Water use is forecast to increase in developing nations by 50% by 2025 and by 18% in developed nations.
Foreign firms are looking to tap into China's booming internet market, amid sluggish growth in developed nations.
The World Bank has cut its 2013 global growth outlook, blaming a slower-than-expected recovery in developed nations.
The topic of reduced birth rates in developed nations has been of interest to me for several reasons.
Expansionary monetary policy in developed nations like U.S. and Japan has held interest rates at or close to zero.
They have been the source of concern in developed nations as well.
People in developed nations appeared more concerned about the longer-term, less immediate threat associated with climate change than those sampled in poorer, developing economies.
The situation is equally daunting in developed nations, where 160 million adults do not have the skills needed to apply for a job or read a newspaper.
Gold jewelry tends to be purchased in developed nations as a quality fashion item, but there is less of a cultural tradition than in say India, Sanchez said.
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One factor is the unconventional monetary policies in developed nations.
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Instead of relying only on profits generated by wealthy consumers in developed nations, truly innovative companies are inventing new wealth and fostering human potential in rapidly growing emerging markets.
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Brynjolfsson argued that wealth iss being created more rapidly than ever, and that simply focusing on growth in developed nations as opposed to the developing world misses the point.
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Drawing on OECD data, the Report estimates that 160 million adults in developed nations do not have the skills needed to apply for a job or read a newspaper.
According to the International Energy Agency, the amount of power supplied by renewables has grown only 2.5% a year from 1971 to 2011, to a modest 8.2% of total power generation in developed nations.
Larger power suppliers in developed nations are said to be mostly prepared for the date rollover, but some officials remain worried about how the industry overall will cope with the year 2000 computer problem.
Less ambitious projects could be, say, online health education via Skype for villagers in rural India or Africa, perhaps by charitable volunteers in developed nations, or remote diagnostics aided by camera phones, Mr Shibulal suggests.
But the prices of food, land and agricultural commodities could be driven up, it warns, with major impacts in poorer countries where people spend a much greater share of their incomes on food than in developed nations.
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The news is full of disturbing reports about global warming, threatened species, and the gradual realization that the way we live -- particularly in developed nations -- will have to change if we want to enjoy a clean and sustainable future.
Americans still lag behind citizens in other developed nations in how they use their phones.
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In many developed nations unemplyment is a real hot political potato as many are struggling to contain their budget deficits.
But in this country, as in other developed nations, Americans do not primarily pay for care with their own money.
Mr Humphries said just 15% of Britons studied maths after the age of 16, compared with 50-100% in most developed nations.
Most of these industries are still busy adopting the technologies that have been in use in the developed nations for so long.
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After all, violence has fallen in most developed nations irrespective of their use of prisons, the severity of sentences or the activities of law enforcement officers.
The global expansion that began last spring in less-developed nations is building steam everywhere.
This puts additional pressure on China to increase its exports, but that is not possible in a world of collapsing demand, both in developed and developing nations.
Occurring in the developed world and in many emerging nations as well, it seems inspired by gains at the top as well as by struggles in the middle and below to retain spending power in a global economy drifting toward stagflation.
After 1980, debt to GDP ratios rose steadily in almost all the developed nations.
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The U.S. and Canada are two of the only developed nations in the world without GMO labeling.
And Kenya, long one of the most stable and economically developed nations in East Africa, descended into chaos.
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