The epicenter of demand has shifted from the developed to the developing nations.
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Within the investment grade economies, the West is getting a prognosis negative while the developing nations are getting cleaner bills of health.
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As long as the developing nations continue to use more energy, exporting energy-rich products will almost surely be a good business for those who can do it.
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Red Reef charts, included in her fundraising documents, projects a quite amazing 23-38% increase in beef, pork and poultry consumption with the developing nations leading the way.
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Having spent our first two generations trying to mimic the masters, it dawned on the developing nations of Asia that their third generations were beginning to wonder why.
The best excursions were those we took in the developing nations of Benin, Togo and Senegal, because we were able to view and, to some degree, experience native lifestyles and traditions, as well as being treated to unique dances and performances on every tour.
Obviously our negotiators there continue to work with nations in Europe, the larger developing nations and the G77 to try to come to some agreement.
Of the major developing nations, India especially has long argued that it will not compromise its economic growth by agreeing to climate curbs.
We advanced economies might be mired in economic gloom but the global economy, powered by the currently developing nations, is growing very nicely indeed.
It urged ministers to support the authorities in developing nations to improve the collection rates of income tax, VAT and local property taxes and to ensure governing elites paid their fair share.
In particular, proponents of a CTB routinely cite the prospect that developing nations will refuse to extend the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) when it comes up for review in 1995 unless the United States and other nuclear weapon states have agreed to suspend testing permanently.
The word sanctions sent delegates from developing nations up the wall.
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He is part of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves, which is working to replace the traditional cook stoves in developing nations all over the world with cleaner, more efficient stoves.
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However, the risk of death for both mothers and babies remains the highest in developing nations.
With the Alliance for Progress and the Peace Corps, he brought American idealism to the aid of developing nations.
Throughout the 1990s, developing nations hit by natural disasters lost between 2% and 15% of their annual GDP, according to Arnold.
Condemning Western governments for neglecting the needs of developing nations holds little water if Asian countries ignore their own marginalized and disenfranchised citizens.
One simply cannot pretend to make a case for American exceptionalism as we see ourselves looking more like developing nations in the world rather than the nations who are leading the world into a new future.
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Bush said his administration will fully fund high priority areas for scientific research into climate change over the next five years, and help developing nations to match the U.S. commitment.
The report does not give an answer but some economists have made the attempt, variously citing demand from China and other developing nations, the diversion of crop use from food to fuel oil, and production constraints.
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The United States is helping developing nations build these and other free institutions through what we call the Millennium Challenge Account.
"Unless the burden of poverty in developing nations is alleviated by significant financial support for mitigation, adaptation, and the reduction of deforestation, the ability of developing countries to pursue sustainable development is likely to diminish, to the economic and environmental detriment of all, " the scientists said.
On the top of the agenda: battling the diseases that plague developing nations.
Desertification has also been linked to health problems caused by dust storms, poverty and a drop in farm production, with infant mortality in drylands double the rate elsewhere in developing nations.
Western officials have given that a lukewarm response, but there has been greater interest in China's proposals for a restructuring of voting rights at the IMF to allow developing nations more say.
This ideal is a far cry from reality for many UNESCO member states and hence UNESCO-UNEVOC gives priority in its work to those with the greatest need: developing nations, economies in transition and those in a post-conflict situation.
The tax, named after the Nobel Prize-winning economist James Tobin, was originally designed to discourage volatile currency trading and also had the potential to help developing nations, but many supporters now say it is one way to ensure that banks do not take excessive risks that could trigger another financial crisis.
Nowadays, some U.S. commentators note gloomily that Japan is in danger of eventually doing an Argentina, by slipping from the ranks of the rich nations back into the status of a developing economy.
Unfortunately, the evidence strongly suggests that such developing nations are deciding to become nuclear weapons states for reasons that have nothing to do with the status of the U.S. testing program.
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