However, the BASIC countries have now affirmed that the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) should be the sovereign body for international climate talks.
Although respected personally, small island states that feel threatened by climate change are understood to have resisted the appointment of someone from the BASIC bloc of countries (Brazil, China, India and South Africa), which argued against swingeing carbon curbs at December's UN summit in Copenhagen.
In Europe Disney also got 76% of publicly traded Fox Kids Europe, a channel that airs on basic cable in 53 countries.
The basic arguments about whether countries should have a monetary union were laid out by Robert Mundel back in the 1960s.
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Developing countries lack basic healthcare for women and their babies before, during, and after delivery, accounting for the majority of newborn and maternal deaths.
Now the thing is, this Washington Consensus, this list of basic things that developing countries ought to do, also came into being around 1990.
If I could predict anything, there will not be a huge sudden personal robot breakthrough: instead, there will be decades in front of us of patient basic research in many countries by thousands of researchers, with unexpected, fascinating results.
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Britain has announced plans for a multi-million-dollar fund to ensure every child in the Commonwealth countries receives a basic education.
These are cheaper and more sustainable options for governments in low-income countries for the basic, off-patent medicines that are needed.
That is a basic international obligation that all countries need to observe.
Some 9, 000 women in Vision- Spring's network have sold 600, 000 pairs of basic reading glasses throughout seven countries, including Bangladesh, India and South Africa.
During the 2000s, companies lost interest in IT as a source of competitive differentiation and focused on trying to make it more efficient by shifting basic functions to lower cost countries.
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Given the violence that plagued Colombia in the early 2000s, the political situation in Venezuela and the lack of basic infrastructure in the Andean countries, they narrowed their list of possible host cities to Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Sao Paulo and Rio in Brazil, Herzog said.
It has also begun to obtain some of its basic garments from low-cost countries, although the bulk of its production remains in Europe.
David Pritchard, an American academic and consultant who has studied both companies, says that Airbus must now send more basic work to cheap-labour countries in Asia with currencies tied to the dollar, keeping only high-added-value stuff and final assembly in Europe.
That record-keeping continues in modern times in Sweden and several other European countries, along with recording basic health information of residents.
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All predictions about future performance must start with this most basic question: Do companies (and countries) attract money and talent, or repel it?
In teaching maths, for instance, both those countries spend more time on basic arithmetic than on deeper mathematical ideas, emphasise mental arithmetic, rely on standard teaching manuals and favour whole-class (as opposed to group) teaching.
The basic notion is relatively uncontroversial: although some countries remain worried about giving the Fund new powers, there is a strong consensus that international capital flows to developing countries, which have increased fourfold since 1991, are in general a good thing.
Part II illustrates how ideas contained in the Framework for Action to meet basic learning needs are being practised in many countries - in Yemen, Ecuador, Mali, and how teachers are challenged to use new tools and new structures for learning, as in Costa Rica, Bulgaria, Thailand and Indonesia.
But Dino Kos, a former chief of markets at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who now works for Portales Partners, a research firm, notes that the yuan does not meet one of the most basic requirements of a reserve currency: other countries cannot use it to intervene in foreign-exchange markets because it is not freely convertible.
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Many of the poorest countries spend significantly more on arms than on basic education.
This reflects one of the basic difficulties of getting coherent action in this area: countries' interests simply differ.
Traders from neighbouring African countries pour into the city markets to buy basic consumer goods that are either dear or unavailable at home.
The panel said that both tests amounted to the basic standard of proof used by police officers in both countries to make an arrest.
As markets polarise between luxury and budget, the beacon is the outstanding success of Renault, which makes its basic Logan car in Romania and sells it in 42 countries, including parts of western Europe.
In the freest countries, more than 90 percent of infants receive basic vaccination.
The basic situation is that Google has engineers in each of these countries.
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But even these qualifications do not undermine the basic direction of sensible reform: not to concentrate resources on countries with access to capital markets.
The tensions in Libya and other countries in the Islamic World have supported the ongoing basic materials sector rally, but my analysis suggests that its time to book some profits here.
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