Sentences with phrase «as wealthy nations»

We can't possibly bring the whole world out of poverty if it means living and wasting and polluting as we wealthy nations do.

Unfortunately, the growing economies of India, China and Southeast Asia are following the same energy strategy as the wealthy nations.

And just 34 % of Japanese believe rich countries should do more about climate change, while 58 % say developing countries should do just as much as wealthy nations.

Why is it that Nigeria's money have to be spent on such project, what would be the contribution of the other first ladies financially, why should Nigeria portray herself as a wealthy nation when it is obvious that the contrary is true?

«It is a wake - up call to Australia because we think of ourselves as a wealthy nation, a nation with a highly developed education system.

Chile has moved to the top of the scale as the wealthiest nation in Latin America with a GDP per capita of $ 15,000 today compared to $ 6,500 in the 1990s.

As a wealthy nation with the highest per capita emissions in the industrialized world, Australia must be seen to do its fair share, otherwise other nations, no matter how big their emissions, will feel less obligation to do theirs.

Not exact matches

Though they admit comparisons are tricky, economists generally view public retirement benefits in the United States as less generous than those in many other wealthy nations.

President Donald Trump praised Saudi Arabia's defense acquisitions before as he met with the nation's wealthy young crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at the White House — and pushed for even more.

South of the border, there's a lot of attention being paid to the rich, as President Barack Obama and some wealthy Americans like Warren Buffett call on the most affluent to pay a greater share of taxes in that recession - torn nation.

Trump announced two picks on Wednesday for his Cabinet — South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and wealthy Republican donor and school choice advocate Betsy DeVos to lead the Education Department.

«One of our biggest requests is for the international community - wealthier nations - to provide more support to help organisations such as Tearfund who are on the ground to help more people.»

And in this wealthy, sophisticated nation, hundreds of older men and women now spend their nights in Tokyo's railroad stations or street corridors, curled up in cardboard boxes — just as they do in New York or cities in other nations.

we need to lose about 40 % — 80 % or the planet will do it for us we as the most wealthy nations need to set a good example

For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed» sends the message that I have somehow earned God's special favor, that God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by God.

In a capitalist nation such as the United States or Canada, those who benefit most from the social arrangements are the wealthy.

«Independence is all about the ability to put Scotland's wealth to better use, and develop a higher standard of living as befits our position as one of the wealthiest nations on Earth.

Mao Zedong banned the game in 1949, as it was one viewed representative of the nation's wealthy class.

As a nation, we are far more interested in wealthy adults than impoverished children.

And she is much more likely to either have knowledgeable breastfeeding support in her social circles or, if the breastfeeding specialist - to - mother ratio is similar to that of a wealthy nation, those breastfeeding supports are not having to compete with rampant cultural influence from formula companies and other cultural breastfeeding hurdles, such as unpaid maternity leave.

India benefits directly from the economic ties with wealthy nations, and leaving the Commonwealth would disenfranchise millions of Indians living as Commonwealth Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens the vote.

And the responses suggest a growing divide between the nation and its highest court on constitutional questions that have moved to the heart of the American system, as the advent of super PACs and the abandonment of public financing by both parties in presidential elections have enabled wealthy donors, corporations and unions to play a greater role in political fund - raising.

As Michael Fry, the founder of independence site Wealthy Nation, said: «We must make clear to voters that they can most readily make their country better by emulating their Victorian forebears in the pursuit of profitable opportunities.»

But, as some evidence, 1 in 3 Americans (citizens of one of the wealthiest nations on Earth) have no retirement savings at all.

But he says the state, which already has a temporary income tax surcharge on the wealthy, needs to address its highest in the nation property taxes right now instead of personal income taxes, also known as the PIT.

Chancellor Gordon Brown today hailed the UK's # 1 billion boost for immunisation programmes in the developing world as the first step towards making a reality of aid promises made by wealthy nations.

He pointed out that, Ghana is a wealthy nation with oil, gold, gas, timber, cocoa, bauxite, diamonds, fertile lands, access to water resources, as well as a strong and intelligent human resource - base.

