Speaking during the debate on 10 December 2012, the European Parliament's negotiator on the agreement, Portuguese centre-right MEP Mario David said it showed there was a "genuine and indisputable" commitment by the Peruvian and Colombian governments to improving the welfare of their countries.
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Many poor countries provide legal protection for workers that rivals that in the most welfare-minded western European countries.
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The demographic shift will present huge challenges to countries' welfare, pension and healthcare systems.
Further, SFD expects that heightened environmental and animal welfare regulations in competing countries will support the export demand.
For wealthy countries, welfare states acted as a buffer to the economic shock, even at the expense of growth.
While they wait for their cases to be determined, asylum-seekers in most European countries can get welfare benefits more easily than they can get permission to work.
As important, the principles of welfare-to-work can be applied to other working-age people who in many countries have come to depend on welfare through disability payments.
But the British Hen Welfare Trust said not all EU countries would adhere to the ban.
The Commission also highlights the potential for dramatic savings to countries' health and welfare budgets in the long term from preventing cases of liver disease.
In European countries immigrants can receive welfare more easily than join the workforce, and their job prospects are confined by education levels that lag those of immigrants in the United States, Canada and Australia.
Other countries have successfully implemented welfare-to-work programmes.
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Substantial price reductions or even donations of welfare-enhancing new medicines for poor countries are called for.
However, in countries where there are few social welfare agencies, we serve people directly.
Both of these countries must be considered traditional social welfare states, but at least show some degree of moderation in their socialist practices.
He said he doubted whether the Nordic countries, with their generous social welfare, would accept the UK unilaterally diluting workers' rights and still remaining in the EU single market.
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Welfare benefits are higher than average wages in many countries.
Although poorer countries still limit themselves to ad hoc welfare offerings, fitting the spending level to revenues one budget at a time, there is an increasing trend towards entitlements served by statutory institutions that will outlive the budgetary cycle.
The Nordic countries, for example, manage an enviable welfare state.
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"The Department of State takes very seriously the welfare of children, particularly children who have been adopted from other countries, " she said.
The US state department said it would help Russian officials make contact with the appropriate authorities in Texas, and that it "took very seriously the welfare of children, particularly children who have been adopted from other countries".
The official version of Mr Yeats's paper was published with a number of caveats, such as a statement that the author is uncertain whether, taken as a whole, changes in the Mercosur countries' trade policies since 1988 have reduced their economic welfare.
The poor in rich countries often consume more than they earn, because they receive welfare benefits and use public services.
In developed countries, rehab is the gateway to an expanding array of social-welfare and mental-health services that create disincentives for addicts to cut their consumption.
And when Britain's (nominally centre-left) government opened the borders to EU enlargement countries in 2004, it explicitly barred the new migrants from access to welfare payments for a set period.
France and Germany, with their expensive welfare states, are loth to cut corporate tax rates to the low levels of countries like Ireland, so they want the Irish to raise theirs.
Many countries, particularly within the eurozone, have been cutting back hard on welfare spending in an attempt to reduce debt and balance government books as tax revenues fall because of weak growth.
How carefully President Obama and other activists in America conduct themselves when advocating on behalf of the gay people in countries like Nigeria will go a long way in either ameliorating or worsening the welfare of those they seek to help.
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If Western consumers demand organic food among their imports, is that foisting an inappropriate standard upon growers in poor countries, or is it potentially helping to set better standards for farmers' health and welfare in the exporting country?
Since then many countries have been creating an illusion of continual progress by running up hefty debts to finance their welfare states.
More generally, it will be important to try to take into account the fact that many of the neighboring countries have ethnic groups from their country represented in Afghanistan, and therefore will be concerned about their welfare.
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