Sentences with phrase «developed and developing countries with»

In most developed and developing countries with increasing population, prosperity and urbanization, it remains a major challenge for municipalities to collect, recycle, treat and dispose of increasing quantities of solid waste and wastewater.

Durban officially blurred the distinction between developed and developing countries with the creation of the Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (ADP).

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With these numbers, the U.S. is one of few developed countries where the life expectancy is declining and mortality increasing.

Armed with a greater understanding of what's behind the apps that we all use on our smart phones, Buchanon went on to successfully develop and launch two of them — Vite Exclusive Events, a sort of Tinder for parties across the country, and New Money Bash, a Candy Crush-esque game that teaches financial literacy.

The newly designed aircraft, built partially with lightweight composite materials and powered by Pratt & Whitney's fuel - saving engines, is targeted at established carriers looking to replace older, inefficient planes, and new airlines launching in developing countries, such as China, to service the growing middle class and airport expansion.

Through nationwide polling and workshops with policy experts from across the political spectrum, we sought to identify America's most pressing challenges and develop policies that make sense, that our country can afford, and that the American people can support.

What that means is that you are in an environment that is going to have further trouble in terms of investment returns that are in areas that are based on economic growth and areas that do relatively well like bonds... Broadly speaking, I think that investors should be looking for lower prices on most risk assets in these developed countries with the exception of Japan.»

Interest rates are low throughout the developed world, except in countries experiencing fiscal crises, as central banks and other policymakers try to cope with continuing financial strains and weak economic conditions.

She visited juice bars around the country to sample flavors, and, with help from a woman she knew who had been juicing for many years, rented a test kitchen to develop new varieties.

Liew said that with the wide variations in credit quality across emerging markets, from non-investment grade countries such as Argentina and Venezuela, to single - A rated ones, such as Malaysia, GIC was looking for «idiosyncratic situations,» in emerging markets which were likely to converge with lower - yielding developed markets.

Several nonprofits across the country are working with companies to develop workplace initiatives to help curb domestic violence toward women and men.

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.

Since its inception, Idealz has been partnering with Dubai Cares, a part of Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Global Initiatives, which works towards providing children and young people in developing countries with access to quality education.

The country had been one of the high - fliers of the developing world, so much so that Goldman Sachs included Russia in its BRICs — the emerging economies that would shape the economic future — along with Brazil, India and China.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and wife Melinda Gates launched the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 with a focus on extreme poverty and improving health in the U.S. and developing countries.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation also released a software in October, in tandem with Ripple, in a bid to make it cheaper for developing countries to build financial services infrastructure.

Together with associate professor Frauke Zeller of Ryerson University in Canada — and a cadre of other scientists, artists and engineers — he developed HitchBOT, a robot designed to travel across a country by «hitching» a ride from friendly humans.

In that vein, the company is very much a market disruptor, and this is even true in developed countries where it routinely releases Nexus phones and tablets with significantly lower prices than competitors.

There are issues with pricing, distribution, and even ensuring farmers in developing countries have proper storage facilities for their crops.

The U.S., with its complex ecosystem of competing parties and interests, is one of the last developed countries to adopt EMV chip technology.

Perhaps the problem is that with more sources of news and communication, most of us in developed countries only recently learned how bad things are in some other places.

With more than 225 employees in three countries, Lumenpulse works with architects, electrical engineers and lighting designers to develop specification light - emitting diode, or LED, lighting for commercial, institutional and urban applicatiWith more than 225 employees in three countries, Lumenpulse works with architects, electrical engineers and lighting designers to develop specification light - emitting diode, or LED, lighting for commercial, institutional and urban applicatiwith architects, electrical engineers and lighting designers to develop specification light - emitting diode, or LED, lighting for commercial, institutional and urban applications.

It's easy to come up with a name and slap a landing page on a website, but developing, launching and marketing a product to drivers across the country is a big challenge.

Pitch: «Orora Global is a for - profit social enterprise with a simple mission to end energy poverty: to provide access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy solutions to rural households and urban slums in developing countries.

Turkey hopes that the deal would allow it to acquire the technology to develop its own defense system, and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, in an interview with Turkish newspaper Aksam, said the two countries had agreed on joint production.

