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The point is that developed countries still dominate the income bracket that can afford luxury goods.
Unfortunately, unlike Western countries, we cannot afford to wait until our per capita annual GDP reaches $10,000 before tackling our environmental problems.
But in practice, those who can afford to pay a fine or hire a lawyer are often able to avoid punishment altogether.
Clearly, tsetse flies pose a serious danger in the areas that can least afford or access treatment.
How Globalization Stabilizes Poor CountriesGlobalization stands accused of generating economic instability in developing countries and greatly exacerbating poverty, at least in the short run--which is the longest period the world's poor can afford to care about.
But whatever the reason, these so-called "remittances"--the cash workers send home to countries like Colombia, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, and Bangladesh--act as a safety net that their governments typically need but cannot afford to provide.
ASEAN cannot afford to stand by idly.
In an increasingly dangerous, ever-more interconnected world, Britain cannot afford to make its most important collective decisions based on delusions.
The Kremlin is pursuing military adventures in Eastern Ukraine and Syria, and though these conflicts are limited in scope, one wonders if the country can really afford them.
For example, the real-estate lobby in the US obviously has no desire to see government support for housing diminish, despite the fact that the US probably has far more housing stock than it can afford.
Right now, solar panels are so expensive – about 10 times more than fossil fuels in terms of cost per unit of energy output – that only well-heeled, well-meaning (and, usually, well-subsidized) Westerners can afford to install them.
It would also represent a major setback for transatlantic relations at a time when the West can least afford it.
But, at a time of weakening economic performance, China cannot afford an implosion of the real-estate sector, which accounts for at least 30% of overall growth.
Unable to afford school, they scavenge for paper and other scraps for recycling, earning just enough to eat.
We cannot afford to leave the Roma behind.
Social mobility is further impeded as the rich shower their children with private education and after-school help, while the poorest in many countries cannot afford even to let their children stay in school.
He suffers from a larynx disease, one that could easily be treated with a surgery that he cannot afford.
Further trouble – in the form a steeply declining economy – is something it cannot afford.
Neither the Ukrainian economy – nor its political system – can afford that they do otherwise.
Today, no global investor can afford to ignore Africa’s tremendous potential.
According to this group, misguided government policies, aimed at increasing homeownership among relatively poor people, pushed too many into taking out subprime mortgages that they could not afford.
Children whose families could not afford to feed them properly have benefited significantly.
All of this happened inside a corporate behemoth, which could afford the lab thanks to its monopoly on local telephony and on the equipment used to provide the service, which was manufactured by AT&T’s subsidiary, Western Electric.
And, because gold is a highly liquid asset – a key criterion for a reserve asset – central banks can afford to look past its short-term volatility to longer-run average returns.
Developed countries generally increase their forested areas, because they can afford to do so.
Their idea is that the eurozone could not afford a neo-fascist government in a member country, and that preventing such an outcome requires both carrots (transfer mechanisms) and sticks (supranational powers).
This must change, but how?Development strategists often suggest that poor countries cannot afford to dedicate resources to the digital economy.
Moreover, no matter how critical the moderate Arabs may be of the Hamas coup in Gaza, the Arab leaders cannot afford the domestic fallout of shunning Hamas.
In the future, central banks and regulators will not be able to afford a narrow focus on (goods and services) inflation, growth, and employment (the real economy) while letting the balance-sheet side fend for itself.
For numerous reasons, not every country can afford to build smelting facilities that operate at the level claimed by Umicore.
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