Volunteers are never sure of the conditions they might face when deployed to disaster sites or developing countries.
If you are among the unemployed or underemployed you may not take much solace from this, but our economy is still a formidable source of employment as compared to the economies of most developed or developing countries.
In fact, there are cogent arguments to be made that the level of U.S. corporate taxes is now uncompetitive across all of our industries, relative to most other developed or developing countries, and that our lack of a rational immigration policy is hastening the departure of talent from the U.S. to the benefit of our economic competitors.
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For example, instead of outsourcing more call centres to India or other developing countries, companies might employ people in America or Europe who have good practical knowledge of products or services and can deal with inquiries from home.
The environmental movement also might as well forget fighting the aspirations of the burgeoning middle class in India, or other developing countries.
Moreover, billions of analogues will eventually become digital immigrants, whether for fear of social isolation in rich countries or, in developing countries such as India and China, because they will be able to afford to.
"If we find that rural communities in developing or developed countries can access this without significant expense, then it will make a difference, " he says.
Lending to governments or companies in developing countries proved highly profitable, with relatively large interest payments made to the lender (i.e. the investor) until the loan was repaid.
It is more common in developing countries or countries without veterinary public health programs.
Mr Maloney says 20 or 30 operators in developing countries have expressed interest.
The prize is awarded to candidates who have shown outstanding achievement in enhancing the performance and effectiveness of teachers in developing countries or within marginalised or disadvantaged communities.
In 2008, this amounted to about 1.5 billion people, most of whom lived in remote or rural areas of developing countries in sub- Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Journalism instructors with work experience in developing countries or emerging democracies were then carefully selected from Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and North and South America to write the syllabuses for seventeen core courses.
And just as purchasing a pair of Toms shoes means that the company will donate a pair to someone in the developing world, buying a pair of sunglasses will guarantee prescription glasses or medical care for those in developing countries.
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By the same logic, the more mines a firm is running or developing, and the more countries it operates in, the less risk each individual project poses to profits.
ETS. Those companies have also been given emissions-reduction targets, which they can meet by cutting their own emissions, or by buying allowances from other companies, or by purchasing credits from developing countries.
Intel also argues that its for-profit model is more sustainable than OLPC's nonprofit model, which Intel says may eventually fold and leave developing countries without updates or support.
Bear in mind, also, that in making the global capital market a safer place, the policy-reform agenda goes far beyond the extent to which developing countries should encourage or discourage particular sorts of inflow.
When it comes to sharing information in a world that lives on a 24-hour news cycle or helping link pregnant moms in developing countries to information from health clinics, the UN is embracing the information revolution and has made important steps on that front.
Certainly, without an agreed agenda for further talks there will be little progress in opening the markets of industrialised countries to exports from developing countries in the immediate future, or ending the subsidised dumping of northern agricultural surpluses on poor countries, destroying the livelihood of local farmers.
Vulnerable populations, particularly women, in developing countries face hardship with or without armed conflicts.
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Some 33% of children in developing countries suffer from moderate or severe growth problems, rising to more than 50% in the lesser-developed countries.
Dying in pregnancy or childbirth is common among teenage girls in developing countries.
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Some market watchers had expected a move to boost the euro in the run-up or during the G20 meeting of leading industrialised and developing countries in Montreal.
As wild migratory birds will sometimes visit farms and as domestic flocks of ducks or chickens often live alongside pigs, especially in developing countries, this is quite feasible.
Before 1996, sporadic cases of cyclospora infection turned up only in people who traveled in developing countries and in those with HIV or another condition causing immune-system compromise.
Many developing countries either haven't the resources or, when help is offered, the will to adopt proper standards, seeing them as an excuse for slowing down scientific exchange.
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There are those advanced nations who think that developing countries either cannot absorb this assistance, or that will not be held accountable effectively, and that the world's fastest-growing emitters should bear a greater share of the burden.
In developing countries where the electricity grid is either inefficient or non-existent, the market for renewables is particularly promising.
China, India and other developing countries have already promised to cut the energy or carbon intensity of their expanding economies.
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