The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals has been uneven across regions and there are wide disparities in the realization of specific Goals.

Despite some decades of political independence, wide disparities and economic and social inequities persist between countries sharing the global commons, and within countries.

Addressing health disparities

The main problems include the high cost of health services, the wide disparities in the quality of services and an anarchic market in therapeutic drugs.

Ways to close disparities

It will also consider the preparation of a concerted system wide response to address the economic and social disparities resulting from the long practice of institutionalized racism.

AND SOCIAL DISPARITIES LEFT BY APARTHEID

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.

Social disparities remain a source of tensions.

Great disparities existed between the various communities.

(a) Racism, racial discrimination and economic disparities

(p) To give appropriate priority to the collection of quantitative and qualitative data relating to disparities in education, including gender disparities

Existing policies to achieve social cohesion are based on the belief that, if uncorrected, the free play of market forces will lead to wide disparities in income and thus intensify social conflict.

Increasing disparities in income and access to services

quot Social disparities remain a source of tensions.

Girls' education has faced multiple challenges arising from emergencies, the prevalence of HIV AIDS, deepening poverty and persistent disparities, while opportunities have been created by partnership initiatives, sectoral reforms and sector wide approaches (SWAps).

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But why did these disparities arise in the first place?

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

Instead, these disparities have become more pronounced than ever before.

An analysis of the situation portrays dangers, divisions and disparities.

But usually that is linked to very strong social disparities.

Lest we forget, the advent of a non racial and pluralistic democracy in South Africa will require vast international assistance to eliminate the wide social and economic disparities which are the legacy of many decades of apartheid.

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

Regional disparity in fertility rates and regional disparities in economic performance

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

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

We must learn their effects and find solutions for narrowing obvious disparities.

Imbalances in rural urban development and regional disparities directly influence migrational patterns.

Disparities between different parts of the world continue to grow, disparities between North and South, between democratic countries and non democratic countries, between more educated societies and less educated ones.

The fatal divergences that are most frequently cited include differences in growth rates, job creation, and unemployment rates, as well as dramatic disparities in current account balances, all of which may be traceable to wide deviations in unit labor costs.

The representative of Namibia noted the rapid deterioration of the situation of children and women in the country, owing to HIV AIDS, food insecurity, declining capacity to deliver services and the legacy of apartheid, which resulted in wide income disparities.

The representative of Namibia noted the rapid deterioration of the situation of children and women in the country, owing to HIV AIDS, food insecurity, declining capacity to deliver services and the legacy of apartheid, which resulted in wide income disparities.

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,

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

Above all, it means addressing the income disparities in educational opportunity and attainment.

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

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

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

The economic disparities between the developed and the developing worlds continue to widen.

It could also draw the attention of borrower countries to the socio economic costs of gender disparities, suggest policy reforms and introduce incentives to its lending with a view to reducing such disparities.

These changes hit the poorest the hardest, and global trends mask deep regional disparities.

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