Sentences with phrase «where rapid economic growth»

There are tens of thousands of unreported protests in China each year, a rising number of which are over environmental disputes in a country where rapid economic growth has taken its toll on the air, water and land.

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This is not merely the country of gleaming skyscrapers and rapid economic growth, but a more complex place where industrialization and globalization mean that even the most remote village homes now have faxes and computers and printers.

Most countries in South, South East and East Asia are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise due to rapid economic growth and coastward migration of people into urban coastal areas together with high rates of anthropogenic subsidence (for example due to water extraction) in deltas where many of the densely populated areas are located.

This evaporation of a promise is compounded in the more repressive societies and emerging markets because — even where you get rapid economic growth — it can not absorb the demographic bulge of young people fast enough to deliver rising living standards for enough of them.