• According to Unicef, the UN children's fund, the number of families from rich countries wanting to adopt children from poor countries has grown substantially in the past 30 years.

    ECONOMIST: International adoptions are not always for the best

  • With private capital flows from rich countries to developing countries drying up in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, the World Bank's role in fighting the spread of poverty has been reinforced.

    BBC: What is the World Bank?

  • Some cynics attribute this unusually generous response from rich countries to the fact that so many tourists from those countries were killed.

    ECONOMIST: Asia's tsunami

  • Already, Italy's Fiat plans to build many models from a single chassis and sell them to developing countries from Bolivia to Bangladesh.

    ECONOMIST: Mercedes goes to Motown

  • From the Pacific Islands to Europe, from the continent of Africa to the countries of Asia, from the Americas to the United Kingdom, media workers and their supporters hold a myriad of events to celebrate the day.

    UNESCO: 3 May 2010

  • Exports from developed countries are forecast to fall by 10%, and those from developing countries, which are more trade-dependent, by up to 3%.

    ECONOMIST: Business this week

  • They are a travel agent service, really, that's been created by the need for people to emigrate from their countries to the United States.

    NPR: Film Looks at Immigrants Caught in Slave Trade

  • It's not clear exactly how that came about - it may have been determined by the character of local commanders, or it may have been that the Germans drew ethnic distinctions between Jews from Central Europe and Jews from countries to the East.

    BBC: Cabaret and football: Life before death in the Holocaust

  • The MAB-ICC decided to add 22 new sites from 17 countries to the UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) which now counts 553 sites in 107 countries.

    UNESCO: Dyfi Valley awarded unique UN status

  • Are there people from certain countries who are more likely to be poor than people from other countries or are there other commonalities among Asian-Americans who tend to be poor, who are living in poverty?

    NPR: Asian-Americans: Smart, High-Incomes And ... Poor?

  • Only then can America expect to gather wide support from other countries to isolate Iran and force it to abandon the nuclear path it has chosen.

    ECONOMIST: Higher risks

  • The meeting will gather around 40 high level experts from different prestigious centers and institutes from various countries to discuss issues relating to responsible research and innovation.

    UNESCO: House | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

  • These redirected funds could be used to create capacity for the new foreign students without taking away spots from American students, both by expanding existing universities and creating new ones, while also creating scholarships to enable talented students from developing countries to attend.

    FORBES: Stop Wasting Foreign Aid: Let's Import Millions Of New College Students Instead

  • There will also be proposals to transfer technology and cash from richer to poorer countries, to help the latter cut their reliance on carbon.

    ECONOMIST: The G8 and climate change

  • Today, transfers from rich countries to poor, and downwards redistribution within poor countries, are in the collective interests of the rich countries.

    ECONOMIST: Letters

  • With 30 MEPs from eight countries the group surpasses the new parliamentary minimum of 25 MEPs from seven countries needed to qualify as a formal group.

    BBC: UKIP forms new Eurosceptic group

  • "We hope that this scheme will enable young British volunteers to work together with young people from developing countries to help build a fairer world, " she said.

    BBC: Orphans in Haiti

  • They'll be trying to navigate the remaining hurdles to fully implementing new international schemes to bring financial support and clean technology from developed countries to their poorer counterparts.

    BBC: Climate ship plots course through the battering waves

  • 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.

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  • Georgia and Turkey recently agreed to open their borders, allowing citizens and cars from both countries to travel back and forth freely.

    NPR: Adventures Along the Caspian Pipeline

  • Our first incentivized competition, the Ansari X PRIZE, went to Scaled Composites, which beat out 26 teams from seven countries to become the first to build and launch a private space vessel that could carry three people 100 kilometers into space twice within two weeks.

    FORBES: Launching the Next Era in Space Travel and Exploration

  • At a conference in San Francisco in early June, 30 states, from Hawaii to Florida, and 20 countries, from Norway to New Zealand, pitched the advantages of moving biotech firms to their locales.

    FORBES: Seattle or Bust

  • Under EU rules, students coming to Scotland from other European countries have to be treated in the same way as Scottish students.

    BBC: Scotland's uni funding system faces legal challenge

  • This argument has some merit, mainly because price pressure clearly comes from the ability to ship steel from low-cost developing countries to more mature economies.

    ECONOMIST: The steel industry

  • That part of the document will be of interest to the incoming government in Dublin, as the Republic has faced pressure from other European countries to raise its comparatively low corporation tax rate.

    BBC: Eurozone to consider closer economic scrutiny

  • Since the presumably alcoholics anonymous-approved Wizmark urinals can't keep everyone from getting a little tipsy, officials in Victoria, British Columbia are taking a note from European countries to keep urine off the streets.

    ENGADGET: Urilift: the disappearing public urinal (and we do mean public)

  • But we have critical improvements that have to be made as it relates to an Afghan national army and critical improvements that have to be made in an Afghan national police and the importance of getting additional trainers from NATO countries to Afghanistan as quickly as possible.

    WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

  • The summit is expected to call for the establishment of a global food fund and see pledges of food aid from wealthy countries to poor nations to ward off food shortages.

    NPR: Summit on Food Crisis Scrutinizes Causes, Solutions

  • On the regional and international levels, 80 universities in 40 African countries have worked together to integrate ESD into their teaching, and teacher education institutions from 60 countries are cooperating to reorient teacher education to address sustainable development.

    UNESCO: Education

  • Companies might choose to block users in particular countries from accessing their sites, rather than be subject to those countries' laws, or decide against doing business online altogether.

    ECONOMIST: Regulating the Internet

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