Sentences with phrase «in other wealthy countries»

But what is not debatable is that American children's academic achievement is poor in comparison to children living in other wealthy countries.

Average life expectancy is the United States is lower than in other wealthy countries, Mehta points out, a fact that's often attributed to the U.S. health care system.

As in other wealthy countries, sustainability of supply is not necessarily a focus for shoppers.

Between 700 and 900 women die each year in the U.S. from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth, and the rate has risen even as it has declined in other wealthy countries.

Not exact matches

In fact, recent studies by both the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development concluded that Canadian renters get a better deal compared to their owner counterparts than renters in almost every other wealthy countrIn fact, recent studies by both the International Monetary Fund and the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development concluded that Canadian renters get a better deal compared to their owner counterparts than renters in almost every other wealthy countrin almost every other wealthy country.

«In almost any other part of the country we would be wealthy,» said one respondent who identified as middle - class.

So while citizens of other countries who arrive here looking to build a life in this province will get stuck paying extra, the savvy and wealthy investors who are driving this out - of - control market will easily find a way around it.

As far as aid spending is concerned, this is about leadership — the chance to set the clearest example to other wealthy countries to persuade them to join us in the commitment.

India benefits directly from the economic ties with wealthy nations, and leaving the Commonwealth would disenfranchise millions of Indians living as Commonwealth Citizens, stopping them from voting in the UK and other countries that allow Commonwealth citizens the vote.

On the other hand, countries populated by English settlers have all been wealthy whether they occupy a huge continent or whether on an island in the Pacific that they share with Hobbits.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto / JeremyRichards Diabetes, heart disease, stroke and other afflictions that once primarily plagued wealthier, western countries are now accelerating in poorer nations.A new study reveals that risk factors for heart disease in Indian cities are now more prevalent than they are in the U.S.

The conventional wisdom has long held that China is merely following the path of the United States and other developed countries that polluted — and in some cases, continue to do so — on their way to a wealthier populace and eventual stricter environmental controls.

While writing his dissertation at Oxford in the mid-1980s, he saw residents of some low - income countries — China, Costa Rica, Sri Lanka and the state of Kerala in India — repeatedly trumpeted as healthier than others and, in terms of mortality rate improvement, doing even better than those in many wealthy Western nations.

Overall, they report that sexual behavior results in 3 times more premature death and disability in the U.S. compared to other wealthy countries.

At the same time, more than 36,000 people died of gunshot wounds in the U.S. in 2015, and Americans are 25 times more likely to die by gun homicide than residents of other wealthy countries.

Indonesia is crafting policies — in part with external help from Norway and other wealthy countries — to cut its total emissions, mainly by slowing deforestation.

The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the other big player, is in the midst of a «replenishment drive» that is asking wealthy countries to donate $ 13 billion at a moment when the United States and many European countries are facing political uncertainty.

In wealthy countries where people eat a lot of animal foods, many other factors exist that can contribute to heart disease.

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Although the service is not as popular compared to other dating portals in this country, it has certainly proven its mettle in the wealthy dating segment.

While it is important to consider that there are other countries with wealthy men, they are not as prominent as found in these five.

The concept of sustainable development is being criticized, in Brazil and in other Latin American countries, since the word development is impregnated with the idea of a dichotomy between developed and underdeveloped countries, ignoring the existence of islands of poverty in the wealthy nations and islands of wealth in poor ones, and also implying that the so called developed countries, with heir unsustainable patterns of consumerism, were a model to be followed.

In 2008, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that «the gap between rich and poor has widened more in Finland than in any other wealthy industrialized country over the past decade.&raquIn 2008, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that «the gap between rich and poor has widened more in Finland than in any other wealthy industrialized country over the past decade.&raquin Finland than in any other wealthy industrialized country over the past decade.&raquin any other wealthy industrialized country over the past decade.»

While the United States spends abundantly on elementary and secondary schoolchildren ($ 12,401 per student per year in 2013 — 14 dollars), it devotes dramatically less than other wealthy countries to children in their first few years of life.

On the other hand, the United States has a higher percentage of children in poverty than other top performing countries, and many experts say that poor children need more resources to catch up to their wealthier peers.

