literally hundreds of millions of men, women and children all over the world have been able to escape the burdens of extreme impoverishment and begin to enjoy improved access to food, health care, education and housing.

Finally, our fervent wish is that the present discussions will lead to realistic solutions that take into account the specific nature of the least developed countries solutions that will help to reverse the persistent trend of the impoverishment and socio economic marginalization of their populations.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) undertook a research study on the interaction between global impoverishment and the environment in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) showing how poverty, environmental degradation (deforestation, desertification and soil degradation) and population growth are interlinked in the LDCs.

Is it fair to expect Egyptians to continue paying for their previous repression and impoverishment at the hands of Mubarak and his cronies? Since this money clearly benefited Mubarak but not his people, should it not be Mubarak, rather than his victims, who is held responsible for it?

While it is true that the first half of the last century was a favourable period for Uruguay, it is also true that due to a combination of external circumstances and domestic structural weaknesses the last fifty years were a period of economic deterioration, impoverishment and even an institutional breakdown in 1973.