The Director-General also referred to the importance of advancing education in post-conflict and transition countries such as Liberia, Myanmar and South-Sudan.
Economists, who do not truck in cloaks and daggers, have asked a dispassionate question: Could it be that oligarchs play a positive role, particularly in transition countries such as Russia, Ukraine, or Kazakhstan where there are so few entrepreneurs?
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An award-winning journalist, he has managed media projects in over 45 countries in transition since 1992.
Its emphasis is on helping to meet the needs of developing countries, countries in transition and those in a post-conflict situation.
The IPDC is the only intergovernmental programme in the UN system mandated to promote the development of free, independent and pluralistic media in developing countries and countries in transition.
However, the transition was difficult, and although some countries like the Czech Republic and Slovenia were able to overcome the early years of transition, becoming the prosperous democracies that they are now, some others eventually adopted new types of autocracies.
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In many countries, the transition from CTT to VAT has witnessed a spurt in inflation.
There are countries where the transition has occurred or is occurring, like Egypt, Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia.
The Pentagon hard-liners think this attitude underestimates the Iraqi people and note that some former Soviet-bloc countries made the transition in a matter of months.
Doing so would permit Hanoi to borrow hundreds of millions from the newly established IMF funding facility available to countries ostensibly in transition from command to market economies.
For the West the confusion is how to assist Muslim countries make the transition into modernity as much out of historical necessity as self-interest in terms of security.
While the transition facing each of these countries is unique and while the resources of West Germany provide an opportunity for rapid change not available elsewhere, there will nonetheless likely be salutary effects and lessons to be learned throughout the region from the East German experience.
This year, we will work with nearly 50 countries to begin a transition to an Afghan lead.
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To ensure widest participation, the Government of Georgia will fund high-level delegates from over 100 developing countries and countries with economies in transition to participate in the Conference.
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And we continue to pursue policies in the region that are aimed at helping these countries that are in transition, through this traumatic transformation that's happening, towards democracy, towards a better future, and towards -- we hope and are working for -- a strong, better relationship with the United States.
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Will not some other countries start wondering whether their transition out of the euro also would be relatively smooth and orderly?
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Alexander Mather of the University of Aberdeen predicted in 1992 that forest transition is the likely future of tropical countries, too.
It benefits from strong demand for advanced set-top boxes in developed countries as service providers aggressively transition their subscribers to advanced services.
After that, the Secretary-General told the press, he would travel to Egypt and Tunisia, so that he could see first hand how the people of those countries are moving ahead with the transition to democracy.
The BBC's United Nations correspondent Barbara Plett said there was a sense that the National Transition Council needed the money immediately and that countries were not willing to wait for the United Nations to pass another resolution.
Yet a child in the last grade of primary only has at best a 75% chance of making the transition to lower secondary school in about 20 countries around the world, the overwhelming majority of which are in sub-Saharan Africa.
This is because such countries have moved furthest along the demographic transition from poor, high-fertility status to richer, low-fertility status.
"Since 2012 is an election year in both countries, with an election and leadership transition in Russia and an election in the United States, it is clearly not a year in which we are going to achieve a breakthrough, " said deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes.
It is still open to countries to offer amnesties as they make the transition to democracy.
Countries differ in their approach to organizing the transition from school to work.
Regional tensions have been further exacerbated by the different ways the various Central Asian countries have dealt with the post-Soviet transition.
The turmoil of the past few months has, in many countries, come at a time of political transition, and has brought reform closer.
In rich countries, sceptics emphasise the difficulties of the transition.
Countries where apprenticeship is common are also those where the transition from school to work is easiest, he says.
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