What, one wonders, are lagging nations waiting for?

I appreciate that, as we are lagging behind.

not lagging in diligence fervent in spirit serving the Lord

not lagging in diligence fervent in spirit serving the Lord

As a result, we are lagging behind on many of our targets.

The LDCs are lagging behind in respect of many of the MDG targets.

Meanwhile, as we have heard during this open debate, financial contributions are still lagging.

We will not be able to finish this meeting on time we are lagging far behind.

Although transportation practices and patterns have changed accordingly, the international legal framework governing multimodal transportation is lagging behind.

Folks like Ann Cotton, who started a group called CAMFED in Africa, because she felt girls' education was lagging.

The level of response is low and lagging in the main areas of prevention, treatment and rehabilitation and reducing negative consequences.

South Asia s worst problems poverty, conflict, hunger, and gender inequalities are largely concentrated in its lagging regions, where there are limits to growth, because geography, institutions, and globalization will continue to favor the concentration of economic activity in the leading regions. With migration to leading regions low, poverty remains concentrated in the lagging regions.

When events shift, it becomes obsolete. As Charles Morris wrote Intellectuals are reliable lagging indicators, near infallible guides to what used to be true.

When events shift, it becomes obsolete. As Charles Morris wrote Intellectuals are reliable lagging indicators, near infallible guides to what used to be true.

However, gender equality in primary education has been attained in the ECLAC region, but still is lagging in Africa and Asia, including West Asia.

Those countries are lagging far behind the international development mainstream because of the specific structural and geographical challenges that constrain their capacity for development.

In the final, Zhang Binbin also started from lagging behind and shot more stably and won the silver medal with just 0.2 rings behind the champion.

This Major Programme responds to this challenge and will emphasize UNIDO support to those countries lagging behind in achieving the poverty goal of the Millennium Declaration.

Although it is pleasing to note that many international agencies are making deliberate steps to improve the metadata to support MDG indicators, some are lagging well behind.

Preparations for the referendum are lagging and inadequate. Brinkmanship and broken agreements threaten to turn the referendum s technical and political difficulties into yet another disaster for the country.

These three superficial factors reflect the reason behind the relative lagging behind of our growth pattern change. That is, the government led growth has not yet been fundamentally changed.

The representative of Egypt, speaking on behalf of the African Group said that despite the great achievements of humanity, Africa was still lagging far behind in economic and social development.

But simply directing financial resources to lagging regions will not be enough to solve their problems. For example, the gains from labor mobility have not been equally sharedbetween educated and uneducated migrants.

But the Committee may want to clarify its guidelines in certain respects in order to address the possibility of lagging support as perceived by the High level Panel (A 59 565, para.

Among the G 7 economies, only Italy has done worse than the UK since the Great Recession began. Indeed, the UK s GDP has only just regained its 2008 level, lagging behind even France.

Europe, by contrast, is clearly lagging. Exploration is proceeding only hesitantly and shale gas production has not even started, prompting many observers to lament that Europe is about to miss the next energy revolution.

Infrastructure Those of you who have traveled abroad know that our infrastructure is desperately lagging that of a growing number of countries. This makes it even harder for our companies to compete and prosper.

Skills mismatches abound. Moreover, with continuing rapid growth in developing countries, the global economy s structure is far from static, and it seems clear that the pace of market adjustment is lagging that of structural change.

The United Nations Secretariat had made great efforts to address the security aspects that could be dealt with from within the Organization, but, as far as legal protection was concerned, Member States were lagging behind.

In terms of politics, Africa is relatively lagging behind, but there are many African countries. So Japan has always regarded it as the so called 'big ticket field,' said Yang Bojiang, an expert for Japanese issues.

But are European countries with lagging productivity willing to accept depopulation? Alternatively, are they willing to face the pain of internal devaluation, a process that failed under the gold standard and is failing under the euro?

Specifically, an appreciating dollar improves the price competitiveness of European and Japanese companies in the US and other markets, while moderating some of the structural deflationary pressure in the lagging economies by causing import prices to rise.

Lagging states spend considerably less than leading states on social services, including education and health care. Poor regions have a low base of economic activity to tax, which prevents them from investing in human and physical capital.

Lagging economies have not failed to notice that mercantilism can be their friend. Even in Britain, classical liberalism arrived only in the mid nineteenth century that is, after the country had become the world s dominant industrial power.

During its current term, the group considered the barriers that African Portuguese speaking LDCs face in preparing their NAPAs and developed an action plan to support Portuguese speaking countries that are lagging behind in the preparation of their NAPAs.

China is an obvious example of capitalist success and lagging political reform. For these countries, honest competition at the ballot box, free and open debate, and respect for minority rights the foundation of liberal democracy are not currently on the agenda.

In other words, we are doing exactly the opposite of what we should be doing. Support for energy efficiency and renewable energy sources is lagging, while governments around the world spend hundreds of billions of dollars subsidizing an incipient catastrophe.

A large share of our assistance is focused on India s lagging states, making our work strongly inclusive. Moreover, the ADB s support includes skills development, particularly to foster skills required by the infrastructure sectors, and strengthening skills design and delivery systems.

Indigenous and tribal peoples are lagging behind other parts of the population in the achievement of the goals in most, if not all, the countries in which they live, and indigenous and tribal women commonly face additional gender based disadvantages and discrimination.

Given the risk inherent in betting on policy convergence, labor mobility which enables highly valuable human capital, especially well educated young people, to leave lagging regions for those that offer more and better employment opportunities could prove to be a critical tool for adjustment.

First, empirical evidence shows that convergence of per capita income between lagging and leading regions is neither a necessary nor a sufficient condition for achieving poverty reduction and social convergence. Second, regional policies that promote balanced growth could lower overall growth, thereby impeding poverty reduction.

As usual, however, perceptions are lagging behind reality, which means that Germany is still widely viewed as the eurozone s most powerful force. But, as the global business cycle accelerates Germany s return to the old normal, the power shift within Europe will become increasingly difficult to ignore.

But does such a West exist? In our era of fragmentation, there is a more powerful and dynamic American West, a globally more problematic European West (itself fragmented between a prosperous north and an economically lagging south), and even a British West and, in Japan, an Asian West.

Although there are many explanations for the eurozone s lagging recovery, it is clear that the overhang of both public and private debt looms large. The gross debts of households and financial institutions are higher today as a share of national income than they were before the financial crisis.

Finally, and most important, the magnitude and duration of the drop in aggregate demand has been greater than expected, partly because employment and median incomes have been lagging behind growth. This phenomenon preceded the crisis, and high levels of household debt have exacerbated its impact in the aftermath.