Sentences with phrase «rich countries do»

I think the number of even higher because the 4 billion assumes that the justice systems in rich countries don't face an access to justice challenge.

Once these people have reached «moderate poverty» — average income between one and two dollars a day — then the worst is over; as long as the rich countries do not «advertently or inadvertently set snares along the lower rungs» with protectionist trade barriers and the like, these people should make steady progress, «even if it is uneven and sometimes painfully slow.»

«Just three weeks ago at the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment, they called for richer countries do more to cut their own carbon emissions and increase their support to the most vulnerable and worst affected communities and countries who are least able to protect themselves from climate change.»

In rich countries it doesn't make much sense to define poverty as «not having enough to meet basic material needs.»

Cutthroat competition between nations has deadlocked U.N. climate negotiations for decades: rich countries dig in their heels and declare that they won't cut emissions and risk losing their vaulted position in the global hierarchy; poorer countries declare that they won't give up their right to pollute as much as rich countries did on their way to wealth, even if that means deepening a disaster that hurts the poor most of all.

If that idea might have been plausible back in 1992, the last 25 years have decisively established that emerging economies around the world are developing exactly the same way that rich countries did, by urbanizing, industrializing, and consuming much more energy.

Richer countries don't commit real resources to mitigation in poorer countries partly because they are not confident that their resources would be well used; poorer countries don't anticipate resources so don't implement ambitious effective policies.

Not exact matches

Since Canada doesn't have as much multi-generational wealth as the U.S. or Europe, many of this country's richest people are facing succession issues for the first time.

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

A group of mostly rich, industrialized countries says Switzerland should do more to prosecute companies and apply tougher penalties for bribery.

America's millionaires are not evenly distributed across the country, but the poorest states in the country don't always have fewer of them, and the richest states don't always have more.

Research on kiosks in liquor stores in various countries found that kiosks increased the sale of hard - to - pronounce items, while some fast food locations saw results in customers ordering more calorie - rich dishes than they did when speaking to a cashier, apparently to avoid being judged for their dietary habits.

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

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.

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

The VICE newsmagazine on HBO television has just done a documentary about geologist and mining entrepreneur Keith Barron's return to Ecuador as CEO of Aurania Resources, and it suggests that the country and its people have taken a new, realistic, and practical approach to exploiting their mineral riches.

To hear Democrats tell it, the country's main budget problem is that the rich don't pay their «fair share.»

That might be true if you did not have Canada and other countries, including our own, are planning to strengthen their Northern Navy's to stake their claims in the melting mineral rich Arctic.

The likes of Daniel Cohn - Bendit did not merely criticize and protest, but criminalized — tarred with fascism, even — the man who «allowed them to grow up free in a rich country.»

I'd like to have a president who doesn't keep his money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands.I'd like to have a president who knows more people are on food stamps today because tax cuts for the rich did not create jobs and caused this country to go down the drain.

Yet glimpses of the lifestyles of the rich and tasteless don't necessarily add up in people's minds to a clear picture of the tectonic shifts that have taken place in the distribution of income and wealth in this country.

«This doesn't happen in any other developed country in the world, and it should not happen here, the richest nation on the planet,» he says.

I also don't want to live in a country where only the rich has a voice and real options (health care, education and so forth).

Why not do it because we're a rich country and we can afford to bless them when they're children?

If you aren't rich or don't have a wish to take over the country, vote for Obama and the Dems.

That is rich — after trying their best to marginalize everybody in this country who doesn't follow their narrow minded vision, they start to squeal at the first sign that their time at the top has finally passed.

How far do European action groups and researchers inquire into whether their own standard - of living is dependent on past exploitation and on the present transfer of funds from the poor to the rich countries and the unfair terms of trade?

Communications and travel make people aware of the harm done to workers, women and children and to the environment — in rich countries as well as poor.

Why do we have to cultivate which we can not eat for export to the rich country?»

Removing any doubt about the Pope's intention is this: «Thus the movement towards a new world order of trade which does not penalize agricultural progress in developing countries should be put into operation as quickly as possible, thus fostering the integration of their potential into the economies of the rich countries.»

When Fosdick informed Rockefeller that he did not want to be known as pastor to the richest man in the country, he found his comeuppance in Rockefeller's retort: «Do you think that more people will criticize you on account of my wealth than will criticize me on account of your theology?»

Maybe you have slept through the recent fiasco but anyone who doesn't have their stuck up the churches ass or in their buybull knows that what is happening isn't due to him attempting to tax the rich but more so due to the republitards putting his back against a wall every step of the way... they are the ones screwing your country in to the ground, not Obama.

Overpopulation in rich countries presents a much greater present threat to the health of the environment than does population growth in poor nations.

The poor have been voting for over 200 years in this country, the rich seem to be doing just fine.

wow... «She buys shoes like bread» — i am wondering why do we have homeless people in a rich country like USA... and there are a good percentage of Americans who can not afford to buy lunch for their kids in school and many more...

whatever the democratic party tells you is a lie do the opposite they would want you to go against republicans becuase our country is not a democracy its a republic people wake up the republican party isnt about the rich its about all of us lower taxes for all the republican party is about smaller government not intruding in your life the democrats know this and started a class war to make blacks and hispanics flood their cause im a 24 latino and switched republican last year i was fooled my whole life read history and you will see im telling the truth

I tried to be punctual in posting but if you've been there you'll understand this: it is a country obsessed with food, layered in such rich cultural dimensions that summing up what they do is quite a challenge.

This soft country bread soaked with rich and spicy custard will do the trick.

Despite living in the richest country in the world, 48 million Americans still don't know where their next meal will come from.

They don't realize that countries around the world known for their rich food cultures have been making vegetarian cuisine for thousands of years.

2nd richest club but that does nt mean we can compete financially with city which is supported by a country...

be it england german or france, cause the citizens of the famous european countries do nt have as much fire or will to fight as the immigrant of war countries / financially «handicapped» sub-countries like sanchez put it rightly, these spoiled kids of the rich countries have bee too long in their comfort zones, while the secondos are had to fight for a lot of things while a lot of the citizens helped them another side of the citizens (people like you) confronted them with racial views and ridicule..

next season will be very different as I don't think a top 4 is nailed on and if that happens even some of the Wenger supporters may turn sad sad times for a club that has so much history and pride, it's symptematic of this country where the rich don't understand the working class and don't care as long as they make money.

With 11 courses serving communities whose populations total only 30,000 permanent residents, the desert enterprisers have truly done more than any other spot in the country to bring what was once a rich man's game to Everyman.

English football loves rags - to - riches tales, and stories don't come more remarkable than Vardy's evolution into the country's most feared centre - forward.

It was great for us to be able to connect with that, see some of the indigenous culture in the country and also to make a contribution to the work that they do and we're proud to do that, but it's also fantastic to experience just a little taste of Australia's rich history which goes back far, far before when it was colonised.

He found that people eating non-processed foods and indigenous diets in many places around the world didn't have the health problems we experience in developed countries like the United States — and that those diets are particularly rich in fat and proteins from healthy animals and other real food sources.

Where my wife gave birth to our older children in Europe (a poor country not doing well on the charts above), there is no pain treatment during pregnancy, at all, period, unless you are rich.

Looking at how children eat school lunch in other countries, (which this website has done during the last couple months focusing specifically on France) our «rich» America lacks shamefully behind other industrialized countries in regards to the healthiness of our school menus.