A narrowing gap in funding costs could just mean that financial markets recognize this.

Narrowing the gap with industrialized high income countries continues to be the world s main development challenge.

With its mandate, UNIDO could play a key role in narrowing the gap between developed and developing countries.

Existing data provides evidence of a narrowing gap in some areas in a large number of countries.

The vision statement would help meet the challenge of narrowing the ever wider gap between the developed and developing countries.

The Government and relevant agencies have made great efforts in narrowing the gap between men and women in leadership positions.

This will have positive consequences for narrowing the gender gap as far as illiteracy is concerned (Statistical Compendium of 2004).

Talks between the parties on Darfur have not yielded concrete results or much narrowing of the gap on the issues concerned.

Long held views are changing gradually and the gap between the parties is narrowing, albeit a bit too slowly at times.

The narrowing of that gap and the harmonization of the different areas of activity are at present the priority of the Nicaraguan transition process.

We urgently need to move from rhetoric to action, because the gap between the haves and the have nots is widening dramatically instead of narrowing.

More and more women are studying at the tertiary educational level, significantly narrowing the gap with men, and are entering male dominated fields of education.

The Eurozone s Narrowing Window

This year of difficult discussions was, we believe, useful, even if it has not yet resulted in any narrowing of the gap between our positions.

Willingness could be exhausted if the EU budget is further expanded without reducing Germany s net contribution and narrowing the gap between its financing and voting rights.

The major challenges of these decades acceleration of development, alleviation of poverty, narrowing the widening gap among countries need to be addressed on an urgent basis.

She referred to the narrowing gap in earnings, to the lower unemployment rate of women and to the fact that most women worked part time by choice.

We expect good results from that Summit and hope that it will contribute to narrowing the gap between social groups within a single entity, North and South.

China s Narrowing Policy Horizons

In Myanmar we are giving priority to the elimination of poverty and the narrowing of the gap between the rich and the poor, the city dwellers and the rural folk.

We used quantitative arteriography, showing the narrowing.

That is why we have begun to develop neighbourhood telecommunications centres, thereby narrowing the information gap between young people who have access to such information and those who do not.

In general, probably only a regional approach to economic development and a common long term European perspective will provide the framework necessary for narrowing the economic gap with the rest of Europe.

It can be said that the spiritual, material and technical assistance of the international community has been practically instrumental in improving the quality of women's life and narrowing the gender gap in Vietnam.

However, this narrowing of the gap between men and women was due more to a reduction in the amount of credit received by men than to an increase in the amount received by women.

The European Council regards the narrowing of the gap between the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the European Union and Western European Union (WEU) as a contribution to security and stability in Europe.

The narrowing is typically reversible with or without treatment.

I ended up narrowing the subject to Monet's Haystacks.

Of particular importance was the Organization's continued backing of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration and implementation of the Vientiane Action Programme, which focused on accelerating ASEAN integration and narrowing the development gap among member countries.

Convention No. 100 The wage gap and statistical data. In a direct request of 2004, the Committee continued its discussion on the manner in which policies and reforms were facilitating the access of women to posts of greater responsibility and are contributing to narrowing the wage gap between men and women.

His delegation therefore favoured narrowing the scope of the topic.

Growth spread far beyond a few Asian countries, and, for the first time since the 1950 s, the vast majority of poor countries experienced what economists call convergence a narrowing of the income gap with rich countries.

The Programme aimed at improving the health of the people, especially women and children by reducing infections caused by unsafe water and sanitary conditions, raising living standards, building infrastructure and narrowing the gap between rural and urban areas.

In the case of Guatemala, the number of indigenous people in all age groups completing primary education is lower than the number of indigenous people, even though this traditional gap is gradually narrowing, reflecting a positive but slow trend.

The agenda for development therefore should establish a new global partnership and urge the developed countries to make a more tangible contribution to narrowing the gap between the North and the South and to adopt various measures to benefit the developing countries.

Mind the Gap

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2. Reaffirms that narrowing the gap between rich and poor, both within and between countries, is an explicit goal at the national and international levels, as part of the effort to create an enabling environment for the full enjoyment of all human rights

3. Reaffirms that narrowing the gap between rich and poor, both within and between countries, is an explicit goal at the national and international levels, as part of the effort to create an enabling environment for the full enjoyment of all human rights

3. Reaffirms that narrowing the gap between rich and poor, both within and between countries, is an explicit goal at the national and international levels, as part of the effort to create an enabling environment for the full enjoyment of all human rights

2. Reaffirms that narrowing the gap between rich and poor, both within and between countries, is an explicit goal at the national and international levels, as part of the effort to create an enabling environment for the full enjoyment of all human rights

2. Reaffirms that narrowing the gap between rich and poor, both within and between countries, is an explicit goal at the national and international levels, as part of the effort to create an enabling environment for the full enjoyment of all human rights

2. Reaffirms that narrowing the gap between rich and poor, both within and between countries, is an explicit goal at the national and international levels, as part of the effort to create an enabling environment for the full enjoyment of all human rights

Reaffirms that narrowing the gap between rich and poor, both within and between countries, is an explicit goal at the national and international levels, as part of the effort to create an enabling environment for the full enjoyment of all human rights

This causes a narrowing of the domestic policy base in our developing countries.