On many questions, particularly those related to whether blacks are treated equitably and whether race plays too large a role in the national discourse, blacks and whites seemed to be living on different planets.
The real question concerning Medicare is not whether the program's burden is shared equitably, but whether there is legislative or public will to spend more money as more money is needed.
Additional evaluations of similar strategies will be needed to determine whether our strategy can be applied equitably elsewhere, and whether reductions in fuel use, household air pollution, and the incidence of respiratory diseases will follow adoption of improved cookstoves.
Questions remain, however, as to how to share the benefits of biodiversity equitably, as well as whether the lack of both U.S. support for the agreement and enforceability render the convention impotent.
It's a sign of how hazy all this is in business that the moral vision is based on whether shareholders own companies or whether the wealth gets more equitably shared by workers, communities, customers or Uncle Joe: that is between two competing ideas, dressed up in moral robes, about who gets the loot and who calls the shots.
These services may increase access to transportation for some individuals, but it is unclear whether these benefits are equitably distributed across different neighborhoods.
To assess whether health care is equitably distributed, research methods are available to standardize for need in relation to household wealth (O'Donnell et al. 2007).
20 To determine whether services are provided equitably, however, it is necessary to compare patterns of service provision relative to clinical need, but this is problematic as data on the latter are not routinely available.
It is however, difficult to evaluate overall performance of the NGO sector and determine whether NGO activity is equitably distributed without benchmarks and guidelines outlining national priorities and satisfactory NGO conduct and surveillance systems.
