Are there other natural resource-focused groups or approaches we should be looking at in 2011?
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This will encourage more investment in resource-rich countries and level the playing field for business.
It's a complaint common to many resource-rich African nations: ordinary people don't benefit from that wealth.
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But resource-rich Australia also enjoyed the sort of luck that has seen it weather other crises.
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But there's another resource-draining plague afflicting these countries, one hiding in plain sight: smoking.
In most other resource-rich countries, as prices rise governments take increasing cuts of the upside.
One part of the risk calculus must be: will settlement inspire more resource-diverting class action lawsuits?
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The key choices facing entrepreneurs are far different than the prescriptions offered resource-rich companies.
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That in turn would help boost growth in these resource-rich countries in the region.
Over the past decade, China's trade has boomed with Afghanistan's resource-rich neighbors in Central Asia.
Iceland is a natural resource-based economy, with plenty of untapped natural resources and well educated workforce.
Some say the new resource-planning system will be running by 2010 at the earliest.
Australian resource-services firm WorleyParsons reported increased profits but said rising costs and project delays were pressuring margins.
Regulatory cooperation is time- and resource-intensive, and it takes a strong commitment to keep the momentum going.
SaaS businesses, resource-intensive software, and any function that relies on uploads and downloads will reap an immediate benefit.
Brazil has been increasingly expanding its economic ties with resource-rich Africa as part of the so-called South-South cooperation.
Such is the strength of its resource-boosted economy that Canada can still be relied on to do well.
They are resource-intensive services that come at immense cost. 2012 is the year to open our eyes.
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Yet the melting Arctic will have geostrategic consequences beyond helping a bunch of resource-fattened countries to get fatter.
Only resource-poor Malaita, and its itinerant elite in Honiara, are keen to keep the country as it is.
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Malaysia's export- and resource-driven economy grew by 5.6% in 2012, but ambitious economic policies have yet to bear fruit.
Wealth in a resource-based economy is distributed much more unequally and more inefficiently.
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The main benefit of this is that smartphones are relatively ubiquitous, even in resource-constrained areas where minefields are prevalent.
They had also promised to "pay mercenaries with mining concessions" in resource-rich DR Congo, Mr Abrahams said, it reports.
Second, companies can deploy their innovative powers to develop and market a new generation of resource-efficient products and services.
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Pricing is important, because PBC transfers resource-management risks to suppliers, which must decide what risk premium customers should pay.
"I can see artists are in a position, but this requires education and information, not resource-consuming lawsuits, " he said.
The area is fraught with tension between rival claimants to its resource-rich seabed.
Most of the displaced shipments of natural gas are expected to find a home in Asia's fast-growing but resource-poor economies.
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