Dental decay is the most common disease in the world and as the junk-filled western diet is increasingly taken up in developing countries, where there is no fluoride in the water and little in the way of dentistry, it can cause misery and poor growth in children, whose sleeping as well as their eating is affected by the pain of bad teeth.
So, although company directors insisted that their products alleviated suffering in hellish spots (which they mostly do), they were also banking on a rapid growth in misery and disaster, particularly in Africa.The trade fair was the largest of its kind ever.
A 2009 review of the cost of warming to the global economy suggests that as much as two-thirds of the total cannot be offset through investment in adaptation, and will be felt through higher prices, lower growth and misery regardless.
The growth in misery, the rise in violent crime, the failure to maintain the basic infrastructure that supplies power and clean water, all while spending many billions of dollars to buy favor in other countries, may be the most shameful human rights abuse of all.
Restricting both of these activities by high fuel taxation threatens future growth and causes misery to millions.
But growth amid global misery does not explain everything: the biggest falls in happiness also occurred in large emerging markets, in Indonesia, Brazil and a perennial miseryguts Russia.The second conclusion challenges the received notions of mankind's moods.
Through a simple sum of the former three rates, minus year-on-year per capita GDP growth, I constructed a misery index that comprehensively ranks 108 countries based on "misery".
Through a simple sum of the former three rates, minus year-on-year per capita GDP growth, I constructed a misery index that comprehensively ranks 89 countries based on misery.
The story of the U.S. economy, over the past few decades (leaving aside the current downturn), is one of lots of areas of health and growth and pockets of misery where people haven't benefited.
Before the 2010 earthquake and more loudly since, he has spoken of wanting to save Haiti from its miseries: crime, corruption, cholera, anemic job growth, swarming tent cities, fruitless aid and deep mistrust of the state.
