Sentences with phrase «from rich world»

Russia and Ukraine were the two biggest beneficiaries of the JI system, which allowed them to trade emissions reductions units (ERUs) «proving» that carbon cuts had been made, for assigned amount units (AAUs) from rich world polluters, in the exotic lexicon of carbon trading.

India is as determined as ever to sustain its economic growth and demand help from the rich world for any costly diversion from conventional coal burning to fuel that growth.

From the rich world building to its spunky characters, this is a book that will have readers clamoring for more.

The campaign in Chittagong confirmed our suspicion that there is a similar problem associated with shipbreaking, as with similar findings made in poor countries that receive large amounts of electrical and electronic waste from the rich world.

Not exact matches

With a net worth in excess of $ 66 billion, Amancio Ortega is the second - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

One of the world's richest men is worried that too much regulation will stop the world from controlling a major flu outbreak.

The London - based Centre for Policy Studies identified nearly 1,000 SuperEntrepreneurs from 53 countries by analyzing Forbes» list of the world's richest people from 1996 to 2010.

Rich parents teach their kids from an early age about the world of «haves» and «have - nots,» Siebold says.

Branson, also on the short list of richest people in the world, is still making waves as an innovator with various new enterprises extending from his core Virgin Records business.

For example, Costa Rica is regularly ranked as one of the «happiest» countries in the world, yet it's far from the richest (at least in terms of financial wealth).

According to John Mauldin, a Texas - based wealth adviser to the rich and author of the popular Thoughts from the Frontlines market newsletter, Solvency II is not on the radar screen of most people outside the arcane world of European pension funds and insurance companies.

Bill Gates and some of the world's other richest entrepreneurs will join with governments from both rich and emerging countries on Monday to kick off the Paris climate talks by pledging billions of dollars of investment in clean energy technologies.

You've probably heard the one about the recklessly ambitious technology entrepreneur from Silicon Valley: the maverick - iconoclast - innovator with the big idea who becomes fantastically rich and changes the world.

In November, Garrett Camp had just returned from his first trip to Africa — an «eye - opening» experience, he said — when he informed the world that he would donate half his riches to charity.

The documentary will tell the story of how Buffett transformed himself from a boy who struggled academically to become one of the richest men in the world.

In one generation, this tiny dot went from being broke to being one of the richest countries in the world, without any natural resources, purely by strict execution of a great strategy.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, is just a few billion dollars away from dethroning Bill Gates to become the world's richest person.

He's now one of the richest people in the world, but when Khan came to the U.S. from Pakistan, he worked as a dishwasher while attending the University of Illinois.

Warren Buffett may not be pregnant, but that didn't stop one of the world's richest men from volunteering the use of his stomach as a canvas to help bring attention to safe maternal health.

Meanwhile, more than two - thirds of the world's 50 richest people are men who built up their wealth from nothing.

Last week, the World Bank and IMF released a report which stated that the large scale migration of people from poorer parts of the world to richer regions will carry on for yWorld Bank and IMF released a report which stated that the large scale migration of people from poorer parts of the world to richer regions will carry on for yworld to richer regions will carry on for years.

Amancio Ortega is the fourth - richest man in the world thanks to his control of the Spanish fashion behemoth Inditex, which Ortega — who started out as a delivery boy for a local clothing store at 14 — turned from a small - town dress shop into one of the largest fashion empires on the planet.

This is according to research from British recruitment agency Aaron Wallis Sales Recruitment, which examined Forbes» list of the 100 richest people in the world to reveal what they studied, their first job, and how rich they became.

But after 1975 — when the Swedish state began to expand in earnest — Sweden's economy noticeably slowed, falling from the 4th richest in the world to the 13th by the mid 1990s.

Notably, four of the world's richest people hail from the tech industry.

Second, improvements in rich world living standards may, for the moment at least, come from the capture of policy low - hanging fruit.

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

Robert «The Cook» Gentile, the geriatric gangster suspected of hiding information about the world's richest art heist — the robbery of $ 500 million in masterworks from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum — could be released from jail Tuesday when...

