For one thing, the pace at which the rich world churns out rubbish has been slowing.
Intervention has been pursued in the rich world by both the Japanese and the Swiss.
In the rich world, meanwhile, the record shows, again and again, that industrial policy doesn't work.
People in poor countries comply as well as those in the rich world do.
Blatant graft corrodes voters' support in the rich world for debt relief and aid.
Tariffs and anti-dumping actions can also prevent developing-country companies from getting into the rich world.
In the rich world, Europe already caps carbon-dioxide emissions, and trades permission to emit the gas.
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The main reason is a shocking dropout rate of 55%, the highest in the rich world.
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Clothes shops will start selling the drip-dry, non-iron stuff they flog in the rich world.
The government is no longer saying that Brazil will be untouched by the rich world's recession.
Those anxious that the rich world's economic power is ebbing might welcome a few emerging-market slip-ups.
In the rich world, a period of deflation seems more likely in America than in Europe.
Yet Greece's public-finance problems were brewing long before the rich world's banks started to falter.
French law, as almost everywhere else in the rich world, does not allow for euthanasia.
In 1990 growth remained relatively brisk in emerging economies, propping up exports from the rich world.
This helps to explain why Australian share prices have outperformed the rest of the rich world.
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Nonetheless, as the rich world's population grows older, help in dying will be increasingly requested.
Apple did indeed carve out a large and very profitable part of the rich world markets.
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India may not have the bad-debt problems of the rich world, or even China.
Even so, the hit to potential growth in the rich world is likely to be bigger.
Most are simplified versions of the cars sold in the rich world, with fewer temperamental electronics.
All told, there is a case for changing the debate about growth in the rich world.
The rich world's carmakers are loading their models with ever fancier navigation, entertainment and safety gear.
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The French experiment will no doubt be watched with interest around the rich world.
With all this come the same opportunities and threats as in the rich world.
In the past, emerging economies have often needed bailing out by the rich world.
Governments have no choice but to cut public-sector debt, which is ballooning across the rich world.
However, a few emerging economies have more creative unemployment-insurance schemes than anything in the rich world.
What is more, Japan has the highest government debt relative to GDP in the rich world.
Now that commodity prices have plunged, the inflation risk has dramatically receded across the rich world.
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