Sentences with phrase «relatively wealthy countries»

During lean times, people in relatively wealthy countries drink and smoke less and stop overeating.

What the top ranked cities had in common was being situated in relatively wealthy countries with good health and education systems, good quality infrastructure and they tended to be medium - sized, and had low population densities.

In Chile, the US helped overthrow the democratically - elected social democrat government of Salvador Allende and replaced him with Augusto Pinochet, the murderous puppet tyrant who killed thousands and implemented a brutal free - market programme, ruining the Chilean economy and driving a relatively wealthy country into poverty.

Even though Botswana is a relatively wealthy country by African standards, some 38 percent of the population is classified as poor.

Like Japan this is now a relatively wealthy country with almost no natural resources, except the human resource.

Not exact matches

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

These new immigrants are a largely elite group: They hold degrees from well - regarded British universities, have permission to reside in the country, and hail from relatively wealthy families.

The country was becoming relatively wealthy and civilized.

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.

It's clear that the main reason for the high rate compared to wealthy northern European countries is the relatively high rate of preterm birth here.

Beyond this there are numerous countries that are happy to accept relatively wealthy Europeans, again without claiming asylum.

All these make sense, but my question is more about how can it succeed among relatively wealthy high educated people which happen to live one of the most libertarian countries.

For instance, the Isolation of Wealth Index captures districts such as Kentucky's Oldham County Schools, which has a relatively low - poverty rate of 19 percent, is the wealthiest county in Kentucky, and is the 20th - wealthiest county in the country.

«Obviously, a child considered poor in the United States may be regarded as relatively wealthy in another country,» he wrote, «but the fact that the perceived problem of socio - economic disadvantage among students is so much greater in the United States — and in France too — than the actual backgrounds of students also suggests that what school principals in some countries consider to be social disadvantage would not be considered such in others.»

Qatar is a gulf country in the Middle East that has a relatively wealthy population.

And, critically, by accounting for intra-national disparities in wealth, it recognizes that that right to development adheres to individuals, not countries, and that the relatively wealthy in poor countries, like their compatriots in the North, quite properly share the common obligation to stabilize and protect the global climate.