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In 2006, poorer European countries received about $50 billion, Africa got $38 billion, Latin America and the Caribbean $68 billion, the Middle East $24 billion.
This raises another challenge of technological innovation: we will need to support the transfer of proven technologies to poorer countries.
This provoked a brain drain as experienced FEMA personnel moved into the private sectorPrivatization also left poorer states and poorer communities especially vulnerable.
At present, when the rich part of the world catches an economic cold, the poorer countries face a double contagion: Their trade earnings plummet, and flows of aid and investment from richer countries dries up.
All of this would obviously lead to a dramatic increase in poverty around the world, but, as always, the poorer countries would be the hardest hit.
It is a path that we desperately need them to choose, but one that also means greater negotiating power for poorer countries than we have ever seen.
In other political unions, cohesion is maintained through a strong common identity, but often also through permanent fiscal transfers between richer and poorer regions that even out incomes ex post.
The fundamental idea behind a fiscal union is that poorer, less creditworthy countries can gain from joint debt liability with richer countries.
That is not to say that bigger and richer countries lack advantages over smaller and poorer countries.
The official average wage in dollars is about twice as high in Russia as in Ukraine, and it is evident to the naked eye that Ukraine now is a poorer society than Russia, while the opposite used to be true.
The United States spends more on health care than any other country (both per capita and as a percentage of income), but gets poorer outcomes.
But, despite being poorer, Turkey has still taken in more than twice as many refugees as Sweden, Germany, and Canada, the three most accommodating Western countries.
In Mexico, the average income of men aged 25-30 with a full primary education differs by more than a factor of three between poorer municipalities and richer ones.
Germany fears that risk-sharing would become risk-shifting, and that any form of fiscal union would likewise turn into a “transfer union,” with the rich core permanently subsidizing the poorer periphery.
The last 35 years prove that a larger population does not have to be poorer.
But, even among its opponents, its value for poorer countries came to be recognized, as it helped to lift more than a billion people in Asia out of abject poverty.
Will the resentful workers who must follow a computer’s instructions – say, in assembling an order in Amazon’s fulfillment centers – vote to tax the programmers who put them there until the software creators lose the incentive to innovate, leaving society poorer?
When one takes a closer look at the health of populations – in particular, the poorer segments of society – “what is needed now” looks quite different.
An intelligently designed ABS regime offers the chance for poorer countries, which possess the lion’s share of the globe’s remaining genetic resources, to begin to be paid properly for maintaining them.
When borrowing becomes easier, it is not the well-to-do, whose spending is not constrained by their incomes, who increase their consumption; rather, the increase comes from poorer and younger families whose needs and dreams far outpace their incomes.
Yet this doesn’t explain why these poorer immigrants remain religious; wanting to succeed US-style, they should want to be quick to “assimilate.”
While the rich got richer, the poor did not get poorer, but the gap between rich and poor expanded significantly.
Americans are bombarded by industry-funded media downplaying climate change, while countries that are much poorer in fossil fuels are already making the necessary transition to a low-carbon future.
We cannot impose an ecological rhythm on people who are poorer than we are when it is the very fact that we freed ourselves from that rhythm that made us richer.
In Germany, with no antitrust policy, there was no brake on the cartelization of industry, which made the average German poorer and the distribution of wealth more skewed.
Most are seeking ways to contain public indebtedness, trim deficits, and cut spending without making their poorer citizens worse off.
In addition, poorer and vulnerable communities need to be included in the process from the beginning, so that they can provide full prior consent.
Countries on the periphery tend to be poorer and more dependent on commodities than the more developed world, and they must repay more than $1.4 trillion in bank loans in 2009 alone.
For decades they have created a zone where war has become unthinkable, where might is not right, where the poorer catch up with the richer.
If the bank failed, it would be unable to repay the bonds, and the managers owning bonds would be that much poorer.
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