Allowing for inflation, depreciation of the rupiah and wide regional variations in statutory pay levels, the World Bank calculated that between 1990 and 1995 the rise in real terms had been anything from 36% to 234% in different parts of the country, reducing total employment by 2-3%.
And I've had the opportunity to dine with foreign leaders in foreign capitals around the world and just about everything in between.
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It came eighth in the world - higher than the US and UK - for its progress in bridging the gender gap between the sexes by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in 2011.
The standards allow interoperability and portability of applications and data between clouds anywhere in the world.
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The UK has one of the highest caesarean rates in the world - the World Health Organisation has set a target of between 10% and 15% for countries in the developed world.
In that sense I believe that perhaps the most effective way to bring about a universal dialogue in the new millennium in the conditions of globalization and in a new world is of course contacts between people.
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Provided the wine holds up, all is well and just in the wine world between the haves and the have-nots.
"Jens is someone at the very highest level who knows the difference in standard between mediocrity and the absolute top in the world, " says Maes.
Although they are the British numbers three, four and five respectively, they are ranked between 259 and 342 in the world.
North Korea and the United Arab Emirates earlier kicked off the Group D schedule with a 0-0 draw at the Qatar Sports Club in match between teams ranked 105th and 108th in the world respectively.
It makes me understand the world better, helps me to meet the best CEOs and leaders in the world and makes me understand the distance between China and the world.
Twenty matches is a long run in which either to cement your place or for it to be entirely undermined, and that is England's run-in between now and the World Cup.
As this arrangement implies, there are big similarities between the precedent-based systems of law that prevail in the Anglophone world, and a wide difference between them and the civil-law tradition of continental Europe.
Mr Jagland highlighted the EU's work in sealing the reconciliation between France and Germany in the decades after World War II and praised the organisation for incorporating Spain, Portugal and Greece after their authoritarian regimes collapsed in the 1970s.
So a demand arose for attracting attention of the Russians to the most important part of the Russian cultural heritage in the context of the world cultural traditions, increasing the status of traditional culture in the modern society and establishing a cultural dialogue between different peoples and regions of the world.
His side will have plenty of opportunity to test themselves against the best sides in the world between now and London 2012.
Once the 2014 baseball season arrives, look for ever more knock-down drag-out fights between networks and cable companies over subscription fees, the same kind that led to Fox pulling part of the 2010 World Series between the Rangers and Giants from Cablevision in New York.
Of course there are exceptions, such as Botswana and Namibia (both in the African top five as far as governance is concerned), but most resource-rich countries are well down the table: the DRC, Sudan, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, Congo (Brazzaville), Nigeria and Angola are all ranked between 34th and 46th in the World Bank's regional rankings.
But there is always some churn in the finance world and he saw a gap between job listing sites, LinkedIn, and the niche needs of hiring managers in finance.
The immediate cause of the sharp fall in bond prices seems to have been rooted in the byzantine world of Italian politics, and in particular, an acrimonious spat between Silvio Berlusconi, the prime minister, and Giulio Tremonti, the finance minister, over provisions in an emergency budget.
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Her career in journalism has led her to cover stories around the world, including the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the terrorist attacks in Bali and London, and the Asian tsunami.
Visa and MasterCard are the two largest payment network providers in the world and control more than 80% of the market between them.
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When students understand the negative impacts of mountain top mining or deep water oil exploration, examples chronicled in the book, they are able to make connections between environmental issues in the world and how they live collectively.
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Similarly, we believe the human brain generates perceptions of the world in the same way, by encoding the statistical relationships between images and scenes in our past visual experience and uses this as the basis for behaving usefully and consistently towards the sources of visual images.
They had placed a bet over the opening round match in the World Cup between England and the United States.
The most celebrated of rivalries in the Indian corporate world in recent times, was that between the Ambani brothers Mukesh and Anil.
"I've seen this before from other university research groups and there is a world of difference between nice results in the lab and commercially viable products, " Leggett said.
Sunni-Shiite rivalries -- not only in Iraq, but throughout the Muslim world -- have been a factor in the torpid pace of diplomatic relations between Iraq and the Arab world.
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The impact of this tech domestically is substantial, but the real excitement is in the developing world, where wastewater treatment plants tend to be far and few between and electricity is seriously in need.
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