The orange line shows that real interest rates on deposits, in the advanced countries, were significantly negative throughout most of the post-war boom.
We are among the most productive and technologically advanced countries in the world.
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The estimates are roughly in line with those from panel regressions on advanced economies in the EU15 and OECD countries for periods from 1960 or 1970 to 1995 or 2005 (Bergh and Henrekson 2010 and 2011).
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Britain now suffers among the highest rates of alcohol consumption in the advanced industrial world, and unlike in most countries, boozing is on the upswing.
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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Less than a fifth of the 180 countries in the world have made it to being advanced economies.
This trend also took place in other advanced countries, from the U.K. and Australia to Canada and Spain.
We are so rich in the advanced economies that small transfers to poor countries could transform the lives of our fellow global citizens.
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.
But such forward thinking has transformed South Korea from one of the poorest countries in Asia to an advanced high-tech economy that's home to major tech firms like Samsung and LG, as well as the most wired population on the planet.
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.
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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South Korea is one of the world's most advanced countries when it comes to mobile phones, and the world leader in broadband adoption.
Yet in an August 2012 National Bureau of Economic Research paper titled "The Great Leveraging, " University of Virginia economist Alan Taylor examined the 79 major financial crises in advanced economies over the past 140 years and found that they are just as likely in countries that rely on domestic savings and owe little to foreign creditors.
If you look at the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, the benchmark allocation of equity allocation among the almost-advanced economies, you see that Argentina is not even among the top 22 countries in this second-tier bunch.
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).
These countries are participating in the global proliferation of advanced conventional weapons.
Before the Recovery Act was signed, 98 percent of the world's advanced battery production was done in Asian countries.
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.
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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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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But many advanced countries had managed to reduce joblessness to new lows in the years before 2007.
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.
These findings suggest that older women with breast cancer and women with more advanced disease may be treated less aggressively in the UK than in the other five countries.
The survey lists Japan and Germany as the two primary countries able to successfully supply China with advanced goods, in a large enough scale to help it build out its industrial economy.
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Businesses will create those jobs in countries with the highest-skilled, highest-educated workers, the most advanced transportation and communication, the strongest commitment to research and technology.
Russia would also wield more political power over those countries than it would the major advanced economies and its big emerging market partners in the south.
"In a country where the majority is Muslim, we let democracy rule in its most advanced form and became an example for all Muslim countries, " he said.
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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Both countries have advanced considerably over the past decade but still suffer from a lack of strategic depth in Asia.
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