We need universal healthcare; most developed nations have universal healthcare.
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Drug pricing follows a predictable pattern in most developed countries.
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Unemployment in Africa's most developed economy runs at around 28 percent.
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How would I not pitch him my most developed reality project?
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Across most developed economies, healthcare costs are rising faster than inflation.
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In most developed nations, the value is clearly understood and embraced.
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Most developed nations adhere to this pattern most of the time.
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Norway is ranked as the globe's happiest and most developed country.
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The average rate among the world's most developed countries is 25 percent.
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That's about 1,000 hours more than government workers in most developed countries.
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As in most developed nations, getting it there is not the problem.
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Bugaboo has 1,200 employees and models are sold in most developed markets.
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The most developed were two forms of Elvish, called Quenya and Sindarin.
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Most developed countries have less adversarial labor relations than the United States.
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And Germany's economy was industrially the most developed of the Central Powers alliance.
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By the 1970s Bahrain had the most developed airline infrastructure in the region.
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Analysts said the ruling signalled new uncertainty for East Africa's most developed economy.
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Unlike most developed countries, China is growing old without first having grown rich.
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Many consider Barbados to be among the most developed nations in the Caribbean.
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Africa's most developed economy is struggling due to lower commodity prices and drought.
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Apparently our spatial memory is our most developed due to old evolutionary necessity.
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American teachers work more and are paid less than most developed nations American teachers work more and are paid less than most developed nations Two words describe how American public middle school teachers compare to other wealthy countries: Overworked and underpaid.
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Coals supplies almost 90 percent of the power needs in Africa's most developed economy.
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Today, the United States and most developed countries have few tariffs, but some remain.
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South Africa, the continent's most developed nation, has been racked by waves of unrest.
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Bran isn't the only Stark with magical abilities, but his are the most developed.
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South Africa is crucial to Uber's Africa strategy, boasting the continent's most-developed economy.
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The currencies of most developed market economies already deliver these monetary services quite well.
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Most developed countries do not use only measures of absolute poverty, as America does.
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It aspires to become one of the top 30 most developed economies by 2050.
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Now the country's 5m citizens constitute the most developed national market for electric cars anywhere.
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In most developed countries, they can do less than one fatality per 100 million miles.
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Still, compared to most developed markets as well as China, that number remains comparatively high.
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Unlike most developed nations, Australia's colonizers never signed a treaty with the native Aboriginal population.
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Africa's most developed economy registered its steepest contraction in a decade in the first quarter.
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The utility, which provides power for Africa's most developed economy, is also adding new plants.
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Stronger regulations can prevent a lot of this damage, and do in most developed countries.
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South Africa's economy, despite being sub-Saharan Africa's most developed, has foundered in recent years.
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) ranks Malaysia's healthcare system as the world's 49th most developed.
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Just 66 electric cars were sold last year in South Africa - the continent's most developed economy.
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Meanwhile, Switzerland's treatment of whistleblowers remains shoddy—and, unlike in most developed countries, risks getting worse.
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Estonia, 25 years later, has one of the most developed national digital infrastructures in the world.
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Today, most developed countries — including the U.S. — have incorporated climate change into all foreign aid spending.
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Most developed countries negotiate prices with drug makers, but Congress has prohibited Medicare from doing that.
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In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days.
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With year-to-date gains of nearly 21.58 percent, it has outperformed most developed stock markets.
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But that is not an option for most developed nations, especially given the potential for tax competition.
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Thanks to the uranium, there was a time when Arlit was the most developed place in Niger.
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Work life is indeed very difficult for at least two groups of workers in most developed economies.
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Most developed countries have even lower rates; in Canada, there are just 2200 traffic fatalities per 217,210.
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We believe MakerBot maintains the leading desktop brand, with the most developed software ecosystem within the industry.
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And this, despite its gross domestic product (GDP) growing faster than most developed countries of the world.
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It looks as if, in most developed countries, the trend rate of growth has fallen since 2008.
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"This is considerably higher than the 80-year life expectancy in most developed countries," reports the Guardian.
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All told, a much smaller percentage of adults votes in the US than in most developed countries.
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It's a very dynamic area of the economy, on par with the most developed parts of Germany.
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Vadadustat, the most-developed drug in Akebia's pipeline, treats patients with anemia associated with chronic kidney disease.
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South Korea has one of the most developed nuclear energy components of any country in the world.
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Complicating matters further, unlike most developed countries there are no strict standards for wayfinding in the United States.
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In most developed countries only a small minority of over-65s—between 3% and 6%—live in institutions.
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When Che first set foot in Cuba, it was one of the most developed countries in Latin America.
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Today, 25 years since independence, Estonia has one of the most developed national digital infrastructures in the world.
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The Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the continent's most developed stock market, has been a listed company since 2006.
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Picun, one of the most developed, has its own literature society and houses numerous aspiring artists and musicians.
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Government in the United States spends far less on child care and preschool than in most developed countries.
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However, just the threat used to cause an economic shock and rising oil prices in most developed economies.
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When governments guarantee it (as most developed democracies do), it can be a burden for employers and businesses.
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More simpatico is Astrid (Gemma Chan), Nick's ultraglamorous cousin, whose marital troubles provide the most developed secondary plot.
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But the candidate most preoccupied with it, with the most developed plans to address it, is Elizabeth Warren.
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Like the United States and most developed countries, China has a birthrate that is well below replacement level.
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For most developed economies, their aging populations will present a serious challenge of both cost and care delivery.
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With U.S. broadband prices already significantly higher than those in most developed countries, this is a significant burden.
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For Asia's most developed oil markets, Japan and South Korea, analysts say long-term demand will steadily fall.
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However, the payments company added that there remains much room for improvement, even in the most developed markets.
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"It's our most developed program in Alzheimer's disease," said Samantha Budd Haeberlein, vice president of clinical development at Biogen.
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The world's most developed economies tend to be democracies, and to be more open to trade and foreign investment.
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Kopaonik, Serbia's most developed ski resort, added a new six-person heated chairlift last year and a new hotel.
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Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the continent's biggest and most developed stock market, has been a listed company since 2006.
