Sentence examples for relatively better off from inspiring English sources

Regulations need to respond to the fact that the poorest tend to need smaller loans and are more expensive to serve compared to the relatively better off in urban areas.

"The people who receive higher education tend to be relatively better off," said Wang Jiping, the director general of the Central Institute for Vocational and Technical Education in China.

The economist Amartya Sen, in advocating the Food Security Bill, wrote: "The political support for tolerating — and defending — the present profligacy in catering to the relatively better off contrasts sharply with the fiscal alarm bells that are sounded whenever proposals for helping the poor, the hungry, the chronically unemployed come up".

While all the income values in Table 2 are categorized as 'poor' by any conventional threshold, it is still evident that the left out group is relatively worse off in terms of mean income and the combining group is relatively better off by this measure.

The review of the trends of inequality and the empirical evidence on its determinants attempted to establish which factors made the Argentine case exceptional both with respect to other countries in Latin America and to other nations relatively better off at the beginning of the 20th century.

The U. S. is relatively better off because of higher immigration levels but faces enormous future budget deficits unless it reforms its Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid programs.

In contrast, the ecological analyses show that prioritizing the protection and enhancement of the relatively better-off areas is more ecologically effective.

Meanwhile, poor Mexican corn farmers face an uphill battle competing with highly subsidized American corn, while relatively better-off Mexican city dwellers benefit from lower corn prices.

These imply that households who adopted a higher number of coping practices were relatively better-off in terms of socioeconomic asset profile (that is, households possess more elements of an asset profile).

"Recipients of cold weather payment, paid to the poorest individuals in the coldest periods, and then pension credit, which is a means-tested benefit paid to the poorest pensioners, would be insulated from any effect of [the winter fuel allowance]'s abolition or change, while only those relatively better-off pensioners would lose out".

My role as a member of the Sri Lankan diaspora over the past ten plus years has been dictated by a mixture of compassion, gratitude, and relatively better-off wealth: traits of an effective philanthropist.