These numbers are so large they have the potential to undermine the stability of countries, Unicef's executive director Carol Bellamy warned.
Putin and other Russian officials have long complained that Western countries aim to undermine his government by funding opposition groups.
Besides, tax competition could undermine budgetary stability in individual countries.
The divide over agriculture threatens to undermine Doha because the developing countries, which object most strongly to the trade-distorting subsidies provided to farmers in the industrial world, were such reluctant participants in the first place.
The view from Brussels is that any default would spread to other countries and that it would undermine the credibility of the single currency and so the European project.
This is being greeted coolly by many Europeans, who think it might undermine their efforts to get the Balkan countries to do what they must do: continue to push through painful reforms.
Though Britain agrees, other EU countries think such a move might undermine the current attempts to achieve a ceasefire.
At that meeting, both Mr Menem and Brazil's President Fernando Henrique Cardoso emphasised that their countries' recent disputes were small matters that did not undermine their close relations.
The final draft would allow countries to determine whether the weapons transfer would contribute to or undermine peace and security.
There are things under our control that undermine our competitiveness in relation not only to China but to numerous other countries.
But even these qualifications do not undermine the basic direction of sensible reform: not to concentrate resources on countries with access to capital markets.
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