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For example, a considerable amount of aid is simply payments to domestic firms in the rich countries to sell unneeded products to the poorer countries.
have shown that much of the problem of global poverty can be traced to severe geographical problems of the poorer countries, such as endemic diseases that are prevalent in the tropics, such as malaria, schistosomiasis, and hookworm.
Labor mobility from poorer to richer areas provides a shock absorber against differential economic hardship.
That led to protests in many poorer countries, and to a political determination to extract additional gains from other commodity exports.
Japan has spent the last 15 years struggling with slow growth, anemic household demand (especially among poorer families), and rising inequality and poverty.
These poorer outlying regions are hugely dependent on public-works projects for employment.
The report shows that since 2000, investors or state bodies in rich or emerging countries have bought more than 83 million hectares (more than 200 million acres) of agricultural land in poorer developing countries.
But many countries--54, in fact--were poorer in 2000 than they were in 1990, as documented in the 2003 UN Human Development Report .
In Paris, Hidalgo’s “right of first refusal” plan allows the municipal government to acquire residences that come on the market in selected neighborhoods so that it can provide them to poorer residents at risk of being displaced.
So, if price equalization were to happen, citizens in rich countries would feast and those in poorer countries would pay through the nose.
Yet wages are vastly different and hence we expect lower retail prices in poorer cities and countries than in richer ones.
In most poor countries, women are poorer than men, owing to the systematic discrimination that they face in education, health care, employment, and control of assets.
There is obviously something peculiar about a global financial system in which the richest country in the world, the United States, borrows more than $2 billion a day from poorer countries – even as it lectures them on principles of good governance and fiscal responsibility.
By contrast, rapid population growth in many poorer countries still poses a severe threat to human welfare.
But the bigger opportunities are in flying the middle mile in poorer countries.
This will ensure that poorer nations’ views receive a more sympathetic hearing in the future.
The lesson of the 2004 election, when poorer voters, fed up with the previous BJP-led government’s “India Shining” policies and slogans, threw it out of office, has not been forgotten.
The implicit model is that of the “guest worker” who comes and goes; in practice, a sizeable share of economic migrants from poorer parts of Europe stay in their country of destination, fueling an increase in support for anti-immigrant parties.
Doing so would reduce inequalities not only between EU member states, but also within the poorer ones.
Furthermore, US-style QE, in particular, tends to have adverse distributional implications, because it channels more money toward the wealthy, who have a lower propensity to spend, without providing much to the poorer people who would use it to consume more.
But the country has been suffering a death by a thousand cuts, leaving it weaker and poorer the longer Trump is in office.
This could be done partly by enlisting sovereign wealth funds and partly by issuing Special Drawing Rights so that rich countries that can finance their own fiscal deficits could cede to poorer countries that cannot.
But when I was born there, in 1952, the island was poorer than almost every country in Africa.
These cities are learning from one another, building on good ideas and jettisoning poorer ones.
For poorer rural areas, this means creating a fertile environment for entrepreneurs and small power producers to develop mini-grids – generally powered by solar, small hydro, or solar-diesel hybrids – that can bring electricity to communities that would otherwise wait for years for grid connections.
At the same time, the participation of small countries, many of them poorer nations, is not being overlooked: the IMF agreement calls for a tripling of so-called “basic votes,” which ensures that these countries’ voices will be better heard.
Third, life outside the EU will, in any case, leave Britain poorer and less influential in the world.
To be sure, the issues are complex and difficult, especially those of financing adaptation and mitigation efforts in poorer countries.
But the status quo is very risky for poorer countries.
With the developing world relying almost totally on innovation from the rich countries, many of the most pressing problems that are unique to poorer countries remain neglected by the world's scientists and leading high-technology industries.
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