In the academic world, however, the performance was the same.

UNIFEM explores how its products and services respond to opportunities and demands.

This Law will ensure the basis for equal opportunities for men and women in all areas of social life.

Other sectors, such as services and tourism, have been growing and have been recognized as key areas for opportunity and economic growth.

Africa needs to prepare for the opportunities and challenges to come by deliberately working for peace and security.

By creating detailed profiles of the most promising urban opportunities, companies could target their investments more effectively.

In addressing poverty, hunger and health, attention should be given to the opportunities afforded by forests to help meet the needs of forest dependent people.

In accordance with the competencies defined by law, the National Ombudsman will also work on the implementation of the principle of equal opportunities and legal protection of equal opportunities of men and women.

Rural households respond to the opportunities and challenges created by increased dependence on the market by diversifying their resource base and by restructuring the division of labour within the household.

The donor conference held in Washington represents a new source of opportunities and hope for Haiti, and we urge that it be translated into concrete action.

Under such conditions, prices reflect real opportunity costs, and market forces can be relied upon to provide the benefits contingent on a move towards freer trade.

Under the Law on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, a Sector for Equal Opportunities will be established at the Ministry of Labor and Social Policy within six months from the entry into force of this Law.

The Organization was learning how to work with the private sector and must find ways to more fully utilize the opportunities that partnerships afforded, especially in the context of United Nations reform.

Global Education begins with raising awareness of global challenges such as poverty, unfair distribution of opportunities and resources, environmental degradation and climate change, violent conflict and non respect of human rights.

Highly focused investment forums and other high visibility events are planned by and in cooperation with the network in order to increase the flow of investment and technology into developing countries.

Although all laws on education give an equal opportunity for schooling to male and female children, it is a fact that there exists a difference in education in rural and urban areas.

The new age of the electric vehicle exemplifies the powerful opportunities that we can grasp as we make our way from the unsustainable fossil fuel age to a new age of sustainable technologies.

Education and the power of knowledge are the greatest equalizer among individuals in a society and the greatest leveller that can bridge the prosperity gap among the nation States in this globalized world.

Evaluate progress in strengthening the capacity of countries to transfer safely to reliance on such alternatives, based on a review of the opportunities and needs in countries for sustainable transition.

Unless collective action is taken now to transform cities like Nairobi into the drivers of economic development and sources of opportunity that they are supposed to be, they will become a tinderbox of perpetual inequality.

To do so requires clear and objective criteria, close technical engagement by European Commission experts, a specific timetable of opportunities, and transparent assessments that trigger positive competition between neighboring countries.

The problem for post WWII Europe, mired in depression and inflation, was that it lacked foreign reserves, which meant that trade carried a high opportunity cost. To facilitate trade without requiring payment after each transaction, the Organization for European Economic Cooperation created the European Payments Union in 1950.

31. We recognize the important relation between international immigration and development and the need to deal with the issue, including at the regional level, in a coordinated and coherent manner with a view to addressing the opportunities and challenges and harness its positive effects on development.

In an effort to diversify the economy, Guam has begun to develop fish farms.23 Horticultural development, aquaculture, small scale aquarium fish trading and pearl farming were highlighted as potential business opportunities at a conference on business opportunities in Guam, held in 2004 by the United States Department of the Interior, Office of Insular Affairs.24

A massive scaling up of public investments, capacity building, systematic promotion of World Trade Organization compliant trade opportunities, resource mobilization and official development assistance are therefore urgent for low income developing countries.

His election inevitably enhanced the standing of the US as a land of genuine opportunity, a nation whose multicultural credentials were as great if not better than polyglot and poly ethnic India.

Emphasis was placed on people centred policies and fair distribution of opportunities and benefits, and programmes to eradicate gender discrimination, putting Nepal on track towards the Millennium Development Goal of halving extreme poverty by 2015.

As it is, with almost one quarter of all income and 40 of US wealth going to the top 1 of income earners, America is now less a land of opportunity than even old Europe.

So, how seriously should analysts take the term BRIC? As an indicator of economic opportunity, they should welcome it, though it would make more sense if Indonesia replaced Russia.

For instance, if your infrastructure is bad, or you have domestic policies that prevent investors from responding to market opportunities (such as South Asia s stifling licensing restrictions), you will see no results.

It may refer either to equality of opportunity, the view that the government ought not to discriminate against citizens or hinder opportunities for them to prosper, or the quite different notion of equality of outcome, a state of economic affairs in which the government promotes equal prosperity for all citizens.

According to recent UNCTAD estimates, the cumulative economic opportunity cost in terms of loss of potential income over the period 2000 2004 is estimated to be 6.4 billion (1997 dollars), or 140 per cent the size of the Palestinian GDP before 2000.

On the contrary, most forecasters expect 2005 to be weaker than 2004, with growth insufficient to eliminate the job deficit the gap between the number of jobs needed during the past four years to provide employment for new labor market entrants and the actual number of jobs created.