Building upon ideas and experiences exchanged during the event, programmes on teacher development through mobile learning will be developed during 2012 in four focus countries: Mexico, Pakistan, Nigeria and Senegal.
Different regions set different priorities: Eastern and southern Africa countries choose to focus on early childhood care and education, and central and west African countries focus on improving the unfinished business of Universal Primary Education.
But in this case the critics usually focus on countries, such as Ireland, that tax companies lightly.
It now wants to focus on countries where it can offer its integrated model, which rules out Germany, Italy and Austria.
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The increasing focus by countries on renewable sources of power in the last few years has made the solar industry highly competitive with companies differentiating themselves largely on module manufacturing costs and module efficiency.
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We thought there was a big opportunity in the international space, especially with specific countries, because a lot of the existing ETFs that focus on individual countries are market cap-weighted.
The United States government quickly became the main financer of European reconstruction, and the bank shifted its focus to developing countries.
System providers like Q-Cells and First Solar will continue to sell in Germany, but there's more incentive now to focus on other countries where the market is still tiny.
In agriculture, creating a global productivity target would help countries focus on a key but neglected area: the efficiency and output of hundreds of millions of small farmers who live in poverty.
The partnership will also focus on these countries, with projects that increase the numbers of women in teacher training institutions, and encourage the recruitment of women to leadership positions in education.
Education is another area of focus between the two countries - Britain handed out 30, 000 student visas to Indian applicants last year.
At the same time, it wants to re-align its expenditure to focus on the poorest countries and those scarred by recent conflict.
Non-compliance might lead to an ouster from the EU. This sounds very reasonable and would focus the politicians of countries who love to buy votes with deficit spending.
Taking the example of the situation in Asia, the Director-General noted the strategic choice of many countries to focus on culture as one of the pillars of sustainable development.
But the two countries' focus on trade has also allowed symbolic gestures of greater mutual trust, such as the reopening in 2006 of an overland trading route through Sikkim that had been closed since the 1962 Sino-Indian war.
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But according to Dr Singer's colleague Abdallah Daar, the real trick for developing countries is to focus their limited resources.
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Global cohesion across the company's operations in 110 countries is another focus.
Mr Snyder shifts the usual geographical focus away from the perpetrator countries to the places where they first colluded and then collided.
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Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high-school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges.
Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges.
They find that once the focus is narrowed to rich countries only, and consistent measures of the size of government are employed, a reasonably consistent picture emerges.
The main focus for the five above countries in the last biennium was a series of three or four intensive workshops, working through Ministries of Education and teacher training institutions to improve the competencies of teachers.
The increased focus on solar energy by many countries has led to a direct increase in the demand for polysilicon in the recent past.
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America, meanwhile, wants to focus on improving governance in poor countries, not more aid, and remains hostile to the Kyoto protocol on climate change.
At the 2012 event, which takes place in Lyon this week, the focus of participants from over 70 countries is on entrepreneurial ecosystems, and the key success factors to promote entrepreneurial spirit in all fields of society.
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Are countries with a more robust focus on child-rearing actually more dynamic and innovative?
On the other hand, we want to be encouraging of ways in which both India and Pakistan can feel secure, and focus on the development of their own countries and their own people.
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Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Hamre said the biggest Year 2000 threat to the U.S. military stems from the lack of focus on the part of many allied countries where U.S. forces are based.
In Washington where he is on a visit, Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr welcomed the news, saying the release was a joint effort by authorities in both countries, and that the focus now was on Mr. Rodwell's speedy recovery.
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