But many think that middle-income countries in the Middle East and Asia could afford to pay more.
Although his empire expands to Latin America, the United States and Europe, oil-rich Middle East countries so far have not been part of it.
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Poorer but still fast-growing countries in the Middle East, like Egypt, are a valuable part of any region-wide investment strategy.
They discussed a range of issues, including the challenges of globalization, the role of UNESCO, especially in middle-income countries, and the situation in the Middle East.
The comments reflect a practicality common among Western diplomats and officials trying to win hearts and minds in the Middle East and other non-Western countries where democracy isn't a tradition.
Last year, Franklin Templeton Investments emerging-markets guru Mark Mobius started finding bargains in Middle East countries like Egypt and Dubai, but these scarcely figure in the typical emerging-markets fund.
Russia, like other oil-rich countries in the Middle East and Latin America, has become increasingly hostile to foreign investment in the oil sector in recent years.
They point out that Western governments place huge taxes on oil and therefore most of the money goes to Western governments rather than oil-producing countries in the Middle East.
This is a significant trend for Visa and other payment technology providers such as MasterCard, American Express and Discover Financial as it signifies the importance of growth opportunity that exists in Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Latin American countries.
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The huge inflows will shore up the finances of the 12-member group, particularly as some Middle East countries lift social spending on the wake of the Arab Spring.
Yemen ranks dead last, with the Middle East and Africa housing some of the poorest-performing countries.
The chart below shows the cumulative average outperformance 40 days before and 40 days after the ex-date among dividend-paying stocks in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) countries.
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Today, General Lloyd Austin became the first African-American to lead the U.S. Central Command, which has a wide-ranging area of responsibility for 20 countries in the Middle East and southwest Asia.
Earlier this week, Lockheed won a large missile-system order from the UAE, and could see more orders coming through as the U.S. and Middle Eastern countries amid a military build-up in the Middle-East.
In 1916, French and British diplomats secretly reached the Sykes-Picot agreement, carving up the Middle East into spheres of influence for their respective countries.
Financial linkages are less important in CIS countries and in the Middle East and north Africa, but a deeper euro-area recession will batter export industries there, too.
Leaders throughout North Africa and the Middle East must honor the role women played in freeing their countries: All their citizens -- including women -- have important contributions to make at this historic moment.
Bergen has written about al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, counterterrorism, homeland security and countries around the Middle East for a range of American newspapers and magazines including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, TIME, The Nation, The National Interest, Mother Jones, Newsweek, Washington Times and Vanity Fair.
In contrast, for western Europe, the supply of well-educated people from the east may now sputter as the immediate neighbours become the sort of middle-income and relatively elderly countries that need to import workers, not export them.
You have been able time and again to put down important international goalposts, injecting issues such as disarmament, the question of how to shape our relations with the countries of the Middle East, and last but not least, the Middle East -- the solution to the Middle East conflict with new dynamism.
But most of the countries we now call "emerging" - especially in Latin America and the Middle East - would also have been put on that list, 40 years ago.
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