Notably, many object on ethical grounds to the idea of randomly denying half of a population the potential benefit of a new service or initiative.
The OECD predicts that, as the population ages, potential growth will drop, falling below 1% by 2020.
Among the working population, few potential employees had the education and skills necessary to support a viable business enterprise.
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And even though many citizens shared conventional prejudices about African cultures, the substantial African-American population offered the potential for a radically different appreciation of African art.
Labour MP Margaret Hodge, chairwoman of the cross-party public accounts committee, said there was the potential for "sudden and unmanageable population movements" between inner and outer London and potential housing shortfalls were "deeply worrying".
Providing modern contraception also has the potential to stem population growth and relieve human pressure on the environment and natural resources.
Researchers conclude that a potential future global population of 10 billion people could consume 1.7 trillion kilograms of copper total, greater than the estimated global in-ground stocks of 1.6 trillion kilograms.
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Given its population size and huge economic potential, Myanmar is a market that has huge opportunity for growth given the need for infrastructure development, better healthcare facilities and power generation in both urban and rural areas.
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Collins may also be comfortable with the untapped potential in the Chinese population and the relative valuation of a company like Netease to its closest American Internet peer.
And ultimately, by realizing the potential of the entire human population, we will all be better off.
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The population of just the middle class alone is much bigger than the entire United States population, so there's tremendous potential there.
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The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) said it was worried about the potential impact to a wintering population of sea birds.
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Applications for disability benefits are rising sharply because of high unemployment, an aging population and a combination of mismanagement and potential fraud within the system.
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You have to like that as an advertiser because that is more potential consumers than the combined population of the United States, Russia, Japan, Brazil and Pakistan.
The current recommendation is based on unique conditions associated with the existing pandemic, including low levels of population immunity to 2009 H1N1, the potential for health-care personnel to be exposed to H1N1 patients, and other factors, Dimond says.
Factors behind this year's outbreak include a higher mosquito population and "fitter viruses with higher epidemic potential, " Dr. Ng said.
With a population of 184 million, Brazil's potential internal market is large, and the country has attracted a host of multinational companies.
The authors assume that raw talent is evenly distributed around the world, so countries with a bigger population will, by definition, have more potential medal winners.
Some factors behind this year's outbreak include a higher mosquito population and "fitter viruses with higher epidemic potential, " said according to Ng Lee Ching, director of the Environmental Health Institute at Singapore's National Environment Agency.
Just as weather forecasters chart storms off Africa to predict which ones could become hurricanes, he hopes to create a database of animal viruses that have the potential to cross into the human population over the next few decades.
They are an emerging population -- millions of people with more potential in capacity, more mobile, more educated, more healthy, more empowered technology, but still trapped in very, very old social models that see them in terms of tragedy and charity and need and care.
She has made closing the Middle East's "knowledge divide" -- the gap in knowledge that has grown as a result of people in richer countries having more access to computers, the Internet and education than those in poorer countries -- a top priority over the next few years in the hope that it will unlock the economic potential of the region's population.
Some scientists warn the outbreak has the potential to devastate the UK's population of 80 million ash trees.
Some scientists have warned that the outbreak has the potential to devastate the UK's population of 80 million ash trees.
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In Great Britain, where The Economist is published, the number of potential emigrants increased to 33% of the population.
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What gets ignored is that Georgia, although a small country (population: 4.6 million), has the potential to do far more for its defense.
So when research is performed internationally, it is important that the local population from which subjects are drawn have at least the potential to benefit from the research.
It has to do with the needs of the people of Iraq because for you to reach your potential, you not only need an educated population but a healthy population.
There is great potential in Asia, even simply in terms of population.
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