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To add insult to injury, most developed countries maintain territorial systems, charging taxes only on the income earned domestically.
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"Inflation isn't taken off in most developed markets," said Bill Merz, senior market strategist at U.S. Bank in Minneapolis.
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For one, the services industry in most developed countries is much larger – and employs many more people – than manufacturing.
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We trail most developed countries when it comes to the number of Americans of voting age who actually vote.
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" But the bar is high: "The currencies of most developed market economies already deliver these monetary services quite well.
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Utilities in most developed countries don't keep their overhead wiring tidy for tidiness' sake; safety is on the line.
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According to data from the Pew Research Center, the United States trails most developed countries in terms of voter turnout.
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That wouldn't be a huge problem if the U.S. government provided universal health care, like most developed countries on Earth.
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The United States ranks 18th among the top 21 most developed countries in terms of poverty, inequality, and economic mobility.
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That doesn't get us to where most developed countries are, but it gets us somewhere near the ballpark of Switzerland.
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That is because the study of the interrelationship between data and politics is relatively new and most developed in America.
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That's a policy, enacted by most developed countries, that gives cash universally to all parents, on a per-child basis.
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Most developed nations such as Germany, Finland and Denmark all have tuition-free higher education and much higher graduation rates.
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And single-payer health care will bankrupt the country, even though some version of it exists in most developed nations.
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That means, in the world's most developed nation, one out of every three people living in poverty is a child.
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Infant mortality had declined substantially, and heart disease — the single biggest killer in most developed countries — had taken center stage.
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Although we'd all like to pay less, relative to most developed nations our tax burden is a pretty good deal.
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In the United States, and most developed countries, more educated and richer women are more likely to nurse their babies.
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But most developed and emerging economies are growing below potential and consumer price inflation remains quiescent for the most part.
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FINANCE FRUSTRATION Outside South Africa, the continent's most developed economy, around 80% of African cropland is still cultivated by hand.
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Picture Prompts Which of your five senses — sight, hearing, taste, touch or smell — would you say is your most developed?
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As in most developed countries, UK companies are finding it harder to produce more without adding extra workers or capital.
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The World Bank, controlled by the world's most developed nations, lends money to developing nations for infrastructure and development projects.
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Or wage growth needs to pick up from the stubbornly sluggish levels it is currently stuck at across most developed countries.
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The standard 21990-percent-by-443 target that most developed nations use is not going to get us to 244 degrees.
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Continuing quantitative easing by the (European Central Bank) and zero rates in most developed countries represent a significant limitation for us.
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As in most developed economies, services are by far the biggest sector, accounting for 2450 percent of Scottish gross domestic product.
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It's one of the reasons why healthcare is so much more costly and complex in America than in most developed countries.
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Chile, South America's most developed economy, is one of the few countries in the region that does not have mandatory voting.
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The scandals around Mr. Zuma also severely hurt investor confidence in South Africa's economy, the most developed in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Brazil, with one of the most developed markets for biofuel production and consumption, was touted as a country of the future.
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For more than a decade, policy interest rates have consistently been well below the rate of inflation in most developed economies.
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Agriculture has become a much less important sector in most developed countries, contributing to less than five percent of the U.S. GDP.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Hangzhou's Strong Creditworthiness: Hangzhou is the capital of China's Zhejiang province and one of the country's most developed cities.
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But in most developed countries where outfall systems are used, like the U.S., the water is treated before it enters the ocean.
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Overall, however, most developed countries with relatively high current levels of well-being, including the United States, posted weak improvements in general.
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But nuclear energy itself is perhaps the show's most developed character—it's certainly the one that undergoes the most dramatic narrative arc.
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If you are visiting most developed countries, you should be able to easily use your credit card to meet your money needs.
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Unlike most developed countries, Japan has no joint-custody system after divorce, and court-ordered visitation rights are often ignored with impunity.
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America spends about 18 percent of its gross domestic product, or roughly twice as much as most developed nations, on health care.
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Our boat, with its reliable generator, fully functioning motor and more or less reliable schedule, was the most developed thing in sight.
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They want to attract the rising number of young consumers in Africa's most developed economy which has thrived on demand for commodities.
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The most urgent need for reform will be in public pensions, which in most developed countries are the biggest source of retirement income.
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The continent's most developed economy, South Africa is expected to grow just 0.7% this year and 1.1% in 2020, according to the report.
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Now it is the turn of tribal groups in the western state of Maharashtra, already one of the most developed areas in India.
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China is adding more renewable energy than the world's most developed nations in the OECD combined, according to BP. View the discussion thread.
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A few democracies hold at 21625 percent and the majority are 2900 percent or lower…even in some of the most developed countries.
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Asbestos, a naturally occurring mineral and known carcinogen, was once common in insulation and fireproofing materials, but today most developed countries ban it.
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Last week saw momentous political change in Africa's most developed economy as Ramaphosa took over as president following former President Jacob Zuma's resignation.
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Micro- and nanoplastics are the new category of plastic litter that even facilities in the most developed countries are not yet equipped for.
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T=16. Johannesburg, South Africa — Despite being at the heart of one of Africa's most developed economies, Johannesburg remains cheap by global standards.
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"We will make Jammu and Kashmir into one of our most developed states," Home Minister Amit Shah told parliament to loud cheers from supporters.
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China isn't the only authoritarian regime in the world, but it's undoubtedly the wealthiest, strongest and most developed in machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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Source: Digi-Capital Most developed mobile markets have hit saturation, with sales coming from consumers replacing their phones regularly despite not really needing to.
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As geostrategist Nayef Al-Rodhan writes: The targeting of satellites makes everyone on Earth—especially the most developed and technologically advanced nations—exceptionally vulnerable.
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Where right-wing populism—like the Brexit campaign—is gaining ground on the continent, it is often in the most developed, economically globalised regions.
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But, two of the largest and most developed economies in Africa, Nigeria and South Africa, are yet to fully sign up to the deal.
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The low cost of ETFs is looking all the more attractive, given the extremely low yields on investment-grade bonds in most developed countries.
