Sentences with phrase «other developed countries such»

Canadian online retail, in short, looks a lot like Canadian retail did 20 years ago: unimpressive, outdated and at threat of being thrashed by American retailers — many of which are already making steady progress in better serving this market.Despite the country's reputation as one of the world's most wired and digitally social people, Canadians only spent $ 18 - billion online in 2010, or 3.4 per cent of total retail sales, according to Boston Consulting Group — well behind other developed countries such as the U.S. at 5 per cent and the United Kingdom at 13.5 per cent.

Other developing countries such as India and Brazil may also soon see millions of households turning to this inexpensive water heating technology.

Not exact matches

The results of a world where developed and emerging countries are all pitted against each other will be «intensified conflict on the international stage over vitally important issues, such as international macroeconomic coordination, financial regulatory reform, trade policy, and climate change,» they said.

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.

It stems from the fact that PAF allocates much of its portfolio to South Korea — a country our MSCI benchmark doesn't classify as developed, but which is classified as such by some other indexes and the IMF.

What is particularly notable about this is that developing countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Botswana, Argentina, Brazil and others are increasingly important in the net growth rate taking place.

First Solar, on the other hand, has some significant growth opportunities as developing countries such as India aim to supplement their power grids with solar energy.

To achieve such convergence, we have to take into account the plurality of the preoccupations in the different countries, the verification that the initiatives do not compete with each other and the need for very large alliances, for numerous networks and movements developing around related themes.

Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural system having dominant influence.

Developing countries such as India, China, Brazil and others, have weak distribution networks for demineralised whey ingredient products.

That reminds me, I was looking on the Hesperian Foundation website (publishers of «Where There is No Doctor» and other such titles for developing countries, and which illustrious author should they be selling in the store but Ina May, «America's leading midwife» (or something similarly gushy).

If you live in the United States there is no law requiring employers to fund your maternity leave, unlike many other developed countries who do have such standard policies.

Since 2010, this international partnership has already helped countries such as Indonesia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Tanzania develop strategies around fighting childhood malnutrition through supporting breastfeeding and other important steps.

In developing countries, outcomes are sometimes worse in kids that breastfeed for longer, probably in part because this might be occurring in poorer families with other challenges, but having breast milk displace other foods, such as those rich in iron, is probably part of the picture.

American citizens, including American citizens who have emigrated from countries they wish to adopt from, represent the majority of international adoptive parents, followed by Europeans and those from other developed nations such as Australia.

In Japan, a system of lifetime employment in many big businesses, a tradition of employer provided benefits such as housing in many cases, and a wage system in those kinds of businesses where workers receive a substantial share of their annual income in the form of an annual bonus whose size can be used to buffer good and bad years for a company sharing risks and rewards with workers instead of limiting the risks and rewards to an investor class, have contributed to low levels of income inequality in the Japanese economy relative to comparably developed countries with comparable levels of government spending on welfare state type programs in other countries.

Shadow defence secretary Liam Fox said it is necessary as you can not tell if other countries, such as Iran and North Korea, will develop nuclear weapons.

This kind of extra-heavy crude oil from sandy deposits is not commercially developed anywhere else in the world, although other countries such as Venezuela, Russia and even the U.S. have similar resources.

The other aim is to introduce vaccines that are of special interest to developing countries, such as a malaria vaccine,» she says.

That will become especially important as data comes in from other parts of the world — such as developing countries where the relative growth in dementia cases is predicted to exceed that of high - income nations.

The techniques they developed are applicable to other employment - related statistics produced by other countries or agencies as well, such the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

In many other countries, and even at some institutions in the better - developed parts of Brazil, a lab manager might handle such tasks.

INBio «handled the subject and biodiversity better than any country in the world,» he says that, thanks to INBio, «no other country has developed a national inventory of biodiversity like Costa Rica and no other country has such precise information about the species present in their protected areas.»

As an illustration, leishmaniases and other tropical diseases are often neglected due to the fact that the afflicted countries may not have adequate material or nonmaterial assets to support crucial scientific investigations, while researchers and funding agencies in the developed countries rarely feel the urgency to collaborate on such issues.

This has already been blamed for a high incidence of asthma and allergies, but might also up the risk of developing a host of other conditions common in rich countries, such as stroke and heart disease.

