The industrial countries, America and Europe in particular, were the driving force behind the new round.
The farm lobby in industrial countries is powerful and politicians ignore it at their peril.
U.S. enrollment and school completion rates compare favorably with those of other industrial countries.
And American productivity growth is the envy of the industrial countries around the world.
Cuts in official interest rates in the industrial countries have also helped stabilize global financial conditions.
If we reduce our deforestation, we should be compensated for these reductions, as are industrial countries.
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As industrial countries have removed their capital controls, this is exactly what has happened.
Hence the cost of manufactured goods does not rise in the industrial countries even though production is booming.
Comparative surveys show American children lagging well behind their peers in other major industrial countries in math and science.
In spite of all the short-term gloom, the American economy is still growing faster than most other big industrial countries.
Across the globe countries heavily dependent on the fortunes of the rich industrial countries have experienced a downturn in their fortunes.
It had urged all industrial countries to reduce their greenhouse gases by a flat 15% from their 1990 level by 2010.
Mr Stern said the benefits to them from doing so would be substantial, however much the industrial countries dragged their feet.
With material prosperity less dependent upon physical materials, wealth exploded in the industrial countries and spread to most of the poorer countries.
While industrial countries are striving towards increased energy efficiency, there are areas in the world where life is characterized by energy poverty.
After the Plaza accord between the big industrial countries in 1985, the Japanese yen rose by 80% against the dollar in three years.
In industrial countries, remarkably little evidence exists to suggest that the volatility of floating exchange rates does in fact harm trade or investment.
During this shock, both countries strengthened their regimes and were able to achieve low levels of inflation, similar to levels in industrial countries.
The United States has always relied more on standardized, especially multiple-choice, tests than other industrial countries, and such reliance has intensified in recent years.
Immigration in the United States differs from that of most other industrial countries in that it is not the legacy of a colonial era.
In spite of this, rates of brain tumors in advanced industrial countries show no evidence of an increase in specific types of brain tumors.
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And what this measure says is that in the rich industrial countries the age of big government, contrary to reports, is far from over.
The International Adult Literacy Survey (IALS), initiated in 1994 by seven governments and three intergovernmental organizations, tested large samples of adults in 12 industrial countries.
The energy challenges industrial countries are up against, however, are different.
Moreover, GDP growth in the third quarter of the year was 3.1% at an annualised rate a pace of expansion which many industrial countries might envy.
But time and again, industrial countries dodge the issue in practice.
Exaggerated fears of the impact of globalisation on workers in industrial countries go hand in hand with a new agenda for intervention at the global level.
The fundamental question for the advanced industrial countries is not, as many suppose, whether democracy is compatible with globalisation, but whether democracy is compatible with liberty.
Initiatives such as Malaysia's proposal to use ASEAN currencies in bilateral trade and aid from the G-7 industrial countries to prop up the rupiah may help.
Only next year will laws require frontal air bags and antilock braking systems on all cars, safety features that have been standard in industrial countries for years.
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