Sentences with phrase «living in wealthy countries»

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.

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The Thai government has started offering «elite» residency visas for wealthy foreign citizens, allowing them to live in the country for around $ 3,000 (# 2,403) a year.

To say the rich live differently than we do doesn't tell the full story of life in many of these wealthy enclaves across the country.

«The dip in life satisfaction occurs around the age of 45 until 54, and is seen across many wealthy English - speaking countries, including the United States, Canada, the UK and Australia.»

But PCs» place in offices and living rooms, especially in relatively wealthy homes and countries, may be more secure than industry watchers had imagined.

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.

Not only are those sensible ways of living but they're also things that create community, interdependence, the sort of life that we're made for together — and break the patterns of unsustainability and also land us in a place where we're the wealthiest country in the world and also one of the most lonely, medicated and depressed people in the world.

But now we may be seeing the rise of white - collar and blue - collar countries, where the differing legal systems prevent the development of healthy workplaces and labor relationships, especially in poorer countries attempting to live at the whims of the wealthy West's consumption choices.

And still the Leninist dream lives on: in a hellhole like North Korea; in the island prison, Cuba; in what ought to be one of the wealthiest countries on the planet, Venezuela.

Fixing school food in every community — the relatively wealthy Boulder and Berkeley, as well as the outright destitute parts of the country devastated by the housing debacle and unemployment — requires all of us to work together as one to get the fedreal government to fund school meal programs in a way that provides fresh nutritious food for all students, not just those lucky enough to live where people can afford to take matters into their own hands and make a local fix.

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.

People in countries that provide citizens with a high level of economic security have a higher level of happiness on average, as measured by surveys of national levels of life - satisfaction and happiness... The most important determinant of national happiness is not income level — there is a positive association, but rising income seems to have little effect as wealthy countries grow more wealthier.

Living standards did not improve in less wealthy countries through this mechanism and it failed.

But even the wealthiest countries face problems in maternal health, including the U.S., where 17 women die per 100,000 live births.

But children in orphanages in less wealthy countries appear to be doing just as well as their orphaned or abandoned counterparts who live in private homes — even those living with family members — according to a new study that examined the well - being of some 3,000 children in five countries.

«It raises the possibility that people who think life is better in wealthier countries — and who thus go to a wealthier county to try and improve their own lives — might be disappointed by what they experience there.»

For the last century and a half, the average life span in wealthy countries has increased steadily, climbing from about 45 to more than 80 years.

As their birth rates plummet and citizens live longer, the wealthiest countries are desperately trying to bring in migrants to keep their economies afloat

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.

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.

«Several high - quality charter schools across the country are making an amazing difference in our children's lives, especially when charters in inner - city communities are performing as well, if not better, than their counterparts in much wealthier suburbs,» Duncan said.

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

As for why the corruption, all the obvious reasons: a) the country's made up of a zillion different historically hostile tribes arbitrarily thrown together as a country by the Brits; b) life is short, there are few official safety nets (e.g., unemployment insurance, pensions), so there are few moral qualms about taking care of your own, no matter what; c) there's not yet any sort of history of democracy, of regulation of profiteering — this is a very young, very capitalist country; d) the outside world and all its wealth provides tremendous incentives for corruption — the amount and indiscriminate nature of foreign aid, the fact that the amount of money that would eventually be paid for, say, a rhino horn dagger will trickle down to paying the poacher enough money to cover his kids» school fees for years; e) the fact that the west encourages the illicitly wealthy in the developing world to hide their loot in western institutions (e.g., Swiss banks).

Gurney really just wants to live a simple life in the country, but he is dragged back into the crime world when a wealthy real estate developer is shot and the unfaithful wife is convicted of murder.

This is the area to the west of the capital where wealthy urbanites live out country fantasies wearing Hunter wellies and Barbour jackets, relaxing in stylishly done - up cafes and excellent restaurants.

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And it would make electricity grids unstable, leading to more frequent and widespread, costly and often fatal, brownouts and blackouts — events mercifully rare in wealthy countries but all too familiar to billions of people living in countries without comprehensive, stable electric grids supplied by stable fossil or nuclear fuels.

If, in a wealthy country, we were to stumble across some case of poverty, we would not say that the conditions people were living in were the result of climate change.

The current proposition offered by climate alarmists is that if people who live in the more wealthy countries cut back their use of fossil fuels and therefore their human - caused CO2 emissions that the world can avoid the alleged catastrophic increases in temperatures based on the climate models.

They think that a wealthy country should have no one living in poverty, and they believe in a fair wage for a full - time job, and that the wealthy should not have lower tax rates than the middle class via loopholes.

Living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it is hard to believe that hunger exists at the level that it does.

Living in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, it is hard to...

In a wealthy country like ours, it's completely unacceptable that Aboriginal children die at twice the rate of other Australian children, and Aboriginal people live at least 10 years less than other Australians.