Sentences with phrase «affluent countries like»

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.

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.

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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.

Second, as protests spread to the more affluent parts of the country, people poured into the streets of cities like Sfax and Tunis and began to organize themselves with cell phones and Facebook.

No country has achieved anything like equity on this front, but several nations, often dubbed the «Asian tigers,» get more than 10 percent of their disadvantaged students into the top - scoring levels in math, alongside more than 30 percent of their affluent youngsters.

This isn't just wishful thinking; all around the country, affluent families are choosing to send their children to racially and socio - economically integrated schools, in places like Cambridge and Berkeley, but also in less likely spots such as Alexandria, Virginia; Stapleton, Colorado; and Miraloma Park, California.

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.