If people in the Western countries tend to consider social and economic rights less compelling, I think it is because they conceive these rights as rights to be helped, to be supported or to be given something.
Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, the industrial titan whose holdings span telecom, banking, energy, tobacco and more, has built unimaginable wealth in one of the poorer countries in the Western Hemisphere.
There is a broad pattern repeated across these tables, with a cluster of Asian, Pacific Rim, countries at the top, European and western countries in the upper and middle ranks, with countries in North Africa and the Middle East in the lower ranks.
These tax-o-philes also say the higher rate will put Britain more in line with the levels reigning in Western European countries such as Italy-as if imitating destructive behavior was a virtue.
Haiti - which shares the Caribbean island of Hispaniola with the Dominican Republic - is one of the poorest countries in the western hemisphere.
This had come to pass in Japan in the late 1990s and again in the early 2000s, but had not occurred in most Western countries since the late 1950s.
In addition, he spoke out against the practice in some Western countries of dictating what clothes Muslim women can and cannot wear.
The report also says rates of murder and violent crime have fallen more rapidly in the UK in the past decade than many other countries in western Europe.
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However, given the proliferation of computers, at least in developed Western countries, the researchers speculated that it would be challenging for other studies to produce similar results.
Our diet has changed dramatically in the past century, especially in Western countries.
He has failed to halt the steady haemorrhage of believers in many Western countries, although the Catholic Church continues to grow in numbers in parts of Africa and Asia.
The example of Senegal (and, indeed, the strongly worded, morally neutral advertising campaigns conducted in many western countries in the 1980s), shows the value of early action as surely as do Dr Anderson's models.
The man, an Indian citizen, was held in the western state of Rajasthan near the two countries' border.
Jews have lived in this country, in the States, and in many other Western countries, for centuries, and they just get on with it.
The U.S. has had a complicated history with different countries in the Western Hemisphere over the course of our independence.
The only two countries in western Europe to have increased the number of party members in the past 30 years are Greece and Spain.
However, Saudi Arabia has a system in place which is derived from the scholars' discussion about the power of attorney in litigation, which is slightly different from the Western system, from which the systems in other Arab countries are derived.
Mass evacuations have been organized in the past, as western countries answered the cries of the wounded.
It is hardly surprising that, given the chance, many Romanies try their luck in the richer countries of western Europe.
More important still, more than half of Muslims identify themselves as Americans first, a far higher percentage than in the various countries of Western Europe.
The recessions in western European countries are deepening.
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The Kunming police, like the most liberal health-care officials in western countries, talk much of the need for community care and counselling once the inmates return home, as well as education efforts at schools.
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Many poor countries provide legal protection for workers that rivals that in the most welfare-minded western European countries.
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Despite sitting on the second largest natural gas reserve in the Western hemisphere, Bolivia remains one of the poorest countries in Latin America.
The focus of the new Africa Boogaloo anthology shifts to Afro-Cuban music's impact on the western coast of the continent, in countries such as Senegal, Benin, Gambia, Congo and so on.
It starts with sure-fire bets such as Croatia, and other small digestible countries in the western Balkans such as Macedonia.
As well as among expats, the militants are also seeking to influence opinion back in the US and in other Western countries.
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The comments reflect a practicality common among Western diplomats and officials trying to win hearts and minds in the Middle East and other non-Western countries where democracy isn't a tradition.
"India is quite irresistible with the rising economy and a lot of Western countries seem stagnant in comparison to the fast pace of India, " she explained.
The fear of workers flooding in from Poland or Estonia has caused all but three countries in western Europe to close their labour markets to the new members for up to seven years.
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