The development dilemma being faced in the CARICOM region in particular can be summarized in critical development gaps, such as the human development gap, the technology gap and the trade and terms of trade gaps.

There is a glaring gap in overall international development policymaking, and in the capacity to secure coherence across the development, finance, trade and technology areas.

Yes, the US runs a massive trade deficit with China around 295 billion in 2011, or fully 40 of America s total merchandise trade gap of 738 billion. Republicans and Democrats alike argue that this is the crux of America s jobs problem.

The issue of the cost of trade facilitation measures was raised several times, and fears were expressed that the gap between LDCs and developed countries would increase because of the lack of available financial resources to implement trade facilitation measures.

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.

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

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Addressing the Widening Gap

Its leading candidate for the presidential nomination, John Kerry, talks about how Benedict Arnold CEO's betray America by outsourcing jobs. Kerry's remaining competitor, John Edwards, talks about how the gap on trade between him and Kerry is wide and deep with Kerry on the free trade side.

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.

China s trade in goods scale ranks first in the world, and it has already had the economic foundation to further expand its openness. However, there is still a gap between the quality and efficiency of trade development compared with developed economies. Therefore, the overall level of tariffs should be appropriately lowered.

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.

The expected December trade deficit is 57 billion an improvement on the record 60.3 billion gap in November. And the November figure will be adjusted downward because of a recently discovered statistical error by Canadian authorities.

Ok, finally, to close the gap here,

The gap has widened since I left.

The gap in technological capabilities is increasing.

The impact is particularly vivid in trade finance, where European banks have been major participants in Asia. Now they are in rapid retreat from that market, creating a worrying gap that Asian banks are seeking to fill.

Because the biggest share of the US trade gap is with China, a country vilified as a currency manipulating cheater, the bilateral trade deficit has become the lightening rod for China bashers. It is what has driven Obama to go to the mat with China on recent disputes within the World Trade Organization and on restrictions on Chinese investment in Oregon wind farms, and what has led to saber rattling by Romney on currency manipulation and trade sanctions.

This is where America s multilateral trade deficit enters the equation, for it has long accounted for the bulk of America s balance of payments gap. Since 2000, it has made up fully 96 of the cumulative current account shortfall.

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.

The adjusted pay gap cannot be fully explained.

However, that is only a stop gap measure.

Recognizing the knowledge gap that exists with regard to the consequences created by the slave trade and slavery, and on the interactions, past and present, generated among the peoples of Europe, Africa, Asia and the Americas, including the Caribbean,

The widening of the income gap between advanced and developing countries was distressing, and a strategy was needed to enable the developing countries to join in the global economy and participate in decision making in international financial and trade institutions.

The gap is between doing anything and doing nothing.

Sometimes there was a gap in the normative framework.

States parties to the Treaty must narrow that gap.

In July 2002, New Brunswick convened a Wage Gap Roundtable to look at the wage gap in its entirety and to identify its causes and possible solutions.

China recognizes, too, that what separates less developed from more developed countries is not only a gap in resources, but also a gap in knowledge. So it has laid out bold plans not only to reduce that gap, but to create a basis for independent innovation.