Sentences with phrase «wealthy nation in the world»

With a master's degree in sociology, political science, statistics and economics, Solberg leads one of the wealthiest nations in the world, with a per capita GDP of $ 70,812, and one of its happiest, too.

Within a few decades, Japan had become one of the wealthiest nations in the world.

For some reason, I feel like calling myself «blessed» sends the message that I have somehow earned God's special favor, that God is rewarding me for good behavior, and that the millions of people who suffer from war, famine, poverty, and sickness because they weren't lucky (or blessed or fortunate) enough to be born in the wealthiest nation in the world are simply not as loved by God.

Salmond said he intended to set up an oil fund over the next five to ten years which would directly financially benefit every person in an independent Scotland, and make Scotland's GDP 115 % higher than the rest of the UK's, and the country the sixth wealthiest nation in the world.

«It is completely unacceptable for students, families, and educators in the wealthiest nation in the world to be handed schools like that.»

Costa Rica is one of the wealthiest nations in the world in terms of biodiversity.

We may not be the most wealthy nation in the world, or have the most powerful military.

: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.

As Tom Calma, in his role as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner and Race Discrimination Commissioner, pointedly stated in 2008: «It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 per cent of its citizens.

It is not credible to suggest that one of the wealthiest nations in the world can not solve a health crisis affecting less than 3 % of its citizens.

Though the U.S. is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, and Virginia is one of its most prosperous states, both have among the highest rates of premature and low birth - weight births in the developed world.

Not exact matches

«Saudi Arabia is a very wealthy nation, and they're going to give the United States some of that wealth, hopefully, in the form of jobs, in the form of the purchase of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world,» Trump said Tuesday.

She is also one of the worlds most wealthiest institutions and has sway with the kings and nations of the earth in the political arena.

Schizophrenia has a more benign course and outcome in the developing world [than in the wealthy, industrialized nations].

Qatar is on track to become the wealthiest nation (on a per capita basis) in the world.

It reminded me of the plight of so - called developing nations in our relationships with the wealthier, larger, more established nations of the world.

Chancellor Gordon Brown today hailed the UK's # 1 billion boost for immunisation programmes in the developing world as the first step towards making a reality of aid promises made by wealthy nations.

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 PortugaIn 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 Portugain 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.

Overseas scientists relocating to Japan will need patience, and some Japanese friends and colleagues to help them out in their transition, but shouldn't worry too much about relocating to one of the world's safest, healthiest, best educated, and wealthiest nations,» he says.

IT IS one of the planet's last true wildernesses, yet a handful of the world's wealthiest nations are plundering its riches to satisfy the appetites of luxury consumers — all with the help of billions in public money.

Global Cancer Facts and Figures, 2nd Edition, a report released in 2011 by The American Cancer Society, notes that cancers related to changing lifestyles as nations become wealthier, including lung, breast, and colorectal tumors, continue to rise in the developing world http://www.cancer.org/Research/CancerFactsFigures/GlobalCancerFactsFigures/global-facts-figures-2nd-ed

Others can be managed with enough money; in the vulnerable developing world, that means financial aid from wealthier nations.

I have a fundamentally hopeful view about people, and that might merely be a reflection of the fact that I've lived an incredibly privileged life in a very wealthy nation without a lot of the struggles that most of the world has to face.

This secretly wealthy, peaceful and advanced African nation has always avoided interference in the outside world but a different view is represented from within by Nakia (Lupita Nyong «o) and without by mysterious enemy Erik Killmonger (Michael B Jordan) before events force change.

I'm afraid I'll sound condescending here, but if you don't at least follow the news, you probably are going to find Syriana to be a tedious watch, and that's a shame in itself, as ignorance to world events is what greases the wheels of the grand machine that keeps corporations fat and happy, politicians in their pockets, foreign regimes in a constant state of perpetual flux, and the standard of living for millions of people near destitute in what should be the among the wealthiest nations on the face of the Earth.

CCT programs are used around the world — in both the developing world and in wealthy nations — to reduce poverty and encourage a variety of goals, including school attendance and achievement.

He reminds us that «in the US, wealthy children attending public schools that serve the wealthy are competitive with any nation in the world... [but in]... schools in which low - income students do not achieve well, [that are not competitive with many nations in the world] we find the common correlates of poverty: low birth weight in the neighborhood, higher than average rates of teen and single parenthood, residential mobility, absenteeism, crime, and students in need of special education or English language instruction.»

While approximately three - fourths of four year olds in America are involved in some kind of educational program, the United States still ranks only 25th out of the 34 most wealthy and upcoming nations in the world in terms of early childhood education, lagging behind the likes of Portugal and Mexico.

