Less wealthy, developing countries have higher rates of automobile deaths, suggesting that it's far safer to live in a wealthier country.
Second, the sums of money now being set aside by eurozone leaders to rescue stricken neighbours also look somewhat more convincing: Europe will channel €200bn through the IMF, which it hopes will be boosted by contributions from wealthy developing countries such as China and Brazil.
It isn't as though wealthy developed countries can't make things and sell them to advantage – just ask Germany.
Unless and until we do so, caregivers here will be among the most harried, stressed and burdened among wealthy, developed countries in the world.
A recurrent theme in this round of negotiations, as in previous ones, has been the gap between the relatively wealthy developed countries that have been responsible for the majority of historical greenhouse gas emissions, and developing nations that generally have not but may suffer some of the worst impacts of climate change.
Many societies, and nearly all wealthy, developed countries, provide universal access to a broad range of public health and personal medical services.
Written for surgeons from around the globe, it includes procedures used in wealthy, developed countries and those without mesh more commonly employed in developing countries.
With that established, it's perfectly rational for any country - including the US - to prefer educated and high-skilled immigrants, and, unsurprisingly, those immigrants disproportionately come from wealthy, developed countries.
He became a poster boy of the anti-G8 concerts that mushroomed around the world, as young people protested at the way wealthy, developed countries were imposing their will on others.
The UICC and the WCRF want governments and the public to dispel four important myths and misconceptions about cancer, namely that cancer is just a health issue, that it is a disease of the wealthy, developed countries, that it is a death sentence and that getting cancer is down to fate.
The record-breaking pace of renewable energy deployment is not just limited to wealthy, developed countries.
