Sentences with phrase «highly developed country»

Now, the United States, as a highly developed country, as I said before, per capita, consumes much more energy and emits much more greenhouse gases for each individual than does China.

This highly developed country is also a major tourist destination offering a variety of attractions ranging from serene temples, royal tombs, unspoiled fishing villages, picturesque mountains that also offer plenty of hiking, shopping opportunities, spas, volcanic landscapes, nightclubs, fine dining options, and a lot more.

Last year game licenses alone brought $ 150,000 into the tribal treasuries, which isn't much to a highly developed country, but to a poor one it is a bundle.»

It is the only Asian country that uses English as a first language and where the lifestyle and operating systems are compatible with practices in highly developed countries.

But some other highly developed countries also are skittish about at least some aspects of the studies.

Highly developed countries, like America and Canada however are riddled with chronic back pain.

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

The PISA data indicate that the observed variation in the distribution of student characteristics across countries does not place the United States at a disadvantage in international assessments compared with other highly developed countries; students with high levels of socioeconomic status had an educational advantage over their low SES counterparts across all 20 countries, even after considering the differences in the percentage of students who are immigrants, from less - advantaged homes, non-native language speakers, and other factors.

One could argue — on some people do — that, from the perspective of global resource consumption, a world with fewer individuals living in highly developed countries — ie, the places where per capital resource consumption is highest — would be desirable in order reduce the climate impact and resource consumption of the human population.

He concluded «that the continuance beyond the year 2000 of of the modern way of life in the highly developed countries of the West is virtually certain to depend upon coal and it is therefore thye in, escapable duty of the present generation to ensure that the coal industry is cautiously and sensibly preserved in the meantime.

«Highly developed countries apply modern agricultural methods on good farmlands and abandon marginal lands, which become available for forest expansion,» the authors wrote.

Not exact matches

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Households do the saving, while companies do the investing, so the corporate sector is inevitably highly indebted in fast - growing countries with under - developed equity markets.

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.

As I later learned, imported food items are highly sought out by many consumers in developing countries, due to a reputation for quality.

Ahead of countries with a highly developed financial market, like the USA and Canada, Georgia takes second place in electricity consumption rating.

If you are surprised at the level of abuse of children by clergy in a country like the US which has a highly developed police and legal system to handle such crimes, consider how high the abuse probably is in less developed countries like those of South America.

Because of the slowing birth rate in developed countries which have a higher than average amount people who profess no religion (minus the united states), the developing countries, such as Brazil who are highly religious, account for an increase in religious profession.

Those countries all have highly developed economies.

The Innis & Gunn Brewery in Perth is the brand's home for innovation and barrel - ageing, where Master Brewer Dougal Gunn Sharp and his team of highly skilled and passionate brewers develop the flavoursome beers that are loved by craft beer fans in over 28 countries.

The U.S., unfortunately, continues to have a shockingly high rate of infant mortality for a highly - developed country with advanced technology.

But Professor Buitendijk said the study did have relevance for other countries like the UK with a highly developed health infrastructure and well - trained midwives.

Like many developing countries, Pakistan government is highly centralised, and there was a widespread recognition that the issue of power devolution is crucial to the survival of the Federation.

They have argued that it is highly medicinal and legal in most developed countries.

However, a recent report from Friends of the Earth entitled «A Dangerous Distraction» was highly critical of the CDM, suggesting that rather than reducing global emissions or benefiting developing countries, offsetting was merely leading to more ingenious ways to avoid cutting emissions.

NEW YORK (AP)-- New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Las Vegas (along with the Buffalo Police and Erie County Sheriff's Department) are among scores of police departments across the country quietly using a highly secretive technology developed for the military that can track the whereabouts of...

There are also plans afoot to build a 1.4 GW capacity line under the Pyrenees between Spain — with a highly developed wind and solar power industry — and France that will double the power capacity between the two 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.

These highly - infectious viruses are the leading cause of upper and lower respiratory tract disease in young children, including Croup, responsible for thousands of hospitalizations in the developed world, and hundreds of thousands of deaths each year in developing countries.

This highly - infectious virus is the leading cause of upper and lower respiratory tract disease in young children, and each year results in hundreds of thousands of deaths in developing countries and thousands of hospitalisations world - wide.

«In the U.S. and other developed countries, because of the availability of highly effective antiviral therapies, the virus is completely suppressed, and HIV - infected people are leading essentially normal lives.

Improvement of trans - national cooperation and distribution of knowledge, in particular from countries with a highly developed scientific infrastructure to scientifically less active regions

It's likely that the cumulative effects of food additives in a highly processed diet are in large part to blame for the rising rates of obesity in the United States and other developed countries.

This Asian Singles dating site was developed to provide an easy, joyous and highly convenient place for people from Asian countries to meet other people.

17.4 assist developing countries in attaining long - term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries (HIPC) to reduce debt distress

The market in both these countries is quite developed and highly competitive.

These patterns are most pronounced in countries that have highly developed work - based education systems such as Germany, Denmark and Switzerland.

The report also added that social segregation, which the UK tends to rate relatively highly on compared to other developed countries, was «clustering» poorer pupils in lower - performing schools which might «damp down» their expectations and «belief in themselves».

Most of the studies in the book were carried out in in highly developed English speaking countries.

Analyzing a broad universe of ESG - rated stocks across developed and emerging countries, the team constructs highly diversified portfolios without sacrificing conviction.

Through the Open Wing Alliance, they have shared tools with and trained advocates at many organizations, and provided grants and support to individual advocates in countries with few animal advocacy organizations.153 They have developed resources that they share freely with OWA member organizations, including a corporate outreach campaign manual and a guide to pressure campaigns.154 THL has also collaborated with other organizations in a variety of ways, including by sharing training materials and campaign research.155 They feel that collaboration is highly valuable to the animal advocacy movement, and see it as part of their role to encourage organizations to coordinate on large - scale campaigns.156

Thankfully a great many highly reputable breeders have been working diligently over the last thirty years or more to eliminate many of the problems found in the breed, and there are very well developed, healthy lines of German Shepherd Dogs found all over the country.

At over 30 locations in more than 15 countries worldwide, a highly - qualified workforce develops and produces complete solutions for the pharmaceuticals, food, and confectionery industries.

The UK is headed by highly creative travel planner Gary Toshack, director of sales and marketing for the country, who has over 12 years of experience in developing bespoke, high - end tour itineraries throughout Asia, specialising in China and south - east Asia, including leading expeditions to remote corners of the region with his former companies China Links and Discover China.

Donkey Kong Country Returns is being developed by Retro Studios, the developer that made its names with three highly successful new entries in the Metroid series.

A popular extraction method involved drying the cochineal bug, and since 70,000 insects were required for a single pound of pigment a highly competitive system of piracy developed among European countries bringing it from the New World.

In its narrowest sense it applies to intensive and highly productive agroecology, where it is often described as a mesh of traditional / organic farming methods, the science of ecology, and efficient design, and in this sense it has shown great results on small - scale holdings and in Third World and developing countries.

Further, climate finance must not add to the debt burden of fragile and highly indebted developing country economies.

(c) Prohibit the use of conventional / traditional biomass in inefficient wood stoves in developing countries and instead move to highly - efficient biomass woodstoves and biogas digesters, and other renewable energy sources.

Businesses operating at or that have a stake in developing countries are highly likely to invest in adaptation because it affects their bottom line.