Sentence examples for levels poor countries from inspiring English sources

It will mean migration off the land at levels we have not seen before, and at levels poor countries cannot cope with".

The W.H.O. made its announcement at a time when former President Bill Clinton helped broker an agreement to reduce the price of antiretroviral drugs to more affordable levels for poor countries and when countries like India and South Africa have said they will expand their programs to treat AIDS.

In the context of the HDI, I pointed out 15 years ago that by aggregating GDP per capita with life expectancy the HDI implicitly put a value on an extra year of life, and I showed that this value rises from a very low level in poor countries to a remarkably high level in rich ones (4-5 times GDP per capita).

Only with time and after production capacity increases do prices fall to a level that poor countries can afford.

The goal of that agreement was to freeze rich countries' carbon emissions at 5% below their 1990 levels, while letting poor countries emit as much carbon as they please.

More than 20 hostages have been seized since then, most of them drivers and other low-level employees from poor countries.

The man who once worried about climate-driven sea-level rise in poor countries like Bangladesh now says things like "My view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet," as if mainstream science were wrong and humans had nothing to do with it.

"I have no doubt of Ray's genuineness and decency," said Robert B. Zoellick, the United States trade representative, who worked with Mr. Gilmartin when drug makers came under pressure for pricing medicines at levels that poorer countries could not afford.

And with 2014 on course to be the hottest year on record, campaigners warned the plan was far too weak to limit warming to the internationally agreed limit of 2C above pre-industrial levels, or to protect poor countries from climate change.

Consumption falls into two broad patterns: too many people in rich countries are consuming at high, unsustainable levels, while many more people in poor countries are understandably seeking higher levels of material consumption.

But lower levels of car ownership in poor countries makes such information less relevant.