We do not need a huge army because we do not go about deposing democratically elected governments or invading sovereign countries.
Lending to governments or companies in developing countries proved highly profitable, with relatively large interest payments made to the lender (i.e. the investor) until the loan was repaid.
Moreover, the vile contraptions continue to be planted by governments or rebels in some 25 countries.
Local experts in given countries from Governments or NGOs and Civil Society can quite easily be seconded to UNESCO Offices.
Countries with unstable governments or undergoing civil strife tend usually have lower scores.
Our aim is to make available to investors additional information about situations in which the material proceeds of an offering could however indirectly benefit countries, governments, or entities that, as a matter of U.S. foreign policy, are off-limits to U.S. companies.
"Our aim is to make available to investors additional information about situations in which the material proceeds of an offering could -- however indirectly -- benefit countries, governments, or entities that, as a matter of U.S. foreign policy, are off-limits to U.S. companies, " Ms. Unger wrote.
He recognises that aid can be useless, or worse than useless, in countries with bad governments, either because the money is simply wasted or else because it helps to keep corrupt rulers in place.
Although the Commission is well positioned to review disclosure relating to business activities regardless of the country in which they are conducted, we do not have the expertise or information necessary to identify the particular countries whose governments have funded, sponsored, provided a safe haven for, or otherwise supported terrorism.
Our textbooks have become a tool of international politics, a card sometimes played in the domestic politics of other countries, or for foreign governments to secure money from Japan.
Needy countries often have corrupt or incompetent governments, and here is where most of the blame must be laid.
As commodity prices have risen, governments in some poor countries have demanded higher royalties or threatened recalcitrant firms with expropriations.
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Successive governments did indeed nationalise too widely, interfere too much, overtax people and run stop-go policies but they were not so much worse than governments in other, more successful countries such as France or Italy.
There is another conundrum: should the power to tell countries how to run their economies rest with governments or in Brussels?
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Telecom companies face particularly acute risks when dealing with governments in countries where they rely on state-owned infrastructure or state-awarded spectrum contracts for their business.
In the past two years, Microsoft has filed over 100 lawsuits against spammers in America, and sued or supported legal action by governments in 30 cases in other countries.
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Unlike the rulers of, say, Sudan, or indeed many of the world's poorest countries, these governments are not a primary cause of the crisis.
The internal processes by which these matters are considered within the U.K. or any other country are obviously the province of those countries and those governments.
Of the ten largest fiscal retrenchments carried out by OECD countries since the 1970s, seven were pushed through by coalition or minority governments.
When countries had one, or two, or three television networks, then governments could, in a polite sort of way, instruct them to carry lots of very serious reports about the opening of a power station.
On the merits, the problem with ACTA is less that it would require changes to American or European law as that it would become another mechanism for Western governments to force poorer countries to adopt bad copyright policies.
So social entrepreneurs providing cleantech services in Gridless countries look to other capital sources like grants or low-interest loans from governments and foundations.
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Unlike the West or even places like the Middle East, though, much of the new wealth being created in Asia is emerging in countries where rich people see their assets at risk, either because of unreliable governments or unloved ones.
That leaves a host of political and financial problems that governments associate with non-citizens: they dodge taxes, grab benefits or retain retrograde habits from their countries of origin.
In diseases for which there is no private vaccine market, such as pandemic influenza, or for which cases are concentrated in poor countries, such as malaria and tuberculosis, governments and public-private partnerships have stepped in to subsidize development.
It says the decision will be an obstacle to further European integration, leaving instead a "minimal Europe, with cooperation between single governments that can be revoked, with no joint or federal institutions, with no political investment in solidarity between countries".
As both countries have conservative governments, and considering Ms Sarandon's political views, I thought that Venezuela or Cuba would be more suitable destinations.
European stock and derivatives exchanges saw themselves in competition with each other, as did their host cities and countries: finance was deemed a growth industry, and slogans abounded as governments saw a local stock or futures market as a way to create high-paying jobs and ample tax revenues.
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