Earlier, the LGA called for extra cash for areas most affected by rapid population changes.
Participants addressed current major challenges such as rapid population growth, environmental degradation, and climate change.
This is important as rapid population growth is a major factor accounting for failed states.
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Florida is the biggest prize in this sweepstakes given its rapid population growth.
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They include, in the economy, sluggish growth, widespread poverty and rapid population growth.
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The report calls for more emphasis on engineering solutions to problems caused by rapid population growth, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.
Rapid population growth has put enormous pressure on agricultural systems that have been pushed towards unsustainable farming practices in order to cope with demand.
The figures show that the ongoing economic crisis has reversed the country's rapid population growth in the decade before the financial crisis erupted in 2008.
This watershed period called "the long 16th century" by historian Immanuel Wallerstein was characterized by rapid population growth, the rise of capitalism, religious controversy and global exploration.
Pakistan's economy grew at just 3% a year over the past five years, barely keeping pace with rapid population growth, as annual inflation remained in the double digits.
Policymakers, demographers and military men all thought rapid population growth was the biggest single threat to mankind and that drastic measures would be needed to rein it in.
The combination of rapid population growth and changing diets may increase the demand for food by 70% by 2050, according to the recently released 4th UN World Water Development Report.
However, Carnegie notes that the fiscal budgets of many oil-exporting countries were rising prior to the citizen revolution due to a lack of non-oil revenues, rapid population growth and generous welfare systems.
They pointed out that rich nations like the UK and US had already experienced their own periods of rapid population growth during industrialisation - and blamed Western consumers for appropriating too many of the planet's resources.
During the next three days they will look at how TVET systems cans be reinforced and expanded to deal with rapidly changing and uncertain labour markets and high levels of unemployment coupled with diminishing natural resources, environmental deterioration, climate change and rapid population growth.
Rapid population growth, mainly, says Krugman. (Since 2007, the number of working age residents grew by 6.6%, nearly twice the national average.) Krugman also points out that some 10% of Texan workers earn the minimum wage or less, and a quarter of Texans have no health insurance, the highest rate in the country.
The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
It is hoped this combination will stimulate the immune system to recognising and destroying cancer cells, while at the same time preventing rapid re-population by any cells not killed off by the immune defences.
"As a country we are not ready for the rapid ageing of our population, " Lord Filkin, the Labour peer who chairs the committee, said.
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The justification for the Israel's system of proportional representation is that the state is still undergoing far-reaching and rapid changes in the population make-up as a result of immigration.
The Japanese auto market has already been declining steadily over many years due to its aging and shrinking population, rapid urbanization, leading to space constraints in many Japanese cities and high tax burden on car owners.
By lowering the competition for food, successful poisons tend to make the survivors more healthy and fertile, leading to a rapid rebound in the pest population.
The money to be made from killing elephants for a living is also tempting for many people in the region, where population growth is rapid and poverty rates are high.
When a trap counts more than 10 flies in 30 minutes, or when the forecast model predicts a rapid surge in the fly population, it triggers an alert and sends a text message with the warning to farmers' mobile phones.
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Mr. Khan is banking on appealing to a rising Pakistani middle class, rapid growth in the youth population and a new public consciousness about the nature of the country's ills thanks to a vigorous, expanding news media rife with political talk shows.
This is all the more worrying given the rapid ageing of Italy's population.
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The world's past wealth creation is outstripped every generation by innovation, human progress and the rapid growth of the above-subsistence population.
All have had to cope with the most wrenching change any part of the world has had to endure in living memory, including the fastest population growth, the most rapid urbanisation and some of the biggest tides of immigration.
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Habitat, says the organization is helping Kenya to tackle some of the challenges brought about by population growth, urbanization and a rapid increase in motor-vehicle ownership.
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