The phrase "advantaged countries" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to countries that have more resources, wealth, or opportunities compared to others, often in discussions about global inequality or development.
Example: "The policies implemented by advantaged countries often have a significant impact on the economies of developing nations."
Alternatives: "developed countries" or "wealthy nations".
Suddenly the defense of the American way of life and our democracy seems to be predicated upon a lack of concern for the democratic rights of people in less advantaged countries.
1 2 3 In economically advantaged countries reported rates range from 6%to12%2%. 1 2 In England about 10 000 babies born at or below 32 weeks' gestation are admitted to National Health Service (NHS) neonatal units each year.
This is also true, although not consistent, in the less advantaged countries, where children are still exposed to lead from leaded gasoline, traditional cosmetics, lead water pipes, and lead-soldered food cans.
That is, even though low and middle income countries (LMIC) have made remarkable progress on a number of health-related MDG indicators (e.g. the reduction of under- five-mortality and the incidence of TB and Malaria), it is apparent that significant inequities persist between the world's most advantaged and least advantaged countries and between populations within countries.
This year we unilaterally eliminated all tariffs for the 49 least-advantaged countries in the world.Felipe Larraín Chile's minister of finance Santiago* SIR – You rightly drew attention to local content requirements as a harmful and common form of protectionism.
So some countries were advantaged by the cohort time that they used.
Health workers, who were most affected by these policies that changed their practices, were relatively advantaged, as in most countries they appeared to know the general content of the exemption measures relatively well.
Across income-groups, middle-income countries are advantaged with higher levels of labour market equality (M = -0.36, SD = 0.83) and lower levels of poverty (M = -0.42, SD = 0.45) compared to income-income nations (inequality, M = 0.08, SD = 1.12; poverty, M = -0.42, SD = 0.45).
In the parlance of US economist Paul Romer, these countries would be advantaged in both making and using ideas.
Even more striking, six of the seven heads of government of the G7 rich countries are alphabetically advantaged (Berlusconi, Blair, Bush, Chirac, Chrétien and Koizumi).
Few organisations willingly talk about the upsides of climate change — though it is inevitable that some people and even some countries will be advantaged by the effects of global warming, even if the overall global impact is vastly more detrimental.
