By world standards, the federal government is not unduly large (though some state ones are).
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In fact, Numbeo shows that even in our coastal cities, price-to-income ratios are very reasonable by world standards.
The euro area's consumers have high savings and low debt by rich-world standards but are nervous all the same.
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Yet the state remains small by world standards, and the number of public-sector jobs has barely risen since 1990.
Health and safety at the factories seems well up to first world standards.
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This is low even by regional standards, and catastrophic by world standards.
By rich-world standards, the emerging markets are still doing exceedingly well.
It is this pursuit of world standards, not merely those good enough for the cosy local market, that sets Reliance apart from the flaccid family empires that still dominate Indian business.
Although labour costs are low enough for them to employ cheap workers instead of expensive robots at many points on the production line, average productivity is staggeringly low: a quarter of American levels, although the newest plants (such as Fiat's) approach world standards.
Participants in the world of standards do sometimes approach their work with an intensity more often associated with medieval theological disputes than the world of modern banking.
But as it unfolds, China has already become a middle income nation, according to World Bank standards.
And we have, as we have throughout the world, standards for that contact.
Many funds already keep a close watch on how firms deal with a variety of controversies, from genetically modified foods to third-world labour standards.
"The World Bank applies standards which are applicable to all countries, " says Akbar Ali Khan a former World Bank official.
Around the world, developing standards and numbering systems has become an integral part of modernizing markets.
Around the world, higher standards of living are drastically reducing the number of children women have.
Our national health service is - rightly - famous across the world for its standards of patient care.
And it likely would not have happened if the responsible governmental regulators had the capacity and will to demand world class safety standards.
In a profoundly non-uniform world, uniform standards are a bad idea, especially for the poorest countries, which may be unable to support them economically.
Today, an increasingly international customer demanding world-class standards has made many service companies retool their "one size fits all" approach to doing business in Asia.
Supervise and undertake research and methodological studies with regards to standards on the concepts, definitions and classifications of SCC statistics to improve international comparability, and the creation, extension and further development of world-wide standards for the collection of data.
It should set benchmark standards, not lower its expectations to conform to low standards world-wide. (Some other countries permit passengers to board carrying the sort of potential weapons the TSA plans to allow.) Mr. Pistole is concerned about the amount of time spent searching for small knives when personnel would do better to focus on looking for explosives.
Still, the little data we do have suggests women are the single most important vector of progress in the world today--measured by any standards, including the World Bank's, the United Nations' or Amartya Sen's.
That would make it one of the worse decades for living standards since World War II.
In general, in the world of communications, standards are developed long before commercialization.
In principle, America's Food and Drug Administration should now accept data from a trial anywhere in the world that meets those standards.
The organization's handling of her case also sparked widespread criticism over accusations that it was unclear what standards the world body was using to determine her gender.
Moreover, Sony pushes its own proprietary technology, including the Memory Stick used in the new Cli, at a time when the rest of the world has embraced open standards.
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