A. Strengthening the capacity of LDCs

We seem to be less innovative.

less powerful than the computer in your cell phone.

The impact of rising fuel costs has been hardest on the least developed countries, which are also the least able to afford it.

I didn t feel I was any less able than my classmates from private schools.

They were replaced by invasive species, which had less holding power to the rock.

And government spending is as good as anybody else s.

53. Women have considerably less influence than men on the priorities set for public action.

The capacity of the least developed countries to compete in international trade is also limited.

US consumers are shopped out, savings less, and debt burdened.

The problem is that Russian labor is less mobile than in the Europe and the United States.

The LDC Fund of GEF provides funds for the enhancement of the adaptive capacity of the least developed countries and the implementation of their national adaptation programmes of action.

But such policies will be less and less able to guarantee peace and stability in the future.

Poor people tend to be more exposed to threats and are less able to absorb the shocks inherent in disasters.

Such conduct was likely to make the Zambian plant less competitive by restricting its production capacity.

Change for the sake of change would make no sense if it led to a situation in which a new Council was less able to carry out its heavy responsibilities than the present one.

People with few resources or alternatives are also less able to recover from disasters.

They should ensure that the very poor did not have to pay user fees for medical care. Poor expectant and nursing mothers were the least able to pay for care.

213. The economist programme is a critical contribution to the capacity of resident coordinators to fulfil their functions in LDCs.

The United States, which best embodies ultimate power, is less willing and less able to exercise it.

And that will require a less competitive euro higher relative to the dollar and other currencies.

Germany, struggling with the burdens of reunification, undertook structural reforms and became more competitive. Other countries enjoyed housing and consumption booms on the back of cheap credit, making them less competitive.

The Royal Norwegian Navy is now replacing those vessels with a smaller number of larger and more capable vessels.

Stripper pumps of two different capacities are needed for the bladder tanks (a) large flow capacity for bulk bowser transfer tanker farm use, and (b) lesser flow capacity for vehicle and aircraft refuelling.

Their exports would become less competitive, and they would encounter heavy competition from the rump eurozone in their home markets.

The problems of food and hunger were likely to continue, with developing countries most severely affected because they were least able to overcome them.

The lack of adequate alternative transport corridors makes our export activity much less competitive and sometimes even impossible.

Stripper pumps of two different capacities are needed for the bladder tanks (a) large flow capacity for bulk bowser transfer tanker farm use and (b) lesser flow capacity for vehicle and aircraft refuelling.

) This was primarily because London had less access to fresh water (and thus a greater need to conserve water, though this theory is now contested.

All those actors obviously have less access to information and freedom of interaction with the realities of armed conflict.

(xii) Recommend means of implementation, in particular financial mechanisms at national and international levels, giving special attention to the limited capacity of least developed countries

Developing countries will be even less able to cope with the social and economic cost of further avoidable ill health caused by tobacco.

But very little was done to strengthen the financial system s ability to withstand a default of any significant magnitude.

And restructuring weakens banks, which generally hold large portfolios of government bonds, thus making them less able to finance the economy.

And the paradox is that, because we have this blame game, we have less the potential to convince our citizens that we should work together, while now is the time when we really need to bring our powers together.

This would require, of course, less cynical political elites who can transcend their petty ambitions and divisions for the sake of the country.

The reason that not for profit providers can achieve higher quality care with better health outcomes at lower cost is evident.

(b) To strengthen the capacity of institutions at all levels to monitor shelter conditions and urbanization processes using a minimum set of substantially uniform and consistent indicators.

But the availability of long term capital appears to have been impaired, as traditional providers of equity to infrastructure projects, for example, have become less able or willing to invest.

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Brain Power

They thought they would soon outstrip the capacity of the brain.

A personal experience, when I was at MIT computer taking up about the size of this room, less powerful than the computer in your cell phone.

India s ability to stave off the economic gales was helped by the fact that it is much less dependent than most countries on global flows of trade and capital.

The spread of information means that informal networks are undercutting the monopoly of traditional bureaucracy, with all governments less able to control their agendas.