Sentences with phrase «poor countries whose»

Any analysis needs to consider middle - income and poor countries whose energy demands are increasing as people move out of poverty leading to increased CO2 emissions.

Not exact matches

A heart - rending look at the shockingly common experience of eviction among the poor in Milwaukee (and across the country), this book also won praise from Bill Gates (whose foundation is now supporting the author's research).

The one - on - one meeting sends a message of Tesla's importance in China, whose politicians consider the California company a role model for the country's new electric car companies, as many vehicles suffer from long charging times and a poor driving experience, he explained.

The philanthropist, whose usual focus is on infectious diseases in poorer countries, said Alzheimer's disease caught his interest partly for personal reasons, and partly because it has so far proved such a tough nut to crack.

Punishing Mexican exports would risk destabilizing the economy of an important country whose prosperity adds to U.S. prosperity, would only increase pressure for poor Mexican to emigrate, and in the end would almost certainly make the U.S. trade deficit even larger.

According to Bloomberg, «the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, whose increase in the past three months was the steepest in seven decades, is rallying in tandem with benchmark measures for raw materials, developing - country equities and hedge funds.

A cynic might be inclined to observe that Mexican elites don't mind exporting poor people, whose remittances now constitute that country's second largest source of income, behind tourism and ahead of petroleum.

These questions arise most obviously out of our situation of belonging to a social framework that has already opted for an economic system whose policies often have questionable implications for the poor within our own country and in other nations.

Mr Blair added: «For the poorest countries, whose labour costs are low but who often find the very high tariffs selling into the wealthy countries» markets, it is essential if they're to stand on their own two feet that they're allowed access into our markets.»

Countries like Singapore — where the economy has more than tripled and whose emissions have jumped by 61 percent since the dividing lines between «rich» and «poor» nations were drawn — face new demands for climate action.

Although an intravenous vaccine will be fine for Western travelers or soldiers, giving the injections safely will be a challenge in poor countries where skilled health workers are scarce — especially in small children whose veins are hard to find.

We should want to live in a country where even children whose parents are poor grow up to be people with healthy teeth and gums.

So we had Tuck, a no - name candidate, without a ground game, whose messaging failed to reach a low - information populace and who suffered a poor voter turnout, fighting against a man backed by the most powerful state teachers union in the country — and Tuck still lost by only four percentage points.

Their roots lie also in the caring practices of the social reformer Jane Addams, whose 19th - and early 20th - century settlement houses were designed to help immigrants and the poor gain solid footing so they could contribute to the country's prosperity.

Finally, Mississippi native Lewis Nordan, whose writerly ancestors include Harry Crews and fellow Mississippians William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, left us bereft last week of an animated voice that regaled us with comic tales of country boys coming of age in a world where freaks and grotesques lurked around every corner of the wild swampy Delta backcountry populated by dirt - poor families.

I know that Americans don't understand this but we in the UK value stuff like free healthcare and help for the poor and sick generally, so we like people and companies to pay a share of their earnings towards the good of the country whose population the companies are making their money from.

Poor countries, whose inhabitants hardly contribute to global greenhouse gas emissions, are struggling to recover from «natural» disasters, like Pakistan from the 2010 floods or the Philippines and Vietnam from tropical storm Haiyan last year.

While climate change will increasingly affect wealthy countries, the brunt of the impact is being borne by the poor, whose plight simply receives less attention.»

Last year at COP21 in Paris, development banks like the World Bank — whose «ambitious» targets are laid out in a Climate Change Action Plan also revealed Thursday — were deemed instrumental in financing poor countries to help enable them to cut their carbon emissions as well as adapt to climate change effects.