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Like most developed countries, the U.S. allows the currency to float and does not explicitly take actions to affect the value of the dollar.
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We can aspire to the universal coverage offered by most developed nations without abandoning the bold private-sector innovation that sets our country apart.
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Though Kenya is among the most developed places in Africa, for two months, death and torture were meted out with machete, club and knife.
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Officials still want to have numerous lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico, one of the most developed offshore drilling areas in the world.
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Russia has a lower pension age than most developed economies, and the amount paid into the system is expected to balloon in the future.
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That compares with Britain's current corporation tax rate of 20 percent and an average rate among the world's most developed countries of 25 percent.
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With bond yields spending years barely hovering above zero in most developed markets, big money investors are having to get creative to find returns.
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They need to do what conservative parties in most developed democracies do, which is come up with their own plan to tackle climate change.
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As Washington and Beijing fight out their trade war, Asia's most developed countries are trying to reduce their dependence on China — and turn toward India.
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It's not uncommon, with stock exchanges in most developed markets, except Hong Kong, and many emerging markets providing for a closing auction of some sort.
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However, most developed countries should still at least approach a healthy 2%, and even long-moribund Italy is forecast to eke out a respectable 1.4%.
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The MSCI emerging markets index is currently up over 4 percent this year while most developed market indexes have struggled to push into positive territory.
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Three years later, oil and gas production has increased, and leaks have dropped by 75 percent in the state's most developed oil and gas field.
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Although lower policy rates have not always resulted in cheaper borrowing costs (in Greece, for example), debt-servicing costs have fallen in most developed countries.
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These regulations are much more relaxed than most developed countries, including the US where animals can only be trucked for a maximum of 28 hours.
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This is why infant orphanages no longer exist in the United States and most developed countries: Early-life institutionalization can clearly do permanent, lifelong harm.
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The United States, like most developed countries, does not subsidize energy consumption, but it does offer tax breaks to fossil fuel and renewable-energy companies.
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When most developed nations have cut their corporate tax rate, he said, the resulting wage increases were "well north" of $4,000 per year for workers.
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On the bourse, stocks fell after investors were cautious ahead of the third quarter growth data expected to show Africa's most developed economy barely expanded.
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Earlier this month, South Africa, the continent's most developed economy, signed on to the African Union's free trade agreement that proposes continent-wide borderless trade.
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Mr. Wang has the most developed solo career and regularly shuttles among artist residencies, a studio in Beijing and the Practice space on Eldridge Street.
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The same thing is happening among women in their 60s in most developed countries, according to data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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"I think most Americans understand that we deserve to have universal health care as enjoyed by most citizens of most developed countries," Buttigieg said then.
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Fitch views Sky as uniquely positioned as the UK's leading pay-TV platform, having established the UK as the most developed pay-TV market in Europe.
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But it is still a headache for a president who has staked his reputation on cleaning up deep-rooted corruption and reviving Africa's most developed economy.
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By the late 20th century, most developed countries were ruled by professional politicians who recognised that economic success was their surest route to staying in office.
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Africa's most developed economy slipped into recession in the first quarter, compounding a slew of negative economic indicators including sovereign rating downgrades and stubbornly high unemployment.
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Bachelet, who was tortured under the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, was the first woman to be president of Chile, one of the region's most developed economies.
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For startups in Peru and other emerging markets in Latin America, that means successfully expanding to the region's most developed markets in Mexico, Brazil or Argentina.
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Georgian banking system has come a long way since its transition from the centralized Soviet system and presently is the most developed one in the region.
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But it is still a headache for the president, who has staked his reputation on cleaning up deep-rooted corruption and reviving Africa's most developed economy.
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When love and money planet Venus enters methodical Virgo on Monday evening, it will begin a time for sharing your most developed ideas with the world.
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While private ownership of central banks was once quite common, most developed nations have converted to fully public systems, and the list of holdouts is dwindling.
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Low levels of business confidence and have been a major drag on investment in Africa's most developed economy, complicating President Cyril Ramaphosa's efforts to revive growth.
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In a 2002 essay, Cooper described Europe as the most developed body politic that did not emphasise sovereignty or the separation of domestic and foreign affairs.
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Overall, it throws far fewer people in prison than most developed countries: 41 out of every 100,000 people, compared with 139 in Britain and 655 in America.
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"Israel is one of most developed markets in terms of bonds," said Hani Shitrit Bach, head of the listing and economics department at the Tel Aviv bourse.
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Africa's most developed economy needs faster economic growth if it is to reduce high unemployment - currently at 27 percent - and alleviate poverty and inequality that stokes instability.
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The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimated earlier this month a 3.9 percent growth rate for the 20 most developed economies in 2018 and 2019.
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For one thing, Americans may not even be aware that virtually every other country guarantees paid maternity leave, and most developed ones include fathers, but we don't.
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That's a far cry from most developed countries — in recent national elections voter turnout in Belgium was 87 percent, and Australia and South Korea cleared 80 percent.
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Trillions of dollars in credit and loan guarantees dispensed by central banks and governments in the United States and Europe have perhaps cushioned the most developed economies.
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Trillions of dollars in credit and loan guarantees dispensed by central banks and governments in the United States and Europe have perhaps cushioned the most developed economies.
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With most developed economies moving into partial shutdown in response to the escalating coronavirus pandemic, Norway and Sweden announced stimulus packages as European trading got under way.
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As the Center for Economic and Policy Research reported in 2009, most developed economies give workers at least five days off to recover from flu-like symptoms.
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U.S. and EMEA Packaged Food: Organic growth trends remain challenging for large packaged foods companies across most developed economics, due to brand maturity and changing consumer preferences.
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Rates of car ownership are still low compared with most developed countries, making China one of the few large markets where there is potential for significant growth.
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Africa's most developed economy was able to pre-fund an additional $1 billion over the $4 billion it had originally planned to raise, according to the statement.
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Still, Rahman said most developed nations had "abysmally failed" so far in their pledges to cut greenhouse gas emissions, making radical options to limit warming more attractive.
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Even though the country's economy grew 2260 percent in the most recent quarter, still faster than most developed countries, it was India's slowest rate in five years.
