Creating a Learning Society

The high social costs of transition are felt throughout society.

Your type will soon be extinct.

This politician is a typical champagne socialist.

Now I come back to the idea of the new social enterprise that I'm exploring.

Within the framework of Propenas, 2000 2004, there are nineteen development sector programs covering education, politics, socio culture, labor, law, agriculture, cooperatives and micro small enterprises, environment, family planning, social welfare and health.

This is a social enterprise, not for profit cooperative supermarket.

A large number of countries of the region are undergoing a long and difficult period of social transformation.

Care should be taken to strengthen the Economic and Social Council and to avoid downgrading it to a functional commission.

That's what you'd call a social news website.

Simultaneous and interdependent processes of demographic, social, political and economic transition are taking place in Nicaragua at varying speeds.

We need this community of engagement based on the particular experience of each institution.

For him, all of these problems boil down to a simple question What type of society do we wish to live in? And the choice, in his view, is equally simple either a society of dependence or one based on self reliance.

The social world differs from the physical world because it is man made and hence almost infinitely malleable. So, unlike the natural sciences, economics advances scientifically not by replacing old models with better ones, but by expanding its library of models, with each shedding light on a different social contingency.

Belarus, a country with an economy in transition, was not in a position to resolve the social problems it faced without assistance from the international community.

Organization at social welfare centres of small workshops providing services for people under the charge of the centres and employing the unemployed clients of social welfare

The model will considerably enhance the international community's knowledge of the geological and biological environment of that area.

Countries with economies in transition were not always able to tackle serious social problems on their own.

22. Considerable strains are put on the social fabric of the societies of the countries with economies in transition.

The Association for the Development of Micro Enterprises of the Dominican Republic and Acción Comunitaria del Peru are reported to have achieved sustainability.

It is conceived as a process for building a new form of government organization and facilitating a new relationship between the state and society.

Community Led Infrastructure Finance Facility

Large systems are privatized without social welfare programmes for labour laid off.

152. CSOs conducted various empowerment activities targeting women in small scale businesses.

ESCAP is conducting a study on the promotion of small satellite data applications in Asia and the Pacific in early 1997.

What is referred to is the small bi generational family, which is a basic element of the social structure.

Figure X shows the distribution of the types of social reintegration programmes available as reported by Governments.

The United Nations and the international community as a whole stood ready to work with the Government, political parties and civil society organizations to facilitate national reconciliation and the democratic transition.

In conclusion, support by the international community would help to stabilize the development of Ukraine and other countries in transition.

For the sake of protection of its economic and social rights and interests, employees have right to organize unions or other kind of union organization with their employer.

And what I really think that we're doing is, we're moving towards a collaborative society, a society in which the talents of both men and women are becoming understood and valued and employed.

That the textbooks in BiH contain gender stereotypes about men, women, and their social roles.

Public institutions are likely to remain only partially able to finance and implement large scale social assistance programmes in the near term.

It identifies policy recommendations essential for leapfrogging development stages and for evolving knowledge societies.

It is fairly safe to predict that learning in a knowledge intensive society will continue at a heightened pace, both at the workplace and outside of it. It will be facilitated through Web based social software, through wikis, blogs, and similar developments as much as through new, open source business models.

For example, it did not provide flexibility for the accommodation of the operation of new types of cooperatives such as workers cooperatives or land purchase cooperatives.

The learning society suggests the need for learning companies in which workers use ICTs to access knowledge and information to update their skills.

Membership type

(cont.) Participatory process in support of preparation and implementation of action programmes

As a country in transition, Azerbaijan faced political, economic and social challenges, which could be overcome through improved joint efforts of the Government and civil society, with the support of the international community.

39. Ms. Alvarez (Dominican Republic), speaking with reference to the social integration of older persons, said that the Commission for Social Development should include the principle of interdependence and the role of individuals of all types and ages in an integrated society.

The international community must fully rid itself of confrontational and bloc oriented thinking, the desire to monopolize and dominate in international affairs and attempts to divide States into the leaders and the led.

Staff participated in panels organized by the diplomatic and academic communities on illicit trade in small arms, light weapons and building societal resistance to violence.

The follow up action will range from combating the illicit traffic in small arms and introducing tighter control of legal transfers to reducing the number of small arms in war torn societies.

Like other humans, social scientists are prone to over confidence in their preferred model of the day. They tend to exaggerate the support for the model and discount new evidence that contradicts it a phenomenon known as confirmation bias.