But the requirements of HIPC were so strict that only two countries have benefited from it.
The only two countries without a Communist past, Cyprus and Malta, are the most prosperous future EU members.
Only two countries made a clear reference to the importance of freedom of expression: the United States and El Salvador.
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Only two countries are above the western European average: Slovenia, thanks to its wealth, and Turkey, because of its booming birthrate.
And when it came to the election after that, in only two countries Madagascar and Benin did the voters throw out the elected government.
By contrast, a 2002 study found that only two countries censored the Web, says Palfrey, who is also an investigator at OpenNet.
They are happy to let Spain and Luxembourg preen themselves as the only two countries to have secured yes votes in referendums.
Only two countries, Guatemala and Nauru, have no legal system for the exchange of tax information, although they are working on it.
In only two countries, the United States and Pakistan, did more than one in five people feel that capitalism works well as it stands.
The only two countries in western Europe to have increased the number of party members in the past 30 years are Greece and Spain.
Until now, France and Slovenia were the only two countries to have opted out from this measure of financial transparency, already implemented at a European level.
Indeed, only two countries have emerged from the debris relatively unscathed, their influence if anything strengthened by this year of troubles: China and the United States.
Only two countries, Nepal and Bangladesh, of the 108 countries studied (a greatly expanded sample size from earlier attempts) showed stronger returns in the summer.
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Only two countries Thailand and Venezuela saw their nominal foreign debts fall.
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Some claim that the tricky issues that stand in the way of a multilateral deal can be more easily resolved when only two countries are sitting at the table.
Since smallpox was wiped from the face of the earth, there are only two countries that had any stockpile of this agent, and they are the US and Russia.
Only two countries in Europe have been managing their fisheries in a sustainable fashion - Iceland and Norway, Mr Grimsson claimed, pointing out that neither is a member of the European Union.
Of the 21 nations participating in all phases of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), American high school seniors did better than only two countries: South Africa and Cyprus.
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Internationally, Harley is targeting large scale expansion in emerging markets such as Brazil and India, and these are the only two countries where the company has set up an assembly plant outside the U.S. Its motorcycles segment has performed exceptionally well in Latin America and Asia in the last few years.
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Only two European countries have imposed quotas for women in elections.
As the Europeans say, the embargo places a rising superpower in peculiar company: the only other two countries subject to the same controls are Myanmar and Zimbabwe.
The only two EU countries that count militarily are France and Britain: it makes obvious sense for them to work together, especially in procurement, as even the Eurosceptic shadow defence secretary, Liam Fox, understands.
As allies for half a century, the partnership between Japan and the United States has been the foundation for our security and our prosperity -- not only for our two countries, but also for the region.
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The EU's eastward enlargement in 2004 brought a huge wave of East Europeans to the UK, at a time when only two other EU countries - Sweden and the Republic of Ireland - were allowing unrestricted access to their labour markets.
That may be, but that wave has only washed ashore in two countries: Egypt and Tunisia.
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Only recently, the two countries agreed to liberalise trade and visas, both long-standing Indian demands.
This is not the only place in which two countries have competing designs.
Only two and a half countries in Europe are serious about defence: us, the French and the Germans (the half).
The only difference between the two countries is that Chinese politicians trust the science on climate change while American politicians do not.
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