B. Economic disparities

A. The weight of the past and economic and social disparities

Significant disparities in socio economic indicators evidencing a pattern of serious racial discrimination.

A. The weight of the past and economic and social disparities 35 50 10

Addressing health disparities

Notwithstanding the positive development in the regional and international economic situation establishment of economic communities, unprecedented opening up of trade economic and social disparities between North and South were growing.

Admittedly, the great economic and social disparities in India are not based on religion and affect everybody, irrespective of belief.

Ways to close disparities

There are many important sources of inequity in health social disparities involve gender geographic, urban rural, economic, ethnic and other factors.

State policies have also helped to reduce income disparities between different economic sectors and among different social groups in the country.

Overall objective The overall objective of the Major Programme is to increase economic growth, create employment, generate income and reduce economic and social disparities through fostering private sector driven entrepreneurship.

In addition to coverage disparities between countries and regions, there are significant inequities within countries clear rural urban disparities as well as coverage and service level disparities between richer and poorer households.

Large disparities also exist among developing countries.

However, significant regional disparities continue to exist.

There must be real recognition of the economic disparities and the conditions of inequality that make a mockery of the very idea of free trade.

The programme also aims to assist ASEAN countries in addressing the economic and social disparities that coincide with rapid economic growth and globalization, by promoting good governance and enhancing participation of civil society for sustainable and equitable economic development.

Increasing disparities in income and access to services

334. Gender disparities are minimal in educational participation.

However, there are significant disparities between developing countries.

The Government accorded top priority to education and health nevertheless, poverty remained a major challenge and development initiatives were being realigned in order to reduce socio economic disparities.

But usually that is linked to very strong social disparities.

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

The following disparities are reported in the area of education

Income disparities between and within countries have continued to widen.

Initiatives against terrorism would be in vain if the conditions that caused it and fed it persisted those included foreign occupation, oppression, patent injustice, exclusion, poverty and economic disparities.

South Asia is at a critical stage in its historical transformation, when deepening economic disparities could stifle growth itself. If not addressed through direct measures, all of Asia will suffer.

However, decentralization processes alone are not a panacea for people centred development, owing to existing social and economic disparities and the often insufficient transfer of resources to the local level.

Processes to promote increased and equal economic opportunities, to avoid exclusion and to overcome socially divisive disparities while respecting diversity are also part of an enabling environment for social development.

Gender disparities in respect of access to technical assistance are significant.

During the period under review, concerns about continued slack economic performance and accompanying difficult social conditions (including wide socio economic disparities) led to the implementation of the new economic orientation, decided upon by the Council of Ministers in March 1997 according to the broad lines set out below.

Disparities and inequalities stand in the way of countries' achieving the Goals.

Stark disparities are identified in national statistical capacity to report such statistics.

Deeply concerned about the disparities between rich and poor, both within and among countries, and about the adverse implications of these disparities for the promotion of human development throughout the world,

The Government was also committed to addressing socio economic disparities between Maori and non Maori and to reaching fair and durable settlements of grievances that had arisen historically between the two communities.

Today, they are comparable with American income disparities. Income disparities have halved both in nominal terms when expressed in euros and in real terms when taking into account differences in purchasing power.

As the century draws to a close, Panamanian society faces a great challenge to reduce the huge social, economic and political disparities that exist between the different groups that make up the nation.

Noting further the prevailing industrial gap and disparities between developed and developing countries,

The willingness of the dispossessed to endure the existing disparities was fast diminishing.

The Committee is concerned that unemployment rates remain high, with significant regional disparities.

Poverty and ethnic and cultural disparities are not confined to rural areas, however.

Of these disparities, discrimination against women is one that will require priority attention.

While it was currently agreed that economic globalization and the laws of the market had become the new rules of the game, the conditions in which the game was played were far from equitable and had aggravated the economic disparities between developed and developing countries.

Some disparities had occurred in the calculation of conversion rates to United States dollars.

32. It is also in the cities that the income disparities are most obvious.

17. Recognizes that historical injustices have undeniably contributed to the poverty, underdevelopment, marginalization, social exclusion, economic disparities, instability and insecurity that affect many people in different parts of the world, in particular in developing countries