He hopes that soon Spain will become a member of the G8 group of rich countries.
G10 group of rich countries which said that sovereign borrowers should honour existing bond contracts.
G7 group of rich countries never asked non-members for permission to form their club.
This would get around the unwillingness of rich countries to send their troops to die in Congo.
The World Bank has sometimes been criticised for imposing the values of rich countries on poor people.
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The perceived relative riskiness of rich countries' debt could well rise and so could their relative bond yields.
Just how much governments of rich countries should borrow and spend to boost their economies is disputed.
The G8 group of rich countries published a wordy declaration in May, but has done little since.
But the dislocation to the labour markets of rich countries, notably America, will be worse than many suspect.
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Given the addiction of rich countries to coddling their farmers, anyone expecting rapid change will doubtless be disappointed.
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It also accounts for an ever-decreasing share of rich countries' output and employment.
There are reports that the G7 group of rich countries may release a statement later this week to cool talk about currency markets.
One result is a fertility rate, 1.5 births per woman, more typical of rich countries than of what Cuba still is, the third world.
G10 group of rich countries has come up with model collective-action clauses that are, in many ways, weaker than those that already exist under English law.
In 2005 exports were a far higher proportion of the output of developing countries than of rich countries, leaving emerging markets more at risk from a drop in American demand.
Yet Russia's aspiration to membership, which in turn opened up the prospect of joining the Paris-based OECD club of rich countries, demonstrated its desire for integration into the global economic system.
Lawyers and experts on internet policy say no court case has ever turned on the presence or absence of such an automatic e-mail footer in America, the most litigious of rich countries.
G8 group of rich countries, the European Union, the United States and the Arab League, met in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss ways of ending the mayhem in Iraq.
It also said the EU should seek to add value rather than merely recycle money (eg, directing funds to poorer areas of rich countries that ought to be able to look after themselves).
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The greenback has been losing ground since the weekend, when a meeting of the G7 group of rich countries said that currency values should be set by market forces, casting doubt over the US government's traditional commitment to maintaining the dollar strong.
Today, transfers from rich countries to poor, and downwards redistribution within poor countries, are in the collective interests of the rich countries.
Oddly enough, the same people who accuse America of entering oil-rich countries militarily for oil are the ones who accuse America of not entering oil-rich countries militarily (such as Iran and Saudi Arabia) because of their oil.
It was the first such decline for this group of mainly rich countries since the beginning of 2009.
The refusal of some rich countries to accept a second set of commitments under Kyoto (the current ones run out in 2012) was a big stumbling block in Copenhagen.
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The report follows a year-long review by the Conservatives prompted by a Unicef report which put the UK at the bottom of a table of 21 rich countries for the well-being of children.
Since Rio, governments have been hampered by a decision there to divide the world into one group of mostly rich countries that were supposed to cut emissions and another of mostly poor ones that did not have to.
There is precious little evidence from recent elections to suggest that the citizens of the rich countries want to see a radical cut in the size or scope of the state.
In fact, the sporadic transmission of malaria in the sub-tropical regions of the rich countries was vastly easier to control than is its chronic transmission in the heart of the tropics.
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