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Big business These new studies demonstrate that the dynamics of deforestation are increasingly inseparable from the growing demand for food from consumers in the most developed countries.
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One is that the United States, unlike most developed countries, seeks to tax US-based firms on their worldwide profits rather than only on their domestic profits.
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"The 'Francophone effect' is actually strongest in the countries that are most developed: French-speaking countries with the highest literacy, best infrastructure, and best health system," they write.
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Admittedly most of the major quest lines increasingly become dialogue and exploration-driven, but that only highlights how meaningless many of The Outer Worlds' most developed systems are.
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Although this figure is one of which most developed countries can only dream, analysts have long raised concerns that economic data reported by China's officials is unduly optimistic.
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Workers in nearly all of the world's most developed nations and in most developing countries have been getting a smaller and smaller share of the pie, Oxfam notes.
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The United States really does spend much more per student than most developed countries, only to see disappointing results in return — something plenty of presidents have pointed out.
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A long-term follow-up of people with REM sleep behavior disorder showed that most developed conditions such as Parkinson's disease, Lewy body dementia or multiple system atrophy.
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The move was seen as a signal of intent to ratings agencies and investors that had lost faith in Africa's most developed economy under former leader Jacob Zuma.
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Tzach explains Israel's ability to penetrate even the most developed agriculture markets in two ways: Israel's arid and sometimes adverse conditions and the technologies developed in the army.
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Britain has one of the world's most developed online markets, with the big four supermarkets Tesco, Sainsbury's, Wal-Mart's Asda and Morrisons competing with specialist delivery firm Ocado.
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Most developed nations espouse as their goal a tolerant, inclusive society with equality of opportunity for all — but the reality of the world continues to be rather different.
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"The Yangtze river delta is the biggest market for new energy vehicles - the customer base is the most developed, whether for delivery vehicles or passenger vehicles," he said.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa, who took office last year pledging to revive the economy, is seeking to attract $100 billion in FDI to Africa's most developed economy by 1.23.
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Amid this fellowship of extreme travel I was more than a little ashamed of my simple airline itinerary through three of the four largest and most developed economies.
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Many Chinese customers outside of the most developed cities tend receive products through e-commerce sites such as Alibaba, which has been developing more quickly than department stores.
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There is still a large divide between the care provided at urban hospitals in the most developed cities -- like Wuhan -- and the care in rural hospitals, Chen said.
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With American health care costs higher than those in most developed countries, it may be advantageous to choose a local plan at your destination over an international one.
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"The branch in Libya is probably the most developed and the most dangerous," he said, echoing concerns by other security officials that Libya's proximity to Europe is a problem.
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ISIS' reach in Libya Aside from Iraq and Syria, ISIS' presence in Libya "is probably the most developed and the most dangerous," CIA Director John Brennan recently told Congress.
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"As one of the biggest and most developed operators on the payment services market, I'm not surprised that some see Nets as a brick in that puzzle," he said.
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"As one of the biggest and most developed operators on the payment services market, I'm not surprised that some see Nets as a brick in that puzzle," he added.
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Here's how the demographic transition looked in Britain: Today, most developed countries have joined Britain on the right end of that graph, with low birthrates and low death rates.
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Uber does not disclose its financials but Chief Executive Travis Kalanick has said that the company is profitable in its most developed markets in the United States and Europe.
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America has fewer hospital beds per capita than most developed countries, and more chronic health problems like diabetes that may put infected people at a higher risk for complications.
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The majority of images are found in North America and Europe as the internet service is most developed, with huge capacity and high speeds, coupled with big server centers.
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Most developed nations require employers to provide some form of paid sick leave, but about one-quarter of American private sector workers — 32 million people — aren't entitled to any.
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Now that smartphones are in a replacement cycle for the most developed parts of the world, we will see more feature evolution than a burst of brand-new things.
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But the data shows that stocks in most developed countries have produced positive returns — and returns significantly higher than you could get from government bonds — over the long run.
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"The branch in Libya is probably the most developed and the most dangerous," Brennan said, echoing concerns by other security officials that Libya's close proximity to Europe is a problem.
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"It is clear that most developed countries need migrants across a broad spectrum of vital roles, from caring for elderly people to preventing the collapse of health services," he said.
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The EU ETS is the most developed system of charging polluters for emissions, although China, the world's biggest polluter, expects the first trade on a national emissions scheme next year.
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In most respects, his plan is significantly less generous than what Hillary Clinton has called for, and both are far less expansive than the benefits offered by most developed nations.
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But perhaps the biggest paradox of them all must be how one of the world's most developed nations could deny millions of people the basic human right to clean water.
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Africa's most developed economy slipped into recession last year for the first time since 2009 while it has dropped in indices that measure corruption and the ease of doing business.
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The war footing on which most developed nations have been placed to fight Covid-19 may, in time, expand the role of the state, just as after World War Two.
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African leaders agreed to form a $3 trillion continental free-trade zone encompassing 1.2 billion people, but its biggest economy, Nigeria, and most-developed, South Africa, did not sign up.
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But with short-term interest rates across most developed economies unlikely to break much further below their effective lower bound, the asymmetric policy space will blur potential exchange rate implications.
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Other leaders agreed to form a zone encompassing 1.2 billion people, but 11 countries including the continent's biggest economy, Nigeria, and its most-developed, South Africa, did not sign up.
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Africa's most developed economy needs faster economic growth if it is to reduce high unemployment - currently at 27 percent - and alleviate persistent, widespread poverty that aggravates inequality and stokes instability.
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The protests, which dissipated within days, had raised fears that major political violence could again destabilize Kenya - the region's most developed economy - as it did following a disputed election in 2007.
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U.S. President Donald Trump is the most obvious example of a break with decades during which most developed-world leaders viewed globalisation as beneficial for almost everyone, a win-win approach.
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Chile, one of Latin America's most developed countries, is relatively well connected in telecoms terms, but existing networks will not suffice for the future, telecoms undersecretary Rodrigo Ramirez said to journalists.
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That figure sits above most developed nations, including the United States (12.6), the United Kingdom (7.4) and Italy (5.4) but below several others, such as Belgium (16.1) and South Korea (24.1).
