Sentences with phrase «high income countries for»

That the UK sits 33rd out of 35 high income countries for stillbirth rates.

Not exact matches

The top countries frequently have high values for all six of the key variables that contribute to overall well - being: income (GDP per capita), healthy life expectancy, social support, freedom, trust (absence of corruption) and generosity.

While the literacy rate in Ethiopia is 50 percent for males and 23 percent for females, 100 percent of people in most high - income countries, such as Canada and Norway, can read.

Several high - and middle - income countries, including the U.S., have put in place legislation and regulation for cleaner air and water.

When rates get cut, fixed income yields fall, causing bondholders to go looking for higher yields in other countries.

New Jersey, for example, is hampered by some of the highest property tax burdens in the country, is one of just two states to levy both an inheritance tax and an estate tax, and maintains some of the worst - structured individual income taxes in the country.

«The benefits of gender equality are multiple, including increased labor supply; higher incomes, productivity gains, and corporate bottom lines; and reduced poverty in developing countries,» says Carmen Nuzzo, senior economist for SRI research.

While some investors choose to go it alone and select individual stocks for the income portion of their portfolio, the beauty of high yield ETFs is that they spread the individual company risk across several issues, often across sectors, and sometimes, even across countries.

In most instances the rate for a product is determined by the relative wealth of the country, with countries placed into one of three groups: Most - Favoured - Nation (MFN), General Preferential Tariff (GPT) or Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher country, with countries placed into one of three groups: Most - Favoured - Nation (MFN), General Preferential Tariff (GPT) or Least Developed Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher Country Tariff (LDCT), with higher - income countries being charged a higher tariff.

«What seems remarkable is that most high - income countries would welcome the Fed's baseline GDP and inflation forecasts for their own economies, but for the Fed it is not good enough,» Chandler says.

USDA eligibility for a 1 - 4 member household requires annual household income to not exceed $ 78,200 in most areas of the country, but up to $ 202,250 for certain high - cost areas; and annual household income for a 5 - 8 member household to not exceed $ 103,200 for most areas, but up to $ 266,950 in expensive locales.

The only thing you have wrong is inserting your clear self interest and calling for the government to not intervene, despite the fact that our debt to income ratio is the highest of the G7 countries and higher than it was in the US in 2008 — this is not part of a normal economic cycle and you're being irresponsible.

As we showed last year, average retirement income in the United States is among the highest in the world — higher than all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries other than Luxembourg (more recent estimates from Andrew Biggs find that Norway also has higher income).

The evidence from other countries is that fintech can enable higher savings for low - income individuals, access to capital for cash - starved small businesses, and better access to all financial services for underserved segments of the population.

In the 1950's, for instance, there were 45 countries that had a higher rate of growth in per capita income than the United States.

And many high - income manufacturing jobs for individuals with more marketable skills have long since departed for less expensive countries.

The report takes many factors into account, including income, lack of government corruption, and life expectancy, which the Nordic countries all get high marks for.

Colorado has seen the highest drop in teen birth rates in the entire country, and officials are putting the credit for that on a new family planning initiative that offers low - income women long - acting, reversible birth control methods (e.g. IUDs and implants) for little to no cost.

The club owners also charge Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights is targeting higher - income people for its fitness center and not truly providing a community service, said Mike O'Donnell, owner of Riviera Country Club and Sports Center in Orland Park.

«My friend / colleague / doctor has looked into it and says there is no convincing evidence of benefit for breastfeeding in high - income countries.

Just 1 in 5 children is breastfed for 12 months in high - income countries, while a third of children aged between 6 months and 2 years receive no breast milk at all in low - and middle - income countries.

In 2003, according to a report by the Trust for America's Health, Kentucky had the third highest level of overweight high school students, as well as the third highest number of low - income children between two and five years old in the country.

And for the Ghana study, it's unclear how the findings translate to women in a high income country.

According to The Lancet, «Losses [from not breastfeeding] for high - income countries are $ 231 · 4 billion, or 0 · 53 % of their GNI.»

For example, in high - income countries breastfeeding reduces the risk of sudden infant deaths by more than a third, while in low - and middle - income countries about half of all diarrhoea episodes and a third of respiratory infections could be avoided by breastfeeding.

Just 1 in 5 children in high - income countries are breastfed to 12 months, whilst only 1 in 3 children in low and middle - income countries are exclusively breastfed for the first 6 months.

