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Japan might be a rich country, but a week after the tsunami struck it is struggling to feed and house the victims adequately.

But it is hard to think of any rich-country leader whom China treats with as much respect as the older Mr Lee.

A month ago, the chatter in financial circles was that Britain was the one rich country that might take a populist lurch.

That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty!

The interesting question is whether the same percentage increase in income means as much to a rich country as to a poor one.

The number of immigrants has grown by half in the past decade, but the proportion is still well below any other big rich country.

In Canada, financial firms had an average ratio of about 18 to 1, and Canada endured the crisis better than perhaps any other rich country.

This is all the more worrying because the low birth rate means the country is ageing more rapidly than any other rich country.

It was walloped during the global financial crisis, but recovered faster than any other rich country.

France said it would host an international meeting next week that would lay out a road map for the oil-rich country's future.

Despite the troubles on its periphery, the public debt of the euro zone as a whole is not notably high by rich-country standards.

The Japanese are so far the only rich country to intervene directly in the markets to weaken their currency.

Meanwhile central Europe, home of many big car factories, has gained from rich-country governments' efforts to help their car industries.

It learned during the depression that even a rich country can become impoverished if it fails to use its wealth to benefit the majority.

But this strategy must not be relied on indefinitely as it risks compromising the fiscal credibility of rich-country governments.

They have certainly outstripped states like Angola, a resource-rich country whose governance track record leaves much to be desired.

If only those rich-country banks which touted subprime mortgages to the poor had been as public-spirited.

Early estimates of the total damage are somewhat higher than the $100 billion that Kobe cost, but not enough to wreck a rich country.

Americans work longer hours: theirs is the only rich country that does not give any statutory paid holiday.

The GDP landmark 'can't reflect the true situation of this society, ' which he described as 'rich country, poor people. '

The authors first examine returns to a simple carry trade for a set of ten rich-country currencies between 1986 and 2008.

Every rich country faces some of these problems (see article), but nobody suffers worse from them than America.

In Britain a father's income determines that of his son more than in any other rich country, according to an OECD report last year.

That Roman-era cemetery in this history-rich country were archaeological discoveries are common, was also in the shape of a cross.

Yet it is a resource-rich country with a core of well-educated people, millions of whom have fled abroad and must be wooed back home.

Yet as with earlier alliances over global trade talks, this looks like a tactical marriage in the face of rich-country demands.

It is a paradox that in such a rich country there should be so many poor people.

Every rich country dutifully signed up to the millennium development goals and pledged to halve world hunger by 2015.

And rules to increase the money banks must hold for liquidity are coming from the Basel Committee, a club of rich-country bank supervisors.

"The U. S. is a rich country, " he says, "and its deficit situation is more a political rather than economic problem. "

So good, in fact, that if any rich country can claim to have done well in the recent global crisis, it is theirs.

As many investors have painfully discovered, it is perhaps harder to sell pay-television in Germany than in any other rich country.

contradiction It is a paradox that such a rich country should have so many poor people living in it.

The rich-country four take all the top four places, perhaps reflecting the weight the marking system gives to education and connections.

Yet it is the only rich country that does not guarantee universal health coverage.

Greece was not the only rich country under the fiscal spotlight this week.

The United States spends 16% of its GDP on health, around twice the rich-country average, equivalent to $6280 for every American each year.

New Zealand, however, is bottom of the rich country list, accused of making particularly harsh cuts in its official aid to agriculture.

It has called on the United Nations to take the lead in post-conflict arrangements in the oil-rich country.

AS NEWSPAPER companies across the developed world took a beating in the past few years, those in one rich country merely shrugged.

Rich country delegates have spent two weeks talking but have done nothing on the issues that really matter.

In a report published on April 30th, the OECD, a rich-country club, analyses the impact of the financial crisis on insurance.

From America to Sweden, the best hospitals in a rich country outperform the rest.

China has power rationing now, as does Venezuela (a sign of incredible incompetence in an energy-rich country).

China, with its large population , weak economic foundation and imbalances in development, is not yet a rich country .

His words were aimed at rich-country central banks, but policymakers in emerging economies are the ones who should most take heed.

America seems like a very rich country too much of the world.

Much of the pressure for change has come from non-government organisations and Britain's fellow rich-country members of the OECD.

It is a paradox that in such a rich country there should is so many poor people.

Even in America, which is unusually religious for a rich country, the top echelons of those who think for a living tend to be unbelievers.

Want at least 1% of rich country GDP spent on "climate-inflicted damage"

In principle, Japan should easily be able to handle the bill. It is, after all, a rich country.

We're the only rich country in the world that still imposes taxes on corporations on money they earn overseas.

As the old- line "Rich -country Club" , the Group of Eight(G8) has been influencing the global politics and economy behind the scene.

No other rich country is nearly as punitive as the Land of the Free.

no rich country can simply grow its way out of looming pension and health-care commitments.

All this is a world away from the other rich country with demographic growth: America.

Now would also be an appropriate time to strengthen the rich-country G7, which excludes Russia, at the expense of the G8, which includes it.

I know this well from another closely related set of financing commitments, the rich-country pledges on development aid.

But no rich country has laid out a credible, medium-term fiscal plan.

The rich-country club (plus Russia), representing a minority of the world's population, appears ill-equipped for the challenges.

Some even reckoned that "decoupling" might allow the region to ride out the storm that began in rich-country financial markets.

That enables them to build devices that are both cheaper and better than rich-country models.

Although significant fund outflows started only in late January, the MSCI EM has lagged behind rich-country indices since last autumn.

His call follows a succession of interventions by rich country governments to block foreign takeovers on grounds of national interest.

