It might be more useful to distinguish countries in which Facebook is allowed from those in which it's banned; upon doing so, the modes of self-presentation and communication that this software enables may indeed seem distinctively humane, even positively liberating.
Mr. Geithner said it was critical to distinguish countries like Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, which he said "had no choice but to move very, very aggressively" to cut spending, from bigger, less indebted economies like the United States, which continue to enjoy very low interest rates for long-term borrowing, giving them more short-term room to maneuver.
We also assess the influence of an objective measure of income inequality (Gini coefficients), since Uslaner (2002) finds that: 'What distinguishes countries that are trusting from those that are not is the level of economic equality'.
However, there do not appear to be any obvious national-level factors that distinguish countries with particularly high or low values.
Multicultural immigration policies is a dummy variable created to distinguish countries characterized by multicultural integration policies that have on average less restrictive immigration and integration policies from countries described by the differential exclusion and assimilation models.
Based on the match between CBM and GHGIs, in terms of level and trend, and on data reported in Figs. 4, 5, four different groups of countries may be distinguished: A. Countries where CBM estimates and country data show a good match both in the trend and the level.
The migration flows are distinguished by country of origin, country of destination, age, and sex.
Two groups can be distinguished: the countries in the first group have one or more research ethics regulations or guidelines, while the countries in the second group have not yet established any.
The market for credit-default swaps, which insure against default on sovereign bonds has, for example, distinguished between countries running big current-account deficits (over 5% of GDP) and other more abstemious places.Of the four biggest emerging markets, Brazil, Russia, India and China, India has the largest current-account deficit, which widened to 3.6% of GDP in the second quarter.
We distinguish between countries without minimum wages, countries with uniform minimum wages for all age groups, and countries with separate youth and adult minimum wages.
