In addition to coverage disparities between countries and regions, there are significant inequities within countries clear rural urban disparities as well as coverage and service level disparities between richer and poorer households.

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

Noting further the prevailing industrial gap and disparities between developed and developing countries,

However, disparities between rural and urban populations persisted, and terrorist activities had undermined development efforts.

Deeply concerned about the disparities between rich and poor, both within and among countries, and about the adverse implications of these disparities for the promotion of human development throughout the world,

While this has reduced poverty, inequality has been increasing, with growing disparities between cities and rural areas, and between coastal regions and the interior.

Efforts have been made to address educational disparities between regions in the country, especially relating to ethnic children.

Horizontal and vertical segregation in the labour market was also responsible for wage disparities between women and men.

Addressing health disparities

Thus, instead of uniting the society in this critical historical moment the authorities are accentuating the disparities between different groups.

Inequitable and low levels of access to education low enrolment rates for girls, and persistent disparities between girls and boys.

(p) To give appropriate priority to the collection of quantitative and qualitative data relating to disparities in education, including gender disparities

9. Notes with concern the sharp disparities in interpretation and translation vacancy rates between the United Nations Office at Nairobi and the other duty stations

The globalization of the world economy and the liberalization of world trade were accentuating the social and economic disparities between nations more than ever before.

This helps to widen regional disparities, especially between eastern and western China, with the wealthiest regions being those that have benefited from high concentrations of FDI.

India, long known for gross disparities between rich and poor, has a Gini coefficient that has hovered around 0.30 to 0.32 over the past five decades.

But why did these disparities arise in the first place?

Deeply concerned about the growing disparities between rich and poor, both within and among countries, and about the adverse implications thereof for the promotion of human development throughout the world,

Yet while the average prevalence of HIV in the general population is 2.8 per cent, there are disparities between regions, and certain vulnerable groups, in particular, are very highly infected.

Gender disparities in respect of access to technical assistance are significant.

Regional policy in the European Union Although the European Union is one of the richest parts of the world, there are large internal disparities of income and opportunity between its regions.

(a) Take all necessary measures to the maximum extent of available resources to accelerate the elimination of child poverty, notably to eliminate the disparities between the different regions of the country

18.9 The ESCWA member countries are confronted by political instability, an imbalance in the provision of basic social services between urban and rural areas and between the different social strata and widening disparities in income distribution, associated with increasing poverty and unemployment.

Ms. Patten said that she commended all the State party's initiatives to eliminate discrimination in education, but she was concerned about disparities between regions and between public and private education and about the lack of preschool education and adequate financial and human resources.

Europe s sovereign debt crisis is an outgrowth of sharp disparities between the peripheral economies with outsize current account deficits especially Greece, Portugal, and Spain and core countries like Germany, with large surpluses.

Disparities and inequalities stand in the way of countries' achieving the Goals.

This is part and parcel of globalization enhanced global economic opportunities lead to wider disparities between those who have the skill or luck to take advantage of them and those who do not.

But such external shocks may also have indirect effects by aggravating the disparities between developed and developing countries and creating additional incentives for mass migration to rich, less affected, and more adaptable regions.

Dramatic disparities in enrolment between regions and urban and rural areas remain, with girls representing less than 15 per cent of the total enrolment in nine provinces in the east and the south.

Above all, it means addressing the income disparities in educational opportunity and attainment.

The willingness of the dispossessed to endure the existing disparities was fast diminishing.

Significant disparities in socio economic indicators evidencing a pattern of serious racial discrimination.

The Chairperson, summing up the discussion, welcomed the State party's elimination of distinctions between children born in and out of wedlock, and its introduction of legislation to shift the burden of proof to employers in cases of alleged wage disparities between men and women.

These changes hit the poorest the hardest, and global trends mask deep regional disparities.

Some disparities had occurred in the calculation of conversion rates to United States dollars.

Policies based on generalities will not work. To initiate a fundamental shift in citizens gender related attitudes and behavior, India s leaders must understand by the numbers the often dramatic disparities between their country s individual states.

While we have managed to reduce gender disparities in education and have succeeded in improving access to sanitation and other basic facilities, great disparities remain in the levels of development both within and among our countries.

It is an environment that will produce deep disparities in economic performance around the world.

Indeed, the segregation caused by the land system has enlarged rather than narrowed social disparities.

The Committee expressed concern about continuing gender disparities regarding educational choices of boys and girls.

The target set by the new five year plan is thus also a policy manifesto to battle these social disparities, which are now a burning issue for the country. But why did these disparities arise in the first place?

Thus, regional disparities in terms of economic prosperity may never narrow indeed, they could often widen.

Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen.

In addition, the present methods for evaluating the MDGs hide the growing disparities within disadvantaged populations.

(f) To prevent and eliminate gender and urban rural disparities in school attendance and completion rates