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The main opposition party in one of India's biggest and most developed states, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, held a protest on Tuesday to demand faster action on the case, police said.
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Africa's most developed economy recorded better than expected growth of 3.1% in the second quarter following a deep first quarter contraction, but analysts fear maintaining growth at that level is unlikely.
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At its most developed, the strength of the case for basic income lies in how it would change the entire economic climate, not just the prospects of a few lucky winners.
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The political turmoil is hobbling Africa's most developed economy, with data showing on Thursday that unemployment had risen to a 14-year high, while spooked local investors are offloading government debt.
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CAPE TOWN, Oct 26 (Reuters) - South Africa cut its 2016 GDP growth forecast by almost half on Wednesday and warned Africa's most developed economy risked slipping into a "low growth trap".
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With most developed economies now also moving into partial shutdowns as the epidemic tightens its global grip, Norway and Sweden announced far-reaching stimulus packages as European trading got under way.
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It said the cut was due to flat growth in Japan, the most developed market for tobacco-heating devices, and the recall in the United States of its Vuse Vibe e-cigarette.
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In 2016, like in 2012, only around 60 percent of the voting-age population cast a ballot, putting the US behind most developed countries when it comes to getting out the vote.
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Fund Societies is active in Singapore and (as 'Modalku') Indonesia — Southeast Asia's most developed economy and its largest economy, respectively — where it is rivaled by the likes of Capital Match and MoolahSense.
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Although manufacturing is a much smaller part of most developed economies than services—just 12% of output in America, for example—its recent weakness makes many economists nervous about the wider outlook.
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The gross domestic product (GDP) growth of the world's second-largest economy has slowed steadily since 2010, although levels remain far higher than those achieved by most developed and many developing economies.
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The four-day expo, which opened in South Africa's capital Pretoria on Thursday, was a stark illustration of the legal gray area the nascent industry occupies in the continent's most developed economy.
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He pointed out that most developed countries in the world have a similar value-added tax on imports, and compared the United States to countries like Cuba and North Korea, which don't.
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Most developed nations have granted their central banks considerable autonomy over policymaking precisely because of concerns that politicians would seek to increase short-term growth at the expense of inflation and instability.
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And South Africa, for all its travails, has one of Africa's biggest and most developed economies, a rich and diverse news media and democratic institutions that have been shaken but not destroyed.
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But with a growing number of opioid overdose deaths and climbing suicide rates in the United States, that trend has reversed over the past three years — against the norm for most developed nations.
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Since then China has become a lot richer (with an income per person of about $6,000 at PPP)—though not nearly as rich as most developed countries when they were starting to age.
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Growth in Africa's most developed economy has been meek for the last decade and is set to remain so as nationwide power cuts by state firm Eskom hit business activity and consumer confidence.
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Behind the broad stocks' rally is also the expectation that central banks in most developed economies will continue to keep interest rates at rock bottom levels - if not negative - for the foreseeable future.
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Many of Europe's crisis countries – Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain – ended up in the top five of 34 OECD members (a club for the most developed countries) in recognition of their structural reforms.
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These include Attijariwafa Bank, one of the largest banks with the most developed corporate and investment banking franchise, and the subsidiaries of leading French banks, which can tap into their parents' derivative expertise.
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South Africa has struggled in recent months with slowing growth, a tumbling rand, rising government spending and waning investor confidence in the ability of its political leaders to revive Africa's most developed economy.
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The recession in Africa's most developed economy is adding to pressure on President Jacob Zuma, who is also handling fallout from credit downgrades and massive corruption scandals that have further dented investor confidence.
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Israel is waking up to its dramatic shortfall in infrastructure compared to most developed economies and a potential increase in spending is bound to offer the private sector a raft of new opportunities.
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But the platform economies that are most developed and that have captured the most people — the ones that transact on attention, advertising and communication — are not immediately recognizable to their users as marketplaces.
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While the least developed nations are closing the gap on the most developed nations, those teams stuck in the middle, like the United States, are struggling to make the leap to the top.
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Uncertainty over leadership at the finance ministry will worry investors as Africa's most developed economy teeters on the edge of recession and credit rating agencies consider downgrading it to "junk" status by year-end.
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In the richest, most developed nation on earth, 17.2 percent of the population lives in poverty and 21 percent of all children live in poverty, with disproportionately higher rates for Black and Latino children.
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The market is most developed in America, says Robert Hannigan, one of those ex-GCHQ bosses, thanks in part to Californian laws passed in 2003 that compel firms to confess to large data breaches.
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The saga is a headache for Ramaphosa, who has staked his reputation on cleaning up deep-rooted corruption and reviving Africa's most developed economy, providing ammunition for enemies including Zuma loyalists within the ANC.
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Babydoll is the most developed of the bunch, but the rest of her squad — even Sweet Pea (Abbie Cornish), the stealth protagonist of the story, and her sister Rocket (Jena Malone) — is woefully underdeveloped.
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While the Federal Reserve took a dovish turn of its own in late January, the dollar has been supported by the relative wide differentials between U.S. bond yields and most developed economies, analysts said.
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Such a move would add to a sense across most developed countries that extraordinary monetary stimulus is drawing to close as economies slowly recover from debilitating financial and debt crises between 6.53 and 2012.
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Denel's woes put at risk an industry estimated to directly employ around 15,000 people and which is one of the most advanced sectors of Africa's most developed economy, said Kevin Wakeford, CEO of Armscor.
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And government debt as a fraction of GDP in most developed countries is twice the level it was before the crisis, leaving little room to buffer if the world hits another economic soft patch.
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Employment levels in the world's most developed economies are yet to return to pre-crisis norms, despite displaying "stable" growth, according to new data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
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Even in the United States, younger and faster-growing than most developed countries, growth in the working-age population slowed to a mere 225 percent last year from 1.2 percent in the early 2000s.
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The reading comes after a slew of mixed economic data from Africa's most developed economy this month, including better-than-forecast second-quarter GDP growth and current account deficit that widened more than expected.
