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Environmental Ranking for Canada and the OECD finds that Canada is a world leader in environmental performance and ranks in the top ten among the world's wealthiest, cleanest and most developed countries on a wide range of environmental indicators.

Not exact matches

Most developing countries are growing faster than developed ones, and there's plenty of opportunities for investors to capitalize on these countries» growing middle class.

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.»

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.

Long a source of irritation for developing nations, especially China, which was the one country most affected by it, the quota regime for the most part came to an end on Jan. 1, and will be fully dismantled by 2008.

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.»

Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is calling «financial repression», but what you can just call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).

It means celebrating parenthood by making America the most generous country in the developed world when it comes to maternity and paternity leave, not the least generous, and it means working together on efforts to reduce the costs of food, diapers, childcare, pediatrician visits, college tuition, adoption, and resources for special needs children.

Most developed countries have set up systems of welfare that depend on population growth to sustain them.

Most of the specialized functions in the field of family counseling and family education have been organized on an ecumenical basis, especially in the developing countries.

That is the pattern in most developed countries, and surely, as the Republican party increasingly takes on the attributes of a European - style Christian Democratic party, it is logical that their opponents take the other position.»

... The UN Commission for the nutrition challenges of the twenty - first century, in its Report submitted on March 20, 2000, has pointed out that» about one in four new - born children in developing countries - around 30 million each year - suffer retarded growth in the womb, an indication of how the nutritional well - being of mothers in pregnancy remains one of the most neglected areas in world health.

In fact, although the United States is one of the most religious developed countries in the world, most Americans scored 50 percent or less on a quiz measuring knowledge of the Bible, world religions and what the Constitution says about religion in public life.

Vandana Shiva makes, this point in more detail with regard to the social systems of developing countries — the Green Revolution, she writes, has in fact impoverished most of the people it sought to help, and the Gene Revolution now following on its heels will only increase the damage.

The opportunity to taste and learn about wines from around the world, one on one, with one of the country's most celebrated Sommeliers helped Mark to develop a well rounded palate.

Reminding all in attendance «the complex picture of on farm loss» in both developed and developing countries according to the most recent studies was a great start on the significance of the problem and the need for quick actions.

In terms of market access, organic products do not per se receive preferential access over conventional products, and there are significant tariffs (of 100 percent or more) on many agricultural products in most developed countries.

In developing countries especially, most third - party certified farms rely on distant export markets to cover the cost of certification, so products from those farms are not available to local consumers.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

In practice, it's hard for most of us in «developed» countries to do a full - on elimination communication without some compromises.

Despite the safeguards it affords, they say, mothers in developing countries - the most vulnerable of mothers anywhere, the ones least able to afford formula milk, the ones whose babies most need the breast milk they could and should be getting for free - were being, and continue to be, targeted by corporate giants bent on carving out their share of a valuable market (Save the Children, which today publishes a report on the baby - milk industry, reckons that the total value of baby - milk and baby - food imports is worth almost # 16m a year in Bangladesh alone - but the potential, if more mothers were bottlefeeding, is a lot higher than that).

Large scale participation prevailed as a primary goal when talks began on a climate convention in 1991, despite most developing countries having negligible greenhouse gas emissions.

So the government has made permanent the former temporary ban on profiteering «vulture funds», persecuting the most indebted countries, and backed the «Publish What You Pay» campaign to bring transparency to multinational oil and mining companies» payments to developing world governments.

«The divide may impact most on least developed countries (LDC) and small island developing states (SIDS), which are the most vulnerable to climate change but contribute least to relevant research.»

The developing world, on the other hand, is in the process of building out its own energy infrastructure and thus has an opportunity to adopt the best practices and most modern technologies from developed countries.

But it is a technology that has proven problematic in developed and developing countries — witness the ecological problems brought on by the Three Gorges — and most of the undeveloped locations for hydropower are located in the west of the country while the majority of electricity use is in the east.

Small Steps Diplomats hope there will be some progress on funding to help developing countries most at risk from the effects of global warming, particularly in Africa and small island states.

Whereas most people agree on the need for such a legally binding agreement, the fine print is still being tweaked between industrialized and developing countries.

Used mostly to insulate large electrical capacitors and transformers, PCBs were one of the most widely used industrial substances on Earth until they were banned in the United States, and most other developed countries, in the late 1970s.

The researchers noted «a clear disparity» between today's most widely used pesticides and the current knowledge of their risks, «with the majority of the published literature focused on pesticides that are no longer registered for use in developed countries.»

