Sentences with phrase «own rich country»

Global investor Barry Sternlicht warns Trump: US needs Chinese investment because «we're not a rich country»

The unit in Ghana has declared losses over the last three years and has uncollectible trade debts due to tough economic conditions and a currency devaluation in the cocoa - rich country.

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

And rich countries will finance poorer ones, with $ 100 billion a year by 2020 and a promise to increase financial support after that.

In resource - rich countries such as Botswana, Chile and Malaysia, natural resource revenues paid to governments can be invested in roads, health care and education, as well as business development and social services.

Rosling encourages people to use this framework, rather than use labels like «developed» and «developing,» because, as Gates explains, «It's hard to pick up on progress if you divide the world into rich countries and poor countries.

It's so painful to see how most of the other resource rich countries have managed to keep the wealth and jobs for generations to come.

«Future goals must become sustainable one - world goals that apply to poor and rich countries alike,» the CIGI report boasts.

Rich countries dominate a ranking of the world's most innovative countries released in the U.S. today.

We face an economy of «exclusion and inequality» in which «the hearts of many people are gripped by fear and desperation, even in the so - called rich countries,» wrote Pope Francis, Time Magazine's Person of the Year, in late November.

About 223,000 Greeks aged 25 - 39 emigrated in 2008 - 13 to richer countries, central bank data shows.

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.

Rich countries agree to help finance the efforts of poor ones, to the tune of $ 100 billion a year.

The larger assembly of rich countries such as Germany and big emerging markets such as China did good work during the financial crisis.

In one generation, this tiny dot went from being broke to being one of the richest countries in the world, without any natural resources, purely by strict execution of a great strategy.

Investors could decide to ditch investments in the developing world both because higher rates in rich countries would make those investments comparatively less attractive and because their appetite for risk would likely drop in case of a U.S. default.

In Luxembourg, one of the richest countries in the world, an inexperienced teacher can expect to make more on his or her first day than teachers in nearly all other countries can hope to make in their entire careers.

«We found that the richer the country, the greater the accessibility of the Internet,» explains Guillà © n. «And the more developed the telecommunications infrastructure, the more developed the Internet.»

Uber drivers in the richest countries also generally fall into this category but, as owners rather than employees, they are relatively better off than those in countries like Pakistan and India.

Others say that richer countries may lack insight into the needs of recipients or that aid can be misused by beneficiaries.

As a result, over the past decade global luxury brands started expanding into the capitals of oil - rich countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the U.A.E., giving women access to shopping on par with the biggest European cities (Dubai is home to the world's largest shopping mall) and higher consumer expectations.

Those rates are relatively on - par with the rest of the world, yet Americans are ten times more likely to die at the barrel of a gun than people in other rich countries.

One professor of tourism policy tells Becker it is «the greatest modern voluntary transfer of wealth from rich countries to poor countries.»

But there is no need for political clashes to convince large trade surplus countries in East Asia to keep more of their hard - earned savings home - instead of financing deficits of much richer countries - to improve their infrastructure and public services.

Again, he knew that China needed a peaceful international environment and good relations with the world's richest countries.

In recent years, rich countries have not kept their promises to provide aid to the developing world at a rate of 0.7 per cent of GDP, and although aid has not declined, it has remained flat for some time.

The richest country in the Middle East is undergoing radical changes as outlined in its «Vision 2030» plan, unveiled in April 2016.

Rich countries like the U.S., Canada, and the European Union upped their pledges for climate finance slightly, but nowhere near enough to compensate for the hugely outsized share of the global carbon budget they have devoured.

The next five years will prove whether rich countries have the willpower and strength to adopt green growth strategies and whether the developing giants China and India can marry their desired economic growth with green technology.

George Osborne, Britain's chancellor of the exchequer, has responded to the furore over Starbucks, Google and Amazon by promising to use the country's imminent chairmanship of the G8 club of rich countries to wage war on tax havens.

In recent months, revelations from European authorities about the tax avoidance strategies used by Google, Starbucks and Amazon have all stirred public anger and spurred several European governments, as well as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based research organization for the world's richest countries, to discuss measures to close the loopholes.

Unfortunately, in many rich countries this standard inflation thermostat is on the blink.

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

There are so many reasons why this is wrong (to list just the most obvious, poor countries have much lower debt thresholds than rich countries, Japanese debt can not possibly be dismissed as not being a problem, and because it is almost impossible to find an economist who understands the relationship between nominal interest rates and implicit amortization, Japanese government debt has probably only been manageable to date because GDP growth close to zero has permitted interest rates close to zero) and yet inane comparisons between China's debt burden and Japan's debt burden are made all the time.

It was great for Nexen shareholders, but CNOOC received a lot of negative sentiment from Canadians because it's a State Owned Enterprise, which gives it an unfair market advantage over other energy companies because it's financially and politically backed by one of the richest countries in the world.

It loses sight of the basic fact that aid is principally for the benefit of developing country partners, not for the rich country donors or their private sector interests.

One can see how for the rich countries this presents as a «supply shock», raising prices and lowering output.

Doing so is the best contribution we can make to helping promote both strong, steady economic growth and the flexibility needed to ease those adjustments and help our resource - rich country thrive.

In rich countries, there are often many productive projects that desperately await investment, but this failure to invest is driven by other factors, and usually not by a lack of savings, so a savings glut is unlikely to lead to higher productive investment.

A similar dynamic plays out in neighboring, oil - rich countries.

There were certainly no guarantees way back in the 19th century that Canada would develop into a rich country.

Cancer treatment costs are rising at such a rapid rate that they threaten to become «unsustainable» even for rich countries, according to The Lancet Oncology medical journal.

With Brent oil for November delivery at $ 83 a barrel — a four - year low — many oil - rich countries, including Iran, Iraq and Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, will have a hard time balancing their books.

Based on virtually every metric, Canada's business taxes remain above the average among the world's richest countries.

For an export - oriented rich country, that is still a solid growth rate.

With mining and natural resources being in depression, a resource rich country like Autralie will have many companies exposed to this.

In fact, the actions of many rich countries here in Warsaw are directly undermining the UNFCCC itself, which is an important multilateral process that must succeed if we are to fix the global climate crisis.

Overall, it is very likely that poor countries will lose relatively more from a trade war than richer countries.

These clauses exist in thousands of international trade and investment deals and are used by multinational companies from rich countries to sue governments when policy decisions interfere with their investments.

But the pattern of poor countries saving a lot and rich countries borrowing was not sustainable.