But the situation is often different in poor countries that rely more heavily on imports.
Would it be different in poor countries?
Food is probably the biggest single influence on people's health, though in radically different ways in poor countries and in rich ones, where the big problem now is obesity.
On the other hand, "economic indicators were extremely important in the early stages of economic development, when the fulfillment of basic needs was the main issue" (Diener and Seligman 2004), which may address why GDP per capita better explains different migration desires among poor countries.
We summarize substantive conclusions, including discussion of empirical similarities and differences in different cultures, in rich and poor countries, in the Orient and the Occident, in emerging economies, and in economies in transition towards a more market-driven form.
There may be some truth to that, he said, because people born in this country and immigrants from poor countries have different expectations about what constitutes an acceptable standard of living.
China and, particularly, India came under real fire for their caution in taking on legally binding future commitments, but despite their protestations, were unable to ensure the different responsibilities of rich and poor countries was reflected in the final deal.
Woolcott said there were particular concerns about the longstanding issue of "differentiation" – the different requirements of rich and poor countries enshrined in the original 1992 climate convention which rich nations argue no longer reflect the world's economy or its greenhouse emissions.
For drugs, the effective monopoly period is shorter: it can take a decade to develop, test and bring a patented molecule to market.Abolishing patents would more or less halt progress in pharmacology, but there is a strong argument for charging different prices for drugs in poor countries.
In Zambia, say, a poor person is defined as someone who cannot afford to buy at least two to three plates of nshima (a kind of porridge), a sweet potato, a few spoonfuls of oil, a handful of groundnuts and a couple of teaspoons of sugar each day, plus a banana and a chicken twice a week.But even in quite poor countries, a different concept of poverty also seems to creep in, the authors argue.
