Sentences with phrase «upper income countries»

Given social changes around gender and parenting issues — particularly in middle to upper income countries — it would seem obvious that fathers these days would be more interested in playing an active role in parenting.

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Those families with incomes of $ 15,000 or more are in the upper half of the population of this country as far as money is concerned.

The numbers of trials include one (Tylleskar 2011a; Tylleskar 2011b; Tylleskar 2011c) that was conducted in three countries; two low - income and one upper - middle income countries.

The 73 trials that contributed data to the analyses were conducted in 29 countries; 52 studies (62.1 % of participants) in high - income countries, 15 (30.1 % of participants) in upper - middle income countries, four (3.4 % of participants) in lower - middle income countries, and four (4.4 % of participants) in low - income countries.

«In upper middle - income countries, the average life expectancy is 75 years.

A massive investigation published in Nature shows that contrary to popular belief, a majority of papers in suspected biomedical predatory journals (57 percent) are from high or upper middle income countries, with many coming from prestigious institutions.

Below is one of the figures from the draft summary that sparked debate; it shows that emissions from lower - middle income countries (LMCs) and upper - middle income countries (UMCs) are rising faster than emissions from high - income countries (HICs).

Estimates produced for this analysis show that all three packages could be immediately scaled up to nearly all people in need with an investment of $ 6.2 billion in low - income countries, $ 12.4 billion in lower middle - income countries, and $ 8 billion in upper middle - income countries.

The coalition government led by Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao has launched a 20 - year Strategic Development Plan that began in 2011 aiming at transforming Timor - Leste in the course of the next two decades, from low middle income country to upper middle income with an annual per capita income of at least $ 10,000.

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for example, estimates that full implementation of the TFA can reduce trade costs by up to 14.1 percent for low income countries, 15.1 percent for lower middle income countries, and 12.9 percent for upper middle income countries.

And while the problem is most serious in poor neighborhoods, the awards day snapshot offered up by the upper - income Pearl Creek Elementary is mirrored in middle - and upper - middle - income schools around the country.

Like many scientific studies, the IPCC draft used a breakdown of emissions from low, lower - middle, upper - middle and high income countries.

Instead, Costa Rica has become an upper middle - income country, experiencing steady economic growth over the past 25 years, and the World Bank expects its GDP to keep growing around 4 percent annually for the next several years.

A report by the Atlantic Council's Mathew Burrows, formerly of the National Intelligence Council, Reducing the Risks from Rapid Demographic Change, examines the changes in population structures across high -, upper - middle -, lower - middle -, and low - income countries.

Measured on an average basis, this is well above any other area in the country including the upper income areas of Johannesburg, Sandton and Pretoria East.