Sentences with phrase «as most developing countries»

In fact a strong negative correlation exists between population growth and development, as the most developed countries have a small population growth rate, so that a flattening global population is consistent with global development leading to higher fuel consumption per capita.

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As a small country, Denmark rates much better than most developed nations in this regard, but it too is seeing an erosion in that trust, Nørretranders says.

Compared with most other developed countries, we're far more likely to work late at night (defined here as after 10 p.m.) and on weekends.

In June he unveiled what he calls «40/20/10,» which is narrowing P&G's focus to its 40 biggest «category / country combinations» (such as laundry in China), its 20 largest innovations, and its 10 most lucrative developing markets.

Through detailed analysis of four countries, ranging from Singapore as the most successfully wired, to Ireland, Spain and finally Argentina, where the Internet is the least developed, Guillà © n and Suà ¡ rez's paper, in part, confirms conventional wisdom.

The U.S. is the only advanced nation in the world that doesn't mandate paid maternity leave (most developed countries provide the benefit to fathers or partners as well).

As a result, bilateral ties between the two countries have become highly personalized with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping directing government commissions, sitting officials, and heads of state corporations to develop financial and trade deals — most of which are large - scale, top - down investments of Chinese money into key sectors of the Russian economy.

If excess European savings flow primarily into developed countries — the US being the most obvious candidate — or into developing countries with excess investment and savings — China, most obviously, not so much by flowing in as by preventing outflows — it will cause European unemployment to shift abroad to those countries.

As costs rise in developing countries, and automation eliminates the most mindless tasks, some manufacturing and service businesses are going home — but with greatly reduced labor needs.

Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is calling «financial repression», but what you can just call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

The currencies of most other developed countries have also appreciated substantially against the US dollar in recent months, as they have generally tended to move in line with the euro.

«While the problem is not limited to developing countries, most people have a tendency to associate cryptocurrency to a few well - known cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.

As I prepared to visit my brother and sister - in - law in Ghana, I could not help but detect the ignorance most Americans have regarding Ghana, Africa, even developing countries as a wholAs I prepared to visit my brother and sister - in - law in Ghana, I could not help but detect the ignorance most Americans have regarding Ghana, Africa, even developing countries as a wholas a whole.

That is the pattern in most developed countries, and surely, as the Republican party increasingly takes on the attributes of a European - style Christian Democratic party, it is logical that their opponents take the other position.»

East Asia developed successfully around national economies, just as did the United States and most European countries.

As one geneticist, Michael R. Rose, has tellingly put it, if we could gain for the elderly the health of those between the ages of ten and fifteen in developed countries, most Americans would have a life expectancy of 1200 years, and some would live 2000 years.

I believe that people, poor as they were by our standards, had more control over their own lives in those days than is possible today for most workers, especially in the developing countries.

... As a Canadian looking south it seems almost ludicrous to watch the childish interaction of USA citizens about the healthcare question... Most of the developed countries especially Western and European countries have enjoyed top healthcare for its polulations for anywhere from 60 years to over a century... Why the USA refuses for once to look beyond it «s borders is a complete mystery to the outside world....

This moral disengagement, broken only by the missionaries — mostly of low - church varieties and not intent upon political change — lasted until after World War II, when the decolonization movement emerged as that war's perhaps most important consequence, though it had not been foreseen and had still less been an aim in the developed countries.

In most developed countries, governments consider offering food and social security as two important areas, next only to ensuring fundamental rights.

Lots of Brazilians are hyped up when they have played only a handful of senior games and lots of them move to Portugal or Holland when they are very young, but often — as in the case of Neymar — those who stay and develop in their home country prove most successful.

It's not regulated as a prescription drug, but it is regulated as a special type of food, just like in the USA and most developed countries.

Most developed countries (yes, I know that there are exceptions such as China and Korea) do not have a surplus of young children in need of homes.

These are distinctly different from the challenges in less developed countries, as most of these challenges are caused directly by modernization.

Large scale participation prevailed as a primary goal when talks began on a climate convention in 1991, despite most developing countries having negligible greenhouse gas emissions.

However, present times are quite different, as irreligion seems greater than ever in most of the developed countries (also see atheism demographics in Europe).

Inequality is worsening everywhere inside states but declining between most states as developing countries get richer.