The nonprofit Smile Train, which provides free cleft surgery and care to hundreds of thousands of children in developing countries, created VR experiences that immerse viewers into the lives of children with clefts in India.

Compared with other developed countries, our parental benefits rank somewhere between the United States» measly 12 unpaid weeks and, say, Sweden's 16 - month paid leave.

While India has benefited from impressive GDP growth and watched its IT sector blossom into a $ 100 billion industry in the past two decades, its focus on developing engineering talent has left the country dry of Indians with leadership and management skills, says Srini Kandula, vice president of human resources for iGATE, a Freemont, Calif. - based outsourced software developer with 28,000 employees and operations in Bangalore.

Beyond that, he described China as a country upon which other nations had imposed unfair trade penalties: «We hope developed countries will stop imposing restrictions on normal and reasonable trade of high - tech products and relax export controls on such trade with China,» he said, not naming any specific country.

At the end of World War II, the world's most powerful and developed countries stopped waging war with each other.

The court said it was unconvinced by the U.S. arguments regarding the alleged negative effects of the EU decision on its tax revenues, the bilateral tax deals with EU countries and its efforts to develop rules on transfer pricing in line with OECD rules.

The Compliance and Enforcement section has had success in developing investigation and enforcement relationships with several countries under the Unsolicited Telecommunications Rules [telemarketing regulations].

It will be important for developing countries to have access to the technology that can help with education, infrastructure, health and productivity, the tools needed to lift people out of poverty.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Other developed countries grant their multinationals all kinds of breaks, and provide exemptions with respect to foreign profit.

While the U.S. and Europe are currently grappling with huge debts, a lot of the developing countries had their financial crises more than a decade ago and are now less vulnerable to shocks.

Bank of America's Global Wireless Matrix is packed with thorough statistics on virtually every carrier in 50 developed and developing countries.

Instead of simply giving away glasses for every pair of glasses sold, they work with nonprofit partners who train entrepreneurs in developing countries to give basic eye exams and sell glasses in their communities.

Though still technically falling under the developing country status, this combination of factors, twinned with a growing economy and relatively new technology infrastructure, makes Brazil an exciting contender in the payments market.

Anheuser - Busch InBev and SABMiller — two companies with deep roots in developing countries — have transformed the global brewing business, taking market share from competitors in advanced and developing nations alike.

With the global economy «floating on an ocean of credit,» the current acceleration of credit via central bank policies will likely produce a positive rate of real economic growth this year for most developed countries, PIMCO chief Bill Gross writes in his latest monthly commentary, but «the structural distortions brought about by zero bound interest rates will limit that growth and induce serious risks in future years.»

Australians pay more for their healthcare than most other developed countries, and only the US had a greater proportion of patients with excessive out - of - pocket costs.

The next five years will prove whether rich countries have the willpower and strength to adopt green growth strategies and whether the developing giants China and India can marry their desired economic growth with green technology.

Ellen Gould's well - documented article revealed how Harper and his finance minister Jim Flaherty had not only welcomed dodgy U.S. mortgage financiers into our market, but backed them with increased insurance from Canadian taxpayers, all the while pushing a hard line of deregulation at governments of developing countries seeking our aid.

One of the most important means by which any industrialized country interacts with the developing world is via the amount, composition and effectiveness of its -LSB-...]

Those countries with less - developed institutions and financial systems, limited policy credibility, greater foreign currency debt and / or more precarious economic situations are certainly more exposed than others to external shocks.

Smartphone sales fell 3 percent in the March quarter compared with a year earlier, as consumers in developed countries such as the U.S. and China balk at upgrading to more expense phones.

Similarly, many ventures are based around business methods and concepts that have been successful in developed countries, but with adaptations made to reflect local conditions, such as «Careem,» the Uber of Pakistan.

And last but not least, the world's 43 most vulnerable countries adopted a push for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 — leading with a commitment that many rich and developed nations have yet to maAnd last but not least, the world's 43 most vulnerable countries adopted a push for 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050 — leading with a commitment that many rich and developed nations have yet to maand developed nations have yet to make.

Our sample will be nine countries for which ECRI has business cycle dates and that are are included in MSCI's developed market index with sufficient price history.