The poor quality of infrastructure imposes heavy costs on the producers of tradable goods and on the rest of the population, given the low population density in Africa.

The metadata supporting the MDG database is of unacceptably poor quality.

One study suggests that a family support service costs 10 percent of an institutional placement, whilst good quality foster care costs usually about 30 percent.

Poor hygiene, sanitation and water exacerbate poverty by reducing productivity and elevating health care costs.

Poverty impact the demonstrable effect of the project on improving the quality of life of poor communities and individuals

The petroleum products are poor in quality due to high sulfur content and become one of the causes of environmental pollution.

According to Iran, the differences in prices were due to the poor quality of the crops produced in the Southern Provinces.

On the micro side, too little public investment means poor infrastructure and high export costs. Brazil has none of neighboring Argentina s hefty export taxes, but its heavy transport costs have the same effect.

The quality in healthcare services remains poor, and access to them was difficult for women, especially in the mountainous and rural areas.

However, such incentives do not address the problem of low quality education, and research shows that the benefits do not always outweigh the costs.

The Committee believes that there is a need to examine translation requirements and methods with a view to reducing costs while ensuring optimal quality.

Delaying the conclusion of the Doha Round negotiations carries costs and risks for the entire world economy, rich and poor countries alike.

Privatization and liberalization have produced mixed results, either increasing prices for the poor or entailing other adjustment costs (e.g. loss of employment).

Also, substantial savings can be made by avoiding unnecessary costs such as overpayments to creditors or penalty interests due to poor bookkeeping.

And last summer, more than 10,000 workers protested for the non payment of wages, for the poor quality of food, and inadequate housing.

While various countries have implemented free basic education, there is a sense that it is of poor quality and inaccessible to many youth.

(f) Relaxed reliability owing to the shorter lifetime or agreed, lower levels of product assurance or lower quality parts as appropriate to lower development costs

The rising costs of education, its privatization and the existing disparity in quality between public and private systems are a concern for many young people.

This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering.

Fourth, the inadequate volume and poor quality of ODA had compromised its true potential, resulting in a misguided perception that aid would not work.

If Cuba had access to the United States market, the advanced technology, high quality raw materials and much lower freight costs that this implies would enable it to reduce production costs by 50 per cent, i.e. to around 0.45 per unit.

Meanwhile, enormous investment did not bring about the corresponding economic benefit, which was a key factor leading to poor quality and benefit in economic growth.

Broad policy options at the national and international levels include strengthening capacities in integrated water resources management and water governance, improving water allocation, enhancing water use efficiency, expanding access to safe drinking water, protecting water quality, reducing water costs while improving cost recovery, implementing pro poor policies, and strengthening monitoring systems at the local and national levels.

Residents in poor localities tend to pay higher costs for basic goods and services than those in richer areas especially for credit, water and medication.

This suggests that companies offering cheap, poor quality, unbranded products are unlikely to succeed in the long term. For apparel consumers, for example, quality is second only to price when choosing a store, and second only to fashion when choosing a specific item.

The range of leading causes of death has been slightly altered in comparison to pervious years, which is most probably the consequence of poor quality mortality data.

My wish is that TED assist us in our work and help us to build a high quality rural health system in a poor country, Rwanda, that can be a model for Africa, and indeed, for any poor country anywhere in the world.

It can raise Ethiopian workers productivity to half or more of Chinese levels through in house training. The savings in labor costs more than offset other incremental costs of doing business in an African environment, such as poor infrastructure and bureaucratic red tape.

For example, poor aggregates are susceptible to receive more orphans than their rich counterparts, and this carries its additional costs for their survival and leads to total poverty.

Furthermore, the poor quality of some education, resulting from irrelevant and obsolete curricula, overcrowded classrooms, untrained teachers and gender discrimination, cause high dropout and repetition rates especially among girls.

Community infrastructure will support, in the form of grants on a cost sharing basis, small scale community infrastructure sub projects to improve the quality of life of the poor.

Moreover, obesity certainly in its morbid manifestations can affect quality of life. The costs are borne not only by the individual, but also by society directly, through the health care system, and indirectly, through lost productivity, for example, and higher transport costs (more jet fuel, larger seats, etc.).

Complex regulations and government requirements, high compliance costs, ineffective bankruptcy laws, as well as bribery and corruption, are some of the main factors for poor people to remain informal.

And the problem of poor vision, is actually not just a health problem, it's also an educational problem, and it's an economic problem, and it's a quality of life problem.

The result should help India to continue not without occasional turbulence its journey toward becoming a high growth economy that raises the standard and quality of life for the poor.

The reason for poor quality has been overly high pesticide and heavy metals quantities cadmium, lead and arsenic, coupled with incomplete and unharmonized declarations on the original packing of food.

By contrast, a country riddled with regulatory shortcomings will find its arteries of commerce clogged and foreign investors spooked by unpredictable quality and unfair competition from unscrupulous producers. In developing countries, poor quality regulation and implementation are formidable barriers to entrepreneurship and investment, according to a World Bank report.

If women in Europe work more hours in better quality jobs, it will stimulate demand for service jobs like cleaning and child care, thus reducing unemployment among low skilled workers. Moreover, the increased supply of high quality female labor will not incur additional healthcare and pension costs, unlike labor immigration.

Even if you only cared about AIDS in Africa, it might still be a good idea to invest in malaria, in combating poor indoor air quality, in improving maternal mortality rates.

In FBiH in 2001, only one case of maternal death, which is an indicator of the poor quality of mortality statistics data and certainly not a reflection of the actual conditions.

In the area of health care, the major concerns remain the limited access to services, the poor quality of service delivery and the Government's reduced capacities for monitoring and early warning.

The provision of quality education remained a serious challenge, and the current policy addressed such issues as poor school attendance, enrolment and dropout at all levels, as well as gender balance.

The effects of crime on the development of cities included loss of economic opportunities and increased costs to individuals and to the private sector, reduced access to services, increased burdens on the poor, loss of social capital in poor neighbourhoods and loss of public and private investment.

Reductions in subsidies and improved cost recovery for those who can afford to pay can help to finance operation and maintenance costs, ensure quality and reliability of service and encourage water use efficiency.

According to the Claimants, HEA provides an appropriate mechanism to assign the costs of compensatory restoration to alternatives that can provide resources and gains equivalent in type and quality to the losses sustained.