On cash, money should indeed change hands both for moral reasons (rich countries are largely responsible for the problem so far but poor ones will suffer most) and for practical ones (some poor countries do not have access to the capital they need to invest in mitigation).
The people who are on Wall Street, who are losing their wealth, are the ones who poor people depend on for soup kitchens, food banks, homeless shelters, services for children.
In many rich countries, and most poor ones, only the patchiest of records are kept.
We had some fantastic professors and some really poor ones with the majority being above average.
Rich countries cut their tariffs by less in the Uruguay round than poor ones did.
They fear that rich countries' debt problems will mean that less money is available for poor ones.
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Comfortable workers in the rich world are forced to compete with hungrier ones in the poor world.
Some talk of fiscal union, which is in essence the rich areas sending money to the poor ones.
Rich countries tend to be better prepared than poor ones, but this should be no consolation to them.
If they continued down that path, today's rich countries might even end up as tomorrow's (relatively) poor ones.
But the poor ones are overpaid -- and sadly there is no way of differentiating between the two categories.
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And many rich countries exacerbate the problem by recruiting from poor ones to help deal with their own shortages.
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Some countries, usually poor ones, have very little debt, for the simple reason that no one would lend them money.
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This may drive rich countries to look for talent in poor ones where the shortage of professionals is already much worse.
Banks have responded to declining credit quality by increasing the gap between the price of lending to good borrowers and poor ones.
The Philippine government's Heart Center in Manila attracts as many affluent patients as poor ones because of its high standards of medical expertise.
However, some countries may suffer a loss in their terms of trade, notably poor ones whose imports and exports are similar to China's.
The two outfits have seemingly failed to find a suitor for the JV, leaving them with relatively few options -- poor ones at that.
Oh Se-hoon had called a referendum on the seemingly trivial issue of whether free school lunches should be provided to all children, or only to poor ones.
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It promised to reduce the gap between the small percentage of wealthy Indians and very large percentage of poor ones, who feel excluded from the economic boom.
He doesn't accept the view, common among the utopians, that natural endowments like soil and water explain why rich nations are 50 times as prosperous as poor ones.
This will surely have an effect on the flow of remittances from rich countries to poor ones, although it has so far (see article) been quite resilient.
Asked to rate their personal position on a ten-point scale of satisfaction, middle-class respondents are far more likely to put themselves near the top than are poor ones.
They are in the poor ones and the oil producers.
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And they can redistribute resources geographically, providing insurance when one part of the country is hit by disaster or recession and shifting income from rich regions to poor ones.
But if there is one thing the world has discovered about poverty reduction in the past 15 years, it is that development is not something rich countries do to poor ones.
And countries (generally poor ones) who have the rain forests should be compensated for protecting them, particularly when they are under so much economic pressure to open them up to mining companies.
"Test preparation really does help, and wealthier families are able to provide that for their kids whereas poor ones aren't, " said James Borland, an education professor at Teachers College at Columbia University.
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So the distribution of mimetic species should be one of local clusters of good mimics, against a wider background of poor ones which may mean that a poorly mimetic species outnumbers a good one.
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