Example collocations logo

Richer in sentence

568 examples of Richer in a sentence

Low oil prices will hit Algeria, Bahrain, Iraq, Iran, Oman, and war-torn Libya and Yemen before the richer countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council.
Of course, the rich are getting richer (a lot richer!), but low-income groups are gaining ground, too.
For some, globalization is the road to prosperity for poor countries, and it certainly seems that countries such as Singapore, Taiwan, Korea, Chile and a few others have gotten much richer in the past 25 years through an economic strategy based on export growth and participation in the global economy.
The reality of the atomic bomb precludes large-scale war between world powers; governments intervene, upon global agreement, with large-scale bailouts; and today’s Western societies and emerging powers are much richer than those still devastated by World War I.
But I have always believed that a country cannot make itself richer by writing checks to itself.
This sounds like a good indicator of wealth, but, as is frequently pointed out, it includes things that do not make us richer and leaves out things that do.
In reality, burning fossil fuels over the past 150 years has enabled us to be free to create and innovate an amazingly richer world of antibiotics, telecommunications, and computers.
All of this leaves future societies amazingly richer – but would be missed in green GDP measures.
EU farm policy has started to be reformed, and its share of the EU budget has fallen from over 60% to 40%;Britain has for several years enjoyed significantly faster economic growth than most other member states, so that it is now one of the richer EU countries, even compared with France and Germany; and the new member states are so much poorer than even the poorest of the old members, that they have an unanswerable moral case for a generous share of whatever budget could be negotiated.
In Africa, that would mean empowering the most disadvantaged people, while making the region richer and greener.
By the end of the century, the United Nations expects the average person to be 1,400% richer than today.
Today’s version of that question is: why will richer nations spend obscene amounts of money on climate change, achieving next to nothing in 100 years, when we could do so much good for mankind today for much less money?
India has a higher share of services, and more rapid service-sector growth, than China, although the latter is richer and has grown faster over time.
However, even the most pessimistic forecasts from the UN project that by 2100 the average person in developing countries will be richer than the average person in developed countries is now.
So early action on global warming is basically a costly way of doing very little for much richer people far in the future.
Instead of helping richer people inefficiently far into the future, we can do immense good right now.
It would involve all nations, with richer nations naturally paying the larger share, and perhaps developing nations being phased in.
Moreover, higher house prices and rents distribute income from poorer households (which typically rent) to richer households (which own the houses).
In the last century, the world got richer; its population quadrupled; the number of people living in cities grew thirteen-fold; and we consumed more of everything.
The main thrust of early conservatism was root-and-branch opposition to every form of social insurance: make the poor richer, and they would become more fertile.
The world’s richer countries created their regulatory infrastructure over generations, during a time when there was little direct global competition.
And, of course, any country that is $10 billion richer, rather than $8 billion poorer, will have a better chance to handle future problems.
The world would be $11 trillion richer each year by 2030, with $7 trillion going to developing countries – equivalent to an extra $1,000 for every person every year in these countries by 2030.
The continent’s fusion of culture makes its people richer rather than poorer.
They have learned that China can have a greater impact on Taiwanese voters through trade and making people feel richer than by threats – even threats to fire missiles – which had been China’s electoral tactics in previous Taiwanese elections, particularly when a pro-independence candidate looked popular enough to win.
With the stock market rising while home prices are still falling, the wealthy are becoming richer, while the middle class and the poor – whose main wealth is a home rather than equities – are becoming poorer and being saddled with an unsustainable debt burden.
This division of jobs leaves out the developing countries, many of which are "developing" at a speed that will make them richer than Europe in per capita terms quite soon.
If all the benefits of the CAP were paid in full in all the six front runners, the cost to the EU budget could be an extra e6bn a year, and virtually all of that would have to be paid by existing member states, because they are so much richer.
As China becomes richer, its middle-class citizens will not just buy more tradable goods like cars, electronics, and appliances; they will buy housing and a host of non-tradable services, too.
Hatton confronts a popular argument against admitting refugees: that asylum-seekers are not really desperate, but are just using a crisis as a pretext for admission to a richer country.
BackNext