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Azerbaijan is the second fastest growing economy in Europe, and the fastest growing transcontinental economy. France has the highest Net National Wealth of any European state. Germany is the current largest economy in Europe, the European Union and the Eurozone, with Germany remaining the eurozone's largest economy.
As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions." [11] "National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates ...
This is a list of countries by inequality-adjusted Human Development Index (IHDI), as published by the UNDP in its 2024 Human Development Report.According to the 2016 Report, "The IHDI can be interpreted as the level of human development when inequality is accounted for", whereas the Human Development Index itself, from which the IHDI is derived, is "an index of potential human development (or ...
The initial public and political reaction to the program was negative. Local press claimed that the poor were abandoning their jobs due to the extra money, [33] and the Government has considered introducing means testing to reduce the costs of the program. [34] A first assessment of the experiences in Iran was provided in 2011 by H. Talabani.
Europe may have to deal with a new flow of Sudanese migrants if a cease-fire agreement isn't signed soon between Sudan's warring sides and relief efforts aren't strengthened, the head of the ...
List of European countries by Human Development Index Rank Country Human Development Index (HDI) Region World HDI 2022 [5] HDI 2021 HDI 2020 HDI 2019 HDI 2015 HDI 2010 Very High Human Development 1 1 Switzerland: 0.967 0.965 0.957 0.960 0.952 0.940 2 2 Norway: 0.966 0.964 0.963 0.962 0.952 0.938 3 3 Iceland: 0.959 0.957 0.955 0.958 0.948 0.927 4 5
In comparison with the average French workers, foreign workers tended to be employed in the hardest and lowest-paid jobs. They also live in poor conditions. A 1972 study found that foreign workers earned 17% less than their French counterparts, although this national average concealed the extent of inequality.
European Economic Community (EEC) cooperation with Sudan—a member of the Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (ACP)—ran under the aegis of the Lomé Convention. [1] Following the 1989 Sudanese coup d'état and ensuing violation of human rights the European Community suspended development aid in March 1990. [2]