At least two studies, one for the World Bank and the other for the Asian Development Bank, show that the effect is not significant.
Last week was a disappointing one for the world of art.
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Hart and James were no doubt hoping to outdo each other in the race to be named as England's number one keeper for the World Cup, but a lack of chances certainly reduced their opportunities to impress.
"It's a sad day for one of the world's most iconic creatures, " Philip Mansbridge, CEO of Care for the Wild International, said in a statement.
The University of Waterloo is known for being one of the best universities in the world for computer science.
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It is not normal - not even for the vast majority of other successful musicians - to get asked to write a ballet for one of the world's most revered dance companies, having never written one before, or shown any real interest in the art form.
Were the Bolshoi to be cut out of that global exchange on any level, it would be a setback not just for one of the world's great ballet companies, but for ballet as a whole.
At the current juncture, Iraq is yet one more headache for the world's economic managers.
Wednesday's incident was the latest in several headline-making issues for one of the world's leading cruise lines.
The mix of economic rigour and reformist politics seemed a promising one for Brazil, the world's fourth-largest democracy but its third most unequal country and one with an unhappy tradition of political corruption (see article).
So it is all the more surprising to learn that not only is she a test pilot for one of the world's biggest aircraft manufacturers, she is the only woman in France holding such a position.
But even as the adventures of a bespectacled boy wizard have proven that the world still has an appetite for the written word, one wonders if Hodgman still sees a place for the publishing world he abandoned a decade or so ago to great success.
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The downturn in Apple's stock price obviously hasn't dampened bond investors' enthusiasm for one of the world's most prosperous companies.
Morse tracked down the company's owner, and in 2007 he bought it, trading his former career in the horse business for one in the boat world.
Less than 10 years later, Singapore ranks number one in the world for ease of doing business and number four for starting a business, according to the World Bank.
Ponting has played for his country 152 times in the longest form of the game and recorded 99 wins and while he will hope to be part of the Australian team for the one-day World Cup this spring, the selectors may decide to rebuild the Test team without him.
For one, the world needs philanthropists, nonprofits and changemakers who have creative and innovative approaches to improving communities.
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Moreover, for one of the world's largest supercomputers, it achieved an extraordinarily high computing efficiency ratio of 93.0%.
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He has two college degrees, two decades of experience in information technology, and worked as a network engineer for one of the world's largest telecommunications companies.
Granted, expectations are tremendously high for one of the world's biggest rock 'n' roll bands, but U2 doesn't live up to the hype this go round.
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"Today's decision is a tremendous victory for one of the world's most iconic and charismatic animals, " said Carter Roberts, president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund US on the group's Web site.
One independent study for the World Bank a decade ago found a surprising link between projects the bank financed and civil liberties: projects in countries with strong civil liberties had far higher rates of return than those in countries with weak traditions of liberty.
Agency reports, not confirmed by the PGA Tour, suggested Woods had been fined for his comments, but the world number one told reporters as he prepared for the PGA Championship that this was not the case.
The 48, 000-capacity Mangaung Stadium in Bloemfontein is one of 10 venues for the World Cup.
Klinsmann feels his old strike partner might have to wait another four years for the team to develop fully into one that can lift the World Cup for a fourth time.
Geography is one advantage: rough seas and big tides make the British isles one of the best places in the world for sea power.
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So instead of one environment for work and one for social business, in the world I am imagining applications will be more like the heads-up display in a first person shooter video game.
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The Great Lakes chemical corporation, formerly known as Octel, has been in the town for 50 years, and is one of the world's leading producer of certain speciality chemicals for applications like water treatment.
Helsinki-based Eija-Liisa Ahtila, 46, was one of eight competing in Cardiff for the biennial visual arts prize, one of the world's biggest.
America's stockmarket bubble has been partly financed by foreigners, notably the Japanese, who account for one-third of the world's savings.
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