Sentences with phrase «many wealthy countries»

That's not significantly different from other wealthy countries.

Two hundred and fifty million people in the wealthiest country on the planet are barely making it.

When the child of a desperately poor family is taken in by parents from a wealthy country, the material benefits to that child are significant.

In fact, recent studies by both the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development concluded that Canadian renters get a better deal compared to their owner counterparts than renters in almost every other wealthy country.

Between 700 and 900 women die each year in the U.S. from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth, and the rate has risen even as it has declined in other wealthy countries.

In 1913, Argentina was the 10th wealthiest country in the world, ahead of Norway, France, Germany, and Japan.

What the top ranked cities had in common was being situated in relatively wealthy countries with good health and education systems, good quality infrastructure and they tended to be medium - sized, and had low population densities.

Not only is the vast majority of the world's population breathing unsafe air, but also the gap between wealthy countries and poor countries are increasing.

Despite being one of the wealthiest countries in the world, the U.S. does not impress when it comes to basic knowledge of personal finance.

Other wealthy countries have dealt with this problem, passing an array of gun control measures, from universal background checks to licensing requirements to outright bans and confiscation schemes.

Wealthier countries, such as Switzerland (2) and Luxembourg (10) scored high on the index.

The celebration of Canada's 150th birthday was a time for Canadians to reflect on how lucky we are to live in a wealthy country.

1 in 6 — That's how many people in wealthy countries take antidepressants — and that's too low, according to a new study on treating the disorder.

Not only are those sensible ways of living but they're also things that create community, interdependence, the sort of life that we're made for together — and break the patterns of unsustainability and also land us in a place where we're the wealthiest country in the world and also one of the most lonely, medicated and depressed people in the world.

It continues when pastors ask how such a wealthy country can stumble into such a financial mess, Stanley said.

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME... the wealthiest country in the world spends billions for B2 jets, threw $ 1trillion at a bogus war in Iraq but lets its citizens die for lack of care.

«First World problems» is a term recently popularized on the Internet to designate the frustrations and complaints that are only experienced by privileged individuals in wealthy countries.

I think there are a lot of win - win opportunities for both wealthy countries and emerging economies.

Free trade encourages the investment of capital from the wealthy countries in the poorer ones, and some believe that this will eventually reduce the drastic inequalities of the present global situation.

And still the Leninist dream lives on: in a hellhole like North Korea; in the island prison, Cuba; in what ought to be one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, Venezuela.

This would explain why poorer countries tend to have such high religiosity compared with wealthier countries (the West mainly), plus wealth generally indicates higher education — therefore more enlightened on science, etc..

We focus on ruminant livestock since it has the highest emissions intensity across food sectors... While shifting consumption patterns in wealthy countries from imported to domestic livestock products reduces GHG emissions associated with international trade and transport activity, we find that these transport emissions reductions are swamped by changes in global emissions due to differences in GHG emissions intensities of production.

So it's not just rich owners now with psg we are actually competing against funding from a wealthy country!

Some have suggested that parents be licensed — even in the U.S., one of the wealthiest countries in the world, a staggering 15 percent of children suffer from hunger and many more from abuse — but as I've written before, based on what criteria and supervised by whom?

The report Preventing Disease and Saving Resources from UNICEF UK quantifies the extra illness in babies who are fed on formula — and expense to the National Health Service (NHS)-- in an industrialised and wealthy country: `... moderate increases in breastfeeding would translate into cost savings for the NHS of # 40 million and tens of thousands of fewer hospital admissions and GP consultations.»

We are one of the wealthiest states in the wealthiest country in the world, and we just shouldn't have hungry kids — that's one of my fundamental beliefs.

Manila, 4th August, 2011 — During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

With diminishing charity arriving from wealthier countries, self - empowering projects are needed more than ever.

This is by far one of the main kangaroo care benefits in both poor and wealthy countries alike.»

Breast pumps are marketed as an essential accessory of modern motherhood to wealthy countries with expendable income, Thorley says, and she laments the death of the art of hand expressing breast milk.

The United States has the worst rate of maternal deaths among wealthy countries.

NEW YORK / GENEVA, 30 July 2011 - During World Breastfeeding Week, UNICEF joins global partners in calling for the benefits of breastfeeding to be broadcast beyond clinics and delivery rooms to the public at large, ensuring that young people both in the developing world and in wealthier countries understand the importance of breastfeeding long before they become parents.

They do not complain - that is not the Army's way - but the book leaves a sense of grievance that such a powerful and wealthy country as ours should deploy a force less than adequate for the safety of our own people.Excellent war reporters and broadcasters are employed only to give snippets and snapshots.

«Indeed, if Scotland votes «Yes», we'd be the wealthiest country in the world ever to declare its independence.»

Mr Blair added: «For the poorest countries, whose labour costs are low but who often find the very high tariffs selling into the wealthy countries» markets, it is essential if they're to stand on their own two feet that they're allowed access into our markets.»

As far as aid spending is concerned, this is about leadership — the chance to set the clearest example to other wealthy countries to persuade them to join us in the commitment.

In Chile, the US helped overthrow the democratically - elected social democrat government of Salvador Allende and replaced him with Augusto Pinochet, the murderous puppet tyrant who killed thousands and implemented a brutal free - market programme, ruining the Chilean economy and driving a relatively wealthy country into poverty.

People in countries that provide citizens with a high level of economic security have a higher level of happiness on average, as measured by surveys of national levels of life - satisfaction and happiness... The most important determinant of national happiness is not income level — there is a positive association, but rising income seems to have little effect as wealthy countries grow more wealthier.

Today the European Union is a Union of 28 hugely different countries with a significant wealth disparity between the richest and poorest countries... This creates a massive incentive to migrate from poorer countries to wealthier countries; an incentive that did not exist when the Treaty of Rome was signed and the principle of free movement established in 1950s.

This system works well for a wealthy country like Britain.

Stories of child poverty are becoming routine when they ought to be simply unacceptable to a wealthy country like Britain.

Living standards did not improve in less wealthy countries through this mechanism and it failed.

«The UK is amongst the sick men of Europe when it comes to rates of alcohol related liver disease, which are far worse than many wealthy countries.

Most of the wealthy countries of Europe are not Federal, or have a very strong central government.

«This is the wealthiest country in the history of the world.

The Presidents and Prime Ministers of the eight wealthiest countries met for their annual G8 conference in Northern Ireland and, as expected, Syria topped the agenda.

Scotland is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and we already know that in budget terms we are stronger than the UK as a whole.

And it may assign developing countries a junior position within the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change body responsible for advising on implementation and technological and scientific questions, giving researchers from wealthier countries a disproportionate say in that body's conclusions.

People were devastated to see that a major city in the wealthiest country was vulnerable and that the people most terribly affected were the poor and African Americans.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.