They developed national case studies, which give an overview of drought in these regions.

For a normal country, the national income tax system constitutes a huge automatic stabilizer across regions.

Certain regions of the country (for example the north west) are likewise well below the national average.

Welcoming the strengthening in all regions of regional cooperation among national human rights institutions and between national human rights institutions and other regional human rights forums,

Welcoming the strengthening in all regions of regional cooperation among national human rights institutions and between national human rights institutions and other regional human rights forums,

Below is a list of national emblems and coats of arms used by Asian countries, territories and regions.

The national territory is divided, for administrative purposes, into departments, autonomous regions of the Atlantic coast, and municipalities.

Furthermore, the growth rate in China s less developed eastern regions amounts to less than half of the national average.

Support for subregional workshops for the Arab and Pacific regions on national human rights protection systems, including NHRIs, was encouraged.

Cooperating and sharing knowledge among international organizations and with countries and regions to further develop national and regional statistical systems

(b) Also encourages the continued establishment and development of mountain related national committees, focal points and other multi stakeholder mechanisms at the national level for sustainable development in mountain regions

A new study by the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation in the United States, examines trends in such investments for both individual countries and regions.

Governments in all regions designated national focal points and committed themselves to actively celebrate the Year through planning and implementing concrete initiatives.

Data collection is under way with all regions expected to meet the requirements for national annual prices for the 2005 reference year.

Provisions have also been made in the budget (on the order of 90,000) for national and subregional consultations in other regions in 2006.

The FAO Technical Cooperation Programme funded 13 national, regional and global field projects for rice and rice based systems in the various developing regions.

Results from the 2002 National Household Sampling Survey (PNAD) formed the principal basis for elaborating the indicators, which are presented in the form of tables and graphics covering Brazil, large regions of the country and federation units, and, for some aspects, metropolitan regions.

With migration to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.

The exercises enabled international response teams from the respective regions to work closely with national authorities of earthquake prone countries in accordance with the INSARAG guidelines.

Noting that national and regional needs would be taken into account in creating regional information hubs, he recalled that concerned regions and countries must be consulted.

Countries state that the National Forest Programme Facility aims to foster South South cooperation and that regional intersessional activities are necessary given the differing conditions among regions.

A World of Regions

Entrepreneurship can take root in culturally congenial regions of any country after economic barriers against it are lifted, and then feed on itself to grow to national significance.

In general, the analysis shows a sharp disparity in reporting between geographic regions and across development groups that are reflective of the differences in overall national statistical capacity.

This organic framework spans the entire national territory. Each of the seven administrative regions has its own inspectorate for social affairs and the promotion of women and childhood.

Candidate chemicals for the Rotterdam Convention include those that have been banned or severely restricted by national regulatory actions in two or more Parties in two different regions.

Such efforts serve to promote effective implementation of the Convention, for example by developing regional networks to strengthen national protection capacities and to promote universality in all regions.

Welcomes the continuation of the practice of national institutions convening regional meetings and encourages national institutions, in cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner, to continue to organize similar events with Governments and non governmental organizations in their own regions

For example, the FAO Regional Forestry Commissions have helped extend the global forest policy dialogue to the national level, by bringing together heads of the national forestry agencies, in the respective regions, to discuss policy and technical issues of interest.

Moreover, globalization and instantaneous communication technologies have made it impossible to contain conflict within national borders. Domestic economic and political grievances can now buttress discontent across regions and continents.

The regional commissions will participate actively in this global road safety campaign and encourage countries in their regions to organize national road safety campaigns related to the theme selected.

Regional organizations in disaster prone regions can play an important role in disaster response, as they have unparalleled knowledge of local conditions and prior relationships with national decision makers.

The Global Office expects to receive country level average prices and related diagnostic variables from the regions after each data collection, followed by the final national annual average prices.

The Clapeyron slope predicts a deeper discontinuity in cold regions and a shallower discontinuity in hot regions.

States that are elected to represent regions or groups will remain answerable to those regions or groups.

Just as it is the responsibility of creditor regions in the world s other currency unions to support the debtor regions (which they do through a variety of means), it is up to the eurozone s creditor regions to underpin its debtor regions solvency.

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to individual countries or regions

The process of consultation with a broad range of national actors including women's associations, entrepreneurs, academics, small farmers, and other civil society voices, particularly from the regions outside Port au Prince, can help to build an ongoing national dialogue on the future.

Since focusing its efforts on national strategies for the development of statistics in 2004, the Partnership has co organized with its partners a dozen regional workshops on designing national strategies in the regions of the Arab States, Central America and sub Saharan Africa.

2.3 Persons belonging to minorities have the right to participate effectively in decisions on the national, and where appropriate, regional level concerning the minority to which they belong or the regions in which they live, in a manner not incompatible with national legislation

The Government could only transfer funds and let the regions work out their own systems, setting priorities and policies, even though many regions had followed suit once the Government had in 2002 established the national childcare fund and in 2003 a fund specifically to promote childcare centres in the workplace.

The upper tier subdivisions of England are the nine Government office regions or European Union government office regions.

Encourages the further establishment of committees or similar multi stakeholder institutional arrangements and mechanisms at the national level to enhance intersectoral coordination and collaboration for sustainable development in mountain regions

(f) Ensuring that ODA, where appropriate, has been routed through national institutions and budgets and, where appropriate, allocated directly to those areas, regions and people most need of such aid.