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Indeed, Belgium might be seen as a microcosm of the EU, with a wealthy, Germanic north fed up with subsidising a poorer, Latin south.

Along with other developing nations, China wants developed countries to be legally bound to help pay for curbing emissions in poorer ones.

Although the Wall came down in 1989, it remains for some a symbol of continuing economic division between the richer west and poorer east.

Only a third of pupils in poorer parts of England show good development after a year in school, figures reveal.

For poorer shoppers trying to stretch their food budgets as far as they will go, such concerns may seem a bit abstract.

But how much poorer?

Do you promise to love him and keep him, in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, as long as you both shall live?

She's as poor as you or I: poorer I'll be bound: you're saving, and I'm doing my little all that road.

Turkey and Thailand now seem to have moved beyond that stage. Pakistan, a poorer nation, is still vulnerable.

For his escapades he was soon poorer in mind and body, to say nothing of his purse, which had lost thirty by the process.

Some worry that this marks a first step in the secession of the county's rich, mostly white north from its poorer, mostly black south.

At the bottom lies the failure of the state to protect the weaker and poorer against the stronger and richer, she said.

And most of Africa is actually poorer today than it was a few decades ago, when aid dollars began to increase.

There was no mechanism to allow richer provinces downstream to help poorer, polluting neighbours clean up, he added.

Some people insist that only today and tomorrow matter. But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule!

Every stroke of the quill leaves me a little poorer . . . or would, if I were not a beggar to begin with.

How much poorer?

It has a mind of its own. It is too lively and too bouncy and it's contributing to a poorer World Cup in terms of the quality of football.

Strange to say, she had grown poorer and prettier, two steps which it had not seemed within her power to take.

Another way of posing the second question: if Shanxi is much poorer, how much are its people benefiting from cheap, dirty energy?

A smile cost nothing, but gives so much. It enriches those who receive it, without making poorer those who give.

People were attracted by the jobs and wages on offer and Britain would have been a lot poorer without people migrating internally.

Feeling poorer and with fewer people prepared to lend them money, consumers are cutting back: witness the slump in car sales.

The children of poorer working mothers are the least likely to benefit from female-friendly companies.

What does make a difference to poorer students' achievement is how much time they spend being taught.

Once she was beautiful and rich, but now she becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what we have done to her.

As in the rest of America, better-off whites were more likely to vote Republican, poorer ones to vote Democrat or not at all.

Finally, he gave each beggar responsibility to help another poorer than himself.

But how much poorer we would be if we really lived by that rule!

Companies were waking up to the fact that technological innovation and economic reform were opening up new markets in poorer countries.

At thirteen he had to leave school as his father suffered some losses and became poorer for a time.

East Asian countries with more SOEs than China (North Korea and Vietnam) are poorer, just as you'd expect.

It was a street in one of the poorer quarters, where there was an open market which was generally crowded and noisy.

Spain and Italy would not be the only places to fret about the precedent of rich regions pulling away from poorer ones.

I don't want to have to look at the person's face who just made me a few thousand ringgit poorer while I'm doing my lats.

"If you grew up in a poorer neighborhood, you'd be more aware of someone coming up behind you and stealing your bag, " Mr.

The two together could produce a negative effect, causing Chinese consumers to feel poorer and to reduce spending.

It is too easy to just accept an order for a paint job, do virtually no preparation, and make a lot more money out of doing a poorer job.

When school buildings collapsed in Sichuan in the 2008 earthquake, the victims tended to be the children of poorer families.

Li, himself, did not flee because he did not want to return home to burden his family which had become still poorer.

The Little Green Data Book 2007 shows that deforestation has essentially been a feature of the poorer countries.

The fact that they even asked would affect your friendship, and would make you see them in a poorer light.

I had sold to a second-hand bookseller a volume which I prized, and was so much the poorer for the money in my pocket.

The Republic was one of the poorer areas of the former Yugoslavia.

Since their explicit agenda is to make us consume less, that is, to be poorer, they worry that this may not be popular.

All this all leads to a much poorer experience in gameplay, leading to less customers, and less profit for gaming companies.

Underscoring the scope for catch-up, car ownership in eastern China is three times that of the poorer interior.

Other men may see only trash, but there is often gold, which history will be poorer for not having.

Mr. Xie said 'developed countries should, at least, contribute 0. 7% of their GDP' to help fund poorer countries fight global warming.

But this sort of thing is much easier for giants like China or large countries like Bangladesh, than it is for poorer Mali or tiny Maldives.

