Sentences with phrase «in higher income countries»

They matter for kids in higher income countries — in the United States, measures of teacher preparation and certification are by far the strongest correlates of student achievement in reading and mathematics.

In higher income countries, we have known this was the case for some time.

Consumer food waste carries the highest environmental impact compared to losses earlier in the food chain, and it is no longer a problem concentrated only in higher income countries.

Worryingly, if unsurprisingly, the agency found that the majority of those with the condition aren't receiving adequate care: in high income countries, it estimates 50 % of those with the disorder don't get treatment, while in low - income countries that number rises to 80 % to 90 %.

Later, Mr Brian Lipinski, using the «farm to fork» metaphor, explained that there are greater food losses closer to the farm in low and middle income countries and greater losses closer to the fork (fridge) in high income countries.

And for the Ghana study, it's unclear how the findings translate to women in a high income country.

The study was carried out by the Vision Loss Expert Group, led by Professor Rupert Bourne of Anglia Ruskin University, and shows the prevalence and causes of vision loss in high income countries worldwide as well as other European nations in 2015, based on a systematic review of medical literature over the previous 25 years.

Heart disease deaths have almost halved over the past 40 - 50 years, particularly in high income countries, thanks largely to the identification of the common risk factors involved and national public health initiatives, say the authors.

It has been shown that the environment is best looked after in high income countries and worst looked after in lower income countries.

The report pulls no punches when it comes to coal, including a call for a global coal phaseout involving an immediate end to investments in new unabated coal - fired power plants globally and the retirement of existing unabated coal - fired power plants in high income countries.

Finally, the discovery and use of fossil fuels enabled humans to escape the backbreaking manual work that characterized earlier human civilization by allowing the development of modern economies with all the conveniences that energy use makes possible in high income countries.

Not exact matches

While the literacy rate in Ethiopia is 50 percent for males and 23 percent for females, 100 percent of people in most high - income countries, such as Canada and Norway, can read.

Much the year - end maneuvering noted by the Rockefeller Institute involved the country's millionaires and billionaires rearranging their finances to maximize the portion of their income that would be taxed in 2012, at lower rates, rather than in 2013, at potentially higher rates.

D.C. has the highest median income in the country and over half of the population over the age of 25 has at least a bachelor's degree.

«California has the highest debt - to - income ratio in the country.

The study, which surveyed 50,000 adults in 24 developed countries, found that «daughters of working mothers completed more years of education, were more likely to be employed and in supervisory roles, and earned higher incomes,» reports Claire Cain Miller in The New York Times.

As I shared with you in February, Morgan Stanley projects the country to become a high - income nation sometime between 2024 and 2027.

Some have argued that these high - income earners will flee the country to avoid this steep rise in tax rates or engage in tax avoidance measures to shelter their income.

Gudell's right — in some areas of the country with robust jobs markets and relatively high incomes, millennials have found a way to make living alone work.

Inequality in America is high — both in wealth and income terms, and relative to other countries.

But it also takes a toll in higher - income countries like the United States and may be holding back American life expectancy.

Several high - and middle - income countries, including the U.S., have put in place legislation and regulation for cleaner air and water.

And with a corporate income tax rate of 9 percent on top of soaring property taxes, New Jersey has one of the highest tax burdens in the country.

When rates get cut, fixed income yields fall, causing bondholders to go looking for higher yields in other countries.

New Jersey has the highest average tax bill in the country, and the highest percentage of median income goes to paying that bill — 27.11 percent.

New Jersey, for example, is hampered by some of the highest property tax burdens in the country, is one of just two states to levy both an inheritance tax and an estate tax, and maintains some of the worst - structured individual income taxes in the country.

While the province's five - year - old carbon tax means BC residents pay higher pump prices, offsetting cuts to their personal income tax have left them with the lowest tax rates in the country.

Prospects in high - income countries outside the euro zone and in emerging markets have dimmed, José Viñals, the head of the fund's monetary and capital markets department, said in prepared remarks.

One of the biggest challenges is going to be in certain high - cost parts of the country where they have high home prices, relatively high property taxes or high state income taxes, then that's ultimately going to make the cost of owning a home more expensive.

New York's top marginal income tax rate of 8.82 % is eighth - highest in the country, but very few taxpayers pay that amount.

The most obvious impact on emerging market fixed income and currencies may be felt in countries with direct trade or financial linkages with the UK, although we also expect the rest of EM to be affected via higher global risk - aversion.

Sounds great, except the highest earners also pay 50 % + of their income in taxes in that country (which also sounds great IMO).

The JPMorgan Developed High Yield Index is an unmanaged index of high - yield fixed - income securities issued in developed countrHigh Yield Index is an unmanaged index of high - yield fixed - income securities issued in developed countrhigh - yield fixed - income securities issued in developed countries.

In fact, global remittances — which include flows to high - income countries — were estimated to be $ 596 billion in 201In fact, global remittances — which include flows to high - income countries — were estimated to be $ 596 billion in 201in 2017.

«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

The top corporate income tax rate in the US is 35 percent, higher than that in any other developed country.

SmartAsset calculated the amount of money a specific person would pay in income, sales, property and fuel taxes in each county in the country and ranked the lowest to highest tax burden.

In most instances the rate for a product is determined by the relative wealth of the country, with countries placed into one of three groups: Most - Favoured - Nation (MFN), General Preferential Tariff (GPT) or Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher country, with countries placed into one of three groups: Most - Favoured - Nation (MFN), General Preferential Tariff (GPT) or Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher tariff.

These nearly zero interest rates is what drove many U.S. and European fixed income investors towards higher income opportunities in their own home countries — so, they bought more equities, REITs and dividend growth stocks over the last 5 years, driving up valuations (though the February correction has brought back some sanity.)

USDA eligibility for a 1 - 4 member household requires annual household income to not exceed $ 78,200 in most areas of the country, but up to $ 202,250 for certain high - cost areas; and annual household income for a 5 - 8 member household to not exceed $ 103,200 for most areas, but up to $ 266,950 in expensive locales.

Complaining about income taxes is an American pastime in its own right, but regulatory costs run much higher, eating up 11 percent of the country's $ 17.4 billion GDP.

The only thing you have wrong is inserting your clear self interest and calling for the government to not intervene, despite the fact that our debt to income ratio is the highest of the G7 countries and higher than it was in the US in 2008 — this is not part of a normal economic cycle and you're being irresponsible.

As we showed last year, average retirement income in the United States is among the highest in the world — higher than all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries other than Luxembourg (more recent estimates from Andrew Biggs find that Norway also has higher income).

State income tax rates in the «Land of 10,000 Lakes» are among the highest in the nation, ranging from 5.35 % to 9.85 %, the fourth - highest top rate in the country.

As mentioned above, those are among the highest state income tax rates in the country.

The Nation of Qatar, roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island, is the world's leading producer of natural gas and has the highest per capita income of any country in the Arab world.

One of the greatest fruits of high productivity and rising incomes in a country like the U.S. is the financial ability people have to retire.

In the 1950's, for instance, there were 45 countries that had a higher rate of growth in per capita income than the United StateIn the 1950's, for instance, there were 45 countries that had a higher rate of growth in per capita income than the United Statein per capita income than the United States.

The Indian economist Amartya Sen notes, moreover, that the growth in per capita income has been about one - third greater in countries at the bottom of the economic heap than those at the high end, and that the figures would be even higher if sub-Saharan Africa were excluded.

«We offer high - quality products designed so that Bolivian consumers, who have one of the lowest per capita incomes in Latin America, may have the pleasure of consuming products comparable to those of any developed country,,» he says.