Almost 60% of Australia's exports go to Asia, and their competitiveness there has been severely squeezed as the region's governments have intervened to hold down their currencies.
Drivers fail to obey traffic laws, which many of the region's governments notoriously don't enforce.
Representatives from the region's governments are understood to meeting next week to discuss the proposals.
Few of the region's governments have the capacity to strike fair deals with big oil companies.
As the region's governments deal with the mess, good news is usually followed by bad.
At the very least, the cost of capital for the region's governments and firms will increase.
In the past the region's governments would have "solved" the problem by employing the new entrants themselves.
Though they are reluctant to trumpet the fact, all the region's governments have started that joyless task.
It argued that a slowdown would do little damage to the credit standing of many of the region's governments.
They have been reminding the region's governments that they are committed long-term investors.
The region's governments get excited about integrated rail networks and other fun projects.
So while the region's governments bring in accountants and consultants to overhaul their banks and boardrooms, they should not ignore those who continue to till the soil.
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As the rescue operation proceeds, some important questions will no doubt be asked: should the region's governments have been better prepared for such a catastrophe, given how often such giant quakes have happened before?
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That phase will in many ways make different demands on the region's governments than the previous one, in which it was necessary only to offer a cheap and willing source of labour and natural resources.
The region's Islamic governments face a tough balancing act.
The euro's strength has followed what appears to be the receding threat of a euro-zone breakup, thanks to pledges from the European Central Bank to stop speculative runs on the region's banks and governments.
The U.S. and other Western governments can check Islamism's designs on the region only by acknowledging that Africa is an important piece of the global security architecture.
But once again, the divisions among the region's left-of-centre governments were on display.
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Such a step would greatly facilitate the efforts the Venezuelan dictator is making through covert funding and training of anti-U.S. political parties and organizations throughout Central America to bring about an electoral ouster of the pro-U.S. governments in the region.
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All the while he bickered with a succession of U.S. governments over what he called Washington's hegemony in the region.
Chavez, though cancer-stricken in recent years, had led the oil-rich Latin American nation for nearly 14 years while espousing a fiery brand of socialism and bickering with a succession of U.S. governments over what he called Washington's hegemony in the region.
The fallout escalated after rebels kidnapped the Westerners, dragging governments beyond Africa into the region's conflicts and insecurity.
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Later, at the National Press Club, Lula deftly fielded queries about Brazil's ties with Washington's least-favourite governments in the region, Cuba and Venezuela, saying that his victory showed that the left could win in democracy.
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Governments in the region have followed Chile's lead and decided to get out of the way of private airlines.
Given this region's history of drought, the IMF is recommending that governments avoid dependency on hydropower as an engine of growth.
Alongside the debt-reduction efforts that governments are pursuing across the eurozone, the region's exporters are also having to contend with a currency that has been rallying on foreign exchange markets, potentially making their products less competitive in the international marketplace.
U.S. and Arab officials also worry the Muslim Brotherhood's rise could accelerate the continuing expansion of Islamist governments across the region in the wake of the political uprisings that started last year.
From a security standpoint, this ratification consolidates a partnership with the South American country which is critical in a region where free markets and U.S. influence is being attacked by populist and nationalist governments in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.
In the short term, we will see the OAS coming under pressure to dissolve itself as governments in the region view it as an obsolete organization aimed at serving U.S. hegemony.
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