Mr Humphries said just 15% of Britons studied maths after the age of 16, compared with 50-100% in most developed nations.

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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.

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Now we are in 16th place, trailing most developed nations.

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And Kenya, long one of the most stable and economically developed nations in East Africa, descended into chaos.

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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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