While this skills crisis is adding to unemployment rates in developed countries and cities such as New York, in developing countries, un-skilled young people are being trapped in working poverty for life.
Two weeks ago, real estate consulting firm Knight Frank said that China housing prices rose 9.3% in 2012, while Hong Kong housing prices rose the most out of all the 55 countries and cities in their Global House Price Index, up 23.6%.
"We can see a shift in the bidding to countries and to cities that can afford these Games, " said Janice Forsyth, director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario.
And for tobacco companies, it's all about strategy as more and more and cities and countries enact smoking bans.
All the experience in San Francisco, New York, Dublin and elsewhere - cities and countries who have been brave enough to take this decision - is that members of the public enforce smoke-free areas themselves.
Trains are hot and everybody (countries, states, cities and towns) wants serveral and soon a train building bubble arises and collapses and the train building business falls to less than half its its normal contribution to GDP.
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This will take place in 10 countries and across 9 cities in North America.
But his projection of the shape of the world is still something we would recognize today, and the placement of cities and countries within the Greco-Roman empire is highly accurate.
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"You have a greater concentration of wealth in developed countries and also in developing countries in the cities, " said Arnault Peral, a deputy representative of the United Nations Development Program in Mexico.
European stock and derivatives exchanges saw themselves in competition with each other, as did their host cities and countries: finance was deemed a growth industry, and slogans abounded as governments saw a local stock or futures market as a way to create high-paying jobs and ample tax revenues.
Since that dinner after my high school graduation, I have lived in two countries, six cities and eight different apartments.
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Which cities and countries can expect to see an influx of Cuban visitors?
It is the product of thousands of content licensing agreements with data providers in hundreds of cities and countries.
Mr. Hildreth is an identity consultant to cities, countries and companies.
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They do everything in it, from deeply sharing their lives with friends and family (who may live in different cities or countries), to shopping and paying bills, communicating at work, meeting people after work, finding places to get a decent burrito, competing at sports and games, accessing health care, learning new things, or taking care of children and aging parents, ad infinitum.
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Over the past few decades, a political, economic, social and demographic change in many parts of the world has stimulated migration of people to cities within and across countries.
With over 100, 000 listings available in more than 16, 000 cities and 186 countries, it's a real business.
It hardly sounded in need of triage, operating in nearly 100 cities and 25 countries with a staff of nearly 10, 000.
For the unitiated, Groupon is the grand daddy of deal a day sites, offering multiple deals in 500 cities and 44 countries.
The company has performed in over 50 Brazilian cities and 11 countries all over the world, for more than 350 thousand people.
According to Airbnb itself, the overall growth has been compelling: availability in over 30, 169 cities, 192 countries and hyper-intense growth among transactions, especially in the past year-and-a-half.
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The organisation spoke to 53 "irregular migrant" children and parents in the two cities, from countries including Afghanistan, Brazil, China, Jamaica, Nigeria, Iran, Iraq and the Kurdish region of Turkey.
We see this is something that could be rolled out to other cities and even other countries.
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Data have also become more comparable between cities and even between countries.
This happened in cities like Montreal and countries like Greece who invested heavily in infrastructure and facilities but incurred massive debt in the process without much long-run returns on those investments.
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The report is completed by a series of case studies on selected cities, regions and countries (Istanbul, Cameroon, Spain, the Netherlands, Sudan, Swaziland and basins of La Plata and Lake Merin).
"I've been to Zagreb and Belgrade and both cities, both countries, view this as something much bigger than football, " James Montague, author of When Friday Comes: Football, War and Revolution in the Middle East, told CNN.
The teenager cannot "specify anything about cities, countries or regions him and his father had travelled through, " authorities said in a statement.
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