In developed countries, AD is one of the most financially costly diseases.

We in the developed world live in democracies.

This is a situation that few people in rich countries face.

Without exception, population growth in rich countries has slowed to a crawl.

Uncertainties abound in other advanced economies as well.

The first village has 5 and the other one has 6.

In developed countries, food retailing practices require a rethink. For example, rejection of food products on the basis of aesthetic concerns is a major cause of wastage.

This pattern is consistent with reports from other developed nations.

The equivalent figure in developed markets is usually over 100 of GDP.

Quantitative easing in the advanced countries also raises a question of coordination.

Most developed countries have a growing number and proportion of elderly.

Obesity is considered by far the most serious health issue facing the developed world.

Things have improved immensely in both the developing and developed worlds.

The second danger springs from high asset values within the advanced industrial core.

Costly oil is a tax on the poor in developing countries and a source of inflation for the developed countries.

This is better than the performance of many OECD countries.

Indeed, consumption of antioxidant supplements in developed countries has become widespread.

For starters, services have been gaining ground worldwide, especially in developed economies.

Until quite recently, people in developed countries didn't care much about the environment.

Yet, the plight of malnourished children in the developing world does not make obesity in the advanced countries any less of a problem.

The financial and economic crisis is morphing into a sovereign debt crisis in advanced countries.

But growth in the advanced economies will almost certainly remain weak in 2010.

In a globalized world, what happens in rich countries has an impact on developing economies.

The onus is not on developed countries alone.

Moreover, exports to low wage countries cannot compensate for job losses.

Smoking killed 100 million people in the twentieth century, mostly in developed countries.

At the same time, people from developing countries are more productive in a developed country.

After all, banks remain deeply unpopular in all developed countries.

Minorities suffer stigma, discrimination, and violence in developed and developing countries.

The history of developed country bond markets in the last half century is relatively straightforward.

Admittedly, there were warnings, but policy makers, particularly in advanced countries, did not follow suit.

Over time, though, the incidence of chronic disease almost certainly did rise in developed countries.

Perhaps this, too, is related to higher inequality than in other advanced countries.

Real GDP has been growing at around 3 a year in many advanced countries, and twice that or more in some emerging countries.

Talk about corruption in developing countries and in some developed ones is running rampant.

There are more suicides in developed individualistic countries than in any other part of the world.

Everywhere, labor is becoming insecure and mass poverty has reappeared in developed countries.

Stories like Detroit s have played out several times in developed countries during the last half century.

That is a valuable lesson for today s government officials in industrialized and developing countries alike.

Indeed, even firms in advanced industrial countries that have not received a subsidy are at an unfair advantage.

The increase in TB in the developed world since 1992 was initially attributed to HIV.

A strong middle class emerged in the advanced countries, and then began to appear elsewhere.

Even in most developed countries, authorities take control of telecommunications in some cases, he said.

Although a recession in the developed world is now more or less inevitable, China, India, and some of the oil producing countries are in a very strong countertrend.

In advanced economies, Keynesian economics is the bread and butter of economic forecasting and policy making.