Rich is also co-founder and non-executive chairman of growing global job search and employer - review site Glassdoor, and Trover, where travelers share photos and stories from around the world.

It was great for Nexen shareholders, but CNOOC received a lot of negative sentiment from Canadians because it's a State Owned Enterprise, which gives it an unfair market advantage over other energy companies because it's financially and politically backed by one of the richest countries in the world.

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

Not the behavior you'd expect from one of the world's richest and most successful people.

A 2014 competition law attracted the big U.S. operator to Mexico and knocked Slim from his world's richest man perch.

A two - hour drive from the tech - fueled riches of San Francisco, Stockton, Calif., is a completely different world from its Silicon Valley neighbor.

In the three decades after World War II, when the incomes of the rich grew more slowly than those of the middle class, the top marginal rate ranged from 70 to 91 percent.

Well, i advice you read on as i share with you seven business lessons from Warren Buffett, the world's richest investor and CEO Berkshire Hathaway.

As a final note, these are the seven business lessons I learned from Warren Buffett; the richest investor in the world.

With figures from last year's time of writing, Ferguson reports, «Six of the eight richest men in the world are Bill Gates (with personal wealth estimated at $ 76bn), Carlos Slim ($ 50bn), Jeff Bezos ($ 45bn), Mark Zuckerberg ($ 45bn), Larry Ellison ($ 44bn) and Michael Bloomberg ($ 40bn).

If there is a worldly cause for the rising numbers of religious vocations, it is the realization that the world today (and in every age) can not provide the invisible riches that come only from the love of God — a love beyond all understanding.

The initial aim is for the richest unification of the world possible from the particular perspective of that emerging occasion.

Rich with the sap of the world, I rise up towards the Spirit whose vesture is the magnificence of the material universe but who smiles at me from far beyond all victories; and, lost in the mystery of the flesh of God, I can not tell which is the more radiant bliss: to have found the Word and so be able to achieve the mastery of matter, or to have mastered matter and so be able to attain and submit to the light of God.

It is a «chaosmos»... [in which] even God desists from being a Being who compares worlds and chooses the richest possible.

The world for most part of it is in a rescission, Poverty is at a record high, the rich keep getting richer, people are dying from useless wars and gun violence, but the starw that broke the camels back (pardon the pun) is the name Mohammed.

This whole thing about hatefulness is pretty rich coming from someone who drew a cartoon of a person he disagrees with blowing up the world.

Both sides in this debate argue away from the assumption that a rather rich education, and a pretty fair amount of experience in the world, would be required of anyone who might plausibly be designated author of the Shakespeare corpus.

The religious scene in America is quite different from everywhere else, if for no other reason than that we are by far the richest and most powerful nation in the world.

Addai refuses to receive silver and gold from the king of Edessa, saying that he has forsaken the riches of this world «because without purses and without scrips, bearing the cross on our shoulders, we are commanded to preach the gospel in the whole creation.»

The Philippine organizers of the Global March mention following: widespread poverty and social inequality resulting in the erosion of the family's capacity to nurture and protect children, the rise of informal economy requiring simple skills and technologies, globalization of capitalism where underdeveloped nations provide the rich with cheap labor, disrupted family patterns due to migration, AIDS, etc. and inadequate basic services from government, including education, due to cut of the state budget of non-profit sectors to follow structural adjustment programme dictated by the IMF and the World Bank.

Addai refuses to receive silver and gold from the king of Edessa saying that he has forsaken the riches of the world «because without purses and without scrips, bearing the cross on our shoulders, we are commanded to preach the Gospel to the whole creation.»

The sutra is inexhaustibly rich with deep and fine similes which express this anxious love.10 The wisdom of the Tathagata is so high, his knowledge is so deep, that to the man who is blind, erring, and engrossed in the world it must seem to be absolutely incomprehensible.11 However — and what Mahayana shows to us is the highest reconciliation between God and man — this compassionate love turns to each man with the appropriate means and in unique ways in order to show him that he too has within himself the potential not only of ending his own suffering but also of one day being himself transformed from one saved to a savior, a Tathagata.