It shows that in the US, as in other countries, children from better educated, wealthier families will achieve better results than poorer children.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

Along the way, several others join them, including Fineboy, a teenager who had joined the country's militants to protest foreign countries taking Nigerian oil; 16 - year - old Isoken, who is searching for her parents; and Oma, a woman escaping her wealthy husband, an oil industry employee who — as described in one of the novel's many great lines — treats her like expensive shoes, «to be polished and glossed but, at the end of the day, to be trodden on.»

Since the first iPad came out in 2010, sales of traditional computers have slowed in the U.S. and other wealthy countries.

Although money will not provide happiness by itself (I've met a lot of really happy people in third world countries as well as unhappy wealthy individuals), it can help us to provide financial security for ourselves and our families, help others in need, support worthwhile causes, and provide us with enriching opportunities.

But experts say there are plenty of schools in western Canada and the United States and other wealthy countries that could similarly tumble someday under assault from known seismic threats.

Since as what happens in the west seems to hold true in many other wealthy countries: money goes up, family size goes down.

The outcomes from these talks remain in doubt and other questions fester, like to what will the U.S. commit to?For an effective climate deal at December's Copenhagen Climate Summit, the world's wealthiest nations, the G8 countries, who are at the core of the MEF, need to take the lead both at MEF and when they meet in L'Aquila, Italy for the G8 Summit next month.

My point being John Edwards made the premise of his campaign to fight poverty here in this particular wealthy country among other's.

As those of us in wealthy countries ponder which light bulb to use, some 2 billion people still lack any night - time illumination other than kerosene or the like, with a similar number cooking on firewood or dried dung.

Mr. Obama is appearing to say that the wealthy countries that build the existing human - generated greenhouse blanket do owe a climate debt, of sorts, to the poorest countries in the world, but not — if I read this right — to China and the other emerging economic powerhouses of the world.

I'd like to think The New York Times does a better job of making the news world flatter, but it's clear that, overall, media and the public in the United States (and I'll bet at least a few other wealthy countries) are caught in a circular chase for the familiar and relevant.

He listed areas where deals might be reached, including: finding ways for wealthy countries to get emissions credits by paying for the protection of forests in poorer nations; the Clean Development Mechanism, a system for encouraging other kinds of investments that cut poor - country emissions; and systems for sharing technology.

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.

She added that China is moving away from the old argument that it has no responsibility to act on emissions yet because, like India and other large emerging industrial powers, it still has per - capita emissions many times lower than those in wealthy countries.

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.&raquin 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.&raquIn 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.&raquin 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.&raquin 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.&raquin both wealthy and poor countries.»

They state, in other words, that their results have direct bearing on the global warming issues, issues currently before governments faced with heavy lobbying from wealthy environmentalist groups, and the United Nations, which just this year will arrange around 38 meetings in 17 countries to push the theme, not counting the other enormous resources they have devoted to the theme that humans are destroying the planet.

In other words, it is only by accepting this two-fold obligation that the wealthy countries can make the climate regime genuinely consistent with a right to development.

And according to emissions specialists like the Tyndall Centre's Kevin Anderson (as well as others), so much carbon has been allowed to accumulate in the atmosphere over the past two decades that now our only hope of keeping warming below the internationally agreed - upon target of 2 degrees Celsius is for wealthy countries to cut their emissions by somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 — 10 percent a year.27 The «free» market simply can not accomplish this task.

At the same time, the rapid growth in demand for animal - based agriculture by wealthier countries has seen other greenhouse gasses like methane and nitrous oxide rapidly rise.

But the big push forward won't succeed unless China manages to break its climate - policy stalemate with wealthy countries, in which each side refuses to take action before the other.

Still, there's a real risk that other countries could lose interest in climate policy if the world's wealthiest superpower bows out.

What's happening in Germany is, unfortunately, a bellwether for what is to come in other large wealthy countries attempting to make renewables the kingpin of their power grids.

Other wealthy nations, so - called developed countries, struggling with their own economic worries, immigration crises, or controversial energy dilemmas, have apparently followed the U.S. lead and fallen in line.

But, unlike those environmentalists in wealthy countries who denounce the modern world while enjoying its blessings, the ecomodernists recognize that, though with today's technology it is impossible to lift the world's poorest out of poverty without destroying the environment, with the technologies of the future — next - generation nuclear and solar power, carbon capture and storage, high - intensity agriculture and aquaculture, and others — all things are possible.