An award-winning journalist, he has managed media projects in over 45 countries in transition since 1992.
Its emphasis is on helping to meet the needs of developing countries, countries in transition and those in a post-conflict situation.
The IPDC is the only intergovernmental programme in the UN system mandated to promote the development of free, independent and pluralistic media in developing countries and countries in transition.
Doing so would permit Hanoi to borrow hundreds of millions from the newly established IMF funding facility available to countries ostensibly in transition from command to market economies.
And we continue to pursue policies in the region that are aimed at helping these countries that are in transition, through this traumatic transformation that's happening, towards democracy, towards a better future, and towards -- we hope and are working for -- a strong, better relationship with the United States.
To ensure widest participation, the Government of Georgia will fund high-level delegates from over 100 developing countries and countries with economies in transition to participate in the Conference.
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In many countries, the transition from CTT to VAT has witnessed a spurt in inflation.
The Pentagon hard-liners think this attitude underestimates the Iraqi people and note that some former Soviet-bloc countries made the transition in a matter of months.
Economists, who do not truck in cloaks and daggers, have asked a dispassionate question: Could it be that oligarchs play a positive role, particularly in transition countries such as Russia, Ukraine, or Kazakhstan where there are so few entrepreneurs?
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"Since 2012 is an election year in both countries, with an election and leadership transition in Russia and an election in the United States, it is clearly not a year in which we are going to achieve a breakthrough, " said deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.
Cardinals from Latin America have seen the tremendous inequalities that exist in their countries firsthand, and many played a role in their nations' transition to democracy, he said.
Countries differ in their approach to organizing the transition from school to work.
It benefits from strong demand for advanced set-top boxes in developed countries as service providers aggressively transition their subscribers to advanced services.
The Director-General also referred to the importance of advancing education in post-conflict and transition countries such as Liberia, Myanmar and South-Sudan.
Other countries in the region who have gone through the same transition, such as Malaysia and Singapore, have witnessed impressive developments.
If Greek firms have an instinctive feel for business trends in countries to their north, that is because their own country has undergone an almost equally rapid transition in recent memory.
The turmoil of the past few months has, in many countries, come at a time of political transition, and has brought reform closer.
In rich countries, sceptics emphasise the difficulties of the transition.
Living in post-Franco Spain, along with his visits to former Eastern Bloc countries like Hungary and Romania, taught him something about dictatorships in transition, he says.
Yet a child in the last grade of primary only has at best a 75% chance of making the transition to lower secondary school in about 20 countries around the world, the overwhelming majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
Alexander Mather of the University of Aberdeen predicted in 1992 that forest transition is the likely future of tropical countries, too.
For the West the confusion is how to assist Muslim countries make the transition into modernity as much out of historical necessity as self-interest in terms of security.
Ahead of the trip, the White House issued a statement saying Mr Obama "looks forward to... discussing our continued transition in Afghanistan, and our shared vision of an enduring partnership" between the two countries.
All five participating countries (Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Mauritania and Senegal) are within the Canary Current Large Marine Ecosystem, thereby aligned across an important environmental transition which will be better identified and addressed by each of these countries if they understand features and processes in neighboring states.
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