Sentences with phrase «group of wealthy countries»

Statistics released in December show that, during the 1980s, Britain was the only one of the G7 group of wealthy countries to reduce the share of its national wealth devoted to industrial R&D.

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Kumar Birla, chairman of the Indian conglomerate Aditya Birla Group and, according to Forbes, the country's eighth - wealthiest person, told Trudeau he finds both the federal and provincial governments in Canada to be very friendly for business.

They support the Christian Right political groups in this country who are actually the Republican super wealthy you use the money to buy elections, create wars in the name of God.

In any event, this brings me neatly to a subject that has long confused me, which is the continued presence in this country of a large group of people who pay very little tax despite being, in many cases, staggeringly wealthy.

The leaked YouTube video shows Romney speaking to a group of wealthy donors suggesting that nearly half the country doesn't pay federal income taxes and relies on government assistance.

The voucher program began in 2009, when a group of conservative candidates won control of the district school board and began a sweeping effort to privatize the education system in Douglas County — one of the wealthiest in the country.

I admit my hope wanes as I watch my own country's leaders take away services for our senior citizens, the middle class, and poor and give to the wealthiest 1 percent, a group who already have 40 percent of the wealth.

Though it claims to be nonpartisan, the membership of this influential group is made up of mostly right - wing politicians in legislatures all over the country who propose «draft» legislation promoting tax benefits to corporations, banks, and the wealthy.

In fact there are very likely to be groups and individuals exceeding their fair share of safe global emission in developing countries because wealth differences in many developing countries are great and there are wealthy and middle classes in most countries even in countries where the vast majority of the people are very poor.

You have asked the first group to pay $ 3,000 each to fund the new licensing program; you have asked the second group, some of the wealthiest professionals in the country, to pay $ 15 each.

Also on the basis of Simpson's models, the effect upon competition from private legal services providers (without distinguishing between informal or formal providers) is as follows: In either type of country (wealthy or poor), wealthy social groups are willing to pay hefty premiums for access to private legal institutions, whereas poor or disadvantaged groups will prefer private legal systems only if they are cheaper to access than the state's.