A man be such a flake.

I think I have seen him skulking about. He isn't backward.

In Africa, overall economic growth continues to lag behind population growth.

Many developing countries are trapped on the wrong side of the technology divide and the investment gap.

In most cases, when Google is not leading in a given market, it is lagging behind a local player.

A large part of the country remains underdeveloped and ravaged in some cases beyond rehabilitation.

Moreover, Asia s political integration badly lags behind its economic integration, and, to compound matters, it has no security framework.

But since Marco Polo's time all the way through the eighteenth century, those Europeans who had any direct contact with China were terribly impressed with its wealth and did not regard it as a backward country.

As an underdeveloped, land locked country inadequately integrated into the world transportation network, with a high vulnerability to natural calamities, Mongolia is experiencing added difficulties in its transition.

Although it is pleasing to note that many international agencies are making deliberate steps to improve the metadata to support MDG indicators, some are lagging well behind.

(c) The utilization of space assets in support of disaster management continues to lag significantly in most parts of the globe and remains a major challenge however, there are several international efforts aimed at addressing the developmental needs and achieving effective utilization of space technology

The international law of remedies was piecemeal and undeveloped, which was no doubt due to the current infrequency of recourse to arbitral or judicial settlement of disputes where the nature or extent of the remedy was itself a matter of dispute.