Britain is not alone over economic reform: many new countries, and even some older ones, agree.
Patri Friedman thinks mankind needs to take to the seas and start new countries.
As with all rankings, adding new countries can change the standings, without reflecting absolute change.
McDonald's has opened in 50 new countries in the past five years, bringing the total to 117.
The process is hardly glamorous: new countries do not get an embossed birth certificate or a fanfare.
Apple is just growing faster, making the iPhone 4 available in 14 new countries during the third quarter.
As the global economic miracle unfolds, many entrepreneurs are braving new countries and cultures to build their fortunes.
Meanwhile, the old guard should accelerate the induction of senior officials from the new countries into the ASEAN culture.
Eritrean exiles in Scandinavia lobbied their new countries' officials to pressure Egypt's authorities to go after the Sinai traffickers.
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That was the thrust of the European Union's annual report on negotiations to bring new countries into the club.
But those locations are increasing as companies set up accounts in new countries, and as more employees get engaged.
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Every few days, new visitors from new countries bring their own eccentric and diverse viewing habits into my Netflix account.
The company's record shipment performance can be attributed to the introduction of the iPhone 4 in 17 new countries last quarter.
And now we're in government, if and when new countries join the European Union, transitional controls will be put in place.
The prospect of admitting ten new countries in 2004, most with large agricultural sectors, filled many current EU members with dread.
Having achieved critical mass in their home countries, mobile brands are increasingly exporting their apps to new countries, according to Mr. Palli.
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Surface RT and Surface Pro headed to new countries starting late March.
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Often the originator of the business does not have the expertise to enter new countries quickly, so copycats can get there first.
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"The danger is that this will turn Russia against the entire post-Cold War settlement with the new countries, with democratization, with demilitarization, " Mandelbaum said.
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Will the formula work as the company expands to new countries?
Google ( GOOG - news - people )'s philanthropic arm, Google.org, and the Skoll Foundation to expand his virus-hunting work into new countries.
Apple also recently announced the iPhone 5 will be available in more than 50 new countries in December, taking their carrier count to 240, according to Cannacord.
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Among the announcements Williams made at the event, the biggest were two new partnerships with local companies, which shows how Twitter could approach new countries in the future.
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The young people I met said they did not have a view on the possibility of settling in new countries and it was up to their guardians to decide.
"We have a feeling that many IOC members wish to change, to give an opportunity for new continent, new cities, new countries, a new atmosphere for the Games, " added Nuzman.
Thus, prior to a glut of ten new countries joining the EU in 2004, existing members were granted a grace period in which to indulge themselves in temporary labour-market restrictions.
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It is also gaining sales in Britain and Canada, where it has operated for a few years, and last month it opened in 12 new countries including Singapore and Japan.
In the meantime their finance-promoting groups, Jersey Finance and Guernsey Finance, are trying to draw assets from new countries, and are setting up offices in markets like China and the Gulf.
British American Tobacco kicked off the merger frenzy when it bought Rothmans International in 1999, and with it, a leading presence in 22 new countries, including South Africa, Malaysia and Nigeria.
After admitting ten new countries, most of them considerably poorer than the existing members, Eurocrats are now contemplating without much pleasure the prospect that Romania and Bulgaria will join in 2007.
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