In another guise, the virtual organisation could be an industrial consortium developing, say, a passenger jet.
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" The recent consensus by finance ministers from the Group of 20 industrial and developing nations to refrain from currency manipulation, she said, was an "important signal.
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European leaders of industrial and developing nations, meeting at the Group of 20 summit in Mexico, vowed to start integrating their banking system amid the Continent's debt crisis.
Viewed that way, the agreement to fund reforestation projects is an important development because it addresses the source of 20% of global warming gases while connecting developing and industrial economies, he said.
Unison said the full-time post enabled the union convenor to understand the council's policies "inside out" and had prevented any "major industrial problem" from developing at the authority since it was established in 1996.
In the developing world, industrial and financial reform has sometimes been impressive by earlier standards, yet remains sadly inadequate in relation to what is actually required.
The Kyoto protocol established a mechanism (see article) under which developing countries that cut their industrial emissions can sell those reductions to rich countries.
G20 was furious at the discrepancy between the Europeans' timidity on cutting farm tariffs and the ambition of their demands for reductions in developing countries' tariffs on industrial goods.
China and Singapore officially agreed to cooperate in developing the China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park as a mutually beneficial, inter-governmental project in February 1994.
The fund's executive board will include representatives from developing and donor countries, along with industrial and non-governmental organisations.
Settling this question will mean some differentiation between developing countries, a term that includes both industrial giants and hapless victims, whose interests are very different.
Japanese manufacturers, utilities and government-funded institutes are also working with an industry lobby called the Japan Atomic Industrial Forum to train foreign civil servants and engineers from developing countries around the world on how to operate and maintain reactors.
It's also easy to overlook the damage inflicted on local ecosystems and economies -- a large portion of which are in the developing world -- as a consequence of current industrial-scale agriculture practices.
Given the mercantilist mindset of trade negotiations, that will only happen if barriers to industrial goods and services are also reduced, especially by big developing countries such as Brazil and India. (The fact that lower tariffs benefit an importing economy is lost on trade negotiators.) In this area, the Geneva deal achieved less.
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The existence of such a large, developing market proved vital when the third great development, the Industrial Revolution, began in 18th-century Britain.
"I think this quickly will be applied to all the most important industrial bacteria, " said biologist Christopher Voigt at the University of California, San Francisco, who is developing microbes that help make gasoline.
The divide over agriculture threatens to undermine Doha because the developing countries, which object most strongly to the trade-distorting subsidies provided to farmers in the industrial world, were such reluctant participants in the first place.
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