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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Leading the way what's leading the way?

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.

Leading By Engaging

A leading example.

Or sometimes you say you're leading with your heart, or you're leading with your soul.

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.

Leading illnesses in BiH

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.

So crisis leading into opportunities.

A leading role for Government.

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.

Leading list of publications see annex.

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.

It's like the blind leading the clueless.

By leading a movement and making change.

The prosecutor asked me a leading question.

Legislation leading to investigation, prosecution or conviction

For leading up to read prior to

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.

Xi Jinping stressed that leading cadres at all levels, especially high ranking cadres, should play a leading role in war preparation and war fighting.

So this is the leading killer of women.

She's the leading archaeologist working Easter Island today.

It's about leading and connecting people and ideas.

Leading groups of diseases, Republika Srpska, 1999 2001

Brazil is a leading investor in developing countries.