Sentences with phrase «by wealthier households»

Also, yield - enhancing inputs such as chemical fertilizer and improved seeds are mainly adopted by wealthier households whereas risk - reducing inputs are frequently used by households with a lower level of wealth and limited access to credit.

It also shows how the biggest benefits are enjoyed by wealthier households.

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If these apartments were actually occupied, in other words, Chinese households would feel wealthier by between $ 1.5 to $ 3 trillion dollars, or roughly 12 - 25 % of GDP.

Most households didn't participate, as the vast majority of stock is held by the wealthy.

It has proven very difficult to bring the savings rate down because this can only happen by diverting resources away from wealthy and powerful groups and families in favor of ordinary households.

His claim that he's just a normal «middle - class guy» from Queens was blasted by Citizen Action New York, which said the governor's idea of what a middle class person is «would explain why he's consistently given tax cuts to the wealthiest households in New York — like his own — while neglecting the true middle and working class families of our state.»

The study by King's, UCL and Universiti Teknologi MARA (Malaysia) found that wealthier, urban and larger households and more economically developed countries had higher odds of facing CDHE.

Another interesting study reported by USA Today a few short years ago suggests that students coming from wealthier households are more likely to have recess in schools.

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

In the United States, for instance, 80 per cent of stock is owned by the wealthiest 10 per cent of households.

In terms of its effect on current household resources, such a tax cut increases the after - tax income of the poor household by only 0.005 percent while increasing after - tax income of the wealthy household by 5 percent.

But don't forget that this figure is lifted upward by a small number of wealthy households.

This figure can be distorted by a handful of extremely wealthy households.

The only households in which student debt has not been a growing proportion of total debt were households headed by seniors, households headed by those without a high school education, and households in the wealthiest quarter of households by net worth.

In a 2003 video installation, Corridor, Simpson sets two women side - by - side; a household servant from 1860 and a wealthy homeowner from 1960.

Obviously less wealthy households are very adversely affected by the Energy Department air conditioner regulations since they may well have great difficulty finding $ 5,000 on short notice.

3 Wealth Inequality In the UK, the «haves» — wealthy landowners and middle class households, have been able to take advantage of feed - in tariffs and subsidies by erecting solar panels and turbines on their property.

While African countries are beginning to explore the possibilities of farming biofuel crops for local household and domestic grid energy use, the consequences of growing biofuel for export to the wealthy countries so that they may maintain their energy intensive lifestyles, instead of growing food for consumption by Africans could be severe.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.