We need to see more equal burden sharing.

Suggested solutions included ensuring that affordable, planned and serviced plots are made accessible to residents at all income levels.

The Panel was informed that the initiative had been designed to resolve the debt problems of heavily indebted poor countries by reducing the external debt burden to sustainable levels, so as to ensure that adjustment and reforms in those countries were not exposed to risks arising from indebtedness.

The debt burden must be reduced to sustainable levels, so that export earnings, capital flows and external assistance would enable those countries to service their debts without having to bear an excessive burden.

Each Annex I Party could share the burden regarding emission reduction according to its capability, so that Parties with the same capabilities would share equal emission reduction burdens.

It aims at providing water and sanitation in a manner that is equitable, affordable, effective, efficient, sustainable and geared towards the needs of women.

The cost of the negotiating process will be borne by the Government through FONAPAZ.

Equitable burden sharing and reduced social costs are therefore of the utmost importance.

The principle of burden sharing is highly relevant in this context, and the Executive Committee has called on States to take measures to ensure that the burden of the first asylum countries is equitably shared.

C. Sharing burdens and responsibilities more equitably and building capacities to receive and protect refugees

Debt relief is, however, dependent on all creditors spreading the burden fairly among themselves.

For the majority of households, inadequately treated water drawn from wells is the only affordable means of access to clean water.

In that connection, some members expressed the view that the overall level of debt itself constituted a significant burden and that that fact was better reflected in the version of the debt burden adjustment based on a proportion of debt stocks of Member States affected.

Over these 10 years, 40 million dollars in affordable financing, average interest rate five percent to six percent.

Even the poorest neighborhoods give more than they can afford.

Women must balance work and family responsibilities, but they should not be alone in bearing the burden.

Those who cannot afford such an expense carry weapons.

Where a child is being advised on the courses to follow, the parents' views are taken into account, as far as possible.

In other words, the average person on the average wage could not afford a candle in 1800.

much within this framework of analysis.

(l) the proportion in which each Contracting Party contributes to the water balance of the basin.

The economies of many developing countries have declined, making them victims of the inequality of the international trading system, the steady decline in official development assistance, their excessive foreign debt burden and low levels of investment.

Women are now taking over expenses that had traditionally been the responsibility of men.

Kyrgyzstan also advocates the identification of an acceptable level of indebtedness and the adoption of urgent and commensurate measures to ease the debt burden of developing countries.

(d) Debt burden

We thought of people as a liability.

I can't afford it.

In the area of water resources and sanitation, heads of State pledged in 2000 to reduce by half the proportion of people who are unable to reach, or to afford, safe drinking water by 2015 and to stop the unsustainable exploitation of water resources.

You are not talking about affordability, you are talking about extreme affordability.

Finally, it is important to recognize the contribution that efficient and equitable burden sharing between debtors and creditors can make to alleviating unsustainable debt burdens.

Furthermore, the sharp rise in the number of peacekeeping operations had increased the financial burden.

93 per cent had an average of two dependants and only 13 per cent received medical treatment for their injuries.

The current global refugee situation required an effective and equitable mechanism for ensuring international responsibility and burden sharing.

Tom can't afford that.

Financing of experts

I couldn't afford that. Who?

O heavy burden!

I can afford it.

Unship that damned thing.

He can afford it today.

Kyrgyzstan supports the view that an acceptable debt level needs to be defined and that measures are urgently required to lighten the debt burden for developing countries.

Yields per hectare of cereal crops have either stagnated or declined largely because prices for seed, fertilizer, machinery and irrigation have increased to levels beyond the reach of resource poor farmers.

A Scandinavian level of taxes would be bearable if public services did not remain inferior to those offered in Scandinavia. For example, per capita health care spending in Sweden, Denmark, and Finland exceeds 3,000, compared to only 2,300 in Italy, where households must contribute roughly 20 of total health care spending.

Japan s Constitutional Albatross

Lessening the burden of care