Governments and the private sector in this subregion will be supported by UNIDO to help business close the performance gap with their international competitors.

Ok, finally, to close the gap here,

We believe that the time has come to close the gap between words and reality.

The establishment of a Peacebuilding Commission to help countries emerging from conflicts will close an institutional gap.

The gap is due mainly to persistent challenges in deploying the full complement of civilian police officers (only 460 out of a mandated 815), but efforts to close the gap continue.

We can just raise taxes a bit and close that gap, especially if we raise taxes on the rich.

So one of the characteristic problems of our time is how to close this gap between capabilities and foresight.

The Global Renewable Energy Fund of Funds should help close the financing gap for developing renewable energy markets and services worldwide.

Policymakers could also find creative ways to increase the odds that women will return to the labor market after having children. They could close Japan s salary gender gap wider than in any OECD country except South Korea in part by establishing rules that reward performance rather than seniority.

Current projections showed that there was an urgent need to close in 2005 a multi million dollar gap between income and expenditure.

Experience shows that it is possible to close the gap between relief and development and transform disasters into opportunities for sustainable development.

They also invite the States of the world to participate in the Summit, focusing on practical and developmental aspects to close the digital gap.

The comparative performance of men and women in relation to unemployment reaffirms the picture of previous years although women's unemployment decreases, the gap remains very prominent.

These increases have helped close the so called financial gap between the estimated resources needed and the estimated resources available for funding an expanded, comprehensive AIDS response.

You can also see that there is a gap of almost three and a half school years between 15 year olds in Shanghai and 15 year olds in Chile, and the gap grows to seven school years when you include the countries with really poor performance.

International regimes did not fail because of one breach, however serious or unacceptable, but rather because of many breaches whose accumulation rendered the gap between promise and performance unbridgeable.

To answer this question, a recent paper compared standardized test performance by students who barely missed gaining admission to the Instituto to that of enrolled Instituto students. It turned out that the performance gap between the two groups grew, and the difference was statistically significant.

His delegation was pleased that the Special Rapporteur recognized that Canada had taken up the challenge to close that gap (E CN.4 2005 88 Add.3, p. 2).

Developing countries where policymakers are cognizant of these effects are more likely to close the knowledge gap that separates them from the more developed countries. Developed countries, meanwhile, have an opportunity to narrow the gap between average and best practices, and to avoid the danger of secular stagnation.

After installing the last road deck section and connecting it to the expanding North Tower road deck, we then had to close the remaining gap on the north or landward side.

Chinese swimmer Ai Yanhan, 14, swam the second leg of the relay in 1 57.79 1.61 seconds slower than Canada's Taylor Ruck, allowing the Canadians to close the gap on China.

It is important to note that the inclusion of indigenous languages in school curricula has not been enough to close the gap that exists between the academic performance of indigenous students and that of the non indigenous population. Significant problems still exist in the standardization of spelling of indigenous languages, the teaching of indigenous languages as a mother tongue and the methodology for teaching second languages.

In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

But perhaps the other, bigger gap is what we call the hope gap.

So India s medium term growth potential lies well below that of China in recent decades. A significant boost in infrastructure spending and policy reforms can make a difference, but it cannot close the gap.

But Iran s program must be transparent, and its leaders must assure the international community of its non military nature. The key is to close the confidence gap and pave the way for meaningful dialogue.

The Government also needed to pay close attention to the wage gap of nearly 35 per cent, so that it could adhere to the basic principle of equal pay for work of equal value.

So there is an element of performance, and there is an element of sculpture, and there is an element of feeling one's self, so close to one's self.

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

Coordinated by the relevant ministries, in close cooperation with the multinational force, our forces have grown, and efforts to increase training and equipping them, and improving their performance, are ongoing.

Closing Europe s Strategy Gap

There's a gap here.

The Transatlantic Growth Gap

Beyond the Gender Gap

Closing Asia s Security Gap

Closing the Skills Gap

The UN s Mandate Gap

The gap filling role

GAP Private Assistance Group

Addressing the Widening Gap

So it's this here, this little gap that you have to close, as Jeffrey Moore calls it, Crossing the Chasm because, you see, the early majority will not try something until someone else has tried it first.

Many academic studies have found that the rate of convergence tends to be about 2 per year. That is, each year, an economy tends to close 2 of the gap between its actual and potential income levels.

We have noted that the outcome document of this conference calls for a greater role for the African Development Bank, to enable it, inter alia, to play a key part in efforts to close the infrastructure gap.

Facebook, Google, Ericsson, Huawei, Samsung, Microsoft, Cisco, and other ICT giants could cover at least another 10 billion per year, in cash and in kind. A few forward looking governments could then close the remaining 10 billion gap.

It provoked the missile gap.