Sentences with phrase «more than developing countries»

Historically developed countries polluted a lot more than developing countries.
A global median of 54 % say that rich countries such as the U.S., Japan and Germany should do more than developing countries to address global warming, because they have produced most of the world's greenhouse gas emissions so far.

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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.
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.
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 applications.
The company has particularly targeted this campaign at developing countries like India where, according to the World Health Organization, more than 1,000 children under five die from diarrhea every day — the highest rate in the world.
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).
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.
Larger, more industrialized countries tend to have higher corporate income tax rates than developing countries.
This way they maintain their razor - sharp edge, and a complete mastery of the very same methods, strategies and tools that Tony Robbins continuously develops and uses as he helps millions of people — in more than 100 countries all over the world.
As the Post reported: To develop its psychographic models, Cambridge surveyed more than 150,000 households across the country and scored individuals using five basic traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism.
The Gates Foundation has donated more than $ 36 billion, including for projects that expand access to immunizations in developing countries and provide financial services to poor communities.
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.
EM equity funds may be prone to more volatility than funds that focus on developed countries.
In fact, 2015 marked the first year that developing countries saw more money invested in clean energy than developed countries did.
The US is unique in two key — and related — ways when it comes to guns: It has way more gun deaths than other developed nations, and it has far more guns than any other country in the world.
Collectively, they provide detailed equity market coverage for more than 80 countries across developed, emerging and frontier markets, representing 99 % of these investable opportunity sets.
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.
As a group, these developing - country superstars are growing faster and more profitably than their global counterparts (see Figure 1).
As a percentage of GDP, more than half of the outstanding sovereign bonds in the developed world originated from countries or regions where negative interest rate policies are in place, primarily representing bonds from the euro zone and Japan.
It was often cheap labor in emerging markets that, more than two decades ago, led companies in developed markets to move company jobs away from the home country either to company owned facilities (off - shoring) or to third parties (out - sourcing) in developing markets.
Timber and ag investors seem more eager to travel to developing countries than peers in other asset classes.
MSCI All Country World: MSCI All Country World Index is a free float - adjusted market capitalization weighted index that is designed to measure results of more than 40 developed and emerging equity markets.
Emerging Markets — Investing in emerging markets may involve greater risk and volatility than investing in more developed countries.
The problem is that China has had a very bad experience with its investments in developing countries and may not be eager to raise them significantly more than it has already planned.
More than 80 per cent of the retailer's products are designed and developed in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and China, countries known for innovation.
The database, which Saez developed jointly with Thomas Piketty, measures income patterns across more than twenty countries.
«More than half say that Canada should focus on developing closer trade ties with the Pacific Rim nations, rather than emphasizing the traditional relationship this country holds with the United States.»
In developing countries such as African countries, cryptocurrencies are actually more necessary than in first world countries such as the United States of America.
Speaking at the IFC's 12th annual Global Private Equity Conference in Washington, DC, held in association with the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association (EMPEA), IFC executive vice president and CEO Lars Thunell said developing countries were proving more attractive than ever to private equity investors (see Corporate Finance News, page 83).
More than half say that Canada should focus on developing closer trade ties with the Pacific Rim nations, rather than emphasising the traditional relationship this country holds with the United States.
And he says, «The United States has by far more guns in more hands than any other country in the developed world.
More than half of Canadians (54 %) say that the best path forward for Canada economically is to focus on developing closer trade ties with other Pacific Rim countries.
Today, there are thousands of various market indices available representing more than seventy countries, from the developed world to the tiny frontier markets.
As CEO of MyVoice, Alexander took software developed at the University of Toronto for people with speech disabilities into more than 30 countries and was featured by Discovery Channel, Engadget, Fast Company, BNN, CBC, and CTV.
There are more than 220 million women in developing countries who don't want to get pregnant, but who lack access to family planning information and contraceptives.
The developing countries depended on advice, investments, loans, and grants more from former colonial powers than on the international financial institutions.
- The tendency, economically, for developed nations (and their banks) to sponsor megaprojects in developing countries rather than grassroots efforts that may be less spectacular but more effective.
It was far easier for the governments of developing countries to borrow more money than to pay for their imports in any other way.
The U.N. met the goal of doubling access to water, but the world is behind in ensuring healthy water access: 2.5 billion people and almost 1 billion children still lack access to basic sanitation, and more than 2 million tons of human waste are released in waterways in developing countries on a daily basis, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
These uncertain times call for different measures and communication tools than we have used in the past... There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business.»
There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business.
The 1968 Uppsala assembly regarded this as too optimistic and felt that social transformation within Third World countries was more important than the transfer of resources from the industrialized world to the developing world.
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.
The poll also found that more than four in five Britons agree that large companies in the UK can avoid tax too easily and that large companies should pay their fair share of tax in developing countries.
Part of the answer is that the «proportion of people going hungry in developing countries has fallen sharply from more than one in three in 1970 to one in five in the mid-1990s.»
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.
At least thirteen developing countries have managed to reduce their birthrates by an average of more than one birth per 1000 population per year for periods of five to sixteen years.
Health care in this country costs more than anywhere else on earth, yet, our quality of care and accessibility lags behind all the rest of the developed nations.
During 2011 - 12 we trained 36 young professionals from 7 countries in Sub-Saharan Africa using an e-learning program developed and provided by PEF — these postharvest specialists trained more than 13,000 Africa farmers, traders, processors and marketers during 2012 - 13 in a wide range of improved postharvest handling and appropriate food processing / food safety practices.
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