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The 2015 Paris climate agreement – in which governments agreed to limit their emissions and to provide resources to help poorer countries adapt – was a step in the right direction.
Obama’s decision to declare a phony negotiating victory undermines the UN process by signaling that rich countries will do what they want and must no longer listen to the “pesky” concerns of many smaller and poorer countries.
In poorer countries, women’s access to paid labor is a better predictor of children’s well-being than the stability of marriage.
This "graying" of the world's richest nations will profoundly affect not only these societies, but poorer countries as well.
Trade serves as such a channel because nations with aging populations are economically powerful and so are capable of setting the terms on which they trade with poorer countries.
Because the old save less, lower aggregate savings in rich countries will crimp the relative abundance of capital available to poorer economies.
And the wealthiest young people tend to have wealthy parents and to have received larger wealth transfers than their poorer counterparts.
At first blush, this statement may seem counter-intuitive – not least because wealthier households receive larger wealth transfers than poorer ones.
But, when taking into account existing wealth, even a relatively small transfer to a poorer household would have a greater impact, in percentage terms, than a much larger gift to a wealthy household.
It helps that wealth transfers generally flow toward poorer individuals or households, especially from richer parents to poorer children.
But, though one marble-tiled bedroom in a Ben Ali mansion soon acquired graffiti saying, “The rich get rich and the poor get poorer,” the issue is not simply one of economic inequality.
The euro became the common currency of very wealthy countries, such as Germany and the Netherlands, and much poorer countries, such as Greece and Portugal.
The Economic Case Against Bush's Tax CutNEW YORK: Washington politicians are worried over signs that America’s great structural boom of the past five years is over: a poorer outlook for profits, increased corporate debts, and a related slowing of business investment in fixed capital, new customers and new employees.
Without the development of debt finance, the world would be a lot poorer than it is.
Moreover, overall economic performance in Brazil masks an important fact: growth rates have been substantially higher among the country’s poorer citizens, and unemployment is declining.
Without it, the country would become significantly poorer and its global influence would diminish significantly.
Since women tend to “marry up,” or find partners with higher socioeconomic status, it is less educated and poorer men whose romantic prospects are most affected by an influx of male asylum-seekers.
And, indeed, less educated and poorer groups tend to show the most opposition to migration.
Eventually, even the almighty American consumer will be shaken and realize that he is poorer today than three years ago and that he better start putting money away for his retirement, especially given Bush's proposed risky experiments with the social security system.
This has consequences for entire societies, which are poorer if they fail to tap the full potential of half their population.
In per capita terms, the EU is still poorer than it was seven years ago.
But throughout the last 30 years, fertility rates for white and black Americans have remained significantly below replacement level, and the three-decade rise and fall of US birth rates is explained primarily by higher Hispanic fertility, reflecting the common phenomenon that first-generation immigrants’ fertility rates are typically similar to those in their poorer countries of origin.
The only hope was to stop economic growth itself, cut consumption, recycle, and force people to have fewer children, stabilizing society at a significantly poorer level.
Some version of an open multilateral system may still be possible; for smaller and/or poorer countries, it is vitally important.
They have to be made not by the better-off but by the poorer parts of society, those whose material well-being would be impaired directly by cuts in the public support system.
Trying to give these hopelessly inefficient enterprises a new lease on life would make Iraqis poorer without reducing the violence.
If we lost even one, our world was made immeasurably poorer.
Given increasing evidence that the system is performing much better for wealthier citizens than for poorer ones, America’s soft power seems bound to erode substantially.
India embarked on its quest for rocket and satellite technology and space exploration when it was far poorer, impelled by its own ancient scientific tradition and the conviction of its first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, that such aspirations could co-exist with a determined effort to end poverty.
The poorer an economy’s growth prospects, the larger the fiscal correction and deleveraging needed to convince markets of underlying solvency.
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