But downward pressure on wages in rich countries could continue for a long time.
So the future of cloud-based software is wrapping all these great applications in rich, highly-integrated data.
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Indeed, student loans developed in rich countries as part of a program to rapidly expand access.
There are a couple of dozen micro miniatures in the museum, each one in rich detail.
And as economies have slowed, inequality of income, in rich and poor countries, has widened.
Employment in rich countries will have to shift towards higher skilled jobs to maintain economic growth.
The need for equipping young people with skills is urgent in rich countries too.
More important, the Internet allows new partnerships between groups in rich and poor countries.
Market access continues to dominate discussions, with emerging economies pushing for cuts in rich countries' protections.
Immigration is unpopular in rich countries because people overestimate its costs and underestimate its benefits.
Possibly, ageing natives in rich countries might do more of the jobs that they now shun.
Anyway, governments in rich countries also intervene a lot, and very often as clumsily.
Firms that now choose to avoid developing countries can still diversify in rich ones.
Though diabetes is treatable, controlling it is a tall order even in rich countries.
Doctors in rich countries have the experience to detect, and the money to treat, chronic disease.
Back in the 1990s women in rich countries seemed to be heading towards a golden era.
Average agricultural tariffs in rich countries are many times higher than those on manufactured goods.
In 1960-94, service-sector output and manufacturing output grew at roughly the same pace in rich economies.
To some extent, government budgets in rich countries stabilise the economy automatically in booms and busts.
Changing technology and competition from emerging economies has reduced demand for low-skilled workers in rich countries.
Increasingly, it does not seem to be true in rich ones either, particularly America.
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Since the late 1970s these have been important in rich and poor countries alike.
Their increased consumption is more than compensating for falling demand for oil in rich countries.
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In rich and strict countries munitions are tested and dealt with before that happens.
Many of the scientific and technological breakthroughs are made by poor-country scientists working in rich-country laboratories.
Even in rich countries, farmers are responding to many things other than food markets.
Getting one's head shrunk is a non-essential luxury mostly found in rich countries (Argentina is an exception).
Pollution, however, is not the reason that people in rich countries have taken to drinking bottled water.
For these goals to be meaningful and comprehensive, many would argue they have to cover consumption patterns in rich nations.
For a start, in rich countries people may already have about as much pay-television as they want.
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