It was pitched as the «perfect family home,» with an open floor plan, gated entry and landscaped grounds in one of the nation's wealthiest counties, Westchester.

In a recent article in Nature (1), it was observed that although Italy is one of the world's wealthiest countries, on most measures of scientific research activity it compares not with powerhouses such as the United States, Germany, or Japan but with such minor scientific nations as Portugal.

Wealthy nations mix up HFC numbers The PNAS study finds that developed nations have to improve their accounting of HFC emissions to UNFCCC, as well.

Global Cancer Facts and Figures, 2nd Edition, a report released in 2011 by The American Cancer Society, notes that cancers related to changing lifestyles as nations become wealthier, including lung, breast, and colorectal tumors, continue to rise in the developing world http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/GlobalCancerFactsFigures/global-facts-figures-2nd-ed

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

From emerging giants such as Brazil and China to poor countries in Africa, developing nations are demanding that wealthy countries ramp up funding and create a viable path to this goal.

The U.S. should rethink its overemphasis on military approaches, and Europe should honor its unmet commitments of aid to this region, but other nations — including the wealthy countries of the Middle East and new donors such as India and China — can also help turn the tide.

What seemed like a wonky and legalistic categorizing section took on high drama as some developing countries tried to use the so - called Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (or INDCs) as a place to remind wealthy nations that there is and will remain a stark divide.

Wealthy nations would likely react to such conditions by increasing air conditioning usage, but less affluent nations such as Yemen would suffer.

The number of people in Bangladesh dying from chronic diseases such as cancer, diabetes and hypertension — long considered diseases of the wealthy because the poor didn't tend to live long enough to develop them — increased dramatically among the nation's poorest households over a 24 - year period, suggests new research from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

The United States pays three times as much per citizen as the average of other wealthy nations — far more than even the second - highest spender, Switzerland, adding up to $ 3 trillion a year.

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As the nation teeters on the brink of WWII, a nearly bankrupt NAACP sends Thurgood Marshall (Chadwick Boseman) to conservative Connecticut to defend a black chauffeur against his wealthy socialite employer in a sexual assault and attempted murder trial that quickly became tabloid fodder.

I'm afraid I'll sound condescending here, but if you don't at least follow the news, you probably are going to find Syriana to be a tedious watch, and that's a shame in itself, as ignorance to world events is what greases the wheels of the grand machine that keeps corporations fat and happy, politicians in their pockets, foreign regimes in a constant state of perpetual flux, and the standard of living for millions of people near destitute in what should be the among the wealthiest nations on the face of the Earth.

However, as the gap between the incomes of wealthy and poor families has increased over the past three decades, so too has the educational performance of their children, bringing into question the nation's reputation for equal opportunity for all.

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.

«Illinois has the most inequitable education funding system in the nation, where poorer districts spend as little as $ 6,000 per student while wealthier districts spend up to $ 30,000 per student,» Ostro said in a statement.

«It is appalling that a state as wealthy and as rich as California lies at 46th in the nation,» Dunn said.

As a nation, we're nibbling around the edges with accountability measures and other reforms, but we're ignoring the immutable core issue: much of white and wealthy America is perfectly happy with segregated schools and inequity in funding.

In a nation as wealthy as America, no parent should have to lie about their address to get their child into a high - quality school.

While Connecticut ranks as among the wealthiest states in the nation, Connecticut's failed school funding system leaves many communities without the financial resources they need to ensure that all of the state's children have access to high quality educational opportunities.

The Program for International Student Assessment, commonly known as PISA, was administered to 15 - year - olds in 65 countries and school systems by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based group that includes the world's wealthiest nations.

If we can just take a moment from our business meetings, money making, material accumulation, and exotic holidays to notice, we will realise that if the developed nations do not start providing financial assistance, technology transfers, infrastructure, education and debt relief to developing nations, the «wealthy» lifestyle enjoyed by Betty et al will soon perish as well.