Sentences with phrase «more developed countries»

In more developed countries, we dream of a place to make beautiful, of lifestyles, of places to live out life's experiences.

In Vietnam, it has been an obvious trend that the population in general and parents in particular leave the countryside to bigger cities or more developed countries for employment opportunities.

has been an obvious trend that the population in general and parents in particular leave the countryside to bigger cities or more developed countries for employment opportunities.

In many countries, the local water supply is simply not as clean as it is in more developed countries.

Sales of asbestos are also falling worldwide, as more developed countries express concerns about health impacts.

Whereas light rails and subways have a larger capacity and are favored in more developed countries, BRT systems are much cheaper and quicker to build, and are thus favored in the cities and megacities of the developing world.

China is reluctant to cut its emissions at the same rate as more developed countries because, historically, it has emitted much less.

This Protocol, which is not legally binding, is essentially an agreement that more developed countries will work on cutting carbon emissions while also supporting various initiatives in poorer countries to protect the planet.

Thailand is one of the more developed countries in South East Asia which makes it a great place for a road trip by car and drive yourself.

More developed countries like Brazil and Argentina will have a wide range, from luxury hotels down to pokey hostels, so you'll almost always find something to suit your budget.

Prices of securities in emerging markets can fluctuate more significantly than the prices of companies in more developed countries.

And as more developed countries fall into recession, it becomes increasingly anomalous for the United States not to fall into recession.

We include more developed countries because there are more to choose from, and we think many investors prefer stable regions.

The International Fund may invest in emerging markets, which are generally more volatile and can have relatively unstable governments, social and legal systems that do not protect shareholders, economies based on only a few industries and securities markets that are substantially smaller, less liquid, more volatile and may have a lower level of government oversight than securities markets in more developed countries.

A philosophy of ubuntu is pretty much the opposite of the individualism and self - interest often embraced in many of the more developed countries.

Just a few short years ago we were hearing that in more developed countries, students were in school longer.

As the country's economy grows and disrupts the economies of more developed countries — from 2000 to 2007 Vietnam's economy was the darling of many foreign investors before turning back in certain respects, but it is still projected to grow over 5 percent this year, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit — there will be a corresponding need to upgrade its workforce and educate more students to prepare them for a knowledge economy.

What would be deemed a barrier to more developed countries has become a springboard for technological leapfrogging that continues to push innovation in eLearning.

While Case and Deaton found that smaller classes were modestly beneficial, Harvard economist Caroline Hoxby's careful quasi-experimental study of elementary schools in Connecticut suggests that Case and Deaton's results may not be relevant for more developed countries.

Fracking to free more natural gas from shale can help displace even more polluting coal in more developed countries such as the U.S. but can only serve as a bridge — and a very short bridge — to the zero - greenhouse - gas pollution future, unless also outfitted with carbon capture and storage to eliminate pollution.

However, IBD is rare in parts of the world where helminths are prevalent, and it is surging in more developed countries, where few people now carry the intestinal intruders.

Central to the success of FeLaSoFi's mission has been the fact that the physical societies from the more developed countries typically sponsor meetings and activities that engage all member societies, regardless of their size or level of influence of their physics community.»

The more developed countries — Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina — support healthy physics research communities that contribute at the highest international level.

But even in the more developed countries, maintaining a steady pool of science graduates is often a problem.

Chinese producers can pollute the hell out of their country (and the world's atmosphere) because they are far behind more developed countries in terms of their attitudes toward this kind of thing.

The World Health Organization and Unicef estimated the average maternal mortality ratios for 1990 as 27 per 100 000 live births in the more developed countries compared with 480 per 100 000 live births in less developed countries, with ratios as high as 1000 per 100 000 live births for eastern and western Africa.4 The WHO has estimated that almost 15 % of all women develop complications serious enough to require rapid and skilled intervention if they are to survive without lifelong disabilities.5 This means that women need access not only to trained midwives but also to medical services if complications arise.

heidi, i'm disappointed that you didn't address the impact of the popularization of quinoa in more developed countries on Bolivian culture.

One concern on the part of less developed countries has been that more developed countries would have a general advantage in trade.

Emerging Markets — Investing in emerging markets may involve greater risk and volatility than investing in more developed countries.

Emerging markets like China are a good starting point for developing cross-industry ecosystems because businesses and expectations are not as defined as they are in more developed countries.

They may also signal the possible future in more developed countries for more distributed and personalized medicine.

Emerging markets have largely kept the company aloft over the past few years while its popularity swan - dived in more developed countries.

Copper is used in modern industries, thus as demand grows with the appearance of more developing countries and markets - the supply dwindles, and alternatives are seeked; both of the latter adding volatility to the copper markets.

«More developing countries are likely to approve the technology as it's now possible to design regulatory systems that are rigorous without being onerous given their limited resources.

With this respect, more developing countries are building a well - oriented policy to attract top scientists.

There's a lot more developing countries participating in PIRLS.

So in more developing countries in Southeast Asia (e.g. Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar), an author could price their eBook at $ 0.99 rather than $ 2.99 as an example.

During the event, key themes that emerged included how more developing countries are seizing the opportunity of energy efficiency by putting it as a central pillar to energy strategies to manage the energy demand they need to meet.

Not exact matches

If some foreigners are inclined to be patient with Canada, it may be because other developed countries are no more hospitable.

The second, more problematic solution, is developing and improving the country's water storage capabilities — which would require significant investment in water infrastructure.

D'Alessandro counters that such poor international performance is more likely because of a lack of leadership, a problem extending back to the less - developed - country debt crisis of the late 1970s, when many developing countries defaulted on their bank loans.

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.

South Korea, one of the world's most notable tech markets, has taken a small first step in developing policy around robot ethics, but there's much more that will need to be put in place — by all countries.

The more progressive line argues, as Wolman does, that reliance on cash transactions «perpetuates [poor] peoples» exclusion from banking and the formal economy» and makes it hard for governments, especially in developing countries, to efficiently serve their citizens.

It makes the country more efficient because there are users, consumers, suppliers, and channels developed on the Internet, which is much more efficient than anything that could be developed offline.

Since virtually no developed country is building coal - fired plants any more, the promise not to finance such projects is no great sacrifice.

Unlike BlackBerry, Apple and other Western - focused vendors, the search giant is far more focused on getting people in developing countries onto the internet and using its services.

He wants to see business improve its productivity, increase its R&D investment and grow its exports to new foreign markets — particularly to emerging markets, which for the first time in 2012 will import more goods than will the developed countries.

The study, which surveyed 50,000 adults in 24 developed countries, found that «daughters of working mothers completed more years of education, were more likely to be employed and in supervisory roles, and earned higher incomes,» reports Claire Cain Miller in The New York Times.

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.