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We would still have to pay by the end of the century, only now we would also have made ourselves poorer in the 90 years preceding it.
When the rich get less rich, the poor get poorer.
The recent yellow fever epidemic in Angola, for example, spread to its much poorer neighbor, the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Last year's Irish referendum result prompted Italy to suggest that the EU give guarantees to member states that they would not lose financial support if poorer members are brought into the Union.
The tariff was bad economics: it made America poorer.
The crisis has stoked demands for independence by adding fervor to many Catalans’ anger at financial transfers to Spain’s poorer regions through the much-maligned Territorial Solidarity Fund.
MAYNOOTH, IRELAND – Despite its many woes, the European Union remains a lodestar for poorer states outside its borders.
And while major media organizations experiment with subscriber paywalls, membership programs, and sponsored content to raise revenue and maintain newsrooms, lower-profile journalists working in poorer countries have fewer options.
Freedom and independence, to which we tried to point the way, are not accompanied by a sense of solidarity, especially towards those who are weaker and poorer.
As Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych pointed out in a 2008 study for the Review of Economics and Statistics, poorer countries are deprived of capital flows partly because they lack the institutions that are needed to receive and facilitate investments.
Average annual per capita incomes in the US, Japan, and Western Europe are currently around $40,000, and less than $6,000 for the poorer half of the world’s population.
Death and Tobacco TaxesA global killer is ripping through the world’s poorer countries largely unchecked.
In the absence of a joint fiscal policy, the common currency shared by Europe’s poorer south and its more productive north has the effect of artificially boosting German exports.
Committing to massive cuts in carbon emissions will leave future generations poorer and less able to adapt to challenges.
Like-minded states, often neighbors, grouped together to pool their leverage: this was notable among some of the smaller and poorer states with the most at stake in addressing climate change.
And, in any case, the focus of financial nervousness is shifting back to the world economy’s core countries, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, which are funding large current account deficits with surpluses from much poorer countries.
The issuance of Eurobonds would imply subsidizing debt-service costs for less creditworthy countries, raising the specter of a “transfer economy” – poorer countries’ permanent dependence on rich countries’ assistance – which Germany strongly opposes.
Although some democratic experiments have led to greater instability, the poorer countries have no option but to continue on that path.
Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries’ productivity levels – not of growth in the rich countries themselves.
The SNCF’s operating costs are 30% higher than those of comparable railway systems in neighboring countries, and its performance is poorer.
Where beef was legally available, it was consumed not just by Muslims and other minorities, but also by many poorer Hindus, who could not afford other kinds of meat.
Few people are shocked to see a wealthy older man take up with a younger, poorer women, promising to finance her education, travel, or shopping in exchange for her company.
For poorer countries, such concerns are dismissed as a rich-world luxury.
As the Vatican has pointed out, the poor are disproportionately affected by the consequences of climate change; for example, some of our activities threaten to undermine food production in the drier – and poorer – areas of the world.
Villages that are far from major ports and cities tend to be poorer and less invigorated by the recent economic growth.
This development had a particularly adverse effect on Europe’s poorer regions and less competitive developing countries around the world.
Combating disease, hunger, and polluted water would bring immediate benefits to millions and allow poorer countries to increase productivity and break the cycle of poverty.
Much poorer countries, and those routinely criticized by eurozone policymakers for their indebtedness (such as the US and the UK), should provide support to a wealthy creditor in order to prevent it from inflicting incalculable damage on the global economy.
At a time when the number of displaced people is at an historic high, the European Union – which accounts for 29% of global wealth – hosts just 9% of refugees, leaving far poorer countries to carry most of the burden.
These risks are greater in less-developed financial systems, and the costs of cleaning up the messes could also be proportionately larger for poorer economies.
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