Voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds is at a 50-year low, with the gap in participation between the youngest and oldest voters the widest in any advanced democracy, according to OECD data.
Looking forward, the IMF said potential growth in advanced economies was expected to increase slightly from an average of about 1.3% a year in the last six years to 1.6% until 2020, but not reach the 2.25% average seen between 2001 and 2007.
The US government and its listeners have not advanced any convincing argument that what they do is compatible with the morality of freedom, US constitutional law or international human rights.
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Nor will the Carswell agenda itemised at his press conference – changing the law so that erring MPs can be recalled, or regaining control of the UK's borders, or even disrupting sofa government – be advanced by his departure for Ukip.
In the US and in the Europe the debate is more advanced.
The first task is to reform the way the Bank of England deals with the banking system – the most conservative and hidebound relationship in any advanced industrialised country.
Related: Graphene – six ways wonder material could improve world sustainability Perhaps most significantly, public policy around packaging has advanced at a snail's pace.
We divide them in two types: active communication tools and advanced poll tools.
She has a tumour in her eye that is too advanced to be treated.
Like-for-like sales advanced every quarter under his leadership until the last one, when the revolution currently under way in the grocery business – shoppers' sudden switch to convenience stores, online services and discounters like Aldi – finally caught up with him.
