The gap between the richest and poorest countries is growing as human development stagnates in sub-Saharan Africa, the world’s poorest region, a U.N. report said on Thursday.
Most regions of the world enjoy a better standard of living now than over the past three decades, except sub-Saharan Africa, where tens
The gains from America’s recent economic growth have been widely shared throughout society, as low- and middle-income families not just the wealthy have seen their standards of living improve dramatically, says James Sherk, a policy analyst with the Heritage Foundation.
But despite the facts, some still claim that few
Rising affluence has made about 60 million Chinese (equal to the population of France) obese, state media said on Monday.
Xinhua News Agency quoted Pan Beilei, a deputy director with the government-affiliated State Food and Nutrition Consultant Committee, as saying that worsening diets had led to health problems, including obesity.
According to
Much of the blame for Germany’s poor higher education system stems from the country’s egalitarian federalism, which promotes equal funding irrespective of quality, says the Wall Street Journal.
Academic mediocrity and low enrolment have been the predictable result:
According to the Times of London’s Higher Education Supplement, no German university makes
