Sentences with phrase «affluent countries»

Unless the majority of us in affluent countries change our greedy lifestyles of enormous consumption and waste, the children of the human family will have an impoverished planet within a few decades.

The mechanism would open the door to possible compensation from affluent countries for poor countries facing the mounting costs of extreme climate events.

Under our very noses, in affluent countries, kids are being deprived of their grandparents prematurely.

Some of the budget accommodations in these countries may not be clean and comfortable, and travelers from affluent countries may have a difficult time getting used to the poorer living conditions.

So will a shift in clinical trial and research locations to less affluent countries with a more varied subject pool positively impact on key oncology developments in the future?

There is reason to believe that women in affluent countries with access to a varied diet need not worry about harming themselves, their fetus, or their nursling.

Villa Infinity is a spacious tropical seaside mansion reminiscent of affluent country houses from days gone by.

The USA is the most affluent country within the history of world.

Wine consumption worldwide is on the rise, especially in newly affluent countries such as China.

This is one of the reasons why children in Denmark fare so well relative to children in most other affluent countries.

His focus is to raise awarness of the structural reasons why hunger persists in affluent countries like Australia and the United States, and why it is unacceptable to continue tolerating this reality.

Consider the companies that own names like Wynn, Crown Royal, Marlboro and other recognizable labels to which status - conscious consumers in newly affluent countries will gravitate.

Parents in the slums of Africa face a daily struggle to survive but a Triple P study suggests their dreams for their children appear the same as those of parents from more affluent countries.

Alarmed that the U.S. is the most dangerous affluent country in which to give birth, state and local lawmakers around the country are adopting a flurry of bipartisan bills aimed at reforming how maternal deaths are identified and investigated.

Conversely, Finch believes that people in affluent countries now live so long because their childhoods are free from diseases like measles, typhoid, malaria, whooping cough, and worms.

But nutritionists say most people in affluent countries don't get enough omega - 3 acids, the most beneficial kind.

Really, we don't need to look at economic groups of nations — like the G8 or G20 — to judge how affluent a country is, or is becoming.

As you can, see the top three average deposits countries remain in the running even when they have to compete with less affluent countries on a normalized scale.

But NGOs and the civil society will likely have to wait a long time for affluent countries to make firm commitments on funding, risk transfer mechanisms such as insurance, and technology to help poor countries improve their resilience to climate change.

Literally every other affluent country has some form of mandated paid sick leave.

Affluent countries like Saudi Arabia, South Korea, China and India have descended on fertile plains across the African continent, acquiring huge tracts of land to produce wheat, rice and corn for consumption back home.

We also partner with our sister organizations through the IBFAN network to promote breastfeeding in less affluent countries.

The impact will be catastrophic, forcing hundreds of millions of people to flee their devastated homelands, particularly in tropical, low - lying areas, while creating waves of immigrants whose movements will strain the economies of even the most affluent countries.

And local efforts at changing that are not at all helped by businesspeople from affluent countries — with supposedly sophisticated markets and best - in - class business practices — show up with briefcases full of cash.

Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless as a source of wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in common with us.

The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate out of all affluent countries.

As the world's largest sourcing and logistics company, Li & Fung plays matchmaker between poor countries» factories and affluent countries» vendors, finding the lowest - cost workers, haggling over prices and handling the logistics for roughly a third of the retailers found in the typical American shopping mall, including Sears, Macy's, JCPenney and Kohl's.

This ideology is the basis for a mode of production, especially in the affluent countries, whose thirst for profit and for irrational expansion has not only promoted the pauperization of the majority of the planet's human population but has also led to the plundering and pollution of nature.

It is possible from these observations to conclude that triage and lifeboat ethics represent a «cop - out» — a cover - up to avoid dealing with over-consumption and waste in affluent countries.

This gap is now surfacing in the affluent countries, where public health systems are under severe financial pressure.

Those in the affluent countries who are in a position to appreciate the whole picture and respond positively are often blinded to the consequences of their countries» policies because everything around them seems to be in good heart.

Pay - for - performance — reimbursing health care providers based on the results they achieved with their patients as a way to improve quality and efficiency — has become a major component of health reforms in the United States, the United Kingdom, and other affluent countries.

Between 1970 and 2010, female deaths in this age group from cardiovascular disease and diabetes fell on average by 66 % in 11 affluent countries: Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Poland, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, the study showed.

First, affluent countries should devote 0.1 percent of their gross domestic product to health care for low - income countries.

Dr. Margaret Chan, WHO Director - General, stated that «From past experience, we also know that influenza may cause mild disease in affluent countries, but more severe disease, with higher mortality, in developing countries.»

Affluent countries, including the U.S., tend to have higher rates of depression than lower - income nations such as Mexico, a new study from World Health Organization (WHO) researchers suggests.

So far I think we could be forgiven for thinking that Brazil is an affluent country.

When leaders from the developed world pushed Prime Minister Narenda Modi's government to refocus his government's energy plans on renewable power on the sidelines of the COP21, the Indian leadership agreed — if those affluent countries helped India and other developing countries cover the costs.

Offering immigrants a second chance in a safe, spectacularly beautiful, affluent country is usually it's own reward.

Asthma rates, for example, in some affluent countries such as the UK and New Zealand are, quite frankly, ridiculously high.

Affluent countries like Saudi Arabia,

Affluent countries have the resources and public concern to address such problems while less affluent ones do not.

For those in affluent countries, it means moving down the food chain.