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.

I'm tickled to death to be that close.

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?

And these are not trivial differences in mortality rates.

Finally, in national legislation will be closed.

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E. Issue 4 closing the legislative and regulatory gaps

It starts off with much smaller differences in earnings before tax.

States parties to the Treaty must narrow that gap.

However, the difference between them seems to be getting smaller.

Bridging the North South divide in scientific and technological capacity

The possibility of overcoming the differences in this respect seemed very small.

(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.

There's a about a tenfold difference there, log scale up the side.

Identifying gender gaps, and developing and implementing strategies to close them, will be part of every initiative funded through the global programme.

Disparity reduction will become a greater focus of the country programme.

Measures to bridge the gap between policy and practice

If information was to play a constructive role, it must keep up with the latest developments in ICT and not use them to widen the gap between developed and developing countries.

355. Increased school attendance by girls has produced a fairly rapid reduction in the gaps which still exist between the levels of schooling of girls and boys.

The development dilemma being faced in the CARICOM region in particular can be summarized in critical development gaps, such as the human development gap, the technology gap and the trade and terms of trade gaps.

And there's a lot of infrastructure things, and general human resources are there.

Achievements in bridging the gap between policy and practice

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

Yet, in 2002, women's average income per hour was 36.7 NIS and men's 45.3 NIS, a 23 gap, indicating that the difference cannot be solely attributed to the number of working hours.

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

It further recommends that the State party develop an adequate monitoring system to ensure that budgetary allocations effectively reach the most vulnerable groups and reduce regional disparities, in particular between rural and urban areas and eastern and western provinces.

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

Deeply concerned at the inadequacy of measures to narrow the widening gap between the developed and the developing countries, which adversely affects the full enjoyment of human rights, particularly in the developing countries,

Women's average hourly wagea as a percentage of men's average hourly wage Gender Pay Gap

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

There's language gaps, there's ethnicity and racial gaps, there's age gaps, there's gender gaps, there's sexuality gaps, there's wealth and money gaps, there's education gaps, there's also religious gaps.

In 2004, the wage gap in New Brunswick was 15.5 percent based on average hourly earnings.

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

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

and Albania and Tunisia.

There's a difference of two votes.

Again, quite big differences.

Beyond the Gender Gap

Target 4 Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, preferably by 2005, and at all levels of education no later than 2015

In the government sector, the unadjusted pay gap is 15 , and the adjusted pay gap was 3 in 2000.

Each time you're closer, it gets bigger, down to very, very small distances.