Sentences with phrase «than high income countries»

NAC is the DOE contractor for the supply of spent nuclear fuel packaging and transportation services under the FRR program for Other Than High Income countries.

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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.

Larger, more industrialized countries tend to have higher corporate income tax rates than developing countries.

If countries like Germany, whose surpluses have caused so much damage to Europe, were to arrange income more fairly, not only would Europe benefit, but Germany's hard working and thrifty ants would finally get their rewards — a higher income, rather than a larger national trade surplus.

The second reason a country might save more than it invests is because of high levels of income inequality.

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

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).

In the 1950's, for instance, there were 45 countries that had a higher rate of growth in 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.

Higher income 15 - year - olds tend to do more homework than lower income 15 - year - olds in almost all of the 38 countries studied by the OECD *.

More than 90 % of extremely preterm babies (less than 28 weeks) born in low - income countries die within the first few days of life, whereas less than 10 % of extremely preterm babies die in high - income settings.

In most high - income countries, less than 20 % of infants are still breastfed at 1 year.

For example, in high - income countries breastfeeding reduces the risk of sudden infant deaths by more than a third, while in low - and middle - income countries about half of all diarrhoea episodes and a third of respiratory infections could be avoided by breastfeeding.

Indeed the working classes in most countries have incomes substantially higher than the median, sometimes even the mean income.

· Families in Wales pay more for childcare than in any other country in Europe except for Switzerland and many parents on low and middle incomes are forced to choose between paying high childcare costs, reducing their hours or giving up work completely.

Average household incomes are now higher than they were in 2010, a milestone hailed by Mr Osborne as «good news for families and businesses across the country».

To address this, researchers looked at hospital records — from 66 low, middle and high income countries — for more than 12,000 patients undergoing surgery on the digestive system.

In countries like Nigeria, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan, women are still averaging more than 5 children per family, while many high - income nations in Western Europe and elsewhere are having fewer than 2 children per woman.

He notes, however, if an older adult's risk for dementia continues declining as it has in some high - income countries over the last few decades, «that increase in number of cases may be a little less eye - popping than it would be if the risk were staying the same.»

On a per capita basis, Sweden has granted more refugee applications than any other high - income country, and in 2011, refugees constituted 12 % of the total immigrant population.

If you are a male immigrant and marry a woman from a country other than your own, you increase your chances of a good job and a high income.

The burden of diabetes, both in terms of prevalence and number of adults affected, has increased more faster in low - income and middle - income countries than in high - income countries.

Below is one of the figures from the draft summary that sparked debate; it shows that emissions from lower - middle income countries (LMCs) and upper - middle income countries (UMCs) are rising faster than emissions from high - income countries (HICs).

More than 11,000 people in the United States are killed each year as a result of gun homicides, and the firearm homicide rate in the U.S. is seven times higher than in the average high - income country.

The risk factors are often more intense and more common than in high - income countries.

A new study has found that between 2000 and 2015 global consumption of antibiotics jumped 65 percent.The data from 76 countries found that while antibiotic use soared in lower income countries, consumption in high - income countries was static but still considerably higher per capita than LIMCs.

MONDAY, Aug. 8, 2016 (HealthDay News)-- For the first time ever, high blood pressure rates are higher in low - and middle - income countries than in high - income countries, researchers say.

Schools that participate say they are curious to see how their students compare to students from other countries, especially if the school is considered high performing; a few participated to demonstrate that low - income minority students could perform as well or better than students nationally or internationally.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

Across the country, charter public schools are serving a higher percentage of students from low - income backgrounds than district - run public.

Researchers found that while charters across the country enroll higher percentages of low - income, black, and Latino students than traditional district schools, they enroll lower percentages of students with disabilities.

In less than two decades, Chile rose from its position as the country with the seventh highest income in Latin America to the wealthiest nation in the region.

Those who assert that the U.S. has a sky - high poverty rate use a relative measure of poverty that assumes all families with less than half the median income of the country are by definition «poor.»

Higher income 15 - year - olds tend to do more homework than lower income 15 - year - olds in almost all of the 38 countries studied by the OECD *.

In a matter of days, he has gone from talking about «Opportunity Schools» in Baltimore to claiming that «there are organizations in other parts of the country that are operating schools that are succeeding in leading children from low - income families — especially children of color — to reach much higher levels of academic success than the norm for their communities.»

Pobo Efekoro, now a student at Forest Hills High School in Queens, was juggling school, class presidency and a budget that was about to put the brakes on the IS 318 chess team, which had won more national championships than any other in the country — and out of an inner city school populated by low - income students.

According to Oxfam, «Brazil is one of the most unequal nations in the world, although it is one of the wealthiest... The country's high income concentration is revealed in figures: the richest one per cent of the population - less than 2 million people — have 13 % of all household income.

(N.B. the median is different than the average household income of $ 63,784, which is pulled higher by the country's wealthy outliers).

While the median household income of $ 61,757 came in slightly higher than the rest of the country at $ 57,617.

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.

The latest data from Statistics Canada shows that Canadians now owe more than $ 2 trillion in debt as of the end of 2016, driving the country's debt - to - disposable income level to previously unseen highs.

The data suggest the richer countries can expect s greater than g and r greater than g over long periods that can generate an ever higher capital to income ratio.

Limits vary by state and county, and areas with a high cost of living have higher low income limits than less expensive areas of the country.

The median California household income in 2016 was $ 67,739, which is $ 10,122 higher than the median numbers for the country as a whole.

When tax rates are high, such as our current environment where top marginal rates on regular income exceed 50 per cent in more than half the country, individuals who own capital assets are generally more reluctant to sell them as they require greater benefits to outweigh the capital gains tax burden they will incur when they sell.

In such countries, you should have more than one income account for realized gains, for example, one for realized gains taxable at the lower rate, and the other for realized gains taxable at the higher rate.

More than half of adult men in many Asian countries smoke; rates are even higher within the low - income groups who often provide services to travelers.

To ask India to take on the same obligations as developed countries with more than 30 times higher per capita income and over ten times higher per capita emissions is simply unfair.

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