The gap between Asia's most advanced nations and those only just tapping into the Internet is extremely wide.
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This is because thankfully we haven't lately seen wars between technically advanced nations.
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Slow progress in reforms to address industrial bottlenecks, a restrictive monetary policy and faltering demand from advanced nations have slowed India's economic growth to its lowest in a decade.
The downside risk is if inflation becomes overheated in these regions or if there is a significant slowdown in advanced nations that will hurt the export-driven growth developing regions have enjoyed.
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We've recovered more effectively than most other advanced nations.
The data come ahead of a G20 meeting in Washington, in which leaders of advanced nations will meet with their emerging market counterparts to discuss ways to stem the global financial crisis.
There are those advanced nations who think that developing countries either cannot absorb this assistance, or that will not be held accountable effectively, and that the world's fastest-growing emitters should bear a greater share of the burden.
However, let me, as a small state kinda guy, posit this: from current levels of government spending (the usual 30-50% of GDP that the advanced nations manage) it is not possible for this to hold for government.
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As emerging nations drag the world economy out of the financial crisis and subsequent recession, companies in these countries are quickly becoming major players in their sectors, pushing advanced Western nations further off the picture. (Read: Forget China, Look to Latin America).
Officials here touched on other concerns such as currency volatility and imbalances between advanced and developing nations.
Compared to the United States, other nations have fewer export controls on commercial space and space-related items, including other advanced space-capable nations who are also our partners in the Wassenaar Arrangement for Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies.
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As a former interpreter at the United Nations, she appreciates how our interests can be advanced in partnership with others.
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South Korea wants to develop an advanced space programme to compete with other Asian space-faring nations - China, Japan and India.
It used to be that the creditor nations of the world were right here in the advanced economies of the U.S. and Europe.
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The Germans and other allies wish to sell the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations machine tools with the capability of producing, for example, advanced aviation components with an accuracy of plus-or-minus five microns (two ten-thousandths of an inch) or better.
This will be remembered as a summit that brought the nations of our hemisphere closer together, and it will be remembered that we advanced the prosperity and the security and dignity of our peoples.
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We advanced economies might be mired in economic gloom but the global economy, powered by the currently developing nations, is growing very nicely indeed.
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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