Exploring these links in relation to the long-unsettled question of why the Islamic world became underdeveloped, Kuran identifies several pertinent social mechanisms, some beneficial to economic development, others harmful.
At the same time, though, chronic diseases have become increasingly prevalent in underdeveloped countries and less prevalent in industrialized countries.
The matter is to understand the risks and the unintended consequences of the anthropogenic use and release of antimicrobial agents into the biosphere, which without appropriate measures might drive the world towards a post-antibiotic era where mortality due to untreatable and fatal infections may become customary, particularly in underdeveloped areas of the world [ 3– 5, 12, 14].
By the end of 2011 total peak passenger volumes had increased by a third on the east London route.Second, areas that were once underdeveloped became more popular.
For more than a decade, Jacques Monod was continuously fighting for a reform of the French academic and research systems because he realized that France became a scientifically underdeveloped nation and that the rigid structures of research administration and science teaching needed a profound change.
Halogens, a previously underdeveloped technology, have become the most common bulb sold today.
Paul Rosenstein-Rodan to spoke of a similar concept called "indivisibility of demand" which hypothesises that if large investments are made in a large number of industries simultaneously, an underdeveloped economy can become developed due to the phenomenon of complementary demand.
That Samana has remained underdeveloped while tourism has become the Dominican Republic's fastest growing industry is in large part due to Samana's isolation.
The area, once underdeveloped and industrial, has become a mixed-use district: the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Boston Children's Museum are both within a half-mile; and there are several bars and restaurants nearby.
One of the most insular countries in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia has emerged from being an underdeveloped desert kingdom to become one of the wealthiest nations in the region thanks to vast oil resources.
