AIDS gets more press, but malaria — and, to a lesser extent, tuberculosis — have also killed huge numbers of Africans and crippled development efforts.
Nairobi – 2 December 2004 Mr. President, Distinguished Delegates, Ladies and Gentlemen: Five years ago, the international community moved with uncommon unity and resolve to end, once and for all, the production and use of antipersonnel landmines, a weapon that cripples development and hope with the same relentless cruelty with which it kills and disables the young.
Summer holidays cripple educational development.
"Conflicts wipe out years of investment and achievements in education and can cripple the development of education systems.
Silos limit productivity, slow the decision-making process, and cripple the development of transformative ideas.
On the other side, the developing world side, there exists a vociferous lobby of those who believe that IPRs are likely to cripple the development of local industry and technology, will harm the local population and benefit none but the developed world.
He convincingly argues that lack of legal title has crippled economic development.
But there's a "you first" mentality at play, which has crippled the development.
Instead, it has become a battleground of sects, in which identity politics have crippled democratic development.
The completeness of Israeli victory in 1967 shackled the peoples of the Middle East to a ball and chain which has ever since crippled their development.
