That share is surpassed only by Finland in a group of eight advanced countries.
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Their study, published in early 2008, placed Britain 16th among 19 advanced countries (France came first).
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But many advanced countries had managed to reduce joblessness to new lows in the years before 2007.
This trend also took place in other advanced countries, from the U.K. and Australia to Canada and Spain.
G20, which already includes emerging as well as advanced countries, should be elevated.
We are among the most productive and technologically advanced countries in the world.
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By the standards of most other advanced countries, America is hardly crowded.
South Korea is one of the world's most advanced countries when it comes to mobile phones, and the world leader in broadband adoption.
The orange line shows that real interest rates on deposits, in the advanced countries, were significantly negative throughout most of the post-war boom.
America has more murder than many similarly advanced countries, but overall violent crime, save inner-cities plagued by family breakdown, remains below peer nations.
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According to the OECD, America is one of only three advanced countries which spends less on the education of poorer children than richer ones.
Compared with most other advanced countries, British workers are poorly educated.
No need to mention that a vast majority of them live in poorly-facilitated conditions without proper schools and all, even the more advanced countries are having multiple issues.
"For advanced countries, more imports today are coming from middle- and low-income countries, " says Matthew Slaughter of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, a former Bush White House adviser.
Currently several thousand weather stations across the U.S., and proportionate numbers in other advanced countries, collect weather data and make it available on Web sites or through electronic transmission.
To reflect the concerns of South Korea among others, the IMF agreed to establish a new work stream on how advanced countries can exit from extraordinarily loose monetary policy.
Also, the pace of the tightening in the UK - at about 1% of GDP a year - is broadly in line with what the IMF recommends for advanced countries generally.
Even before tackling this core problem, the citizen sector is growing jobs at two and a half to three times the rate of the rest of the economy in advanced countries.
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The reasons for this divergence with other advanced countries likely includes such things as continuing immigration, greater space, larger houses, a strong aspirational culture and a higher degree of religious affiliation.
But business surveys suggest that British entrepreneurs find it tougher to get financial backing than their counterparts in other advanced countries: Britain scores seventh out of nine on the accessibility of venture capital.
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Developed economies have lots of skilled workers, whereas emerging economies have lots of low-skilled ones, so according to the theory advanced countries will specialise in capital-intensive products requiring skilled labour and emerging economies in low-tech products.
For governments and universities in countries with weak higher education systems and severe shortages of quality faculty, the coming decade of industry restructuring in the U.S. and a small number of other advanced countries represents an unprecedented opportunity.
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And that's going to require improving our schools, that's going to require improving the infrastructure in Haiti, that's going to require providing the ability of Haitians to sell their products like textiles into advanced countries at an advantageous situation so that they can start rebuilding their commerce and their industry.
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By 2006 Russia spent about 2.7% of its GDP on defense, about that of advanced European countries.
But this free ride will end by 2006, when India and other more advanced developing countries must abide by TRIPS and enforce drug patents.
In spite of this, rates of brain tumors in advanced industrial countries show no evidence of an increase in specific types of brain tumors.
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The fundamental question for the advanced industrial countries is not, as many suppose, whether democracy is compatible with globalisation, but whether democracy is compatible with liberty.
The national government, burdened with the biggest debt load among the advanced industrialized countries, can't dish out cash the way it did in the good old days of turbocharged growth.
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Our children are coming out of high school -- in some cases, they're not even graduating high school, but even if they graduate from high school -- ranked lower on math and science scores than many other advanced industrialized countries.
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