Sentences with phrase «wealthier countries such»

If you think that a human right to health is not an issue in a wealthy country such as Australia, just take a moment to consider the concerns regarding the quality of care provided to asylum seekers, that we detain children at the cost of their mental health, that some Aboriginal communities don't have access to running water, and that we currently seem determined to impose an economic barrier to accessing primary care.

Not exact matches

Some of the biggest developers in New York are funded by capital from the wealthy Gulf states — United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia — but these backers, unlike those from countries such as Canada and Norway, prefer staying behind the curtain.

Wealthier countries, such as Switzerland (2) and Luxembourg (10) scored high on the index.

Imposing higher taxes on the wealthy is the best way for countries such as Canada to reinvest in their social safety nets, education, and infrastructure while protecting the middle class.

Switzerland is home to several wealthy families such as the Heinekens, Inbev billionaire Jorge Lemann and his family, and the Brenninkmeijer clan of clothing chain C&A, and the country's low - key style appeals to many of them.

It continues when pastors ask how such a wealthy country can stumble into such a financial mess, Stanley said.

It is widely claimed that the globalization of production helps to cut costs, and that (as long as gains are not outweighed by transport costs) everybody benefits; the truth of such claims is also strenuously challenged, and there is strong evidence that the real beneficiaries are powerful, wealthy, western countries, and the transnational companies they support.

This would explain why poorer countries tend to have such high religiosity compared with wealthier countries (the West mainly), plus wealth generally indicates higher education — therefore more enlightened on science, etc..

They do not complain - that is not the Army's way - but the book leaves a sense of grievance that such a powerful and wealthy country as ours should deploy a force less than adequate for the safety of our own people.Excellent war reporters and broadcasters are employed only to give snippets and snapshots.

One could argue that in many countries (such a the US) the wealthier you are, the more votes you have in the currently seated government.

(It is hard to speak of a real democracy in a country such as the US where winning a presidential election costs $ 1 billion and where that $ 1 billion comes from a few very wealthy donors.)

But in many such countries the would - be-immigrant can get around this if they are wealthy and are willing to post a surety bond as insurance against becoming a burden to the local taxpayers.

In a recent article in Nature (1), it was observed that although Italy is one of the world's wealthiest countries, on most measures of scientific research activity it compares not with powerhouses such as the United States, Germany, or Japan but with such minor scientific nations as Portugal.

In countries such as Germany, wealthy individuals and board members with «patient» money are more likely to hold controlling stakes in companies, and are content to wait for a return.

From emerging giants such as Brazil and China to poor countries in Africa, developing nations are demanding that wealthy countries ramp up funding and create a viable path to this goal.

So in reality the current rate is high for such a wealthy country.

The U.S. should rethink its overemphasis on military approaches, and Europe should honor its unmet commitments of aid to this region, but other nations — including the wealthy countries of the Middle East and new donors such as India and China — can also help turn the tide.

In my opinion wealthy developed countries such as US, Europe, Japan etc should pay a subsidy to poor countries with rainforests on the understanding that forests such as Amazon, Congo, Borneo are then not cut down.

With dialogue that deftly explores serious questions, such as how much if anything do wealthy countries owe the poor and oppressed of the world, «Black Panther» draws energy from Coogler's sense of excitement at all he's attempting.

Some, such as Slovenia ($ 27,868) and Greece ($ 29,483), were roughly half as wealthy as the U.S. Only Norway ($ 53,968) and Singapore ($ 48,490) have higher per - capita wealth than the U.S. Overall, the countries with which we compare U.S. students are our major economic competitors.

In my city, New York, elite private schools such as Dalton, Horace Mann, Spence, Brearley, Riverdale Country School, and at least two dozen more levy tuitions in the range of $ 20,000 a year — exceeding what even the wealthiest New York suburban school districts spend per student.

Despite decades of widespread implementation of such reforms, significant achievement gaps still exist across the country between white and black students, and wealthy and poor students.

Despite decades of one - off interventions and reforms, such as improved curriculum, greater choice and accountability, or teacher training, significant achievement gaps still exist across the country between white and black students, and wealthy and poor students.

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.»

To examine the ways in which people in wealthy countries are culpable in consuming products created by child laborers, students can create inquiry projects that investigate the manufacturing of a favorite item, such as a pair of shoes or an electronic gadget.

She dislikes her father and all his friends, and vows she will never marry such a man.To her dismay however, Charity is forced into an arranged marriage with a wealthy man, and in spite of her protests, she is sent across the country to be his bride.

Most such pledges don't go beyond 2030, and those from developing countries are mostly «conditional» — they'll proceed if wealthy countries pay the cost or otherwise help.

But that is because governments in wealthy countries have imposed high taxes on gasoline, or forced environmental regulations on industry — such as those demanded by Kyoto.

People in fast - growing countries like China and India would almost certainly expect a concerned person in a wealthy nation to recognize the primacy in such places of real - time energy needs over long - term climate concerns.

[T] he divisions between wealthy countries and poorer countries that are making such a treaty difficult, and have long bedeviled international climate talks, were on display yet again in Berlin.

This could be because wealthier people tend to take more vacations, while better technology, such as what's found in countries with cleaner energy infrastructures, only weakly offset increasing emissions.

«It is heartbreaking to see the wealthiest country on Earth (per capita) degrading such a global heirloom, but inspiring to be working with Save the Tarkine to defend it.»

Fast - developing countries such as China promised to limit emissions as a share of their growing economies, while wealthy nations such as the United States pledged reductions from historic levels.

Funding mechanisms, by which wealthy countries pay developing countries to maintain their forest cover, such as REDD + (short for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries), could also give donors the «soft power» to push for improved governance of industrial agriculture, he said.

In essence, wealthy countries were producing fewer goods themselves and importing more from rapidly - developing nations, such as China and India.

He says there will be a point — even in wealthy and politically stable countries such as the U.S. and Canada — where the costs of climate change become so large that staying put is no longer an option.

Indeed, the wealthy countries, through their reluctance to reduce their own emissions, have quite convincingly demonstrated to the developing world how undesirable if not actually impossible such paths must be.

Indeed, the wealthy countries, through their reluctance to reduce their own emissions, have quite convincingly demonstrated to the developing world how undesirable — if not actually impossible — such paths must be.

One major obstacle besetting global negotiations was the problem of disparity between developing and developed economies: advanced countries would take a bigger hit from a policy, while increasingly wealthy, but still (rapidly) «developing» economies such as China and India would soon be given a substantial competitive advantage.

The report predicts that world demand for crops — whether for food, livestock feed or biofuels — will double in the next 50 years, while natural resources necessary to agriculture are becoming scarce or degraded due to the impacts of global climate change.According to the report, areas of focus include sub-Saharan Africa, with the report indicating that farm subsidies for commodities such as cotton and oilseeds in wealthier countries need to be changed as they force prices down for small farmers in developing nations.

James Smithson, a wealthy Englishman who became the founding donor of the Smithsonian Institution, never visited the United States and his reason for bequeathing such a large fortune to a foreign country was never specified.