Value Added Tax or VAT is a kind of sales tax in much of the world.
In much of the world, even friendly British visitors arrive freighted with colonial baggage.
May Day holidays in much of the world meant less activity and in turn increased volatility, Smith said.
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Attention has turned from war back to business in much of the world.
Rather than the vile ahistorical but exercise of free speech rights that it is in much of the world.
In much of the world, democracy predates liberty, and is not working well.
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Blame a lack of political will, complicated geopolitics, and the absence of a price of carbon in much of the world.
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At the same time, LG and other electronics makers are headed into the teeth of a consumer shutdown in much of the world.
True, the practice is illegal in much of the world, but the penalties for doing it are light compared with, say, dealing in illicit drugs.
While polio has been eliminated in much of the world, largely through mass immunization campaigns, the disease remains endemic in three countries: Pakistan, Nigeria and Afghanistan.
In much of the world outside America, the risk of falling consumer prices (ie, deflation) is at its greatest since the 1930s (see article) .
It seems unfair to include this British commonwealth on the list, but its laissez-faire approach to taxes and regulation has drawn in much of the world's reinsurance business.
In the UK, a form of protection and royalties are guaranteed in perpetuity by an exceptional clause in 1988 copyright legislation, but in much of the world copyright has now expired.
Now of course the real money is to be made overseas, and Iron Man 3 opened in much of the world last weekend before debuting this week in America and and China.
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Expect more to come: Nokia unveiled a suite of new mapping, navigation and messages aimed at making its handsets--which already serve as a kind of digital multitool in much of the world--more useful.
Although "apartheid" is now a familiar term in much of the world, a few brief details of its history seem necessary to explain its grotesque impact on the life of Ruth Khumalo as well as on her children and their children, including the boy.
Fuel tax is set by most of India's states at 28%, whereas in much of the rest of the world aviation fuel is untaxed.
But the fact that, eight years into an economic boom, only 37% of Americans claim to support free trade also suggests that economic liberalism would have a harder time surviving trial by recession there than it has in much of the rest of the world.
The gushers of cash that have flooded Singapore in recent years have put relentless upward pressure on property prices, with private-home prices rocketing 59 percent higher since the second quarter of 2009, even as real-estate prices have tumbled or gone sideways in much of the rest of the world.
The growing divide between rich and poor in so much of the world is also manifesting problems in Hong Kong, and newly elected C.
The reasons for this are manifold, from the overextended energy distribution infrastructure in much of the Western world, to the slower-than-expected development of renewable energy technologies.
Only one in three Arab women over the age of 15 works, compared to more than two out of three in East Asia, reflecting both conservative social attitudes and the slow growth of employment opportunities for either sex in much of the Arab world.
The position of women in much of the Muslim world would prompt many to disagree.
As in much of the developing world, population growth in India has become heavily concentrated in the poorest areas with large populations.
By the end of 2010, unemployment in much of the rich world is likely to be above 10% (see article).
And Mr Hussein, however badly he misjudges world opinion, retains a bizarre charisma in much of the Arab world for his dogged defiance of the world's sole superpower.
The Syrian response was to add Turkey to its own version of the axis of evil -- the United States, NATO, Saudi Arabia and in fact much of the rest of the world -- in its official propaganda.
As in much of the rich world, New York's priests are dying off much quicker than they are being replaced.
Immigration is on the boil as a political issue in America and is controversial in much of the developed world.
With expected annual production growth for the industry greater than 25% through the end of the decade, solar power will be competitive with power rates in much of the developed world in five years.
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