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In most developed countries around the world, table salt has been fortified for nearly a century, which is why the concept of iodine deficiency is almost unheard of in places like the United States.
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Life expectancy at birth is 79, not far short of most developed countries, and widely available birth control helps explain why family size has fallen further and faster than in most other countries (see chart).
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That's already well above most developed market bond yields, with the 10-year Japanese government bond at negative 0.27 percent, the at negative 0.1761 percent and the 10-year U.S. Treasury at around 1.365 percent.
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SAPIA's Tshifularo said leases have been temporarily renewed for a period of two years, but said changes to the way land is leased from Transnet could affect security of supply in Africa's most developed economy.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has staked his reputation on cleaning up corruption, problems at state-owned enterprises and reviving growth Africa's most developed economy, but sluggish growth and issues at Eskom are proving difficult to fix.
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The saga has proven a headache for Ramaphosa, who has staked his reputation on cleaning up institutionalized corruption and reviving Africa's most developed economy, providing ammunition for enemies including an ANC faction loyal to Zuma.
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Africa's most developed economy slipped into its second recession in two years in 2019 as agriculture, transport and construction activity contracted, with severe power cuts by struggling state utility Eskom a key impediment to growth.
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Africa's most developed economy needs faster economic growth if it is to reduce high unemployment - currently at 27 percent - and alleviate widespread poverty that has persisted since the end of white minority rule in 1994.
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A key part of President Cyril Ramaphosa's plan to revive growth in Africa's most developed economy hinges on luring foreign capital, but prolonged power outages caused confidence among investors to wane along with industrial activity.
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According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, fewer than 1 percent of employed women in Japan are in management positions, compared with an average of 4.6 percent among the world's most developed nations.
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The tax-haven nation is the wealthiest and most developed country in the eastern Caribbean, but its growth prospects look weak due to austerity measures to combat the effects of the credit crisis eight years ago.
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Nene told the inquiry that he was fired by Zuma for blocking deals that would have benefited the Guptas, particularly a $100 billion nuclear power deal with Russia that could have crippled Africa's most developed economy.
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"If the population has adequate DHA intake and infants receive DHA and arachidonic acid postnatally, which they now do in most developed countries, increasing DHA intake during pregnancy would not necessarily show any benefit," she said.
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While the Fed took a dovish turn of its own in late January, the dollar has been supported by the relative wide differentials between U.S. bond yields and the yields of most developed economies, analysts said.
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Shares have advanced partly on the view that the U.S. economy is on solid footing and on the expectation that central banks in most developed economies will continue to keep interest rates at rock-bottom levels.
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"Portraying a few exceptional cases that could happen even in the most developed countries around the world as Turkey's reality is not befitting of fairness and good intentions," Hikmet Tanriverdi said in a statement on Friday.
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In 2019, the JFBA approved a declaration to abolish the death penalty by 2020, in time for Japan to host the Olympic Games, and to replace it with life imprisonment, in line with most developed nations.
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Having already dominated Africa's ride-hailing sector, Uber is trying to conquer the food delivery market by leveraging its massive fleet of drivers in the continent's most developed economy and tracking popular food choices and destinations.
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Gene drives have yet to be tested outside the lab, and even the most developed project to date — the anti-malarial gene drive in Anopheles mosquitoes — won't be widely available for at least another five years.
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Shares had advanced partly on the view that the U.S. economy was on solid footing and on the expectation that central banks in most developed economies would continue to keep interest rates at rock-bottom levels.
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Africa's most developed economy fell into recession for the first time in eight years in the first quarter, piling pressure on scandal-plagued President Jacob Zuma, whose leadership has been challenged within the ruling African National Congress.
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Such a move would add to a sense across most developed countries that extraordinary monetary stimulus is drawing to close as economies slowly recover from a debilitating set of financial and debt crises between 2008 and 2012.
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And with most developed central banks some time away from tightening policy, global borrowing costs are likely to remain low, with 10-year U.S. Treasury yields - the reference point for most emerging debt - still below 2 percent.
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These actions would help increase our voter participation rate — which averages about 403 percent in presidential elections and much lower in other years — from our shameful current rank of 31st out of the 35 most developed countries.
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It was midday this week, not far from a main road in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro's most developed and supposedly "pacified" slum that straddles a mountain and sits right between the main Barra and Copacabana Olympic zones.
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These actions would help increase our voter participation rate — which averages about 60 percent in presidential elections and much lower in other years — from our shameful current rank of 31st out of the 35 most developed countries.
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He said it was not unusual for Tanzanian police to intercept and detain Ethiopian migrants on their way to South Africa, the continent's largest and most developed economy, though migration was more common overland than by sea.
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In most developed countries, according to a survey by the discount brokerage Surefield, commissions range between 20173% and 4%; buyers depend much more on online portals to find their desired home and seller's agents can represent both parties.
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The cost of education and health care — things considered nonnegotiable human rights in most developed countries — have risen fast, and people's access to medical insurance and higher education could be endangered with the flick of a presidential pen.
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High taxes make smartphones an almost unaffordable luxury on the continent, making them twice as expensive as the cost in most developed markets for a population whose wages are two-thirds less by comparison, according to the company.
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In contrast, South Africa's manufacturers, which are among the most developed in Africa, could quickly expand outside their usual export markets and into West and North Africa, giving them an advantage over manufacturers from other countries, Ashbourne said.
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Ramaphosa, who is fighting rifts within his own party before the parliamentary election, has made reforming Eskom one of his top priorities as its 214.1498 billion rand debt pile poses a direct threat to Africa's most developed economy.
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BEIJING, March 27 (Reuters) - China's household finances look more stretched than those in most emerging markets, though the level of household debt remains less than that in most developed economies, Fitch Ratings said in a report on Tuesday.
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While most developed countries have now implemented some form of the vaccination program, the path has been fraught, said Ian Frazer, a co-creator of the vaccine, Gardasil, and a professor of immunology at the University of Queensland.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A significant pickup in inflation still remains tantalizingly out of reach in most developed economies — aside from asset prices — yet several central banks are leaning toward launching or stepping up efforts that could slow it down.
