Age Concern Auckland chief executive Kevin Lamb said attitudes had to change.

Monsanto has acknowledged some continuing market hurdles, but said attitudes were changing.

Sekhri said attitudes appeared to have changed, and fewer applications were being refused.

Other workers said attitudes to care jobs needed to change.

Tokunbo Onagoruwa, chief executive of Lagos-based shoemaker City Cobbler also said attitudes have shifted.

Mr O'Connor said attitudes and investing strategies were changing.

Morrison, himself a Korean adopted overseas, said attitudes have changed slightly over the past few years.

The UNHCR's Nkulu said attitudes were slowly changing, particularly in school where children mixed and played together.

Kevin Quinn of Bank of Ireland Investment Markets said attitudes to savings strengthened during the period of economic strain.

He said attitudes to drinking had been changing even before the crash, especially since law changes around drink driving.

Although no high prevalence country is on track to meet the 2030 goal, Cappa said attitudes were changing in many places.

But Dr. Janet Serwint, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, said attitudes among parents, newer doctors and medical students are changing.

But Rwabukumba said attitudes were starting to change, not least because money raised on the bourse was cheaper than a bank loan.

Eamon Gilmore said attitudes in the country were almost unrecognisable to those that prevailed a generation ago but insisted more progress was needed.

The move was welcomed by Carolyn Harris, the Labour MP for Swansea East, who said attitudes around problem gambling was at last shifting.

Flight Centre CEO Graham Turner said attitudes towards border closures had "swung dramatically in the last month or so" in Queensland.