Countries take many different approaches to extraterritorial jurisdiction ie, the claim to be able to try cases for crimes committed outside their borders.
In reality, some countries take many generations to acquire efficient markets.
But Argentina's top officials and supporters in many Latin American countries have a different take.
Even before Europe's financial crisis tightened budgets, Paris has said it no longer has the money or appetite for policing African countries, encouraging many former colonies to take on more of the job themselves.
Nowadays, there are shops which sell only teddy bears, there are teddy bear museums in many countries, and teddy bear festivals regularly take place in Australia, the US, Britain, Canada, Germany and Japan.
It is likely to be some time before the tobacco-control treaty signed on Wednesday begins to show effects on consumption in the developing countries, where many thousands of youngsters take up smoking each day.
Many countries still want bondholders (private investors) to take some of the heavy-lifting, but - and herein lies the rub - as long as any easing of the terms is voluntary.
Many companies operating in Colombia and other high-risk countries take out ransom insurance policies on their employees because the risk of kidnapping is so high.
Anti-smoking campaigners and many poor countries, on the other hand, want health to take precedence over trade.
Unfortunately, this advice might fall on deaf ears, as many of the large-scale land acquisitions take place in countries with very weak governance.
The public sector and its debt will take up a bigger portion of the economy in many countries.
Some vaccines take 15 years to reach poorer countries, and many such countries still have rotten drug-distribution systems.
Many countries today have privacy regulations, but few have been updated to take into account new capabilities like mobile services.
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More generally, it will be important to try to take into account the fact that many of the neighboring countries have ethnic groups from their country represented in Afghanistan, and therefore will be concerned about their welfare.
Many of these countries, such as China, have the fiscal and monetary capacity to take actions to spur domestic demand and to help support global growth.
As politicians in Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, Ireland and Italy have discovered, the financial crisis is forcing countries to take desperately tough decisions, confronting problems that were ducked for many years.
Take into account the weakened dollar as well as economic growth, and in many countries the arms spending looks less threatening.
And it made many fund managers more reluctant to take on investments they think are risky - notably in developing countries' markets.
In many countries girls marry at a very young age, become pregnant too early and cut short their education to take care of their young family.
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In many countries, governments have responded to emergencies by nationalising the worst banks, often pledging to inject capital, take on their dud loans, and reprivatise them.
He said the Haqqanis "have been contacted and are being contacted by intelligence agencies of many Islamic and non-Islamic countries, including the US, asking us to leave the sacred jihad and take an important part in the current government".
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