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When Asia grows, the West does not become poorer.
The threat of terrorism has been used to justify some of the new walls; but the strongest indicator of whether a county will build a barrier is whether it shares a border with a substantially poorer neighbor.
EU structural assistance has increased annual GDP growth, on average, by 0.4-0.9% in Greece, Portugal and Ireland, and by 0.3 to 0.5% in Spain, thereby helping poorer countries catch up with richer member states.
For now, our current climate policies are poor – and our politicians consistently find ways to make them even poorer.
With most households continuing to face stagnating or falling incomes – and with younger generations thus on track to be poorer than their parents – such solutions are urgently needed.
Many northern Italians fail to see why they should pay for the poorer south.
But, in the meantime, they are leaving behind a population that is older, poorer, and more vulnerable.
In general, the poorer the country, the lower the ranking: tied for last place are Chad and Bangladesh.
In Africa, less corrupt countries like Ghana also have much better protection of civil liberties than more corruption-prone countries like Chad and Ethiopia, which are also even poorer.
Third, where risks are regional or global rather than local, many national governments, especially in poorer and smaller countries, may drag their heels in the hope that larger and richer countries will bear the costs of addressing them.
In poorer countries, even children privileged enough to have access to a classroom often do not receive a good education.
And yet, according to the World Health Organization, in all but three countries worldwide, women can expect to outlive men, by up to seven years in Japan or by as little as a year in the poorer countries of Sub-Saharan Africa.
The irony - indeed, the tragedy - is that few policies are so inequitable and morally iniquitous as those that propose huge burdens on today’s generation, particularly its poorer members, in order to prevent what will be at worst an insignificant reduction in the incomes of future generations - who will, in any case, be far richer than we are today.
According to a new study by two MIT researchers, the wealthiest 1% of American men tend to live almost 15 years longer than the poorest 1%; and the wealthiest 1% of American women can expect to live ten years longer than their poorer counterparts.
But critics point out a lapse in the program: low enrollment rates among children from poorer zip codes.
You might expect to discover from the rating how well rich countries are allocating their development aid, and how successfully poorer countries are spending their own funds, to make sure more people have access to education, healthcare, food security, and a safe, clean environment – the planet’s fundamental development challenges.
Meanwhile, the Schengen Agreement, which eliminated most border checks between European Union member states, has facilitated the ability of immigrants from the poorer parts of Asia and Africa to flock to Northern European welfare states in recent years.
This is another form of solidarity, which also exists in the EU, where regional development funds are allocated to poorer regions to foster catch-up growth.
The fact that the study found that the greatest benefits of vaccination were among the poorest suggests not only that poorer people are more vulnerable and have a higher risk of developing preventable diseases, but also that the impact on their lives is potentially greater.
For the governments of low-income countries, this is an opportunity, because it shows what they could achieve in terms of improving health equity and reducing poverty by targeting higher vaccination rates in poorer and more marginalized communities.
A recent study in the journal PLOS Medicine projects a fivefold increase in heat-related deaths in the US by 2080; the outlook for poorer countries is even worse.
And many poorer citizens report growing satisfaction with the health care and pensions to which they have access.
Some did so because they felt poorer.
Rising inequality – owing partly to job-slashing corporate restructuring – is reducing aggregate demand further, because households, poorer individuals, and labor-income earners have a higher marginal propensity to spend than corporations, richer households, and capital-income earners.
The French experience exacted a high long-term price: French society was poorer relative to Britain in the century after the Revolution.
There are many difficult trade-offs to consider, including the consequences for others around the world who may be made significantly poorer than those hurt at home.
America will thus be poorer, both now and the future.
If it proved impossible to introduce a moderate carbon tax in a rich economy, it is certain that no commitment will be forthcoming for the next generation from China, which remains much poorer and depends even more on indigenous coal than the US.
Even if none of that money leaks and all is redistributed to poorer Chileans, the reform is unlikely to lower the Gini score by more than three points.
Of course, economic nationalism is obvious in America, with its nervousness about China and hostility to global agreements; but Europe, too, is now witnessing both a wave of anti-immigrant sentiment and rising resistance to helping poorer countries.
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