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Since the well-being of most developed states depended, as it does today, on their free access to the maritime lanes of transportation, Britain's dominant maritime position gave it enormous leverage over other powers in the 19th century.
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The last two weeks have devastated one of the country's most developed states and while money is coming in, thanks to the government and the generosity of the Indian diaspora, the rehabilitation will take more than just money.
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Nene told the inquiry he was fired by Zuma in December 2015 for blocking deals that would have benefited the Guptas, particularly a $100 billion nuclear power deal with Russia that could have crippled Africa's most developed economy.
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From Dandong, in the northeastern rust belt of China, Mr. Kim is likely to see the skylines of Wuhan and Changsha, among the most developed cities in central China (the train's reported speed: about 35 miles per hour).
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South Africa, home to Africa's most developed economy and a key source of food for the wider region, is suffering its worst drought in a century, likely to push 50,000 people below the poverty line, the World Bank estimates.
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Ramaphosa, who is fighting rifts within his own party ahead of the parliamentary election, has made reforming Eskom one of his top priorities as its 420 billion rand debt pile poses a direct threat to Africa's most developed economy.
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Ramaphosa has said he will urgently challenge the finding, which he says is flawed yet is still a headache for a president who has staked his reputation on cleaning up deep-rooted corruption and reviving Africa's most developed economy.
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Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:Despite the US being one of the most developed financial ecosystems in the world, a quarter of households in the country make little or no use of mainstream banking products.
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The saga has proven a headache for Ramaphosa, who has staked his reputation on cleaning up deep-rooted corruption and reviving Africa's most developed economy, providing ammunition for enemies including an ANC faction loyal to his predecessor Jacob Zuma.
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The meeting on Thursday was Mr. Trump's first with Mr. Gentiloni, and took place a month before the president's planned visit to Sicily for a Group of 7 summit meeting, a gathering of the world's seven most developed economies.
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced this week that his government is to press on with a plan to overhaul how land is owned in the country, a move that has alarmed some investors in Africa's most developed economy.
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The implementation of congestion pricing in New York will undoubtedly influence other American cities like Los Angeles eyeing transportation reform at a time when our roads are at capacity and our public transport is outpaced by most developed countries.
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And like the deadly explosions last year at a toxic chemical storage site in Tianjin, a northern port city, the disaster in Shenzhen suggests that dark pools of mismanagement and corruption persist even in the most developed parts of the country.
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One other somewhat inconvenient truth for central bankers is that after well over half a decade of emergency monetary policy, there is some growth, but scant inflation to speak of in most developed economies other than rampant asset price inflation.
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Zuma's sudden recall cut short Gordhan's roadshow in Britain and the United States, triggering jitters that a long-running power struggle between the two men was coming to a head and might threaten more turmoil for Africa's most developed economy.
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Guillier on Sunday acknowledged the "harsh defeat" and urged his supporters to defend Bachelet's progressive policies, which have included overhauls of tax, labor and education laws in an effort to fight persistent inequality in one of South America's most developed economies.
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Ramaphosa, who is fighting rifts within his own party ahead of the parliamentary vote, has made reforming Eskom one of his highest priorities as the utility's 420 billion rand debt pile poses a direct threat to Africa's most developed economy.
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When Mr. Sun started Sunac in 2003, he focused on the cities of Wuxi and Chongqing and then moved on to China's most developed cities, among them Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Hangzhou, building apartments with names like Beijing Fontainebleau Chateau.
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The dispute between a disparate group of leftists and populists in the African National Congress (ANC) and Ramaphosa's more moderate allies has shaken confidence in Africa's most developed economy, which saw its steepest contraction in a decade in the first quarter.
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Supporters say he&aposd be best choice for the Liberal Democrats as he has the most developed idea of what the party should be and what it ought to stand for now that the mission to stop Brexit has failed.
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Supporters of Ex-Im point out that such banks exist in one form or another among most developed nations, and U.S. companies would be at a disadvantage without the bank when they're bidding against rivals from Europe, China and elsewhere for overseas deals.
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In 2016, the rise in property prices boosted total household wealth in 22 of China's most developed cities by 230 trillion yuan, almost twice the value of total disposable income of 220 trillion yuan, according to a March research note from Deutsche Bank.
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Credit Suisse analysts on Tuesday said even if Russia and OPEC producers raise output, they would likely only add an additional 500,000 bpd, which would leave inventories in the most developed countries short of the five-year average by the end of 2018.
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TOKYO (Reuters) - As most developed economies turn their back on coal, Japan is burning record amounts for electricity generation and plans to use even more of the dirtiest fossil fuel to fill the gap after the Fukushima disaster paralysed its nuclear sector.
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Since OPEC and its 11 partners, including Russia, began curtailing production in January, oil inventories across the world's most developed nations have risen by around 40 million barrels and are still some 200 million barrels above their five-year average, OPEC's target.
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While most developed countries—including the U.S.—have averaged between 1 and 201.5 percent emissions reductions per year over the last decade, emissions in the U.S. rose by 3.4 percent in 2018, in part due to Trump's campaign to dismantle climate regulations.
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Mr. Atala said the astounding deluge of international support was born of seemingly unrelated global movements: the growing awareness of food waste, the rise of the celebrity chef and widespread frustration over the persistence of hunger in even the most developed countries.
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Meanwhile, South Korean men hold the record for doing the least amount of housework among the men in the world's most developed countries — an average of just 45 minutes per day, or one-fifth of the time a South Korean woman spends.
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Coal has provided two-fifths of the world's electricity for the past 30 years, barely changing over the last decade as the falling share in most developed countries is being countered by growing electricity demand in coal-reliant Asian countries, the report said.
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As in most developed countries, Zaske said, many German children had access to smartphones or computers in their homes, but owning their own mobile device was not as common as it appears to be among children and teens in the United States.
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South Africa, the region's most developed economy, has the most infections on the continent and some experts fear the virus may overwhelm the already stretched health sector and test the government's vast social welfare system with the economy having recently slipped into recession.
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South Africa and its economy, the most developed in sub-Saharan Africa, have struggled to recover under Mr. Zuma's successor, President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has apologized for the past mismanagement and vowed overhauls that some critics have said are long in coming.