But,» [w] hile in developing countries those friendships helped in securing the most attractive jobs, such as professorships, within their national higher education system, researchers in developed countries benefited from the global network of their senior friends giving them access to the most respected research groups, labs and universities, allowing them to present their work at the most prestigious conferences and publish in the most important books and journals.»

Most developing countries ended up endorsing the document as a necessary, if small, step forward.

«In many of the specifics of the way people view climate change — for instance, seeing it as a moral issue and understanding that climate change is going to hurt people in developing countries and the world's poor the most — we saw really large shifts.»

While most cases of TB occur in developing countries, it is also reemerging as a threat in major urban populations in Europe, due to the increase in global travel.

«Protein malnutrition is the leading cause of death in children in developing countries, and most of these countries already produce corn as a major cereal crop,» he says.

ScientificAmerican.com presents some of this year's most exciting high - tech toys as well as gadgets to make the planet greener and inventions designed to deliver the most basic needs to developing countries

Conversely, foreign postdocs often see the highly competitive U.S. marketplace as providing far more opportunities for advancement than those of their home countries, causing many of the most talented and ambitious to stay in the United States, thus weakening research efforts in both developed and developing nations.

At the moment, as he so graphically has it, most developing countries are «the roadkill on the global investment highway».

He notes, as do the authors, that those pest groups seen moving towards the equator — largely nematode worms and viruses are the most poorly understood, and therefore the ones most likely to be discovered later in developing countries.

During the past few years, most of the reports that developing countries have filed with the U.N. on how they plan to adapt to climate change mention population growth as a complicating factor.

Most developed countries see carbon markets as crucial under any new agreement because they seek out the cheapest emissions reductions, making climate change targets more achievable.

But the subject may not be as high on other countries» research agendas, because gun ownership is so much lower in most developed nations.

How to establish a system for use by developing countries to monitor, report and verify their emission cuts has emerged as the most contentious issue in the talks and the main sticking point between America and China.

It's the same as for most developed countries; they had to agree to this as well.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

In developing countries, such as most countries in Africa, scientists have to spend many years abroad and away from their families just to specialize.

Developing countries have resisted enshrining their programs into binding international law because most of these initiatives are rooted in national goals, such as controlling local pollution and increasing the value of forests, which makes them skittish about foreign commitment and monitoring.

-- The term «most vulnerable developing countries» means, as determined by the Administrator of USAID, developing countries that are at risk of substantial adverse impacts of climate change and have limited capacity to respond to such impacts, considering the approaches included in any international treaties and agreements.

But as anyone who has watched the past 15 years of international climate negotiations can attest, most countries are still reluctant to take meaningful steps to lower their production of greenhouse gases, much less address issues such as how to help developing countries protect themselves from the extreme effects of climate change.

«As of 2012, the start of the most recent phase of ACIAR - funded work, Afghanistan partners have developed and released 12 high - yielding and disease resistant bread wheat varieties, as well as 3 varieties of durum wheat, 2 of barley and 3 of maize,» said Rajiv Sharma, a senior wheat scientist at CIMMYT and country liaison officer for CIMMYT in AfghanistaAs of 2012, the start of the most recent phase of ACIAR - funded work, Afghanistan partners have developed and released 12 high - yielding and disease resistant bread wheat varieties, as well as 3 varieties of durum wheat, 2 of barley and 3 of maize,» said Rajiv Sharma, a senior wheat scientist at CIMMYT and country liaison officer for CIMMYT in Afghanistaas well as 3 varieties of durum wheat, 2 of barley and 3 of maize,» said Rajiv Sharma, a senior wheat scientist at CIMMYT and country liaison officer for CIMMYT in Afghanistaas 3 varieties of durum wheat, 2 of barley and 3 of maize,» said Rajiv Sharma, a senior wheat scientist at CIMMYT and country liaison officer for CIMMYT in Afghanistan.

He has developed numerous teaching programs worldwide, and founded the Vietnam Heart Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, regarded by the World Heart Organization as the most successful program in transferring technology and responsibility to developing countries.

Dr. Hackam seeks to work with industry partners, as well as nurses, doctors and families of patients around the country, in order to develop novel regimens to safely and effectively deliver appropriate nutrition to the most vulnerable infants, who are at risk for the development of intestinal disease.