Closing Asia s Security Gap

These different government programmes would contribute to bridging the gaps between SMEs and large firms, as well as between local and foreign firms.

States parties to the Treaty must narrow that gap.

Sweden has huge differences in earnings, and it narrows the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous benefits and so on.

Finally, in national legislation will be closed.

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Bridging the North South divide in scientific and technological capacity

(d) Working Group 4 closing the legislative and regulatory gaps.

The year 1993 also witnessed a decrease in the difference between men apos s and women apos s life expectancy.

Guatemala is gradually closing the gap between girls' and boys' access to primary education.

Increases in enrolment have not necessarily been accompanied by reductions in the gender gap.

But the differences must be diminished, and the Millennium Development Goals must be achieved.

472. The disparity between women living in Lima and those in rural areas is smaller today than it was ten years ago.

Measures to bridge the gap between policy and practice

It is hoped that as this emphasis is translated into action, the gaps between rural and urban populations will decrease.

Achievements in bridging the gap between policy and practice

We welcome her determination to narrow the gap in the perception of human rights.

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The proportion of men is greater than that of women, although the gap is decreasing.

That would narrow the gap between these countries and developed ones.

Existing data provides evidence of a narrowing gap in some areas in a large number of countries.

Throughout the world, male female differences in HIV prevalence are shrinking.

It is our firm belief that this strategy has succeeded in significantly reducing the socio economic gap between members of disadvantaged castes and the social mainstream.

And as soon as you've got that idea, you should immediately wonder what happens if we widen the differences, or compress them, make the income differences bigger or smaller?

Since the implementation of the Pay Equity Act, progress has been made in closing the gap in salaries.

The challenge is to bridge wide gaps that exist between the theory and the practice of public administration.

We believe this to be the result of poor female responsiveness to higher education and the lack of government policies encouraging closure of the gap.

The good news is that the gap between the emerging and advanced countries has narrowed greatly in the last three decades. Nonetheless, hundreds of millions of people remain in poverty, and there has been only a little progress in reducing the gap between the least developed countries and the rest.

Efforts to narrow the gap between rural and urban development and proposals concerning self employment were also frequently cited.

The gap between women and men in terms of access to education and number of years of study was closing all the time.

However these have yet to have an appreciable positive impact on reducing the disparity between rural and urban areas.

The current gap between boys and girls should be considerably narrowed in the near future, as enrolment of girls increased.

This will have positive consequences for narrowing the gender gap as far as illiteracy is concerned (Statistical Compendium of 2004).

He described the steps that the Office was taking to bridge the gap between needs and expected resources.

Decides that the substantive theme for the intersessional period 2005 2006 of the Commission will be Bridging the technology gap between and within nations and that specific emphasis should be placed on multi stakeholder partnerships not only for bridging the technology gap but also to prevent it from growing wider in this regard, the Commission will identify and address concrete aspects of this theme in cooperation with experts at its forthcoming panel meeting.

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The people centred approach to development had been pursued and efforts had been made to focus on participation, reduce disparities and respect diversity.

However, FICSA supported the proposal to narrow the difference between the single and dependency rates.

Other estimates indicated that the total cost of just closing the telecommunication gap in developing countries would be 3 trillion.

Table 10.20 shows how the numbers of each sex evolved between 1975 and 1985, with a slight narrowing of the gap between women and men.