Sentences with phrase «how wealthy a country»

This body of evidence demonstrates that it isn't how wealthy a country is that determines the health of its population, but rather how the products of its economic growth and national wealth are invested and distributed.

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The celebration of Canada's 150th birthday was a time for Canadians to reflect on how lucky we are to live in a wealthy country.

Many of the most contentious issues remain unresolved, including whether to incorporate the negotiators» goals in a legally binding agreement and how to distribute responsibility for the $ 100 - billion in annual aid that wealthy nations have promised to give poor countries to enable them to adjust to climate impacts.

1 in 6 — That's how many people in wealthy countries take antidepressants — and that's too low, according to a new study on treating the disorder.

It continues when pastors ask how such a wealthy country can stumble into such a financial mess, Stanley said.

CNN should do more stories on how hard it is to get mental health care in this country for those who aren't extremely wealthy.

The nearest I ever came to engaging in a deliberate act of civil disobedience was about a decade ago when I read The Great Treasury Raid by Philip M. Stern.1 This book tells how the tax laws of this country have been manipulated by wealthy people and huge corporations for their own interests and to the disadvantage of the large majority of less privileged citizens.

Your argument begs the question of how much the US would be harmed by not taxing non-resident wealthy people, when almost every other country seems to feel that there isn't sufficient benefit to initiate the practice.

«When you look at the tax breaks and 80 percent of them are going to the wealthiest people in the country,» said Seamans, «and that leaves 20 percent for regular folks, you say, «How can you fund anything that will benefit Middle America?»

All these make sense, but my question is more about how can it succeed among relatively wealthy high educated people which happen to live one of the most libertarian countries.

He would return from wealthy men's villas moaning to his intimates about how unfair it was that he, with all the responsibilities of leading a G8 country, was so impecunious compared with the super-rich.

Wealthy nations still haven't explained how they plan to fulfill their pledge to provide $ 100 billion to poorer countries.

Still, Ogden noted, a number of key issues central to the 2015 agreement remain unresolved — like what legal form the deal will take, how countries will prove they are making progress on mitigation targets and how much money wealthy nations will pony up to help poorer ones cut carbon and prepare for the impacts of climate change.

With dialogue that deftly explores serious questions, such as how much if anything do wealthy countries owe the poor and oppressed of the world, «Black Panther» draws energy from Coogler's sense of excitement at all he's attempting.

The UK is one of the wealthiest countries in the world — how can we tell our children that there is no money to spare for them?

But late Tuesday, Bali time, the United States bluntly refused to consider language — even in the nonbinding preamble — that included any specific numbers for how much overall emissions from wealthy countries would need to be cut to have a chance of avoiding the worst climate dangers.

When evaluating how much we spend on our military defense or keeping nasty, awful, unconscionable murderers and child molesters alive in jail... then it seems ludicrous we or any other wealthy country can't assist the poorer countries to develop better sanitation systems and practices.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.»

How is it possible that the abrupt climate shift unfolding on our planet is not creating nearly as much heat in wealthy nations as compared to poor countries?

The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recently proposed establishing a fund of $ 100 billion, contributed by the wealthiest nations, to help the most vulnerable countries adapt to climate change... Wisely planning how the funds generated by the Prime Minister's recent proposal should be invested therefore needs good scientific guidance.

The countries still have major issues to hash out, including how to handle the billions of dollars to be funneled from wealthy nations to poorer ones to help them adapt to climate change and develop cleaner sources of energy.

Indeed, the wealthy countries, through their reluctance to reduce their own emissions, have quite convincingly demonstrated to the developing world how undesirable if not actually impossible such paths must be.

Indeed, the wealthy countries, through their reluctance to reduce their own emissions, have quite convincingly demonstrated to the developing world how undesirable — if not actually impossible — such paths must be.

The progressive theme here is that a civility of a country is defined by how the least wealthy of their people live.