The good news, according to the report, is that Americans «perform comparably to adults in other economically developed countries on most current measures of science knowledge.»

While recent initiatives have attempted to address conservation priorities at global and national scales, most of these focus on developed countries in temperate regions.

At the moment, as he so graphically has it, most developing countries are «the roadkill on the global investment highway».

During the past few years, most of the reports that developing countries have filed with the U.N. on how they plan to adapt to climate change mention population growth as a complicating factor.

In a paper in the February 12th issue of the journal Science, researchers warn that unless the focus is on helping small farmers in developing countries, the efforts to feed all the world's people will most likely fail.

But the subject may not be as high on other countries» research agendas, because gun ownership is so much lower in most developed nations.

But the new vaccines are expensive and most developing countries still rely on the cheap nerve - tissue products.

The convention will force companies to license technology and products to developing countries on concessionary or «most favourable» terms, he says.

It would be a tragic mistake to dismiss the huge potential of new technologies for addressing some of the most enduring problems of poverty: drought - and pest - resistant varieties of food for poor farmers who have been bypassed by the Green Revolution; treatment for many tropical diseases, such as malaria and sleeping sickness; low - cost wireless computers that can break the information isolation of rural communities that rely only on the radio and word of mouth; and low - cost energy supplies for the vast majority of people in developing countries using dung and firewood.

For many countries — especially those in the developing tropics where fishery reform is needed most — the required costly short - run reductions in fish catch would be difficult to implement because of dependency on fisheries for food and livelihoods.

Such justification would then most likely center on whether, under the introductory phrase of GATT Article XX, a US carbon duty, emission credit requirement or other regulation on imports is applied on a variable scale that takes account of local conditions in foreign countries, including their own efforts to fight global warming and the level of economic development in developing countries.

Worldwide, lung cancer is the most commonly diagnosed form of cancer.1 In the United Kingdom, its annual incidence is second only to that of breast cancer, accounting for around 39000 new cancer diagnoses annually.2 In countries that have seen a high prevalence of smoking, around 90 % of diagnoses of lung cancer are attributable to cigarette smoking.3 The increased incidence from smoking is proportional to the length and intensity of smoking history.4 On average, a lifetime smoker has a 20-fold increase in the risk of developing lung cancer compared with a lifetime non - smoker.1 Lung cancer is more common in men than in women, closely following past patterns of smoking prevalence, and 80 % of cases are diagnosed in people aged over 60.2

Developed countries, responsible for most of the excess CO2 in the air, might finance extensive efforts in developing countries to sequester carbon in the soil and in forest regrowth on marginal lands as described above.

James E. Galvin, M.D., M.P.H., one of the most prominent neuroscientists in the country, and a professor of clinical biomedical science in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine and a professor in the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing at Florida Atlantic University, has developed eight myths and truths about AD to shed light on this form of dementia that causes problems with memory, thinking and behavior.

Analysis of the impact was made [140] using the most comprehensive data file ever compiled on mortality and air pollution in any developing country.

During our years abroad, the kids visited 16 countries on four continents, they became fluent in French, developed friendships with kids from other countries, often who did not speak the same language, they participated in multiple religious and national holidays, and they developed a food palate that most adults would be in awe of (can you say fish eyes and liver pâté?!).

Most of the users on Over50DatingSites.org are from developed countries, including the US, Canada, and the UK.

Some developing countries, most vocally those of the Alba Group (VIII), challenged the legitimacy of the Panel on the basis of its not having an intergovernmental mandate.

New financing for Least Developed Countries Fund sends strong signal of commitment as Paris talks get underway Eleven donors have pledged close to $ 250 USD million in new money for adaptation support to the most vulnerable countries on the planet giving a welcome boost to the start of the climate talks here Countries Fund sends strong signal of commitment as Paris talks get underway Eleven donors have pledged close to $ 250 USD million in new money for adaptation support to the most vulnerable countries on the planet giving a welcome boost to the start of the climate talks here countries on the planet giving a welcome boost to the start of the climate talks here in Paris.

That's why we need an education agenda that strategically recruits, retains, and rewards the most effective teachers and principals; that builds incredibly high standards; that develops rigorous and useful assessments to measure progress against those standards; that builds data systems that allow teachers, principals, students, and parents to quickly and conveniently access those data for everyday use; and that focuses on dramatic intervention within our country's lowest - performing schools.