One of the cruelties of unemployment is that it tends to fall most heavily on the poorer half of the economy .

In the longer term faster growth in poorer countries' demand is bound to be good for the advanced economies, but it will take time.

In the grand arena of ideas, we have tended to see emotion as the poorer cousin to thought, especially in the context of persuasion.

"We know from our recent work that increases in stress result in deformities, leading to poorer survival of fish larvae, " he said.

Encouraging these in-game services could aid development in many poorer countries, said the report.

The researchers say they found a link between being overweight and having a poorer memory, but we don't know why.

It also recommends food production be scaled up in poorer nations that are heavily dependent on food imports.

Some institutions are going to launch a new scheme to encourage more youngsters from poorer backgrounds to go on to college.

In general, the rougher the surface, the poorer the pitting resistance, and the lower the critical pitting temperature.

Just do not spend a week did I check uric convention twice a lot of poorer however?

Generally seniors aren't poorer than other groups of customers (in the United States, at least).

Poorer people, who tend to depend more on natural resources, will bear the brunt as they will not be able to compete with the rich.

Social mobilisation often remains a distant dream unless poorer groups are (at least partly) relieved from economic insecurity.

Ironically, it is often the poorer people who give the most.

Associate Professor Kavanagh said living in a richer or poorer neighbourhood was more important than a person's actual income.

For poorer farmers in less developed countries, even modest investments that would greatly improve their coffee can be out of reach.

Once I was beautiful and rich, but now I becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what humans have done to me.

Even though men work all their lives, and women work only temporarily or not at all, on average, men are poorer than women.

He also finds that children in poorer families miss out on pre-school reading, socialising and physical exercise (see diagram).

International adoptions in the U. S. gained momentum during the 1990s as families reached out to orphans in poorer corners of the world.

But it is one of only four countries to report a rise in the number of people expecting their families to be poorer since March.

Europe is the only region in which TB has risen continuously, particularly in the poorer countries of the former Soviet Union.

Since poorer people tend to save less than richer ones, higher house prices ought to boost spending more than rising share prices.

One obstacle to effective counter measures is that piracy tends to be rife in poorer regions where law and order has broken down.

"The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually, " he said.

Globalisation was not supposed to work like this: the rich get poorer, while the poor get poorer still.

All of these results in competing demands for land and impoverishment of poorer groups whose land needs cannot be met.

It is obvious that a business based upon only a trickle of fine ideas has poorer prospects than one based upon a steady flow of such ideas.

Perhaps had the woman not belonged to the poorer class, in need of money, no such lawsuit would have been filed.

It could continue like this more or less indefinitely, steadily growing poorer and older but still managing quite comfortably.

Decreased monsoon strength reduced the rainfall and led to a poorer harvest, which may have sparked unrest and led to the downfall of Tang.

Even if they did not discriminate on the basis of content, access fees wouldautomatically marginalize smaller, poorer Web sites.

Money is an infinite resource, and by gaining your own share of it, it does not make the world poorer altogether.

The new universities are real enough, though they remain middle-class bastions: very few of China's poorer citizens get a look-in.

It grew worse during the recent recession, and is likely to widen again as government budget cuts fall disproportionately on poorer regions.

Poorer countries have tried to promote chosen industries as a way of speeding up economic development.

Belgium is now almost totally split on linguistic lines between the rich Flemish-speaking north and the poorer French-speaking south.

Nuclear power, coal with carbon capture, and ethanol were all poorer options, as were oil and natural gas.

a tax break for the first ten employees of new businesses set up in Britain's poorer regions.

In the early stages of capitalism factories turning out consumers' goods worked almost exclusively for the poorer strata of the population.

In the early stages of capitalism factories turning out consumers' goods worked almost exclusively for the poorer strata of the population.

Helicopter inherent characteristics make its flight poorer quality, and helicopters use task is asking that it has good flying qualities.

but it could have tragic consequences for those of poorer ones, especially if higher prices for feed divert production away from food crops.

Many poorer countries are reliant on external assistance in the form of loans or grants to meet their post disaster reconstruction needs.

But he also lived extremely well--building his celebrated home at Monticello--and likely was poorer after the end of his presidency.

As a result of all this, ordinary households actually get poorer in relative terms and even in absolute terms.

The one big misstep is a property-tax cap of about 2 percent a year that will severely hurt schools and services in poorer communities.

China's middle class is still small compared to its much poorer rural population.

If being able to borrow makes people feel richer (however illusory the sensation), having to repay the debt makes them feel poorer.