While rich-country banks were piling into ever-riskier assets, Asian banks kept their holdings of such assets small.

n. We have an image of the U. S. as a very rich country.

It has dropped the previous government's objection to Russia's bid to join the OECD, a rich-country club.

Those remedies are not available now: interest rates are already low and rich-country currencies cannot all depreciate at once.

Other rich-country governments also moved to guarantee bank debts, raise deposit insurance and inject capital into their banks.

The United States is the rich country with the most skewed income distribution.

This newspaper does not advocate the first rich-country sovereign defaults in half a century lightly.

The OECD, a rich-country think-tank, which measures these "structural rigidities" , could co-ordinate an effort to reduce them.

No other rich country has so successfully harnessed the modern juggernauts of technology and globalisation.

Switzerland, another rich country with lots of foreign workers, has a similarly large proportion of non-natives behind bars.

But should the world's most indebted rich country really be saddling the sovereign balance sheet with equity no one else wants?

Millions may move from poor world to rich without bidding down wages in the rich country relative to the developing one.

China isn't yet a rich country, far from it, but those who do have money to spend are eager for new experiences.

By these standards most rich-country fiscal-consolidation plans score reasonably well.

For many decades to come, China will remain both a spectacularly poor country and enviably rich country.

Rich country governments were not let off the hook by their voters.

Yet though every rich country has a climate-change policy, few have a population one (there are historical reasons for that).

The first is between rich and poor. Income is distributed more unequally in Britain than in almost any big rich country except America.

With more than 100 million people living below the UN poverty line, China is not a rich country.

A report this week from the OECD, a rich-country think-tank, scrutinises these efforts and asks if this aim is being achieved.

They thought that the rich people are the foundation of social stabilization and the rich country.

China is the most rare earth resource-rich country in the world. Thus, it may be provide a reliable basis for use of rare earth material.

Its net foreign debts and current-account deficit are fairly small by rich-country standards.

As a result, creditors of bust firms there typically get back 67 cents on the dollar, close to the rich-country average.

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The Chinese government has heavily subsidised the rollout of high-speed access, so internet penetration now approaches rich-country levels.

Greek default would be the first by a rich country since 1948.

Indeed Italy's overall private-sector debts are modest by rich-country standards.

Yet the rich-country slowdown has not eased the pressure on the world's resources.

No rich country needs a smorgasbord of subsidies for manufacturing.

expanding markets for rich-country exports will allow them to reap new economies of scale.

The employment rate, only 44% of the workforce, is the lowest in the OECD rich-country club.

Rich-country companies struggle to match the prices of firms in poorer places.

This outcome would push Britain only to the middle of the rich-country pack.

If so, they may gain a competitive advantage over their rich-country rivals.

NORWAY is the most generous rich country, giving nearly 1% of its national income in foreign aid in 2007.

We spend far too much time and energy worrying about the supposed global divide between north and south, rich country and poor country.

Why cant a RICH country like South Korea defend itself against north Korea.

But rich-country governments need to regain their flagging moral authority.

Scarcely any rich country has stable public finances.

The same fate befell another anti-corruption chief, John Githongo, in another relatively rich country, Kenya, in 2005.

Taxi drivers boast of owning multiple flats for investment. Billboards hawk developments with names such as Villa Glorious and Rich Country.

In the rich-country OECD club, Turkey ranks bottom on both scores.

"China is a rich country, yet food prices are sky high, " said a 23-year-old student in Shanghai.

Next year she will occupy the rotating presidency of both the EU and the G8 rich-country club.

I don't know, which oil rich country needs a lesson on democracy?

Rising incomes and ageing populations in poorer countries also mean more people are suffering from rich country diseases such as cancer.

Nevertheless, someday a kind man from a happy family in a rich country sees the people living so boringly and poorly.

Most rich-country budgets are under huge strain, and poor people in foreign countries are not votewinners.

In the past five years youth unemployment has risen in most countries in the OECD, a rich-country club (see chart 1).

Justice is harsher in America than in any other rich country.

The greater danger is that rich-country voters and parliaments may reject a global deal altogether.

Of all rich-country governments, Japan's has flailed the most.

How might a bail-out be sold to rich-country voters?

This stokes inflationary pressures in America and Europe and makes life difficult for rich-country central banks.

The government spends just under 5% of GDP on education, slightly below the rich-country average.

It is the most pleasant rich country to live in, reports a survey this week by the OECD.

It's a rich country, they take a lot of national pride in it and the king is responsible.

I believe I live in a rich country but maybe I've been fooled.

Oil made Kuwait a rich country.

Still, Mr Mbeki will not remain in office for ever, and it is his comparatively rich country that is leading the charge.

If you are an African country you have much more at stake than a rich country.

"People now know that South Korea is a very rich country and they hope that South Korea can help them. "

Because it is an incredibly rich country.

The proportion of Americans who are foreign-born, at 13%, is higher than the rich-country average of 8. 4%.

In 1980 the death rate for Brazilian men was below the rich-country average (300 compared with 500-600).

The OECD reckons its mostly rich-country membership cut its fiscal deficit from 4% of GDP in 2003 to 1. 6% in 2007.

The WTO said developing countries had markedly reduced their reliance on rich-country markets for exports in recent years.

After rich-country quotas that kept out developing countries' garment exports were abolished in 2004, Indian textiles were expected to boom.

For ten years in a row, the economy has grown by less than the rich-country OECD average.

Government debt for the average rich country will be more than 100% of GDP by 2014 compared with 70% in 2000 and 40% in 1980.

Indeed, Italy is the only G7 rich country in which productivity has fallen in the past ten years.

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