In some high - income countries, where maternity care is integrated across birth settings, researchers have concluded that there are no significant differences between birth places in morbidity or mortality for newborns [15, 16, 19] and / or that the absolute risks of mortality are extremely low [13, 14].

As a final stage of development, two authors (VS and CR) assessed usability and feasibility by using the ResQu Index in a systematic review on maternal and perinatal outcomes related to place of birth for women at low risk of obstetric complications in high - income countries.

The final stage of developing the ResQu Index was to use it in a systematic review to assess the quality of studies (published between 2000 and 2016) on the maternal and perinatal outcomes of different places of birth, for women with healthy, low - risk pregnancies in high - income countries.

That is why we must insist on a radical plan for fair tax which we developed in opposition through the Tax Commission: lifting low earners out of tax; shifting the tax base from income to wealth, especially high priced property; and cracking down hard on the shocking tax dodging culture - personal and corporate - which disfigures our country.

When the French government recently attempted to introduce a 75 % income tax rate (for earnings over $ 1 million per annum) there were high profile cases of wealthy individuals threatening to flee the country, including the actor Gérard Depardieu (who followed through).

Countries with day fines are notorious for having the most expensive speeding tickets in the world in cases where a day fine is imposed on someone with an extremely high income like a CEO of a major company.

Before King Jimmy Bridge collapsed, the tunnels served as congregation spots for young people, where discussions ensued about their current predicaments and about the plight of the youthman in a country where high rates of youth unemployment have forced a generation into marginal and irregular income - generating activities.

And given the low middle income level of the country, Ghanaians will have more preference for imports from China and that may have accounted for high volumes,» she said.

Elsewhere, both parties agree they should abolish child tax credits for those on middle to high incomes and similarly, both say they would abandon Labour's child trust fund that gives # 250 to every newborn in the country to set up a bank account.

Sponsored by Assemblymember Carmen De La Rosa of Manhattan, the measure would allow students brought into the country as children to seek state financial aid for higher education, including the Excelsior Scholarship program that makes tuition at state colleges free for low - income and middle - class students.

«I think that, you know, paying a higher tax rate for higher incomes, having a million dollars be the cut - off is actually a better approach in my view, because you're retaining lower tax rates for small businesses and small businesses are such an important economic engine for growth in this country,» the state's junior senator said.

Both studies relied heavily on the Gini Coefficient, a measurement of income distribution in which a score of 0 represents a society in which all wealth is shared completely equally and a score of 1 a society in which all the wealth belongs to a single person (currently, the United States has a high Gini Coefficient of.4, falling only behind Chile, Mexico, and Turkey in this measurement of inequality for OECD countries.)

Create a just and disciplined society with a passion for excellence within ten years and with science and technology as the cornerstone, become a higher level middle income country.

· Families in Wales pay more for childcare than in any other country in Europe except for Switzerland and many parents on low and middle incomes are forced to choose between paying high childcare costs, reducing their hours or giving up work completely.

Average household incomes are now higher than they were in 2010, a milestone hailed by Mr Osborne as «good news for families and businesses across the country».

But Gilead's latest agreement with the Medicines Patent Pool aims to have new drugs ready for generic manufacturers as soon as they are available in high - income countries.

To address this, researchers looked at hospital records — from 66 low, middle and high income countries — for more than 12,000 patients undergoing surgery on the digestive system.

Jennifer Cohn, medical director of the drug - access program for the charity Médecins Sans Frontières in Geneva, notes that middle - income countries face the highest hurdles.

My colleagues and I have calculated that the cost of ensuring basic life - saving health coverage for the world's poor would be around 0.1 percent of the gross national product of the high - income countries (10 cents per $ 100 of income).

Rozelle believes such numbers bode ill for China's hopes of joining the ranks of high - income countries.

In high - income countries, the authors noted, these pediatric illnesses «are responsible for 75 percent of the total amount of prescribed antibiotics.»

It costs $ 550 each year to make wholesome food choices in high - income countries — which could be a barrier to healthy eating for low - income families

Rao and her colleagues reached their conclusions after analysing 27 studies from 10 high - income countries, mainly the US, comparing price data for healthy versus unhealthy ingredients and diets.

He notes, however, if an older adult's risk for dementia continues declining as it has in some high - income countries over the last few decades, «that increase in number of cases may be a little less eye - popping than it would be if the risk were staying the same.»