Government subsidies and the creation of a national exchange would make premiums more affordable to smaller firms and poorer individuals.

Equally worrisome is the low percentage of employment in industry, which should be the GDP driver of a poorer country like India.

Even if the tax cut doesn't end the recession, it would at least ease the downturn's burden on poorer Americans.

The truth is, such a society is, overall, a poorer society.

But although some of the findings could be applicable to poorer countries, developing nations can face different challenges.

Some oversea workers have done so well, they've been able to outsouce their own outsourced works to those even poorer than themselves.

China has announced two new carbon trading initiatives to help develop its poorer regions and meet the UN Millennium Development Goals.

Although air conditioning provides relief, not everyone has access to it, especially poorer neighborhoods and developing nations.

Sophisticated analytical methods may be expensive and beyond the reach of many professionals in poorer countries.

If it reaches the site of an outbreak quickly, an antiviral stockpile could especially help people in poorer countries.

Later in life, however, those same traits "appear to be related to less life satisfaction and a poorer reputation. "

That would suggest that poorer nations like India might have a bigger hand in current warming than we'd long assumed.

India is poorer than China and does not feel the same sense of strategic rivalry with the US.

The United States has also proposed greater lending by the International Monetary Fund to relieve stresses on poorer countries.

The allocation of a significant portion of post-natural disaster financing to housing reconstruction in poorer countries is examined.

China should also make sure that it continues to trade in sufficient volume with its poorer neighbors.

The country's strong tax base means it has a welfare budget that poorer African neighbours can only envy.

But China is still far poorer than Japan was at its peak, and thus has more room to improve productivity.

Food aid is now generally directed toward poorer countries, but some countries that are not poor receive significant aid.

Oil-flush Abu Dhabi says it will finance more infrastructure projects in the poorer princedoms that make up the United Arab Emirates.

The lives farmers led were often harder and their diets poorer than hunters', but that was beside the point.

And the packaging company with a few poorer equipment, its construction assures hard.

The poorer the country, the larger the share of its health-care budget typically absorbed by the cost of drugs.

Miguel Brechner, the organiser, says it has brought home-computing to tens of thousands of poorer households, while also reducing truancy.

The West should focus more on policies and good governance (something many poorer Indian states are crying out for).

Indeed, the gap between richer and poorer regions is likely to widen in many countries as the public-spending axe falls.

She said many medical diagnostic tests are too expensive for people in poorer areas of the world to afford.

The world will be poorer if only academics get sentimental about Great-Grandad's letters from the front.

Men with spinal pain (neck or lower back) accompanied byNTW radiating into a limb had poorer health status than those with milder pain.

Archer Militia are bow-equipped peasants or poorer townsfolk called upon to provide a settlement with a garrison of missile troops.

A key challenge in addressing this problem was to increase the financing for and improve the quality of healthcare in the poorer provinces.

Men with poorer beginnings tended to have more asymmetrical features in older age -- despite improving their social standing as adults.

I wished him good night, and walked out of the shop, the richer by that sum, and the poorer by a waistcoat.

Medellin is located in a valley, the region's residents in many poorer simple houses, built on the hillside as a residence.

Only one of the two methods showed a link between higher BPA levels and poorer quality sperm.

Since the reform in countryside, villagers have been getting well off, only Biaojiuye's family was getting poorer and poorer.

Their intention is to destroy lower, middle class and working strata and to create a new society, the rich richer, the poor poorer.

"The poor are also poorer now, so altruists can achieve more with their donation. " But as Karlan warns, not everyone is an altruist.

Dedicated to the poor of a statue. His devotion to pray for God to bless him. he is becoming poorer.

In 1979 China had an incredibly inefficient communist system and was poorer than India, poorer than sub-Saharan Africa.

If they feel poorer, they may cut back even if the price of their house has not fallen below what they paid for it.

Poorer people have to think hard about a million things that affluent people don't.

Without it, the patient will die or require dialysis for years, which is an expensive procedure and often out of reach of poorer patients.

This would line up the poorer north and north-east against the wealthier, more populous south and south-east.

Informal businesses have lower wages, lower growth rates, poorer safety records, tend not to pay taxes and are prey to corruption.

But they could feed the suspicion many poorer Chinese have that this is becoming a more unfair, less equal society.

However, in young, active patients, it results in an increased rate of revision and poorer outcomes.

Often, as in Germany, the subsidies seem mainly to be a way to transfer funds from richer to poorer regions.

