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(a) Wide disparities exist within and between countries and are poorly addressed due to the lack of consistently available indicators on many of the above dimensions.

As such, it will contribute to the realization of Millennium Development Goal (MDG) No. 1, at a localized level by addressing Turkey’s regional development disparities.

While many elements and trends are common across regions, there are significant variations among regions in terms of the causes and impact of youth unemployment and effective ways to address them.

[...] [...] and gender disparities, reflecting [...]

Know-how and skills also vary considerably among technicians.

Some commentators have taken the view that the WTO is essentially a free trade organisation and the global enforcement of IP standards, among nations at very different levels of social and economic development, should not fall within its terms of reference.

(a) A study should be carried out to analyse why the conditions of detention vary so much from one jurisdiction to another and hone support strategies for the prisons sector

It was explained to the experts that these disproportionate figures may be due to the high levels of unemployment, low incomes, low levels of education and prevailing racism to which people of African descent are subject.

Although much of the inequality in Latin America can be traced to the labour market, partly explained by wide variations in productivity between sectors, the other important cause is that labour and social institutions cover only part of the workforce.

As previously reported (see A/AC.109/2006/6, para. 34), the 2000 census revealed a serious disparity between the proportion of white students going to private schools (three quarters) and black students enrolled in the Government educational system.

We are confronted with a perpetuation of disparities between and within nations, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy, and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystems on which we depend for our well-being….

First, the capacities of the individual field offices in terms of human and financial resources vary widely.

The level of special-purpose funds in proportion to general-purpose funds continues to place considerable strain on UNODC programmes and programme support services which are funded from declining multilateral core resources (general-purpose funds and the regular budget).

The Secretariat noted the substantial difference between the UNDP-calculated incremental cost and the eligible funding, established by the cost effectiveness threshold, and agreed to the cost effectiveness threshold figure.

[...] the immense disparities that characterize [...] [...]

[...] the price gap between the HCFC-22 and [...] [...]

There are of course many and great differences among the different research disciplines.

[...] [...] and effects of disparity, such as discrimination [...]

Mr. Bissio stressed that mounting disparities had been aggravated by the “financial paradox” of the international financial system: some least developed countries accumulated more money every year in their central bank reserves than the amounts they received as ODA.

Theoretically, the globalization of the fishing industry through trade and access arrangements may lead to decreased fish-food consumption by those who face food shortages and malnutrition, as competition for marine resources increases between populations with widely diverging purchasing power.

In his five-year action agenda, the Secretary-General stated the following: the currents of change were transforming human and physical geography; demographic transformation, the emergence of new centres of economic dynamism, accelerating inequality within and across nations, challenges to the existing social contract by a disillusioned, mobilized citizenry, technological and organizational transformation that is linking people directly as never before, and climate change were all placing the foundations of the world and the global system under unprecedented stress and were driving not just incremental, but exponential change.

[...] large price gap between HCFC-22 and non-HCFC [...] [...]