Sentences with phrase «for affluent countries»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

The country's former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, has taken to his blog repeatedly to criticize the project — and the administration of current Prime Minister Najib Razak — for allegedly selling land, residency and other benefits to relatively affluent mainland Chinese and bringing little economic benefit to locals in return.

It has now spread across the country with several affluent individuals showing the risk appetite for investing in startups and as newer platforms such as Lead Angels and LetsVenture emerged.

More than 60 countries have now successfully negotiated what is known as Approved Destination Status (ADS) from Beijing, putting them on the list of group travel destinations for the increasingly affluent Chinese middle class.

The U.S.» Marshall Plan provided aid to rebuild Japan's economy and the two countries» improving relationship created an opportunity for Japan to export manufactured products to the increasingly - affluent United States.

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.

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Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

For evidence, one need only note how the diet of those living in poor countries saves them from many of the diseases that plague affluent Americans.

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.

I am all for raising awareness that the hazards of childbirth are not yet something that can be ignored and forgotten — but I get irritated when the problems of affluent countries get muddled up with the plight of less fortunate women, where the suffering is mind boggling, and there doesn't seem to be much political will to do anything about it.

The constituency is one of the most affluent in the country and for most of the 20th century, it was held by the Conservatives.

«Plans to hand free school meals to the under - 8s across the country were mired in chaos last night after senior Tories denounced the proposal to pay for the lunches of affluent children... London Mayor Boris Johnson rejected the plans, saying that better - off families should pay for their children's food.

For other Europeans, the UK serves to illustrate the inequality effect, and what happens when the laws of a country are changed in favour of the affluent because they have become so rich that they can effectively buy the interest of political parties — often through obtaining media support — and hence politicians, and then, by getting the laws they want, they control the judiciary.

For example, more light is emitted by affluent regions in Albania than by similar regions in Liberia, which means that differences between countries have to be taken into account.

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.

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

In fact, the National Institutes of Health concluded that «the vast majority of people in both affluent and emerging industrialized countries do not reach even 75 percent of the RDAs for numerous trace minerals.»

They have been opened as a way to save children in struggling inner - city school systems; as destinations for children of affluent parents wishing to avoid what they view as the pitfalls of public schools; and as laboratories that, in theory, can pass along successful new ideas to public schools across the country.

There have been a set of studies done out of John Hopkins University that track student gains in learning over time, and they find that in general the slope of learning gains for low - income kids and more affluent kids in this country is pretty equivalent between September and June of every school year.

The populations of rich countries have got to the end of a long historical journey... as the relationship between health and economic growth have leveled off, so too has the relationship with happiness... [In] affluent developed countries, further rises in income count for less and less.»

Tourism Australia's decision to use China to launch the campaign is supported by recently published research revealing that the biggest opportunities for Australian tourism to tap into the country's increasingly affluent and travel hungry middle classes may lie in its vast and numerous secondary cities.

As these laws were repealed, the area evolved into one of the most affluent African American communities in the country, home to Ray Charles and Ella Fitzgerald, as well as the first (and only) black mayor of Los Angeles, Tom Bradley (who stayed in Leimert Park for the first few years of his record twenty - year term), and filmmaker John Singleton, who inadvertently created the neighborhood's tagline when he dubbed it «the black Greenwich Village.»

This may be true for some developing countries, but in the developed countries, the premises of endless growth is to pacify the less affluent members without having to deal with redistributive issues.

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.

China and India, for example, the world's most populous nations, are increasing their consumption as they become more affluent and their per capita emissions will in time become similar to those of economically developed countries.

But juxtaposing the 100 - percent scenarios that promise a permanent high - energy economy with critiques showing such projects to be futile should lead us to a different vision altogether: that, at least in affluent countries, it would be better simply to transform society so that it operates on far less end - use energy while assuring sufficiency for all.

Affluent grain - importing countries are buying large tracts of land in poorer countries in the emerging cross-border competition for control of land and water resources.

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

The answer may be that the car comes at a particular moment in India's development, when the country is affluent enough to support strong demand for automobiles but still less regulated than developed countries.

In response, the more affluent ones such as Saudi Arabia, China, and South Korea are leasing and buying large tracts of land in developing countries on which to grow food for themselves.»

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

Of course, if you face a divorce situation, no amount of statistics is going to make you feel significantly better but these figures are interesting, appearing to show perhaps a trend for more divorce in less affluent areas of the country, that the peak READ MORE

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.

OK, go ahead and laugh: Take newlyweds with a modest income and little savings for a downpayment, and tell them they can buy a house in one of the most affluent parts of the country — say, in Northern Virginia, just outside the nation's capital.

Home owners looking for additional income are opening up their homes and renting out spare bedrooms to offset mortgage costs, which has made «homesharing» the latest trend catch on in some parts of the country, particularly in affluent areas.

The results for both strip centers and regional shopping centers reflect the income divide between the most affluent areas of the country and the rest, Severino said.