Yet with that allegedly lousy curriculum, wealthy children in public schools that serve wealthy families were easily competitive with the highest scoring nations in the world.

The Program for International Student Assessment, commonly known as PISA, was administered to 15 - year - olds in 65 countries and school systems by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris - based group that includes the world's wealthiest nations.

According to Oxfam, «Brazil is one of the most unequal nations in the world, although it is one of the wealthiest... The country's high income concentration is revealed in figures: the richest one per cent of the population - less than 2 million people — have 13 % of all household income.

But most of all, the poor nations of the world and even the poor in the wealthy nations are experiencing the destruction of their means of subsistence.

The outcomes from these talks remain in doubt and other questions fester, like to what will the U.S. commit to?For an effective climate deal at December's Copenhagen Climate Summit, the world's wealthiest nations, the G8 countries, who are at the core of the MEF, need to take the lead both at MEF and when they meet in L'Aquila, Italy for the G8 Summit next month.

Just three years after the world's nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change at the Earth Summit in Rio in 1992, a push was initiated to move from that agreement's aspirational goals for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases to hard targets and timetables for wealthier countries.

Edward Lendner, who was director of climate issues in a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquin a previous White House administration, wrote last week: «In what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquIn what would be the single most important contingency that could impact civil society in the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquin the United States and other nations around the world, there is no agreed upon plan for how to deal with a collapsing world in the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquin the distant future if climate change and global warming get out of control and mass migrations northward create chaos in both wealthy and poor countries.&raquin both wealthy and poor countries.»

More than 300,000 refugees fled severe drought, conflict and famine in southern Somalia in 2011 into Ethiopia and Kenya (William Davies / AFP / Getty Images) That's why, in recent years, many of the world's wealthier nations — including the United States, Germany, Britain, and Japan — have promised billions of dollars in aid to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of global warming and switch over to cleaner energy sources.

As a wealthy nation with the highest per capita emissions in the industrialized world, Australia must be seen to do its fair share, otherwise other nations, no matter how big their emissions, will feel less obligation to do theirs.

David Howell, SEO / BirdLife, said: «We knew it already, but COP23 has reconfirmed it: rapid transformational changes in the world economy, especially the economies of the wealthy and developing nations, must begin in the next few years, with commitments and action under way when COP24 begins.

This is what they did — these climate «scientists» on whose unsupported word the world's classe politique proposes to set up an unelected global government this December in Copenhagen, with vast and unprecedented powers to control all formerly free markets, to tax wealthy nations and all of their financial transactions, to regulate the economic and environmental affairs of all nations, and to confiscate and extinguish all patent and intellectual property rights.

With fundamental issues of trust such as those illustrated above still far from being resolved, and political will on financing performing a fine balancing act in Europe and the United States (with the former dealing with a snowballing resurgence of the financial crisis, and the latter with an incoming legislature planning to dissolve the House of Representatives panel on climate change), the time has truly come for wealthy nations of the world to fundamentally shift their modes of thinking.

One example is UK - based public policy group The Optimum Population Trust (OPT), which has launched a new initiative urging wealthy members of the developed world to participate in carbon offsets that fund programs for curbing the population of developing nations.

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In the same vein as David's fascinating post below, here is a refreshingly accurate article on the relationship between wealth and self - reported happiness around the world from the New Scientist titled «Wealthy Nations Hold the Keys to Happiness.»

More on Ecosystem Services: More Corn = $ 58 Million in Lost Ecosystem Services, More Aphids, Fewer Ladybugs Wealthy Countries Should Pay «Rainforest Utility Bills» for Ecosystem Services Rendered: Prince Charles More Nations Pricing Biodiversity: India & Norway Will Publish Natural Wealth Account Data Why the World Must Not Consider Nature Priceless

The shortcomings of some wealthier nations isn't stopping key players in the developing world from making the most of COP16 — particularly when it comes to REDD, which Serra hopes will help fund safeguards to prevent further deforestation in the Amazon.

Meanwhile, all the proposals from the world's wealthy nations fall well short of these targets (most notably, the laughably low targets in the US House of Representatives» American Clean Energy & Security Act, at an effective 4 % from 1990 levels).

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.

The divide between what the world's wealthy nations are willing to commit to in regards to combatting climate change and what the poorer nations (read: those who will be worst affected) say must be done seems to only be growing.

The wealthy nations have agreed in principle to support low - carbon growth in the developing world and to help those countries hardest hit by climate change to adapt.

He also argues that the time has come to consider «shared sacrifice» in the world's wealthiest nations: a course of voluntary economic contraction in developed economies (thus reducing fossil energy consumption), while allowing developing nations time to shift from dirty to clean energy.