• For all their differences, tabloids in most rich countries have one common feature: shrinking circulation.

    ECONOMIST: Life in the global gutter

  • Today, Americans seem far more willing to tolerate inequality than people in most rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Too much inequality is bad for you

  • In most rich countries there is a feeling that it has limited the range of permissible gags.

    ECONOMIST: LAUGHING MATTERS

  • Yet youngsters in Britain struggle harder than their peers in most rich countries to secure what jobs are available.

    ECONOMIST: Unemployment

  • In most rich countries the detailed plans for fiscal austerity contrast sharply with a lamentable lack of microeconomic ambition.

    ECONOMIST: A better way

  • Some argue, however, that the ageing of the labour force in most rich countries may be hiding a downward trend.

    ECONOMIST: The end of jobs for life?

  • But the biggest obstacle (at least in most rich countries) is children.

    ECONOMIST: Schumpeter

  • Manufacturing is scarcely bigger than 20 years ago, and its share of the economy has fallen to 12%, lower than in most rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Manufacturing and exports

  • They, too, are sensitive to assumptions about demographics, productivity and interest rates, though under all plausible scenarios the generational imbalances in most rich countries remain.

    ECONOMIST: The perils of privatisation

  • He notes that services make up well over half of economic activity in most rich countries, but there are no common standards for measuring their inventiveness.

    ECONOMIST: Promoting innovation

  • In America, as in most rich countries, longer life expectancies and lower birth rates will leave relatively fewer active workers to support the growing number of pensioners.

    ECONOMIST: The perils of privatisation

  • There may be something in both arguments, but in most rich countries sexism and the lack of role models are no longer the main obstacle to women's careers.

    ECONOMIST: Women in the boardroom

  • In most rich countries recoveries are still fragile.

    ECONOMIST: Myths about fiscal austerity

  • In most rich countries raising the pension age to, say, 70 by 2025, and thereafter linking it to life expectancy (which keeps on increasing), would go a long way towards reducing the government's structural deficit.

    ECONOMIST: The gods that have failed��so far

  • Many teachers and most local education officials will treat such inquiries with suspicion, of course: in most rich countries, unlike the pupils they turn out into the world, they have been sheltered from competition since they left college.

    ECONOMIST: Education and the wealth of nations

  • At least in Asia it is keeping an eye out, unlike in most rich countries where it has ruled out acquisitions, because the returns are too low though it may still be tempted to enter the nascent European pensions market.

    ECONOMIST: HSBC

  • Since women make up half the talent pool (though their interests and preferences are often different from men's, of which more later), getting more of them into work should help alleviate the shortage, all the more so since there are now more university-educated women than men in most rich countries (and some emerging ones too).

    ECONOMIST: Closing the gap

  • That need not necessarily mean a scheme financed mainly out of taxation, of the sort found in most other rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Genetics, medicine and insurance

  • But he has half a point when he argues that race relations in Britain are at least as good as in most other rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Race relations

  • But in most other rich countries the water business is still run either by the state or by private firms too small to compete internationally.

    ECONOMIST: Clean up��or risk many deaths

  • Even after years of austerity, taxes and government spending still swallow up a bigger share of output in the Nordic region than in most other rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Remodelling Scandinavia

  • One reason is that pecking orders matter more than in most other rich countries: income distribution is very unequal and the unemployed, disaffected, ill-educated rump is comparatively large.

    ECONOMIST: Public health

  • Thanks to the Kyoto treaty on climate change, which came into effect in February, most rich countries regulate emissions of carbon dioxide in some manner.

    ECONOMIST: Buttonwood

  • The rate of incarceration in most other rich, free countries, whatever the differences in their histories, is remarkably steady.

    NEWYORKER: The Caging of America

  • In most other resource-rich countries, as prices rise governments take increasing cuts of the upside.

    FORBES: Forget Gold, Invest In Oil

  • This would be cost-effective because most equipment in rich countries is already fuel-efficient.

    ECONOMIST: A cooling off period

  • In the rich countries, most of these forces will be domestic rather than international.

    ECONOMIST: The future of the state

  • But mostly it is because fertility levels are dropping sharply in most poor countries and all rich ones.

    ECONOMIST: A Survey of the 20th Century

  • In many rich countries, and most poor ones, only the patchiest of records are kept.

    ECONOMIST: Talking rubbish

  • Lawyers and experts on internet policy say no court case has ever turned on the presence or absence of such an automatic e-mail footer in America, the most litigious of rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Legal disclaimers

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