The rich nations, after all, have their own business lobbies and voters to answer to.
America also wants rich nations to write off as much as 95% of Iraq's bilateral debt.
According to Nobelist Douglas North, the main difference between poor and rich nations is not growth rates.
Rich nations have set tariffs on imports from developing countries at 30% higher than the global average.
Members of OPEC, the cartel of oil rich nations are in Venezuela for a one day meeting.
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For these goals to be meaningful and comprehensive, many would argue they have to cover consumption patterns in rich nations.
With billions pledged by rich nations already, the risk of waste is particularly high with the current crisis.
The currently rich nations were basically wired up for landline networks over the course of the past century.
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But secondly, and significantly, it shredded the public finances of rich nations and shocked public opinion in the developed world.
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There are a few in rich nations, including Tokyo, (with more than thirty million people), New York, Los Angeles and London.
The G20 group of rich nations had originally planned to bring in Basel III last month, but that has been delayed to January 2014.
Between holdout bondholders and the Paris Club of rich nations, somewhere between 7% and 8% of the original amount remains outstanding.
With that, Doosan plunged into full-scale production of power plants for turnkey transfer to oil-rich nations, two-thirds of its business today.
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Other oil-rich nations, such as Nigeria, also have governments that try to keep petrol artificially cheap and therefore suffer chronic shortages.
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In his telephone conversation with Mr Karzai, the Iranian president pledged support for Afghan stability, calling on rich nations to assist in the country's reconstruction.
Frustration at slow progress of the UN climate talks bubbled over when a spokesman for small island states (AOSIS) rounded on rich nations.
They want rich nations to pledge 1.5% of their GDP, as well as meeting the widely accepted target for aid of 0.7% of GDP.
The impact of rich nations worldwide is clear in figures showing that the steepest drop in biodiversity over the past 40 years has occurred in poorer countries.
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Ronny Jumea, from the Seychelles, told rich nations earlier that discussion of compensation would not have been needed if they had cut emissions earlier.
Down through history, rich nations have gotten to the future first.
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The yen has jumped against major currencies after an official representing the G7 rich nations clarified a statement it had made on the currency markets.
What some developing country governments see happening here is that rich nations that have not fulfilled their past commitments are now demanding a new agreement.
This boom has given Brazil and other commodity-rich nations windfall revenues.
The incoming head of the UN climate convention has said rich nations must pledge bigger emission cuts if climate change is to be tackled effectively.
Why would a pledge that applied only to rich nations, and to which all those nations seemed to agree, have vanished from the final document?
China's interests as a developing country, which are distinct from those of the G7 economies, may be difficult to advance in the rich nations' club.
To deal with such volatility, emerging markets need to manage demand in the way that rich nations do: through more flexible interest rates and exchange rates.
He doesn't accept the view, common among the utopians, that natural endowments like soil and water explain why rich nations are 50 times as prosperous as poor ones.
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