Emerging economies are confronted with the pressure of massive capital inflow, lagging domestic demand and rising inflation risks.
Chinese banking has interacted with the outside world cautiously, lagging the expansion of China's big industrial firms.
While your mate is growing and developing new interests, it is claimed, you are lagging behind and unchanging.
“The most pressing issue related to gender gaps is the lagging performance of boys in reading, ” the report said.
But it also means that the supply of houses is lagging behind population growth, which will eventually prompt a housing revival.
Many programmes are lagging behind as countries do not have sufficient managerial and technical skills and lack capacity to absorb the funding.