They point out that they continue to live in appalling, substandard conditions.

The programme promoted the reduction of marine casualties, the elimination of substandard shipping and the protection of the marine environment.

These are the people who spent 40,000 dollars on flat screen TVs when they first came out, even though the technology was substandard.

One quarter of China s people drink substandard water one third of urbanites breathe badly polluted air. Moreover, the country recently witnessed a spate of environmental accidents.

Calls upon flag and port States to take all measures consistent with international law necessary to prevent the operation of substandard vessels and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities

36. Calls upon flag and port States to take all measures consistent with international law necessary to prevent the operation of substandard vessels and illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities

Yet the fight against substandard drugs has never been taken as seriously as other global health crises such as malaria, HIV, or maternal and infant mortality. This may be because there is no obvious solution.

Consider the impact of Yuan s textbook campaign on China s 28 million college undergraduates, who would be left with substandard course materials. How could these students be expected to compete in the global economy, when their education has been compromised in this way?

The Republic of Korea has put in place a framework to prevent the operation of substandard vessels and to exercise effective control over vessels flying its flag in order to prevent or deter them from engaging in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

A large number of complaints were received by the Government regarding the importation of inferior quality rice from January to March 2005, and many people refused to purchase the substandard rice, which resulted in a huge rise in the price of the staple butter rice.

Governments, however, need to understand the barriers to investment regulatory failures weak enablers, including financial and human capital poor infrastructure and substandard technology. And they must undertake rigorous cost benefit analyses, in order to ensure that any intervention translates into private investment that promotes productivity growth.

OIOS noted with concern the current location of the Subregional Office in North Africa in Tangier, Morocco, which inhibits its meaningful participation in the United Nations country team and results in considerable wasteful expense, along with the current substandard security and working conditions in which it has to operate.

Patients who do receive care are often treated with substandard, even harmful, medicine. According to the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations, patients in China can have a 40 50 chance of being sold fake over the counter remedies and an even higher chance of being sold fake prescription drugs.

For the same reasons schools, when they do exist, are often in substandard physical condition, teacher absenteeism is high, the requisite school supplies are not delivered with any regularity and the use of audiovisual equipment and other modern technology is particularly difficult (when electricity has not been installed, for example).

BOSTON One does not need to spend a lifetime in the global health care sector to appreciate that substandard or counterfeit drugs are a major public health hazard. These bogus products have infiltrated pharmaceutical supply chains from Azerbaijan to Zambia, wrecking the most promising programs to control, manage, and eradicate deadly diseases.

The source further states that Mr. Ali has been detained in substandard conditions of detention throughout 30 months in civil administrative custody, has been transferred numerous times between different county jail facilities without notice to his family or counsel and has not been provided with adequate medical treatment for his mental health condition, which requires regular psychiatric consultations and oversight.

Indeed, the fact that many school buildings were flattened in Sichuan prompted an outcry from netizens, who grilled local officials about whether it substandard building codes or even a notorious toufuzha construction scandal, namely, jerry built projects, that had led to the disproportionate number of dead pupils. Under mounting public scrutiny, government officials felt compelled to promise that those responsible will be brought to justice.

But the discoveries and published papers rarely benefit the people who enable this research by donating their blood and other tissue samples. As Michael Nielsen discusses in his recent book Reinventing Discovery, the publish or perish mentality that dominates the field means that many substandard or incomplete papers are published, while those people who are supposed to benefit from the research are often little more than an afterthought.