What is true for the developed world is true in spades for emerging markets.
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This special report will argue that, for the developed world, the debt-financed model has reached its limit.
He accepts Dr Lomborg's optimistic assessment of the environment, but says it holds only for the developed world.
If you're interested in helping the poor, it makes sense for the developed world to forgive the debt.
As for the developed world, spending is expected to shrink another 2.9% overall in 2010 before growing 1.5% in 2011.
The story for the developed world is one of a slow-down in sales over the next five years, according to the report.
When I spoke with Wolfensohn in January, he identified the alleviation of poverty as the most pressing concern not only for the Least Developing Countries, but also for the developed world.
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So, to have a self reliant aviation industry, it is only now that we have the knowledge base that will enable us to build and innovate for the next generation fighter jets, when this knowledge base has been available to the developed world for half a century!
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The UK has one of the highest caesarean rates in the world - the World Health Organisation has set a target of between 10% and 15% for countries in the developed world.
Gout has been on the increase in the developed world for the past 30 years.
Overall, Britain has the lowest rates of reading for pleasure in the developed world.
But they accept that most of their business will come from the developed world for a while yet.
All too often, technologies developed for the Western world lack sensitivity to the challenges faced in the developing world.
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Adding a few hundred million Chinese and Indians to the world's productive labor force after 1980 slowed the rise in income for workers all over the developed world.
It turns out that for most citizens the U.S. government, and the same is true for much of the developed world, spends more money on them than they collect in taxes from money earned during fair days work.
The document calls for reductions in farm subsidies elsewhere in the developed world that are even steeper than those proposed for America: an 83% reduction in aggregate support levels in Japan and the EU, and a reduction in trade-distorting support of 75% (53% for Japan).
Finally, in contrast to the situation for oil, the world market for coal is only partially developed.
Count on politicians and do-gooders to keep pushing plans for aiding the less-developed world.
As for efforts to drag the developed world out of the mire, the G20 went perhaps further than had been expected, though undoubtedly not far enough.
The past few years have been very rough for the developed economies of the world, but whether that means it is the end of their ascendency is a matter of opinion.
The pattern across the developed world is for politicians to negotiate with each other and, after much drama, make the brave decision to downsize jobs through taxes and mandates rather than downsizing government.
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That will also keep demand steady for all sorts of products and services produced in the developed world, even as our population (except for the U.S.) declines.
Deflationary pressures are the norm in the developed world (except for Britain, where inflation is the issue).
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China's economy is growing at 10% a year at a time when the developed world looks set for a period of prolonged lethargy.
Oil prices fell something like 15% in the third quarter as markets began to price in the prospects for substantially slower growth across the developed world and tightening in the fast-growing emerging markets. (Read Oil Down More Than 15% This Quarter As Sector Stocks Price In Recession).
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In the developed world, the outlook for oil demand is less bullish.
This is partly because farming or buying hops puts pressure on the bottom line, but also because many American drinkers weaned on soft drinks have never developed the Old World tooth for bitterness.
The important indirect effects in the developed world (see Eli for thoughts on the developing world) will be to reduce congestion, to and reduce the median marginal product of workers currently employed in the transportation industry.
If government policy is right, then the country is being set up for 4.5% to 5.5% growth for the forseeable future, barring any major blowouts in the developed world, like the break up of the eurozone, or a downgrade on US government debt, for instance.
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