And, more deplorably, educational standards lagged.

The LDCs are lagging behind in respect of many of the MDG targets.

These lacked the government funding given to the University of Tokyo, so the quality of education there lagged behind.

Worse, service industries are falling further behind large manufacturers in terms of productivity and wages.

If Greece defaults, an enormous amount of speculation will be possible.

Broad subregions, in particular, sub Saharan Africa, are off track in meeting the Millennium Development Goals.

Having missed their economic takeoff, many Muslim majority countries appear open to the call of Islamist fundamentalism.

In contrast to human space flight, which has lagged behind expectations, the robotic space effort has exceeded them.

When Argentina defaulted in the 1890's, European investors simply discovered a new fashion investment in Russia.

The only sustained exception was Peru, which defaulted in 1985 and became an international pariah.

Of the largest borrowers, only Brazil, in 1987, formally defaulted and only briefly.

Up to now, the region (excluding Israel and Turkey) had more or less missed out on the epochal process of worldwide modernization.

The scheme was received with patriotic enthusiasm in Sweden, a northern nation that had fallen behind in the race for the North Pole.

The world must completely divest itself of mindsets and vestiges reminiscent of imperialistic tendencies that appear to linger in various forms.

The only question concerns the best way to arrange it so that no one really understands that Greece is actually defaulting.

Not only has Africa remained commodity dependent, but it has fallen behind other developing regions of the world in exports of non fuel primary commodities.

As a result of the widening gap with regard to access to technology, our countries have fallen behind in their efforts to advance and to ensure the well being of their people.

Earlier this year, Mexico s foreign minister renegotiated 400 million of debt on which Cuba had defaulted.

The developing world is not doing much better. As the International Labor Organization s latest Global Wage Report shows, wage gains are lagging far behind productivity growth.

The Constitution would create a new national government that could coin stable money, borrow, and repay debts, including the states defaulted Revolutionary War borrowings.

A particularly telling example is the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars of the early nineteenth century, when a string of exhausted states defaulted on their obligations.

The world is currently divided into two groups of countries those that are off to a strong recovery, and those that lag behind and are signaling new problems.

The promotion of large scale land investment is based on the belief that combating hunger requires boosting food production, and that supply has been lagging because of a lack of investment in agriculture.

The Ceasefire Joint Military Committee has registered one ceasefire violation by SPLM A, which has fallen behind the Comprehensive Peace Agreement schedule for redeployment of troops from the east.

The Committee is therefore of the view that the State party has failed to observe its obligations under article 16 of the Convention by failing to enable the complainants to obtain redress and to provide them with fair and adequate compensation.

President Nestor Kirchner of Argentina is often portrayed as an anti capitalist radical for proposing a haircut of over 90 on the value of Argentina's defaulted external debt.

Moreover, the scars of the 1930 s virtual civil war have still not healed mutual suspicion and memories of internecine massacres vitiated cooperation and trust.

With the establishment of ECOWAS, the Franc Zone countries created two sub regional groupings, WAEMU and CEMAC, in a bid to curb British, American, and Nigerian influence. As a result, West African countries are mostly missing out on Africa s current revival and the prospect of a prolonged period of stagnation in the eurozone certainly won t help.

Poppy production is soaring, experiments with alternative crops are lagging, and there are not enough forces to provide security for farmers willing to try growing something different.

But, for every Apple or Google, there are companies that seemed innovative but became obsolete or fell behind. Kodak and Nokia, for example, provide a cautionary tale for companies that began life as innovators.

LONDON Everyone knows that Greece will default on its external debt. The only question concerns the best way to arrange it so that no one really understands that Greece is actually defaulting.

Germany has recently been overtaken in terms of per capita income by several EU countries, including Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, and France, and is still growing more slowly than all of them.

As Bernanke pointed out, 45 of US farms were behind on mortgage payments in 1933, and in 1934, default rates on home mortgages exceeded 38 in half of US cities.

In other words, the G 8 accountability principle became if the G 8 fails to meet an important target, stop mentioning the target a cynical stance, especially at a summit heralded for accountability.

But this theory is not convincing. Germany has recently been overtaken in terms of per capita income by several EU countries, including Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, and France, and is still growing more slowly than all of them.

In America, as in much of the world, health care is late to the IT game, and is experiencing these growing pains only now. But health care providers can shorten the process of transformation by learning from other industries.

Disunity made the Arab defeat almost inevitable. Moreover, the scars of the 1930 s virtual civil war have still not healed mutual suspicion and memories of internecine massacres vitiated cooperation and trust.

The solution that was eventually adopted was considered brilliant at the time, because it avoided formal default by any of the big Latin American borrowers (though Brazil briefly defaulted five years later, in 1987).

To be sure, Scandinavian growth is mediocre.

The arts, fashion, and cuisine of Asia s ancient cultures have had a strong impact on other parts of the world for centuries, but Asia went through a period of relative decline as it lagged behind the industrial revolution in the West, and this undermined its influence.

But, while private sector losses have been minimized, at what price? Had Greece defaulted on its debt in 2010, imposing the same haircut on private creditors as it has imposed now, it would have reduced the debt to GDP ratio to a more manageable 80 .

Political instability, war, and terrorism could result, with dire effects both at home and abroad, including in Europe.

Maybe it works, maybe not.

And I called them up. And they went to check what was going on.

Members may or may not find my argument convincing.