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The poor around the world may feel poorer from losing him as their champion and advocate.

But poorer countries, for which international capital markets remain off limits, have no alternative but to rely on the World Bank and IMF.

Confronting this challenge will require us to rethink fundamentally what development should look like, which is why the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, unlike the previous Millennium Development Goals, apply to all countries – not just the poorer ones.

Consider that in 2003, the test scores of 28% of Turkish students could be explained by their socioeconomic standing – in other words, the poorer the pupil, the lower his or her PISA scores.

Exasperation is especially widespread among the eurozone’s poorer members.

But such policies are harder to implement in poorer countries, where technological capabilities and infrastructure are often lacking.

The same standards for environmental cleanup need to be applied to global companies operating in poorer countries, where their power has typically been so great relative to that of governments that many act with impunity, wreaking havoc on the environment with little or no accountability.

A study by Charles Kenny and Andy Sumner for the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC, suggests that the MDGs not only boosted aid flows, but also redirected them toward smaller, poorer countries, and toward targeted areas like education and public health.

Currency unions require a mechanism for permanent transfers to poorer regions.

Although the moral and cultural simplifications of multiculturalism may have done the West little actual harm, the same cannot be said about poorer parts of the world.

But the transition can be more orderly, more peaceful, and less disruptive if states that command immense resources and wealth generously support the poorer countries – and back the reforms that all Arab countries need.

The EU is not deprived of instruments – the so-called “structural funds” that finance investment in poorer regions – but it does not have a strategy to use them.

In exchange for financing and building the infrastructure that poorer countries need, China demands favorable access to their natural assets, from mineral resources to ports.

One can argue about the precise scale of the economic shock – short- and long-term – but it is difficult to imagine any circumstances in which the United Kingdom does not become poorer and less significant in the world.

As the UK and other developed countries have rushed to build more wind turbines, they have naturally started with the windiest places, leaving poorer sites for later.

It is to be assertive in its dealings with the EU – perhaps not so much Euro-skeptical as “Euro-difficult” – aping Margaret Thatcher’s Britain of the 1980’s, despite Poland’s being much poorer and less politically influential than Thatcher’s Britain was.

Various court rulings have determined that this process allowed richer districts to spend more than poorer ones and ordered states to equalize spending.

As a result, many gay people have less education, lower productivity, lower earnings, poorer health, and a shorter life expectancy.

Of the tribes who lack access to power, many are poorer today than at independence, despite the billions of dollars spent in their name.

Small states frequently became the victims of larger but poorer neighbors envious of their success and eager to seize their assets, while oblivious to the fact that such seizure actually destroys the source of wealth and dynamism.

For example, if a poorer member country undergoes a period of real convergence and has a temporary current-account deficit – as is usual in such cases – it may be punished for not being sufficiently “harmonized.”

Restarting the Doha round of trade negotiations with a more manageable agenda – and one focused on the poorer and more vulnerable developing countries – would be a good way to revive progress on trade.

The Brexit vote makes it doubly necessary to focus on these poorer regions: to address the divisive politics that underpinned the narrow Leave majority, and to minimize the economic damage that the rupture with the UK’s biggest trading partners, especially if badly negotiated, is sure to cause.

Finally, at the international level, the globalization of tertiary education has become evident in rising flows of students between high-income, emerging-market, and poorer countries; in ever-improving Internet-based access to knowledge; and in the proliferation of global institutional partnerships.

Traditional marriage vows entail a commitment that binds the partners through changing circumstances: for richer and for poorer, in sickness and in health.

But, in both cases, immediately eliminating America’s bilateral deficits would simply make Americans poorer.

His overbearing manner and self-serving policies have deepened the divisions between affluent secularists and the poorer, rural Muslims who form his base.

More dramatically, people in Austria, France, Japan, and Germany appear to be no happier than people in much poorer countries, like Brazil, Colombia, and the Philippines.

The small proportion of students from poorer backgrounds who manage to gain admission and secure scholarships to top institutions often have lower grades, especially toward the beginning of their university education, owing to their inferior preparation.

With financial status serving as the key determinant of opportunities, young people from poorer backgrounds are becoming increasingly discouraged – a situation that can lead to social unrest.

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