Sentences with phrase «in rich countries»

I'd argue it's an inferior good — if you live in a rich country with a stable currency, your need for hard currency small.

Their books would only be available in a few big stores in a few big cities in the richer countries of the world, and few people could afford them.

In the richest country in the world, why do so many millions of working people have to worry about paying their bills in their golden years?

Even in rich countries, it will be months before everyone who wants the vaccine can get it.

Poor people in poor countries — and even the poor in rich countries — are going to bear an unfair burden of climate change, the report said.

Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure.

I think your point was that it was the kind of manufacturing (capital intensive) that could be done in rich countries.

This works out to around 45 million households in the richest country on earth.

By far the biggest cause of deaths was the reduction in fruit and vegetables, particularly in rich countries.

This is happening around the world, especially in rich countries.

According to the authors reducing consumption and achieving more sustainable lifestyles in rich countries thus represents the most effective way to reduce carbon emissions and ultimately deliver health benefits.

The rich countries too may find their production bases being moved to countries where labour is cheaper, leading to long term unemployment in the rich countries too.

The future seems pessimistic for humanity as a whole even though the elites in the rich countries are prosperous.

Rising energy prices and concerns about energy security and climate may be driving a change to renewable energy options in rich countries.

And she may be correct that material consumption in rich countries may be reaching a plateau.

Furthermore, reduced emissions as a result of fewer people being born in richer countries allows more economic development in poorer countries without adding to total emissions.

Children raised in rich countries are far more likely to receive a good education, for example.

All the same there is homelessness, youth frustration and unrest, crime in rich countries too.

Today roughly 10 per cent of each age cohort in rich countries receives more in a single inheritance than the lifetime income of someone in the bottom 50 per cent of income earners.

The researchers say that their findings might help explain slight reductions in male births in richer countries.

Consumers in rich countries, in comparison, would not see much of an effect on their wallets or dinner tables.

The trial's impact may be better felt in developing nations, where the screening programmes that have already cut deaths in richer countries are often too expensive to implement.

In rich countries information officers translate that into 30 minutes of activity a day.

Low cost abundant energy is the one thing that can make people in poor countries catch up to the standards in rich countries.

I think the number of even higher because the 4 billion assumes that the justice systems in rich countries don't face an access to justice challenge.

Mostly poor West African nations may be responsible for the growth of cocoa, but it's mostly people in rich countries consuming it.

They will become the default computing device of most of the developing world, and a surprising proportion of those who live in rich countries will eventually sign on, as well.

Firstly, assume that global emissions peak in 2020, so that after that year any increase in emissions from poor countries must be more than offset by declines in rich countries.

Communications and travel make people aware of the harm done to workers, women and children and to the environment — in rich countries as well as poor.

Issued by the UNICEF Office of Research — Innocenti, Building the Future: Children and the Sustainable Development Goals in Rich Countries, this is the first report to assess the status of children in 41 high - income countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

It is also restricted almost entirely to Africa, which, unfortunately for its victims, makes it a less attractive target for big drug companies than a host of non-fatal diseases (think erectile dysfunction) that are more common in rich countries.

Overpopulation in rich countries presents a much greater present threat to the health of the environment than does population growth in poor nations.

There has been a cheering reduction in birth rates, but sadly not far enough in rich countries such as the United States and Australia, and not sufficiently widespread.

The number of obese adults in the developing world has almost quadrupled to 904 million in recent decades, overtaking the number in rich countries

Poor countries, even if we figure out how to take livestock and land use in rich countries and get that down to zero, there's going be a lot of emissions out of poor countries.

Cornell and the USDA have already built such a model for some traits in corn; because people in rich countries eat corn, there's a big market for better varieties.

(07/17/2008) Government support of biofuel production in rich countries is squandering vast amounts of amounts of money while exacerbating the global food crisis and failing to meaningfully curb greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy security, alleges a new report from the OECD, the club of industrialized nations.

Stillbirth is a common occurrence, even in rich countries with good healthcare systems: every day, eleven babies are stillborn in the UK.

Football has taken over the role of religion» for good or bad» whatever your viewpoint it gives enormous enjoyment to millions of people, not in rich countries alone, but nations that can use the game as testament to their economic and political maturity.

A scientist and development expert, Dr. Schilling was the first to bring widespread attention in the coffee industry to the fact that coffee is an orphan crop: grown in poor countries, consumed in rich countries, and researched in neither.

The external environment increasingly reflects what we are inside — particularly in rich countries where we are laced with pharmaceuticals to prevent pregnancy, improve sex, cheer up, wind down, grow hair, kill cancer, you name it.