The education quality in Macau, compared with that in HK, is absolutely much poorer, esp. in the teaching of languages.

For people with an external locus of control, job control actually predicted poorer well-being and health as stressors increased.

In North Las Vegas, a poorer suburb, the figure was one in five.

The budget doesn't get into the details but a number of warehouse-like regional pavilions housed exhibits from poorer nations.

Considering the poorer financial status, they decided to delay their project .

They were supported, perhaps, by the poorer class with a grievance .

Why do they say all that stuff at weddings about "sickness and health, richer and poorer, for better or for worse, 'til death do you part? "

But once poorer neighbours enjoy free movement, closing legal routes to work will inevitably result in a bigger black market.

She comments that, while many are feeling poorer than they have in years, the super-rich, are, so far, relatively buoyant.

Children born to younger, poorer mothers were more likely to be exposed to secondhand smoke.

In a nutshell, the longer it takes you to recover, the weaker you are and the poorer your performance.

water resistance is poorer, coating in the long run, tunnel in damp environment, water, or even fall off.

Inner beauty belongs to person of ordinary appearance, who knows they would be poorer if they had no inner beauty.

Underprivileged hme environments simply aren't conducive to doing schoolwork, which means poorer students are at a learning disadvantage.

But the market turmoil may be a dress rehearsal for the real crisis that will emerge when the economy is in poorer shape.

The collapse of the traditional family has made black Americans far poorer and lonelier than they would otherwise have been.

People with disabilities experience poorer health, lower education, fewer economic opportunities and comparatively higher rates of poverty.

The disproportionate services GDP contribution is an anomaly in a poorer country like India.

The problem was that the poorer countries couldn't afford them.

Although Jiangxi is one of Chinas poorer provinces, GAO AN is known for its porcelain and beef cows.

US consumers would be poorer if foreign car companies had been denied access to our markets.

To offer bargains is a commercial trick to make the poor poorer. When greedy fools fall for this trick, it's serves them right.

Perhaps long-distance commuters tend to be poorer or less educated, both conditions that make divorce more common.

In cahoots with the politicians, these giant firms are indeed ripping off the middle class and poorer Americans.

They make themselves out to be poorer than they really are.

Many of its poorer members regard it as an institution dominated by the views of richer countries.

This has helped poorer parts of cities in recent years, as young people bring money into the neighborhood.

Operating profitably in poorer markets often means switching to smaller stores with a narrower range.

DESPITE all the aid, investment and remittances that flow from richer economies to poorer ones, too much capital sloshes right back.

of what coarse metal ye are molded- Shakespeare; produced. . . the common cloths used by the poorer population.

So in Britain, "rich, thick kids" still perform better than their brighter but poorer classmates.

Helping poorer countries catch up has long been among the benefits touted for globalisation.

More rule-based transfers from richer to poorer areas would probably need to be part of this.

Poorer regions have the least impact on global climate change, their emissions are limited to basic survival.

Though some pacemaker manufacturers have dropped the price down to $800 in poorer countries, that's still out of reach for many.

They may have promised to have and to hold for richer and for poorer.

Consumers would end up poorer than they would have been without a climate-change policy.

It would also be too slow to catch up with poorer European Union members' per capita output.

This also leads to the increased concrete cost, more complex construction technology, poorer liquidity and deteriorated performance.

Instead, it will assess the financial situation of each candidate and give preference to students from poorer backgrounds.

Now, eating dog is viewed by many as an embarrassing reminder of a poorer time.

In the poorer parts of Tunisian towns and in far-flung villages most people know someone who suffered this kind of humiliation.

Poorer countries tend to churn out a high percentage of consumer-oriented businesses.

For now, Mr. Sokol is expected to focus on NetJets, one of Mr. Buffett's poorer performing investments.

The world would be a poorer place without the jokes sparked by ridiculous yet ruthless rulers. But Russia would be a lot happier.

They suck all money from tax payers to their pockets. The unemployed were still looking for jobs, and the poor became poorer.

He advised WeiZhen sea from evil, WeiZhen poorer sea that he was able to pay, I conscience, but can't find their trouble afterwards.

In her time, nursing was something done mostly by poorer women.

Those who propose these schemes are unconcerned by the obvious fact that a sparse population is, in general, a poorer population.

Each is now 25 cents poorer and Chamberlain is a quarter of a million dollars richer.

Easterlin concedes that richer people are more likely to report themselves as being happy than poorer people are.

Offshore work is a component of most outsourcing contracts, but jobs no longer flow only from richer countries to poorer ones.

