Sentences with phrase «less wealthy nations»

One study conducted in five less wealthy nations described no differences in health, emotional / cognitive functioning and physical growth outcomes for Orphans and Abandoned children living in institutional and community - based care (Whetten and the POFO Research Team 2009).

People of less wealthy nations may be subject to other factors that are individually worse than those New Zealanders and Australians experience, but their overall lifestyle, less processed diets and better family or social structures help counter-balance these.

But even before all the data were in, the researchers began to suspect that their assumptions were wrong, says lead study author Kathryn Whetten, director of the Center for Public Health Policy at the Duke Global Health Institute in Durham, N.C. «The stereotype that many of us in the U.S. and Europe have of an institution is not what is being set up in less wealthy nations,» Whetten says.

Most Canadians (64 %) say that countries like Canada have a moral responsibility to assist less wealthy nations in development, but one - in - five (21 %) say they personally donate money to overseas aid or charity projects.

Not exact matches

Though they admit comparisons are tricky, economists generally view public retirement benefits in the United States as less generous than those in many other wealthy nations.

And while parks services in wealthy nations have billion - dollar annual budgets to resist these threats, in some developing countries they have to manage on less than $ 10,000.

Wealthy nations would likely react to such conditions by increasing air conditioning usage, but less affluent nations such as Yemen would suffer.

From these subtle yet powerful opening scenes (it's the poor and the disenfranchised who fight for the wealthy and powerful), The Manchurian Candidate explores a multitude of political «issues» to a lesser or greater extent: the ill that is committed under the guise of defending a nation; the behind - the - scenes machinations of any country's political process; the unpalatable relationship between entertainment, money and politics, and most specifically, the enormous influence big business has on politics and politicians.

In less than two decades, Chile rose from its position as the country with the seventh highest income in Latin America to the wealthiest nation in the region.

According to Oxfam, «Brazil is one of the most unequal nations in the world, although it is one of the wealthiest... The country's high income concentration is revealed in figures: the richest one per cent of the population - less than 2 million people — have 13 % of all household income.

This isn't always the case, obviously, but it often is for expats moving from a wealthy nation to a comparatively less - wealthy nation.

As a wealthy nation with the highest per capita emissions in the industrialized world, Australia must be seen to do its fair share, otherwise other nations, no matter how big their emissions, will feel less obligation to do theirs.

out competed by less «wealthy» nations in this regard....

The cities most at risk in richer nations include Miami, Boston and Nagoya, while cities in China, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Ivory Coast are among those most in danger in less wealthy countries.

Projections by experts at the International Energy Agency (IEA) suggest that the growth in energy use to 2030 will happen in the emerging economies, like China and India, while the wealthier nations» use is more or less flat.

: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.

As Tom Calma, in his role as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, pointedly stated in 2008: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.

It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 % of its citizens.

The Report highlighted that it is simply not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations of the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 % of its citizens.

In essence, the study says, we're wealthier as a nation, but there's more wealth at the top of the economic pyramid and less wealth for everyone else.