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.

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.

What, one wonders, are lagging nations waiting for?

I appreciate that, as we are lagging behind.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

A World of Regions

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.

States that are elected to represent regions or groups will remain answerable to those regions or groups.

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.

We have all these regions.

(top ten countries, all regions)

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.

The independent expert body must be sufficiently large in number to represent not only different regions but differences within regions.

Rice is grown in rainy regions.

(e) Sustainable development in mountain regions

Middle East and North Africa Regions

(e) Sustainable development in mountain regions

(e) Sustainable development in mountain regions

Moreover, we will support the inclusion of other developing countries from other regions, if that reflects the choice of those regions.

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.

The Executive Secretaries agreed that international development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, are increasingly shaping the development agenda of the regions despite the wide diversity of achievements between the regions and within the regions.

(2) coal mining enterprises that are established in trans administrative regions of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government.

58 216. Sustainable development in mountain regions

There were major differences between the regions.

Major differences appeared between the different regions.

However, significant differences remain among developing regions.