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Until then, having spent my whole life in China (born and raised), I couldn't help but hold a deep belief that Chinese cuisine is the most developed and sophisticated cuisine in the world, and any other country's cuisine is simply no match.
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Kenya's spirits market has fared better in recent years than that of South Africa, the continent's most developed economy, and those in Nigeria and Angola, the economies of which were buffeted by the collapse in oil prices in 2014, according to alcohol industry consultancy IWSR.
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"More accessible, reliable, fast and low-latency connectivity will catalyze the birth of new interactive media, gaming, and e-commerce companies and products otherwise not available to any but the most developed metro areas," Shahin Farshchi, space investor and partner at Lux Capital, told CNBC.
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Unlike most developed countries, which place the majority of children who are abused, neglected, or can't live with their parents for other reasons in foster homes, Japan puts more than 80% of the 38,20163 such children in residential-care facilities, according to government figures.
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In America, the most developed market, viewing of broadcast and cable TV by all age groups fell by 22015% in the six years to the autumn of 214, to slightly more than four hours per day, according to Nielsen data compiled by Redef, a media newsletter.
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Amazon will now add hundreds of fresh and frozen products to its existing offering of packaged grocery goods, setting it up to take on Tesco, Sainsbury's and Wal-Mart's Asda, as well as online specialist Ocado, in one of the world's most developed online retail markets.
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Compared with kids in the most developed countries, children in the poorest nations were 7.14 times more likely to die within 30 days of surgery and kids from middle-income countries had 4.42 higher odds of death, the researchers report in BMJ Global Health, online December 12th.
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Group of Seven Summit: Macron hinted Thursday that a sort of G-6 posture could emerge today and Saturday in Quebec during the annual global summit among the most developed countries, leaving the United States and Trump's controversial trade tariffs on the outs among allies (Reuters).
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"TPP would have encouraged C.E.O.s, logistics managers and others to place their bets on the world's single largest trading zone, one that would have been dominated by the U.S., the largest and most developed economy in it," economics writer Adam Davidson observed in The New Yorker.
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Seemingly, in this very modern and digital world to which most developed societies are now accustomed, there are all manner of different mediums by which to connect, communicate, share knowledge and even send physical objects, in the guise of 3D printers, without need for physical transfer or transport.
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Almost everything seems like it's on demand, delivered from a flat screen with the flick of the wrist, the push of a button — and yet, the U.S., one of the richest, most developed countries in the world, is only the 15th happiest, according to the World Happiness Report.
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The committee suggests that any exodus of fintech companies from London might be more likely to benefit the next most developed global financial services hub, New York, rather than flow into less developed European centers — suggesting short term relocations might go over the pond, rather than over the channel.
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But the idea of a private-sector company being even partially directed by a central bank is fraught with potential conflicts of interest, and is at odds with the way that most developed nations have conceived of the relationship between markets and state institutions over the last several decades.
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Most developed countries have extremely strong norms against even intimating violent intent toward political rivals, because a basic cornerstone of democratic governance is the shared belief that violence against political opponents is not a legitimate tool for resolving political disagreements; when that norm is violated there is, correctly, tremendous backlash.
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Spotify launched its first service in Africa in the continent's most developed market — South Africa — in March 2018, and has yet to expand to more countries, while Apple — with its premium pricing — has by Choi's estimate sold less than 1 million iPhones in the region, which limits its potential growth.
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In a territorial system, the kind used in most developed countries other than the US, the government only taxes corporations on their earnings in that country; so Canada taxes Tim Hortons on profits it earns in Canada at a tax rate of 15 percent, but not profits from its US restaurants.
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The exchange, the second biggest in sub-Saharan Africa and one of the main entry points to invest in Africa, has around 200 listed companies, all included in its benchmark share index Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), the continent's biggest and most developed stock market, has been a listed company since 2006.
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The cost to the Mets is said to be steep: Anthony Kay, a left-hander who was a first-round draft pick in 0003 and is the Mets' most developed pitching project, as well as Simeon Woods Richardson, a right-hander who was the club's second-round pick in 2018.
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The cost to the Mets is said to be steep: Anthony Kay, a left-hander who was a first-round draft pick in 0003 and is the Mets' most developed pitching project, as well as Simeon Woods Richardson, a right-hander who was the club's second-round pick in 2018.
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"While our general outlook for most developed markets is reasonably healthy and one of continued economic expansion, the possibility of a sharp rise in interest rates akin to the previous taper tantrum is a scenario we are also focused on," said Kathleen Hughes, head of European institutional sales at Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
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Trump is the leading advocate of protectionism among the elected leaders of the world's largest and most developed economies, and he has threatened to slap tariffs as high as 45 percent on Chinese imports into the US, an act that could prompt reciprocal tariffs from China and spark an economically crippling trade war.
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We learn, for example, that American politicians have been asserting their authenticity by eating barbecue pretty much as long as there have been American politicians (George Washington attended one such gathering), and that the place where cannibalism is most developed as a culinary practice is in the fevered imagination of English authors eager to assign savagery to others.
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I've never seen a case of diphtheria; by the time I went to medical school, in the 1980s, it was already a historical disease in most developed countries, prevented by the routine series of vaccinations which starts when children are 2 months old (diphtheria is the "D" in the DTaP vaccine; the T is tetanus, and the P is pertussis, or whooping cough).
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It reveals strong growth at the mean of the global income distribution (in the neighborhood of $5 to $15 a day), and among the top 1 percent (the truly rich), but identifies stagnation in the 80 to 85 percent region (which is where the bottom half of residents of most developed countries would fall.) We know the United States faces challenges on the subject of inclusive growth.
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In a climate in which a state senator unabashedly announced his plans to introduce a bill that would allow most forms of protest to be labelled "economic terrorism" and deemed a felony—and where the soon-to-be President of the most developed nation in the world suggests burning the American flag should result in jail time or revoked citizenship—movements like the Fight for 15 and Stand Up KC are critically important, not only to the livelihood of our nation's restaurant workers, but to democracy as a whole.
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