Catching Up at Different Speeds

That is today s Europe in a nutshell, with America not far behind.

Its consequences are about to catch up with America, and the world.

Many of them have rejoined their families.

Coherent programs to promote economic catch up are relatively straightforward.

Many Europeans doubt that Asia can catch up with Europe in terms of regional integration.

While it may be difficult to argue against a set of clear and transparent rules for what companies like Google and Yahoo can and cannot do within other nations, this step forward seems to have merely highlighted the lack of larger scale changes that many Cubans and Cuban Americans may be hoping for. The thumbnail image used in this post is by manfrys, used under a Creative Commons license.

We tried to follow up on their plans and how they are doing it. Bella and I decided to go spontaneously and took advice from them as well as people on the ground.

Young people, housewives and children. They are all running.

The United States caught up with their Soviet rivals, landing the first man on the Moon in 1969.

We don't know, maybe Mr. Klee was probably in a hurry, I mean maybe he had to catch a plane, or something.

India s experience offers hope to other development late comers.

Asia may have caught up with the West Latin America may be on track to do so and Africa may be slowly positioning itself to grow.

Russia can then forget about attaining the fast, sustainable growth that China has achieved.

As a consequence of these blockages, Bosnia and Herzegovina risked falling behind all its neighbours on the road to Euro Atlantic integration.

Clearly, if that alarming trend continues, our ability to catch up with the Millennium Development Goals will continue to slip.

Unless we learn how to respect it, we will all miss the boat.

Growth took off in China. The Chinese started catching up very quickly with the United States.

A democratic Russia would want to catch up with the West and integrate into Western institutions.

Earlier cases of successful economic catch up, such as the US or Germany, were no different.

The United States elected a black man president. And now we are in a phase in which Asia is catching up with the West and American hegemony is being challenged.

In 2002 a special effort was made to catch up', during which the police submitted more cases.

For example, Apple s iPhone and Boeing s latest airplane rely heavily on Japanese patented innovations. These comparative advantages may keep Japan above water for a while, but only until China or South Korea catch up.

If Germany provided this kind of leadership, other countries would be quick to follow.

But their ability to grow is being impaired because they lack the resources to confront the massive business lobbies of the EU s most developed and richest countries.

They were able to chase off one of the poachers and recover this ivory, because they couldn't leave it there, because it's still valuable.

To begin, the national champions of the catch up phase must be rendered accessible to competitive assault.

Merely waxing lyrical about the benefits of education will do nothing to help Latin American and Caribbean countries catch up with developed countries.

Some developing countries, especially in Africa, are late starters and their markets are relatively underdeveloped.

First, although some parts of the economy reached advanced industrialization in record time, other parts (and institutions) are struggling to catch up.

In this effort, professionals in applied science, as people who would help Muslim countries catch up with the West, have enjoyed enormous prestige.

When Sweeney's aircraft arrived at the assembly point for his flight off the coast of Japan, Big Stink failed to make the rendezvous.

Unless it improves its infrastructure and literacy rate (particularly for women), India is unlikely to catch up with China.

The big surprise is Europe, which, unlike in 2004 and the first half of 2005, now seems to be catching up with the rest of the world.

So long as Japan was playing catch up with the West, and government and industrial resources were concentrated on economic growth, the system worked quite well.

Without relatively high savings, a developing country like China may never catch up.

It is not likely that China (or others) will soon close that gap with the US.

Moreover, the fear that one must get in on the boom before it is too late often drives people to bid up home prices faster now.

Coherent programs to promote economic catch up are relatively straightforward. But the transition from follower to leader at the frontier of the innovation economy is more challenging and elusive.

But what is needed now are policies that will allow WANA to join the third industrial revolution the post carbon economy of renewable energy and the fuel cell plug in car.

China may be able to rely on policy reforms to boost productivity growth but, with relatively low innovative capacity, it will struggle to catch up with frontier technologies.

Leaders of OECD countries should look at Italy and recognize the dangers emerging from their young people who are being left behind.

If that happened, other countries Australia, New Zealand, and, most importantly, India might seek to jump on the bandwagon.

Countries contemplating joining the bandwagon of sovereign bond issuers would do well to learn the lessons of the all too frequent debt crises of the past three decades.

The economy not only regains its lost ground, but, within a year, it typically catches up to its rising long run trend.