They are a valuable tool to promote development and strengthen social cohesion.

Supporters of Europe s social model claim that what distinguishes it is the importance placed on social cohesion.

His presidency has guaranteed political stability and strengthened social cohesion.

Yet we continue to believe that social cohesion can be limited to that of the nation.

A new institutional architecture to address social equity and attain social cohesion is urgently called for.

He wondered whether Mauritius, as a multi ethnic society, had any problems related to minorities and how it assured social cohesion.

But the deeper problem is a breakdown in precisely such values and goals that is, a weakening of social cohesion.

I would include social cohesion as part of the asset base it is the one that is depreciated by excessive inequality.

While employment was at the heart of the European Union's social inclusion strategies, many other policies and services were needed to ensure social cohesion.

2. Also welcomes the ongoing efforts made by the Government addressing the need for attention to be paid to the enhancement of social cohesion across the Territory

We recognize the urgent need to enhance the coherence, governance and consistency of the international monetary, financial and trading systems.

Mauritians have chosen a path that leads to higher levels of social cohesion, welfare, and economic growth and to a lower level of inequality.

In the years leading up to the crisis, inequality rose in many countries, with worrisome consequences for social cohesion.

We stand firm in the fight against terrorism and in our conviction that a sustained and permanent victory depends upon the success of each individual country in the struggle for social cohesion.

Second, welfare state institutions should be strengthened.

European cohesion funds account for only a fraction of a percent of European GDP, whereas about 10 of national income is typically spent on social transfers.

What motivates the opponents of free service provision and labor movement in Europe is not a desire to ensure social cohesion, but a wish to maintain the status quo.

In several advanced countries, including the US, growth and employment prospects are starting to diverge widely, endangering social cohesion and economic openness.

On a societal level, genetic engineering that only the wealthy can afford would threaten social cohesion by ruling out equality of opportunity.

At the social level, we will help improve access to basic services with a view to enhancing equality and social cohesion.

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.

System wide coherence

The European Union attached great weight to social cohesion as well as to economic growth and improving labour markets, that had been made clear in the Lisbon goals.

Finally, if too few members of society enjoy too great a genetic advantage, social cohesion and democratic institutions could be threatened even in the absence of any direct physical harm.

Restriction on firing employees, for example, may protect people who have jobs, but often at the expense of the unemployed, thus increasing social exclusion. Even where high levels of social transfers actually do reduce inequality (and therefore presumably increase cohesion), they may undermine inter communal relations if ethnic minorities are perceived as being strong net beneficiaries.

This is the crux of the Lisbon Treaty, which is designed to usher in new institutions and mechanisms aimed at creating more politically cohesive EU external policies.

Iran, a multiethnic state whose rulers have struggled to advance national cohesion, is no different.

Productive and decent employment is the most powerful lever to ensure the stability of social security during demographic change and to enhance social security coverage.

A key question for the next decade, therefore, is whether the Chinese authorities growth targets will be enough to preserve social cohesion as further economic and political reforms are gradually implemented.

This is a longstanding challenge that, particularly in the United States, goes back at least two decades before the crisis left unaddressed, it now threatens social cohesion.

Social cohesion has been another area of focus for ECLAC, particularly the formulation of public policy proposals to address the structural heterogeneity prevailing in the region.

Reinforcing social safety nets, broadening and deepening financial markets, and supporting small and medium size enterprises would also strengthen domestic demand.

The Europeans wanted to achieve their goal through, among other means, further environmental protection and more social cohesion desirable aims, but certainly not growth strategies.

An educational revolution, the axis of social cohesion, is the path by which we will be able to ensure equity, a fair distribution of income and the opening of new channels of social services, without which democracy remains only half realized.

Failures to promote social solidarity can have other costs, not the least of which are the social and private expenditures required to protect property and incarcerate criminals.

12. Reiterates the importance of reinforced coordination within and outside the United Nations system, and reaffirms the role of the United Nations focal point for electoral assistance in ensuring system wide coherence and consistency and in strengthening the institutional memory and the development and dissemination of electoral policies

As long as Latin America s democracies fail to take seriously the tasks of reducing inequality, spreading opportunity, and nurturing more cohesive societies, they will continue to court disaster.

The new balance that it established between state and market set the stage for an unprecedented period of social cohesion, stability, and prosperity in the advanced economies that lasted until the mid 1970 s.

And, in practical terms, it is bound to destroy the social cohesion on which democracy or, indeed, any type of peaceful, contented society ultimately rests.

Science and technology mutually reinforce each other, and both percolate through the social fabric.

This integration of social sector interventions with income generation is expected to enhance the impact of developmental initiatives.

This is why Europe s mayors call upon European institutions to focus on social cohesion with the same commitment that has been invested until now in asylum and border controls.

4. Calls upon all countries, in particular the major developed economies, to enhance coherence among their financial, investment, trade and development cooperation policies, with a view to enhancing the development prospects of developing countries

Moreover, social services and social security will need to be strengthened in order to reverse a pattern of rising inequality.

The National Training Plan (PNQ) contributes to promote policies integration and to articulate actions for social and professional training in Brazil.