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

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

Already large disparities in income and wealth will continue to deepen, amplified by higher inflation and financial repression.

In addition, various structural problems including large and growing income disparities are causing serious disequilibrium in the economy.

Poverty in the Caribbean was generally characterized by large income disparities and was linked to a high rate of unemployment.

Rising income inequality fuels a growing opportunity deficit for children born into poor and middle income families, reflected in disparities in educational attainment by family background, and a decline in intergenerational mobility.

Income disparities will not be fundamentally altered until the market equilibrium wage inches upwards sufficiently to create labor demand at decent wage levels.

But, given huge income disparities. China s leaders still face enormous challenges in maintaining domestic stability, and continuing quiescence cannot be taken for granted.

Addressing health disparities

While cheap labor has been a key factor in generating high growth over the past three decades, it has also contributed to profound income disparities, especially in recent years.

They produce skin deep democracies in which people have a vote but don t really have a stake, in which wealth is increasingly concentrated and income disparities are harder to breach.

Overall objective The overall objective of the Major Programme is to increase economic growth, create employment, generate income and reduce economic and social disparities through fostering private sector driven entrepreneurship.

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.

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.

The promotion of decentralized industrial development patterns can stem from rural urban migration, bring employment opportunities to rural areas, reduce regional income disparities, and thus fight poverty at its very source.

Existing policies to achieve social cohesion are based on the belief that, if uncorrected, the free play of market forces will lead to wide disparities in income and thus intensify social conflict.

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

This will cause economic growth to slacken, complicating effective management of China s domestic problems, which range from deep income disparities to the lack of political institutions capable of channeling popular grievances and demands.

Even the Nordic countries world leaders when it comes to creating universal and well designed welfare policies that cover citizens from cradle to grave face significant health disparities, despite their relatively low income inequality.

But it is also essential, because China s new leadership seems determined to come to grips with a vast array of internal imbalances that threaten the environment, promote destabilizing income inequality, and exacerbate regional disparities.

China must avoid such a scenario, and if wages could increase in some meaningful way, it would indicate that the economy might finally reach the next stage of development, during which income disparities would be narrowed.

But why did these disparities arise in the first place?

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

Similarly, China has become more uncoordinated, or fragmented, as its income disparities have continued to widen. And sustainability is being jeopardized by environmental degradation and pollution, which pose a growing threat to the country s atmosphere and water supply.

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

The representative of Namibia noted the rapid deterioration of the situation of children and women in the country, owing to HIV AIDS, food insecurity, declining capacity to deliver services and the legacy of apartheid, which resulted in wide income disparities.

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,

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

Our collective commitment and efforts are needed to correct the imbalances and disparities in the world.