On that front, too, America has been falling behind.

But mortgage markets remain underdeveloped in most emerging economies.

China would still have a vast underdeveloped countryside.

Financial, technical and technological transfers still lag far behind.

Europe, by contrast, is clearly lagging.

Starting with extremely low wages and an underdeveloped currency, German workers succeeded in competing against the world.

Africa remains a region of great concern, but other areas of the world lag behind, too.

Germany, Japan, and the US, among others, remain far below this commitment.

Moreover, the quality of Chinese manufactured products continues to lag behind that of developed countries manufactured goods.

However on account of a number of reasons education indicators for rural women lag behind men and urban women.

Colombia is the second most biodiverse country in the world, lagging only after Brazil which is approximately 7 times bigger.

Those countries are lagging far behind the international development mainstream because of the specific structural and geographical challenges that constrain their capacity for development.

Although a number of women had held Government portfolios, their participation in representative bodies lagged far behind that of men.

The tables given above show that women lag behind men in almost every area covered by Article 11 of the Convention.

With regard to political rights, women's participation in policymaking and decision making continued to lag behind in all countries, even the most developed.

Domestic violence still exists and can be seen mostly in rural areas where people's mindsets are old fashioned and women are not fully aware of their rights and interests.

Africa still lags behind many parts of the world in educating its girls from primary school through to university.

A region often depicted as backward is debating its destiny both face to face and across social networks every second of every day.

Youth unemployment is soaring, educational opportunities pale in comparison to those offered in metropolitan areas, and recreational facilities are often considerably underdeveloped.

In a extremely connected world, Syria is still lagging behind The Internet was introduced to the public close to the year 2000 and currently the penetration rate stands at about 17 .

This Major Programme responds to this challenge and will emphasize UNIDO support to those countries lagging behind in achieving the poverty goal of the Millennium Declaration.

Until 1861, Russia was a backward country in which serfdom reigned and royals and aristocrats envied the latest French fashions.

This is not, of course, the first time in history that credit expansion has been used to assuage the concerns of a group that is being left behind, nor will it be the last.

Demographically, Russia is in a dramatic nose dive it remains economically and socially backward its infrastructure is underdeveloped, as are its investments in education and vocational training.

Indeed, countries that had previously been described as under developed or Third World were becoming incipient global hegemons.

The representative of Egypt, speaking on behalf of the African Group said that despite the great achievements of humanity, Africa was still lagging far behind in economic and social development.

The real price of oil seemed to be lagging behind, and oil producers dramatic actions in 1973 were part of an effort to correct that.

The current (Doha) round of global trade negotiations is behind schedule the next session, to be held in Hong Kong, is only months away.

In her region, States were far behind in ensuring gender equality, and it was necessary to redouble efforts to include the women of sub Saharan Africa in the prospering global village.

However, gender equality in primary education has been attained in the ECLAC region, but still is lagging in Africa and Asia, including West Asia.

This is a backward custom that results in inequality in exercising women's rights of inheritance that requires efforts by relevant agencies to encourage people to abolish.

Within the Special Account for Buildings Management Services, there is an amount of 349,061 representing a claim for reimbursement from the Austrian authorities for stranded costs, Renewable Energy Surcharge and KWK Zuschlag.

So while I was sitting in a tall building in New York, I put those two experiences together side by side, and basically concluded that connectivity is productivity whether it's in a modern office or an underdeveloped village.

In all countries of the world, no matter how advanced they were, women lagged behind men in many areas, such as education, health and employment, and globalization had further accentuated those inequalities.

Despite those measures, however, women lagged far behind men, and their participation in the labour force was decreasing as a result of women's migration from rural to urban areas, and thus from the agricultural sector to the informal sector.

This has never been more true than today, and if America is not seen as an avid supporter of a two state solution, it will stay well behind the curve and damage its own interests in the Middle East.

Russia also fares poorly 63rd in the Global Competitiveness Index released by the World Economic Forum, well behind all developed countries and even many developing countries.

Russia no longer lags behind the developed world in Internet use, which has provided space for unregulated speech, allowing users to circumvent the official and overwhelmingly pro Putin news media.

Ms. Azouri (Lebanon) said with regard to the status of maids that the labour laws were out of date and did not provide effective protection for certain sectors that had been very small at the time of adoption of the laws, including domestic servants.

The US has been behind the curve from the moment the turmoil sparked, trying to play catch up as two authoritarian governments were toppled by popular protest and more regimes try to cling to power as long as they can.

Based on the definition and selected indicators, it had been concluded that 72 per cent of the urban population in Africa, 48 per cent in Asia and 26 per cent in Latin America were slum dwellers.

It was Bukharin who formulated the thesis of Socialism in One Country put forth by Stalin in 1924, which argued that socialism (in Marxist theory, the transitional stage from capitalism to communism) could be developed in a single country, even one as underdeveloped as Russia.

Many libraries, however, were left behind in the process of adopting newer, more personalized technologies, having invested heavily in the large scale and complex library management systems previously used in libraries in many countries.

Indigenous and tribal peoples are lagging behind other parts of the population in the achievement of the goals in most, if not all, the countries in which they live, and indigenous and tribal women commonly face additional gender based disadvantages and discrimination.

China argues, correctly, that it is still behind the US and Japan in per capita emissions, but this does not reduce the costs imposed on the world (including Japan and the US).