How can we bridge, or let's say, narrow, this gap in the course of the years?

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.

The gap between women and men in terms of access to education and number of years of study was closing all the time.

Unless this gap is closed, 2 million children under five years of age will continue to die annually from vaccine preventable diseases.

Even in the best resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years.

For years, many Americans explained away this gap. The US is a more heterogeneous society, they argued, and the gap supposedly reflected the huge difference in average life expectancy between African Americans and white Americans.

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.

and of these 25, 18 were traditional retailers that had only begun online operations in the preceding five years (such as Macy s, Nordstrom, Target and Gap).

Daley married the Oscar winner, who is 20 years his senior, last year but he said the age gap had never been an issue.

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

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

Such disparities do not arise from different historical experiences, because Koreans have shared a history for thousands of years as one nation. The gap, instead, reflects recent historical choices.

In fact, given the quantum leap worsening in the epidemic in recent years, the gap between need and action remains enormously wide and may even grow.

Although Thailand's Constitution specified that all children should receive 12 years of free basic education, the Government was aware of the gap between theory and practice and was working to address shortcomings.

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

The degree of financial repression in a country can be estimated by calculating the gap between the average nominal GDP growth rate and the average long term interest rate, with a larger gap indicating more severe repression. In the last 20 years, this gap has been eight percentage points for China, compared to roughly four percentage points on average for emerging economies and nearly zero for most developed economies, where interest rates are fully liberalized.

It provoked the missile gap.

And this gap really narrows.

In the government sector, the unadjusted pay gap is 15 , and the adjusted pay gap was 3 in 2000.

The third national agricultural census, which was conducted during the period in question after a gap of almost 40 years, is currently the only statistical instrument that provides such information disaggregated by sex.

And that gap is very intimidating.

And that gap continues to widen.

Why is there a gap there?

Have a look at the gap.

The gap between them has narrowed.

GAP is the centerpiece of Government's approach to gender mainstreaming.

Ok, finally, to close the gap here,

The gap has widened since I left.

The gap in technological capabilities is increasing.

I'd like to talk about where the gap of knowledge is.

At the same time, the gap between the length of the working week of men and women is larger in rural areas than the gap among men and women in cities.

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.

Despite the political commitment to the protection and promotion of human rights in Mongolia, the country was hampered to a great extent by its knowledge gap and capacity gap.

The gap between Shanghai and the United Kingdom and the United States is as big as the gap between the U.K. and the U.S.

So there is a huge gap to bridge.

Europe s education gap doesn t stop at the Atlantic.