The achievement of the Millennium Development Goals has been uneven across regions and there are wide disparities in the realization of specific Goals.

Addressing health disparities

B. Economic disparities

Ways to close disparities

The MICS, a survey of 80,000 households, will provide provincially disaggregated information on the situation of the most vulnerable and will be an effective tool for further advocacy to reduce wide disparities.

Moreover, wide disparities in the international community s commitment to preventing or containing conflicts in different regions impede the ability of the United Nations to promote a stable and just international order anywhere.

In addition to coverage disparities between countries and regions, there are significant inequities within countries clear rural urban disparities as well as coverage and service level disparities between richer and poorer households.

Girls' education has faced multiple challenges arising from emergencies, the prevalence of HIV AIDS, deepening poverty and persistent disparities, while opportunities have been created by partnership initiatives, sectoral reforms and sector wide approaches (SWAps).

Large disparities also exist among developing countries.

However, significant regional disparities continue to exist.

Increasing disparities in income and access to services

334. Gender disparities are minimal in educational participation.

However, there are significant disparities between developing countries.

But usually that is linked to very strong social disparities.

Disparities in enrolment between urban and rural areas remain stark.

The following disparities are reported in the area of education

Income disparities between and within countries have continued to widen.

The representative of Namibia noted the rapid deterioration of the situation of children and women in the country, owing to HIV AIDS, food insecurity, declining capacity to deliver services and the legacy of apartheid, which resulted in wide income disparities.

Gender disparities in respect of access to technical assistance are significant.

A. The weight of the past and economic and social disparities

Your eyes are wide open, much too wide.

Disparities and inequalities stand in the way of countries' achieving the Goals.

Stark disparities are identified in national statistical capacity to report such statistics.

Deeply concerned about the disparities between rich and poor, both within and among countries, and about the adverse implications of these disparities for the promotion of human development throughout the world,

Today, they are comparable with American income disparities. Income disparities have halved both in nominal terms when expressed in euros and in real terms when taking into account differences in purchasing power.

Noting further the prevailing industrial gap and disparities between developed and developing countries,

The willingness of the dispossessed to endure the existing disparities was fast diminishing.

Significant disparities in socio economic indicators evidencing a pattern of serious racial discrimination.

The Committee is concerned that unemployment rates remain high, with significant regional disparities.

Poverty and ethnic and cultural disparities are not confined to rural areas, however.

Of these disparities, discrimination against women is one that will require priority attention.

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Wide Outline

Open wide.

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wide open.

Some disparities had occurred in the calculation of conversion rates to United States dollars.

32. It is also in the cities that the income disparities are most obvious.

A. The weight of the past and economic and social disparities 35 50 10

While we have managed to reduce gender disparities in education and have succeeded in improving access to sanitation and other basic facilities, great disparities remain in the levels of development both within and among our countries.

Recent major initiatives in the region had included the Regional Implementation Forum on Sustainable Development, held in early 2004 in Geneva, which had assessed the problems to be resolved in the areas of water, sanitation and human settlements, bearing in mind the wide disparities in the ECE region.

During the period under review, concerns about continued slack economic performance and accompanying difficult social conditions (including wide socio economic disparities) led to the implementation of the new economic orientation, decided upon by the Council of Ministers in March 1997 according to the broad lines set out below.

However, disparities between rural and urban populations persisted, and terrorist activities had undermined development efforts.