High school degrees offer far less in the way of preparation for work than they might, or than many other nations currently offer, creating a growing skills gap in our economy.

If the food situation continues to worsen, entire nations will break down at an ever increasing rate.

It should be made clear that not everyone has a device to record their sleep patterns; in some of these nations, it's likely that only the richest people do.

One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

The implication is a sharp decline in global trade, which has plunged partly because oil-producing nations can't afford to import as much as they used to.

This type of arrangement peaked around 1960, when 62% of the nations 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one-in-five were living with their parents.

Sweden has done more than other nations to close the gender gap.

Late-stage developing nations that are currently industrialising rapidly, for example China, which will experience declining rates of population growth, coupled with increasing affluence (富裕）and age profile.

In the modem industrialised agricultural process—which developing nations are moving towards in order to increase future yields—energy usage in the making and application of fertilisers and pesticides represents the single biggest component

In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation work with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries

Governments in developed nations devise and implement policy that changes consumer expectations

Analyzing data from the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, among others, and consulting with experts and academics, we measured 28 factors to come up with our rankings.

Craft work has higher status in nations like Germany, which invests in apprenticeship (學徒) programs for high school students.

Then, in 1973, the predominantly Arab nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) resolved to stop selling oil to the United States.

These included developing additional domestic sources (such as those on Alaska's North Slope), resuming extraction at sites that had been shut down because of cost inefficiency, capping the price that domestic producers could charge for oil, and beginning to import oil from a greater diversity of nations.

What can the West's overly indebted and sluggish (經濟滯長的) nations learn from a flourishing Asia?

A case can be made that rich nations export environmental problems, the most graphic example being climate change.

But she says nations will not make progress fighting hunger and poverty until they begin to focus on those critical first thousand days.

Citizens of wealthy nations demand national parks, clean rivers, clean air and poison-free food.

Developed nations such as Australia, the United States, Canada, and European countries are essentially climate "free-riders": causing the majority of the problems through high greenhouse gas emissions, while incurring few of the costs such as climate chan

For example, the United Nations Children's Fund estimates that some 11 million children in Africa face hunger, disease, and water shortages as a result of the strongest El nio weather phenomenon in decades.

However, the agreement specifies that there is no formal distinction between developed and developing nations in their responsibility to cut emissions, effectively ignoring historical emissions.

International Labour Organization economists say some nations have come up with policies to lessen the impact of lower wages during the economic crisis.

Many major donors and the United Nations are targeting hunger-relief programs at pregnant women and young children.

Measuring emissions is not a precise science, particularly when it comes to issues surrounding land use; not all nations have released up-to-date data, and in any case, emissions from some sectors such as aviation are not included in national statistics.

More than $100 billion in funding has been put on the table for supporting developing nations to reduce emissions.

Moreover, non-participation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.

Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The nations participating at COP are focusing on quantitative emissions-reduction commitments.

The roots of his speech, given in March at the roundtable meeting of environment and energy ministers from the G20 group of nations, stretch back to 1972, and the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.

These new complications require the money and labor of many nations.

This is vital for climate-vulnerable nations.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.