But the requirements of HIPC were so strict that only two countries have benefited from it.
Only two countries are above the western European average: Slovenia, thanks to its wealth, and Turkey, because of its booming birthrate.
By contrast, a 2002 study found that only two countries censored the Web, says Palfrey, who is also an investigator at OpenNet.
They are happy to let Spain and Luxembourg preen themselves as the only two countries to have secured yes votes in referendums.
Only two countries, Guatemala and Nauru, have no legal system for the exchange of tax information, although they are working on it.
In only two countries, the United States and Pakistan, did more than one in five people feel that capitalism works well as it stands.
The only two countries in western Europe to have increased the number of party members in the past 30 years are Greece and Spain.
Until now, France and Slovenia were the only two countries to have opted out from this measure of financial transparency, already implemented at a European level.
Indeed, only two countries have emerged from the debris relatively unscathed, their influence if anything strengthened by this year of troubles: China and the United States.
Only two countries, Nepal and Bangladesh, of the 108 countries studied (a greatly expanded sample size from earlier attempts) showed stronger returns in the summer.
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Some claim that the tricky issues that stand in the way of a multilateral deal can be more easily resolved when only two countries are sitting at the table.
Since smallpox was wiped from the face of the earth, there are only two countries that had any stockpile of this agent, and they are the US and Russia.
Only two countries in Europe have been managing their fisheries in a sustainable fashion - Iceland and Norway, Mr Grimsson claimed, pointing out that neither is a member of the European Union.
Of the 21 nations participating in all phases of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), American high school seniors did better than only two countries: South Africa and Cyprus.
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Internationally, Harley is targeting large scale expansion in emerging markets such as Brazil and India, and these are the only two countries where the company has set up an assembly plant outside the U.S. Its motorcycles segment has performed exceptionally well in Latin America and Asia in the last few years.
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Only two European countries have imposed quotas for women in elections.
The only two EU countries that count militarily are France and Britain: it makes obvious sense for them to work together, especially in procurement, as even the Eurosceptic shadow defence secretary, Liam Fox, understands.
The EU's eastward enlargement in 2004 brought a huge wave of East Europeans to the UK, at a time when only two other EU countries - Sweden and the Republic of Ireland - were allowing unrestricted access to their labour markets.
That may be, but that wave has only washed ashore in two countries: Egypt and Tunisia.
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Only recently, the two countries agreed to liberalise trade and visas, both long-standing Indian demands.
This is not the only place in which two countries have competing designs.
Only two and a half countries in Europe are serious about defence: us, the French and the Germans (the half).
It seemed only natural that the two countries began trading so feverishly with one another, and a lot of people got rich off of that relationship.
The fact that infrastructure is already in place for oil sands development and oil already flows through pipelines between the two countries only sweetens the deal.
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Only recent have two or three countries tried to apply the tax to companies as well as to individuals.
The move, which follows several days of diplomatic efforts between Iran and Britain, was sudden: The two countries had only recently acknowledged making overtures to end the standoff.
The two countries remain distinct only in their earnings potential: a graduate engineer in Matamoros earns less than a shop assistant across the river in Brownsville.
The link between the two countries is strong and only getting stronger.
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It could then be put to a vote of all 193 member countries, requiring only a two-thirds majority for it to pass.
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