Our 35% federal corporate income tax rate is already the second highest among the developed nations.
The currencies and economies of all the developed nations are being called into question.
After 1980, debt to GDP ratios rose steadily in almost all the developed nations.
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In the years since then, Egyptians have watched these former peers take a place among the 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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They used to show little interest in a dynamic but unstable neighbour that was battling its way into the ranks of the developed nations.
They just have a potential to outgrow the developed nations.
Relatedly, as we show, the corporate dominance of the developed nations is steadily receding--many of the big government companies in the rest of the world are taking on private shareholders and qualifying.
Any one with a mouse can see that the US pays a scant amount of taxes compared with the rest of the developed nations, while at the same time getting less bang for the buck.
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As an irony to the contribution efforts, and in support to the Infrastructure development projects getting initiated in India, the Indian Premier also requested the developed nations to invest in the Infrastructure sector of developing world (and India is still a developing country).
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The U.S. and Canada are two of the only developed nations in the world without GMO labeling.
The epicenter of demand has shifted from the developed to the developing nations.
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It is comfortable and secure among the most developed nations, which have learnt that shared values, mutual economic relationships, social justice and collective defence bring genuine success.
It means that the global economy will be weaker, because although we obviously still have a long way to go in recovery, we're actually doing significantly better than some of the other developed nations.
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In 2007, the Ecuadorian government made an offer that the oil would not be extracted on the condition that developed nations compensated them half of the money that the country would have earned through extracting the oil.
Among the world's developed nations, the United States stands at or near the bottom in most important rankings of access to and quality of medical care.
India - like China - has refused to commit to emission cuts in the new treaty until developed nations, particularly the US, also pledge to meet climate change targets.
In particular, she said, negotiations in the final days, between small groups of nations chosen by the Danish host government and some important nations from the developed and developing worlds, lacked transparency and inclusiveness.
In particular, platinum has tumbled lately with other industrial commodities on worries that the economies of developed nations will slip into a recession similar to 2008 after the Lehman Brothers collapse.
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Ordinary people know perfectly well why human cloning is wrong, and that's why governments around the world, including all developed nations except the USA have banned it.
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Many developing countries have been arguing for a "twin track" approach, whereby countries with existing targets under the Kyoto Protocol (all developed nations except the US) stay under that umbrella, with the US and major developing economies making their carbon pledges under a new protocol.
In order to secure financing and a license to operate, corporations need to conduct social and environmental assessments, but these assessments often exclude the human rights principles developed by the United Nations.
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Corporate tax rates in the U.S. are already the highest among developed nations, making many American companies think twice about repatriating global profits back to the U.S. where they could boost domestic employment.
Colombia's economic progress puts this nation on a path to join the ranks of developed nations.
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When it comes to social mobility between generations, the United States ranks near the bottom of developed nations.
It requires America's leadership and requires the action of developed nations, as well.
But there are also growing concerns about the stability of developed nations.
The fourth and final element must be the addressing of the trade imbalance between Haiti and developed nations such as the United States.
It goes without saying that achieving such a transformation would also be very much in the interest of developed nations facing immense demands on limited foreign aid resources.
The Doha conference produced one advance for climate activists by establishing the principle that developed nations have a responsibility for compensating poorer ones for damage due to climate change.
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