Some countries such as Australia and New Zealand have longstanding privacy laws, but many emerging nations have yet to roll out fully fledged versions of their own.
In this new study, researchers looked at all 55, 000 school children in a large metropolitan community of Seoul, which they say is representative not only of South Korea, but also many other developed nations.
Tight currency controls, corruption and onerous tax regulations of many nations all but force their citizens to use informal channels, which invites mischief.
The assertions were never substantiated, but DDT was banned in many nations and became nearly impossible to obtain in those nations that still permitted its usage.
The tax, named after the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin, was originally designed to discourage volatile currency trading and also had the potential to help developing nations, but many supporters now say it is one way to ensure that banks do not take excessive risks that could trigger another financial crisis.
But many of the world's poorest nations, especially in Africa, still spend their money on wars, and the armies to fight them.
Yes, we devote more ink to wealth than poverty, but we have published many articles about ways to help destitute nations.
You know, we have our Super Bowl, but there's the Africa Cup of Nations: many, many, many more times the drama in many senses.
Many nations have expressed an interest in using the XO but few have signed up to buy them in the numbers expected by the OLPC organisation.
But - and here's a familiar argument for Americans - many Western nations worry about national security and rapid cultural change.
Many African and South American lands are rich in resources, but trail nations like Switzerland or Japan which share no such blessings.
Our responding executives have generally grown more positive, but uncertainties arising from persistent credit issues, an unclear regulatory environment in many nations, government deficits, currency conflicts and moves for greater governmental austerity continue to cause wide economic discomfort.
But this week, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned that as many as 1 million people could remain displaced until December because of the widespread destruction in their home towns, such as Mingora.
Small island states and many of the world's poorest nations are demanding that Cancun must see agreement of a legally binding global treaty, but many others are pushing for a "bottom-up" approach that would seek small but concrete agreements in key areas such as REDD.
Already, many Asia-based nations have made progress on strengthening the rights of intellectual property creators, but more work needs to be done.
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But for our two nations, for the United States and Brazil, two nations who have struggled over many generations to perfect our own democracies, the United States and Brazil know that the future of the Arab World will be determined by its people.
Clinton admitted that the deepening impact of the financial meltdown, which is dominating the agenda at this year's meeting in Davos, had left many people frightened -- but said the global scale of the crisis proved that the world's nations could no longer afford to turn their backs on one another.
But to say we are behind because we do not spend as many federal dollars as other domestic industries or other nations may be too simple a conclusion to make.
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