The technology used is usually of poor quality, which affects the quality of treatment.

The metadata supporting the MDG database is of unacceptably poor quality.

It is plain from research that poor quality care carries risks but that those who experience good quality alternative care cope well although it is difficult to provide good quality, individualised care in group settings.

Equally, imports consist of cheap Chinese products of appallingly poor quality.

Its increase can also indicate the poor quality of a target sand.

Service quality Many of the 3.5 billion people having access to piped water receive a poor or very poor quality of service, especially in developing countries where about 80 of the world population lives.

While various countries have implemented free basic education, there is a sense that it is of poor quality and inaccessible to many youth.

These results indicate that inadequate and poor quality of electricity supply has slowed industrial development.

Banking supervisors did not deal with many institutions low levels of capital and poor asset quality.

Corruption undermines the quality of life for people around the world, not only in poor countries.

Characteristics Ankoles are able to utilize poor quality forage and limited quantities of food and water.

This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering.

This suggests that companies offering cheap, poor quality, unbranded products are unlikely to succeed in the long term.

As in America, the issue is not racial and class reservations and preferences, but ensuring high quality primary education for all, rich and poor alike.

Germans do not see why they should be vulnerable because of poor quality mortgage lending in American inner cities.

Poverty impact the demonstrable effect of the project on improving the quality of life of poor communities and individuals

One is that the US will ultimately be undone by the poor quality of its democratic discourse, and that it is merely at the start of an inevitable decline.

Much of the dialogue is unintelligible due to poor audio quality, and due to overexposure of the film, several characters' faces appear as bright white, glowing circles.

The range of leading causes of death has been slightly altered in comparison to pervious years, which is most probably the consequence of poor quality mortality data.

There are several factors that affect health, such as environmental quality, malnutrition, poverty, poor human settlements and inadequate sanitation facilities.

According to Iran, the differences in prices were due to the poor quality of the crops produced in the Southern Provinces.

In this sense, the Indian state has been rather a poor agent it collects little and delivers a pittance and what it does deliver is of grossly inadequate quality.

My wish is that TED assist us in our work and help us to build a high quality rural health system in a poor country, Rwanda, that can be a model for Africa, and indeed, for any poor country anywhere in the world.

The quality in healthcare services remains poor, and access to them was difficult for women, especially in the mountainous and rural areas.

A poor kid is unlikely to break free of his or her parents poverty without strong and effective government programs that support high quality education, health care, and decent nutrition.

To be sure, some of these deniers are simply scientifically ignorant, having been failed by the poor quality of science education in America.

It is now widely accepted that many poor developing countries will miss out on achieving the Millennium Development Goals unless official development assistance (ODA) is substantially augmented, in terms of both quantity and quality.

In FBiH in 2001, only one case of maternal death, which is an indicator of the poor quality of mortality statistics data and certainly not a reflection of the actual conditions.

Foreign employers are appalled by the poor quality of Thailand s education system, whose graduates have little foreign language proficiency and possess scant analytical skills.

For a relatively poor country like China, real unions could help balance employers power, bringing quality of life benefits that outweigh the growth costs.

Fourth, the inadequate volume and poor quality of ODA had compromised its true potential, resulting in a misguided perception that aid would not work.

The Committee is concerned about the lack of direct access to safe drinking water in 17.5 per cent of rural households in Serbia and about the poor quality of water in central Serbia.

A quality management system (QMS) is a collection of business processes focused on achieving quality policy and quality objectives to meet customer requirements.

Although the labor force was traditionally skilled and efficient, inadequate incentives for labor and management contributed to high labor turnover, low productivity, and poor product quality.

The reason that the Millennium Development Goals are feasible is that powerful existing technologies give us the tools to make rapid advances in the quality of life and economic productivity of the world s poor.

Notwithstanding the generally poor quality of information available on trafficking and the role of organized crime, the secretariat of the Convention reports that numerous indicators suggest that the problem is now significant and growing.

The package is of bad quality

But assessing quality improvements is difficult.

His handwriting is poor.

Quantity is important, but so also is quality.

Quality audit is the process of systematic examination of a quality system carried out by an internal or external quality auditor or an audit team.

The tomato crop is of good quality.

The poor quality of infrastructure imposes heavy costs on the producers of tradable goods and on the rest of the population, given the low population density in Africa.

The answer is very poor.

She is poor, but happy.