Sentences with phrase «high income countries like»

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But it also takes a toll in higher - income countries like the United States and may be holding back American life expectancy.

If countries like Germany, whose surpluses have caused so much damage to Europe, were to arrange income more fairly, not only would Europe benefit, but Germany's hard working and thrifty ants would finally get their rewards — a higher income, rather than a larger national trade surplus.

One of the greatest fruits of high productivity and rising incomes in a country like the U.S. is the financial ability people have to retire.

We have to consider factors like clubs matchday income, what country a club is from, their success on the field and its impact on the market value, social presence worldwide, high profile kit deals and shirt sponsorship, total yearly revenue and the debt situation of the club.

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.

Charles Kennedy: Well what we're saying to people is that if you don't invest in the future of the country, and if you pull up the ladder of opportunity that people like you and me have benefited from, and deny them the chance to go to university, then their very capacity to get in to a higher income bracket in later life, is going to be diminished.

In countries like Nigeria, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Afghanistan, women are still averaging more than 5 children per family, while many high - income nations in Western Europe and elsewhere are having fewer than 2 children per woman.

After briefly landing in urban slums like the Kibera district in Nairobi, Kenya, their sights may have turned to higher - income countries like the United States.

«There are important links between the environment and infectious disease risk, not only in low - income countries, like places with a lot of malaria, but in high - income countries like the U.S. and Canada, too,» said study lead author Dr. David Fisman.

The Sustainable Development Goals recently adopted by the United Nations signal «the importance of early childhood development as a priority in the global development agenda, including for high - income countries like the U.S.,» McCoy adds.

They don't know, for example, that schools like Stanford will offer full scholarships to students from a household income below $ 125,000 and that schools like Amherst have the highest graduation rates for low - income and minority students in the country.

In fact, residents in St. Albert and Strathcona County — a municipality that includes sprawling countryside and urban neighbourhoods like Sherwood Park — have some of the highest household incomes in the country.

Like many scientific studies, the IPCC draft used a breakdown of emissions from low, lower - middle, upper - middle and high income countries.

Economy - wide impact studies (Sathaye et al., 2005; Phadke et al., 2005) show that in developing countries, like India, adoption of efficient electricity technology can lead to higher employment and income generation.

«Researchers found that the U.S. did not fare well in the category of due process as Americans responded that they expect unfair treatment in the criminal justice system.In the area of fundamental rights, the U.S. scored below average compared to high - income countries like France and the United Kingdom»

[R] ising inequality within each country increases global inequality, but high rates of real income growth in poor countries, and especially in gigantic countries like China and India, reduce global inequality.

That may sound like bad news for taxpayers, but the high value of property and above - average income means that the state can collect a decent amount of money from property taxes while keeping the actual tax, which is a percentage of property value, fairly low — as of 2015 it had the sixth - lowest property tax rate in the country.

This is particularly essential in low and middle income countries (LMICs) like Kenya where the levels of unintended pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and sexual violence among the youth are high.

Naples, Florida Expected price drop: -16.6 % Median family income: $ 62,800 (137th highest) Unemployment rate: 10.5 % Median home price: $ 225,000 (40th highest) Projected to hit lowest level: Q4 2012 Like much of southwest Florida, Naples was one of the fastest - growing communities in the country as it prepared for the millions of baby boomers on the cusp of retirement.