Sentences with phrase «behind other developed countries»

In reality, the US is falling behind other developed countries.

But the U.S. lags behind other developed countries in student achievement, about 1 million students are on charter school waiting lists nationwide, and many student groups are still underserved by all public schools, traditional and charter.

The US is falling behind other developed countries as it is, but to have mythology that is no different than Greek or Norse mythology taught as fact would make us fall behind even more.

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's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.

Canada's exports to China lag behind other developed countries in terms of both growth and absolute value.

Not exact matches

The reality, however, is that Canada lags far behind most other developed countries.

Ms. Moffitt contended Mr. Trump's big bet on oil would put the United States behind in the world's transition to a cleaner economy, ceding an advantage to China and other countries that are developing renewable energy.

Why does the United States — a «leader» in medical care — rank # 33 in the world for infant and maternal mortality... a ranking that puts us behind most of the other developed countries and many undeveloped countries??

«The US has witnessed some improvements among youth under 20 and seniors over 55, but overall the nation and some of our states are falling behind other, less developed countries,» said Dr. Ali Mokdad, who, with Murray, wrote the study.

While the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) / Caltech Southern California Seismic and TriNet Network in Southern California was upgraded in response to the 1994 Northridge quake, the U.S is lagging behind Japan and other countries in developing a fully functional warning system.

As David Awbrey correctly points out, the U.S. is falling behind other highly developed countries.

It is well documented that England trails behind many other developed countries when it comes to maths performance of all pupils in the triannual PISA tests, yet our research finds this disappointing situation also extends to the disadvantage gap in maths.

There's been a sense this year of developed countries hiding behind negotiations on other issues, such as agricultural policy, to avoid reaching the point where money has to be talked about, but developing countries want to see that richer nations are doing more than just expressing sympathy and empathy and instead are putting their money where their mouth is on climate action.»

The United States is not only responsible for the current crisis because, as President Obama noted, it is the second highest emitter of ghg in the world behind China, it has historically emitted much more ghgs into the atmosphere than any other country including China, it is currently near the top of all nations in per capita ghg emissions, and the US has been responsible more than any other developed nation for the failure of the international community to adopt meaningful ghg emissions reduction targets from the beginning of international climate negotiations in 1990 until the Obama administration.

Only if the EU and other developed countries pledge their fair share of finance and get fully behind the energy transition needed to get their economies off fossil fuels now, will there still be a chance to make substantial progress next week.»

- This later translates into one of the main drivers behind land - grabbing in other continents (usually in developing countries in Africa, but also Latin America and Asia) and huge extensions of arable land used to grow these new cash - crops as opposed to feeding the world.

They will then applaud themselves for, among other thing, [allowing developing countries to be the energy behind] establishing the institutional arrangement that is the Green Climate Fund (GCF).

In fact, he examined the rationale behind common law precedents, and further developed the law in light of contemporary challenges and the legislative developments in other European countries.

My content is written primarily for Australian and New Zealand Job Seekers and it seems to me that we are still a bit behind compared to many other developed countries and we don't seem to have improved much...