Sweden's Riksbank, a laggard compared with most of its contemporaries, lifted its main policy rate by one percentage point, to 1.75%, the biggest increase in three decades.
Many of the West's high achievers have emissions-trading schemes, or other forms of carbon pricing, but even laggards have managed to reduce their carbon footprints.
You see, there's still a misconception that emerging markets, like the African continent, and especially the African continent, are laggards when it comes to innovation or technological advancement.
Brown Ben shrugged. " Hundreds. Thousands. Some sick, some burned, some wounded. The Cats and the Windblown are swarming through the hills with lance and lash, driving them north and cutting down the laggards" .