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.

Finally, in national legislation will be closed.

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E. Issue 4 closing the legislative and regulatory gaps

Bridging the North South divide in scientific and technological capacity

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

Achievements in bridging the gap between policy and practice

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

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

The tables do demonstrate a mostly positive trend and women seem to be catching up with men.

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

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

Women lag in Pakistan in almost every area of national endeavour. Indicators for education, health, employment etc. however show a steady if gradual decrease in the gap between the sexes.

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.

Measures to bridge the gap between policy and practice

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,

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?

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.

In an age of rising inequality, at least some countries have narrowed their wealth and income gaps. Brazil is the recent pacesetter, markedly expanding public education and systematically attacking remaining pockets of poverty through targeted transfer programs.

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

The same can be said for the general student population, with the exception of the Druze sector where the gap is rapidly closing.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The Government and relevant agencies have made great efforts in narrowing the gap between men and women in leadership positions.

During the current session it had proved possible to reduce the gap between the positions of Member States on the subject.

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

Turkey is also narrowing the gap with OECD countries in terms of educational quality. In 2006, Turkey scored 76 points lower than the OECD average in science exams and 74 points lower in math.

The United Nations could play a vital role in closing that gap, especially through the Department of Public Information.

It was important to adopt policies and measures that would help to narrow the widening gap between developed and developing countries, especially the digital divide, and to reduce external debt in order to lighten the burden on poor countries.

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

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.

China recognizes, too, that what separates less developed from more developed countries is not only a gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge. So it has laid out bold plans not only to reduce that gap, but to create a basis for independent innovation.

The number of trained female workers has mounted, thus reducing the gap with the number of trained male workers.

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