It is likely that those who consumed large quantities of diet drinks had a generally poorer diet than those who tended to avoid them.

And if you think that it's just rivers in poorer countries that are badly managed, think again.

The study found a link between higher levels of BPA in urine and poorer quality sperm.

Common to these problems may be a failure to deliver nutrients and hormones to muscle because of a poorer blood supply.

Most of the migrant workers in the Gulf states hail from Asia, but a lot are also sucked in from the poorer Arab countries.

The report by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development warns this trend could hurt richer and poorer nations.

It was chiefly the poorer citizens of Athens who sustained this empire by their most vigorous and incessant personal service.

Along with these problems, human greed has increased, the poor are getting poorer and the epidemic of loneliness is growing.

The rich man looked down on his poorer neighbours.

For Angola, with its oil wealth, it is easier to push back against Beijing than for poorer African countries.

And a number of nations, wealthy in the aggregate but often poorer per capita, might even think the rules don't apply to them.

The bottom line is that about 80 per cent of jobs in poorer countries require some form of vocational skills.

Seoul should also make clear it has the stomach to take on the enormous political and economic challenge of absorbing its poorer cousin.

But they differ in how to do that, with the US resisting obligations to help poorer nations with new energy technologies.

Low blood iron levels have been linked to poorer maths performance in a large, nationwide study of over 5, 000 American children.

meanwhile, as a positive anti-poverty measure, the performance of re-employment policies is poorer than expected.

No longer will Brussels and the richer North turn a blind eye to the spending and shenanigans of the poorer South.

Increased droughts and floods could bring crop failures and starvation in poorer parts of the world.

But if you think buying drinks will make you feel worse, and poorer, then I'm sure you're right.

This year it will get a bad rap from people who fear that more winners in poorer nations turn richer countries into losers.

Essentially, PPP numbers try to reflect the differences in costs of living and tend to boost the economic rankings of poorer nations.

The US and other countries want the World Bank to control money raise to help poorer countries deal with climate change.

These banks can offer competitive loans and less onerous conditions to borrowers in Africa, Latin America or the poorer parts of Asia.

Conflicts between poorer peoples and richer neighbors have been part of human history since antiquity.

People with lower education levels also tend to be considered poorer.

How does the condition with not quite good in the environment, poorer condition fall to grab job of good party work?

A devaluation is a proxy for a national pay cut: it helps exporters but makes consumers of imports poorer.

If these same consumers are poorer on average, it would also be regressive.

Considering the poorer fineachciwis status; they decided to delay their project .

The bazaar is also home to members of two poorer Muslim groups, who are said to be descended from low-caste former Hindus.

Do you promise to love her and keep her, in sickness and in health, for richer and for poorer, as long as you both shall live?

Previously, the German chain stuck to the suburbs, where poorer folk live, says Fatouh Mourad, the store's manager.

And in poorer nations generally the proportion of urban poor is actually increasing faster than the rate of urbanisation.

These people include good government officials who try to make policies that benefit the poorer class of society.

Nehemiah was angry inside, over what some of the rich people were doing to the poorer people: What did he do?

In some of the smaller and poorer countries, the populists' caricature has a grain of truth to it.

Poorer countries in the region, whose export sectors are dominated by garments and commodities, have been hurt badly too.

Leotheras the Blind - One of the poorer fights for a resto druid.

The drivers, mostly migrant workers from poorer inland provinces, circulated a list of demands and appointed representatives.

It is quite natural for average prices to be lower in poorer countries and therefore for their currencies to appear cheap.

Research also show children from poorer homes are more likely to interpret a series of mock social situations as threatening.

A number of things came together to make mobile phones more accessible to poorer people and trigger the rapid growth of the past few years.

But many poorer families do not have money for a hospital or live too far away.

The region was already poorer than much of Japan, its population ageing faster and many of its younger people gone to the cities.

Related to this is the point that it is never a proper goal of policy that anyone should be poorer.

In many poorer countries, that means focusing on activities dominated by small-scale manufacturing, farming and services firms.

But she was born in 1964, when Americans lived shorter, poorer lives and southern blacks couldn't vote.

As hypothesized, we found that those respondents who were unemployed had significantly poorer mental health than those who were employed.

What can be done to help poorer countries reach the next stage of economic development so they can eventually get rich?

Cities contribute much less to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than assumed, particularly in poorer countries, according to a researcher.

Income inequality within a country can make those at the bottom feel poorer, no matter what their absolute income.