Abidjan is becoming the business centre of Francophone West Africa, so western countries want to keep it stable.
So western firms doing business in China have a responsibility to do their homework and keep a vigilant eye on their suppliers.
Road access to the site of a new electricity substation is narrow so Western Power Distribution (WPD) agreed the alternative method of transport.
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So western diplomats are touting a next-best option, with Turkey's urbane foreign minister, Ismail Cem, a member of Ecevit's party, taking the helm and Mr Dervis still running the economy.
And in a way, many of the benefits of building Masdar City will flow to the West, Ardalan says, because so many Western firms are contributing.
Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns--so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.
Lobstermen cast a big shadow in their little towns-so much so that Western Australian writer Tim Winton based his prizewinning 2001 novel, Dirt Music, on a rich, domineering lobsterman.
As Russia's tactics have toughened, so have western warnings.
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Some countries have been through more loss within living memory and are better at grieving, but not so in Western Europe and the U.S. The economic healing process may take a long time.
Essentially, it means that just as Western manufacturers are finding it increasingly difficult to compete with manufacturers in China, so too will Western investors find it increasingly difficult to compete with Chinese sources of capital.
They seem to be using social media very astutely but so too do western companies.
They include the remains of what archaeologists believe to be the earliest stringed instrument to be found so far in western Europe.
So, are western private equity and venture investors rushing in too quickly?
If someone had told me as recently as five years ago, let alone in 1992 when I first came here, that the Chinese would be spending so much on Western-style weddings, I simply would not have believed it.
The classic philanthropy model (the super rich who devote the rest of their lives to the effective distribution and use of their wealth to alleviate societal ills) is still a long way away for China as it needs to overcome the lack of religious, cultural and historical precedents to philanthropy that is so evident in western countries.
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But then so are all the other rapidly growing markets that Western companies are so keen to trade with.
And part of the reason it has never properly recovered is that those who control vast pots of money in Boston, Singapore, Geneva and so on are concerned that big Western banks are weaker then they seem (so a big hello again to "forbearance").
Thein Sein has repeatedly called for an end to Western sanctions so that Myanmar can start rebuilding its economy.
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But, this is not so surprising as many Western firms also owe their historical origins to the ideas of others.
These days, Somalia is so dangerous that most western aid workers spend little more than 24 hours at a time on the ground.
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Never, in recent times, has an economy of a Western country shrunk so fast - 16% in just four years.
If so, the landscape of Western politics could suddenly look very unfamiliar.
Brazil still has more flexibility than they do in the troubled Western economies, so inflation is likely to remain in check at 5.5 percent.
Sometimes they are doing so in partnership with worldly Western institutions.
Dr. Das explains that editors at scientific publications commonly request researchers enhance faded images of western blot tests so they can be duplicated in their publications.
Most Asian countries, with the notable exception of India, entered this downturn with sounder budget finances than their Western counterparts, so they had more room to spend.
Croatia is not really ready to join, if only because of organised crime, but the EU wants to stabilise the western Balkans, so it will get in around 2010.
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