"It is a socio-economic issue, " said vice-chairman Huw Lewis.
The financial crisis has become a socio-economic crisis impacting the young by increasing the burden of debt, creating a lack of job opportunities, causing resource degradation and decreasing the overall quality of life.
Though Occupy Black Friday may not lead to the entire country rejecting Black Friday altogether, the phenomenon reflects a deep and profound frustration and angst yet present in American society over a socio-economic environment drowned in consumerism and commercialism.
Nevertheless, given changes in American society over the past 100 years, it appears as if the left would have more to lose on a socio-political level in the wake of a complete financial meltdown that gives rise to societal breakdown.
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If however you practice medicine in a low socio-economic area with its unique challenges, I suggest you have a better idea of the reality of the healthcare consumer.
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They were also more likely to be well educated and to have a high socio-economic status.
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In 2010, it became the first in its industry to carry out a comprehensive socio-economic impact assessment in Ghana, one of its key markets.
While Le Matin points to a low level of involvement by Algerians in party meetings as being indicative of a "socio-political rift between those in power and the citizens".
They initially decided that their group would not be constrained by some of the loose etiquette that had been established in Anonymous, including not attacking the media or making a particular socio-political point with each attack.
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Most of the victims we read about in India are largely uneducated women from poorer backgrounds - reinforcing a general perception that domestic violence or intimate partner violence is more pervasive in groups of a lower socio-economic status.
Because of a combination of socio-economic factors, minorities are at higher risk of becoming obese.
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Still, citizens complain about a slew of socio-economic concerns, among them inflation, jobs, housing, education and affordable health care.
However they weather these storms, these tempest-tossed nations will emerge with fewer impediments to a more sensible socio-economic dynamic across the region.
This lack of access to education can be attributed to a number of socio-economic factors including limited state budget for rural schools and lack of public awareness.
The continued prevalence of illiteracy in the country is due to a number of socio-economic factors including high levels of poverty and the general lack of development, all of which prevents many people from gaining access to basic education.
These are responsible for a wide range of environmental and socio-economic pressures that pose a serious threat to World Heritage properties.
However, funding arrangements meant children "were recruited from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds", Ofsted said.
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Wetlands constitute a resource of great socio-economic, cultural and scientific value, and their loss would be irreparable.
But it is a masterly account of socio-economic conditions in Scotland in the 19th century and raises many unanswered questions.
Success cases like the one sighted above are many and therefore serve to show that adult education programmes can and are indeed a vehicle for upward socio-economic mobility.
In the Analytical Report and its recommendations special attention is paid at correspondence of the content of education to the demands of a present-day socio-cultural situation, ensuring continuity of education at different levels of the education system.
The aim of this programme was to create a model that would make it possible to forge a link between literacy and the socio-economic integration of neo-literate women by way of a post-literacy training programme to consolidate the literacy skills acquired and prepare them to run micro-projects.
Parliamentarians can play a key role in the formulation and enforcement of policies and reforms for socio-economic development in a society.
They want to out what influences a mother's decision to give consent for her daughter to be vaccinated and whether socio-economic factors play a part.
The way individuals perceive each other is determined by their personal background, a mix of cultural, socio-political, ideological and religious factors.
The consensus: The continent is becoming more attractive than ever before to international investors, and perceptions are becoming more distinctively positive as a result of the improved socio-economic growth that has pervaded the continent.
Where the Occupy movement can be commended for criticizing Black Friday, in the same vein, the Occupy movement needs to take a closer look at the socio-economic environment that fosters and sustains things like Black Friday.
Biosphere reserves have lead to a new approach to conservation which requires not only consideration of the relationship between humans and nature within the protected areas ant their surrounding areas but also a balance to ensure sustainable socio-economic development demands.
Concluding, he said, as a mark of its commitment to addressing socio-economic problems that often served as the root causes of conflicts, his organization had established a special fund for poverty alleviation in Member States and a special programme for the development of Africa.
Addressing the media, Rashid Khan, President and CEO, Mobilink, shared that the 5 month pilot project conducted with 250 adolescent girls in Punjab has shown a marked improvement in their skills and has managed to overcome the socio-cultural barriers traditionally associated with owning a cell phone.
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