Even in rich countries, it usually isn t the rich who die in natural disasters.

Sustained rapid growth is the result of poorer countries catching up to rich countries productivity levels not of growth in the rich countries themselves.

Rich countries should therefore lend their allocations to the countries in need.

Yet rich countries also fail.

Nor are rich countries immune.

CAMBRIDGE Almost all rich countries are rich because they exploit technological progress.

Polluters must pay, whether in rich or poor countries.

Developing countries blame rich countries for the lack of progress.

Fewer Africans working in rich countries will automatically translate into less money circulating in African countries.

Meanwhile, rich countries agricultural subsidies and tariffs have undoubtedly undermined food production in developing countries.

People migrate from poor countries, from middle income countries, and from rich countries.

This is a situation that few people in rich countries face.

The contract between government and governed imperfect in rich countries is often altogether absent in poor countries.

People in rich countries already can expect to live about 30 years longer than people in the poorest countries.

Heart operations are already a major factor in extending life in many rich countries.

However, they are likely to differ in forest rich and forest poor countries.

Today, vast differences remain in reproductive health status between rich and poor countries.

But the rich countries have instead adopted failed strategies.

Rich G 20 countries could go further and faster.

Myth 5 Offshoring of jobs will devastate rich countries.

On average, resource rich countries have done even more poorly than countries without resources.

Poor countries cannot afford these investments on their own, so rich countries must help.

Contrary to much popular opinion, trade with poor countries does not pauperize rich countries.

China, India, and other countries argue that economic development in rich countries caused most of the existing problem, and it is only fair that developing countries should not have to reduce their emissions until they reach the rich countries levels of emissions.

In the years before the financial crash, capital moved from poor countries to rich countries, rather than vice versa.

We need to ensure that development, in rich and poor countries alike, is sustainable.

While economic integration helped achieve a broader set of goals in Europe, elsewhere, economic globalization has contributed to widening the divide between rich and poor within countries and between rich and poor countries.

The rich countries could easily come up with the money.

Unfortunately, the world s rich countries currently are making things worse.

Rich countries have a clear obligation to provide additional resources.

Rich countries and donors have limited budgets and attention spans.

Rich countries need to put serious money on the table.

Rich countries and poor countries need to join forces to cut poverty, disease, and hunger.

Rich countries will be asked to reduce subsidies poor countries to open up their markets.

This claim has great credibility with labor unions that believe that trade with poor countries produces paupers in rich countries.

True, farm support policies in rich countries tend to depress world prices, along with the incomes of agricultural producers in developing countries.

Technologies that were once found only in rich countries now belong to the entire world.

In rich countries, mass poverty, which seemed to have been eliminated around 1980, has reappeared.

Rich industrial countries have invested early and heavily in water infrastructure, institutions, and management capacities.

Paradoxically, resource rich developing countries are often worse off than comparable countries that lack those resources.

The SDGs should apply to all countries as implementers (and also to rich countries as donors).

Both rich and poor countries would benefit from increased migration, with developing countries benefiting the most.

One sees the same phenomenon across many rich countries as well.

So abundant natural wealth often creates rich countries with poor people.

Second, all governments, rich and poor, should be accountable for meeting the SDGs as implementers. The MDGs applied mainly to poor countries as implementers and to rich countries as donors.