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Rich countries have provided generous subsidies and other incentives for increased bio-fuel production, while poorer countries encouraging bio-fuel production have provided far fewer market-distorting incentives to farmers.
Currently, educational resources – particularly tertiary educational resources (university) – in many poorer countries are severely limited relative to wealthy countries, and, so far, the Internet and computers have exacerbated the differences.
But by subjecting US manufacturers and the world to a system of tariffs, quotas, and exemptions, it will achieve the opposite effect: lower competition, higher prices, poorer service, and less innovation.
The total cost of closing the “pain gap” and providing all the necessary opioids would be just $145 million a year at the lowest retail prices (unfairly, opioids are often more expensive for poorer countries than richer ones).
STANFORD – Cancer is sometimes thought of as a disease of wealthier countries, but it is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in poorer ones as well.
As the United Nations’ own data make clear, infectious diseases, many of them preventable and treatable, remain the scourge of poorer populations.
Meanwhile, China is making major investments in poorer countries, but in ways that the US and Europe consider anathema.
If the US continues to emit as it has, it will continue to impose enormous costs on the rest of the world, including on much poorer countries.
Long-standing programs in better-off countries received greater amounts of money, while a string of poorer candidates were once again overlooked.
It is true that poorer EU countries tend to outgrow richer ones, but poor regions do not necessarily outgrow rich regions or even the country average.
But as long as poorer member states grow faster than their richer counterparts, one should not be overly concerned about temporary increases in intra-national disparities.
Even post-War Germany's acclaimed, miracle-working Economics Minister, Ludwig Erhard, was deeply unpopular in the early 1950s, because it appeared as if only a few were getting rich, while most West Germans remained poor or got poorer.
Investments in effective prevention, treatment and research in 2005 and 2006 will save millions of lives, lessen the socio-economic impact of the diseases in poorer countries, and remove the need for increased spending on these chronic crises in the future.
In Search of ConvergenceCAMBRIDGE – One puzzle of the world economy is that for 200 years, the world’s rich countries grew faster than poorer countries, a process aptly described by Lant Pritchett as “Divergence, Big Time.”
Why, then, are some poorer countries now converging?
In a Union divided between net contributors and net beneficiaries, the economic fact of enlargement is that it will bring in much poorer countries.
In the long run, this is also good news for America's trading partners: there is more value to be gained by trading with a richer economy than with a poorer one.
The poorer you are, the more exposed you are likely to be to health-damaging environments.
For example, the “cultural-behavioral” approach explains health inequalities in terms of differences in individual behaviors, asserting that poorer people have worse health outcomes, owing to a higher propensity to smoke, drink alcohol, and eat less healthy foods.
After ruling out a number of possible explanations, they concluded that poorer households imitated the consumption patterns of richer households in their area.
Indeed, many borrowed to finance their spending, with the result that the proportion of poorer households in financial distress or filing for bankruptcy was significantly higher in areas where the rich earned (and spent) more.
And a world without a strong, unified Europe would be poorer and less safe.
In the process, the leaders made knowhow scarcer, causing its price to rise and society to become both poorer and more unequal.
As economists say, global growth has been “convergent,” meaning that poorer countries have been catching up.
It was a matter of basic economics: given peace, trade, and a global flow of ideas, poorer countries can get ahead.
Francis underscored the moral dimension of the problem:“The transition to accessible and clean energy is a duty that we owe toward millions of our brothers and sisters around the world, poorer countries and generations yet to come.
But if Trump goes down this path, he will make all countries, including the US, much poorer.
Italy has done something similar for decades, with its northern regions subsidizing the poorer Mezzogiorno.
Developing countries currently face higher rates of inflation not because of poorer macro-management, but because oil and food prices are soaring, and these items represent a much larger share of the average household budget than in rich countries.
In addition, some of the billions spent to subsidize Western farmers should now be spent to help poorer developing countries meet their basic food and energy needs.
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