Sentences with phrase «few wealthy countries»

The concept of estate coffee, outside a few wealthy countries, is ludicrous.

Sidibé contends that in the past, the world singled out a few wealthy countries to fund the response, but today, developing countries must increase their financial commitments, too.

Not exact matches

The report Preventing Disease and Saving Resources from UNICEF UK quantifies the extra illness in babies who are fed on formula — and expense to the National Health Service (NHS)-- in an industrialised and wealthy country: `... moderate increases in breastfeeding would translate into cost savings for the NHS of # 40 million and tens of thousands of fewer hospital admissions and GP consultations.»

«Only the Labour Party is promising to stand up for working people, the majority in our country, while the Tories have made clear they are determined to carry on handing out tax giveaways to a wealthy few.»

(It is hard to speak of a real democracy in a country such as the US where winning a presidential election costs $ 1 billion and where that $ 1 billion comes from a few very wealthy donors.)

In 2012, Mr Miliband announced today, Labour's approach will be to offer to «govern for the whole country» rather than the interests of the «wealthy few» he claims are looked after by the Tories.

It allows greenhouse gases to increase for another decade until the commitments each country made (known as Intended Nationally Determined Contributions or INDCs) mature in 2025 or 2030 and it provides very few specific targets with the exception of a financial target that «strongly urges» wealthy countries to contribute ($ 100 billion / year by 2020) to support developing countries that are suffering the consequences of climate change but don't have the ability to adapt to it.

While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

The Mexican Revolution got its start during the rule of Porfirio Diaz, a dictator who perpetuated a feudal system in the country with just a few wealthy oligarchs owning and operating much of Mexico's assets and the rest toiling away for crumbs.

Postscript: In the meantime, there are few signs of serious action by wealthy countries to carry out the pledges they made last December to help poorer ones withstand climate impacts and adopt less - polluting energy policies and technologies.

I'd like to think The New York Times does a better job of making the news world flatter, but it's clear that, overall, media and the public in the United States (and I'll bet at least a few other wealthy countries) are caught in a circular chase for the familiar and relevant.

A small few are getting wealthier, a large many are getting poorer and poorer here in our fine «wealthy» country.

Cai says that, during that time, while the northern hemisphere has been well sampled by cargo ships and projects led by wealthy countries north of the equator, very few direct measurements have been taken in the south.

One way to prevent the creation of new high - consumers would be to persuade the wealthy to have fewer babies and to close off the borders of wealthy countries, preventing low - consumers from immigrating and becoming high - consumers.

In essence, wealthy countries were producing fewer goods themselves and importing more from rapidly - developing nations, such as China and India.

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