Unscrupulous electronics recyclers have found it easy to circumvent EPA and other national government rules on e-waste export by simply labeling such shipments as electronics for reuse in developing countries.

Ghana, Nepal, Mexico and other developing countries often lack the tax bases and infrastructure needed to put such systems into place.

The resulting report calls for more research on GM crops useful in developing countries, such as nutrient - enhanced foods and salt - tolerant plants, and urges that use of GM crops be weighed against the hazards of pesticide use and other current farming methods.

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.

The Raising Risk Awareness project seeks to assess the contribution of anthropogenic climate change and other external drivers (e.g.» El Niño») to the occurrence of extreme weather events in developing countries in East Africa and South East Asia, and identify how such information could help to bridge the science - communications policy gap, and enable these countries and communities to become more climate resilient.

Other countries such as Russia, Iraq and Japan have also investigated biowarfare of this kind, and Piers Millett said that anti-animal weapons were technologically easier to develop than anti-crop weapons.

Moving the Needle provides quarterly updates from PATH's Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA) on our vaccine development efforts, as well as related supporting work, such as developing human challenge models, building capacity of developing - country vaccine manufacturers, and evaluating new adjuvants and other novel vaccine technologies.

«Our results raise the question of how climate finance should be designed and whether developing countries should be integrated in an international market for emission rights in the first place — other instruments such as a carbon tax could be more suitable,» says Kornek.

Even in normal «healthy» populations and fully developed countries such as Australia, UK, and the USA, parasites are extremely common and can lead to nutrient deficiencies, food cravings, a weakened immune system, muscle loss, horrible insomnia, and a host of other health problems.

While some administrators are using the new opportunities to meet leaders throughout the country, others, such as Fleming County Schools Superintendent Brian Creasman, say they prefer to develop connections regionally with districts with similar demographics and needs.

Some tests, such as the Stanford Achievement Test, are developed for general use by any school district in the country, while other tests are developed for a specific state, such as the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS), and the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills (TAAS).

Just a speck of its fortune these days goes for public libraries compared to other praiseworthy causes such as malaria prevention in developing countries, and the foundation is phasing out its global libraries initiative.

Many other developed countries, such as the U.K. and Australia, introduced fiduciary rules for advisers years ago.

And living in such close proximity of each other, especially in developing countries, leads to an even higher number of rabies cases.

So the bottom line from these two points is that there is a lot China is doing domestically, but how these get translated into international commitments still to a significant extent will rest on whether China perceives other countries as living up to not just to earlier rounds of commitments (such as the commitments for developed countries to act first in the original Framework Convention) but to the commitments in the Copenhagen Accord itself.

Such policies have been elusive enough in the US and other so called developed countries.

Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence on countries such as Russia.

But the EU, US, Japan and other developed countries insist that INDCs were always envisaged to focus on mitigation (ie cutting emissions) and that other issues such as adaptation, finance and technology transfer should be covered separately in any agreement.

As the resources are not there in many developing countries, or are being used for other priorities such as health, education, infrastructure etc., the developed countries have to provide.

Speaking to The Earth Times after the recent round of talks at Cancun, Artur Runge - Metzger, head of the European Commission's environment unit and the EC's chief negotiator on climate change, noted that while the economic downturn in developed countries had resulted in lower emissions, other countries such as China and India have remained unaffected and had seen their emissions continue to rise.

The accurate monitoring and reporting of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases is essential for countries participating in climate mitigation schemes, such as reduced emissions from deforestation and degradation (REDD +)-- a scheme that pays developing countries for the carbon stored in trees and soils.

Mr. Su reitered during this afternoon's press conference that perhaps the U.S.'s demands for greater transparency regarding China's mitigation actions could be partly addressed through such national communications, of which China has already submitted its first in 2004 along with other non-Annex I (e.g. developing countries).

This is reinforced by the potential for coal to grow up to 2030, and an overall target that is weaker than other developed countries and blocs, such as the EU and the US.

Like other developed countries, it has not committed to action beyond this in areas such as adaptation and finance.

Fossil fuel consumption subsidies in developing countries are welfare transfers that can be differentiated from subsidies in the name of commercializing or sustaining uneconomic energy sources such as on - grid wind or solar, which the United States and other industrialized countries have been subsidizing.