Finance ministers and central bankers from major industrial and developing countries meet this weekend outside London to discuss the financial crisis.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

He says projects designed to increase interpersonal trust can have a major effect in poor countries with undependable legal systems.

VOA: special.2009.12.19

With the coming of Mexican independence, the Santa Fe Trail became the major trade link between the two countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.30

It asks major polluting countries to voluntarily reduce gases linked to what scientists call the greenhouse effect.

VOA: special.2010.01.19

It says there has been a major decrease in AIDS deaths in many countries as a result.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

As a matter of fact, one of the major contributors to tuberculosis going up in several countries is because diabetes is going up -- and obesity.

VOA: special.2011.05.11

In some of the more affluent countries, corruption may be a major problem.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

Who should our partners be and how should we engage them?" On Thursday, leaders of major industrial and developing countries met in London to battle the world recession.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

And,the countries relationship changed again as China became a major trading partner.

VOA: special.2010.03.03

"Clearly one of the major implications of something like this would be for use in developing countries: maybe for testing HIV, maybe for testing for tuberculosis, or perhaps even malaria."

VOA: special.2010.12.06

The incident produced a major effect on many countries.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

In nearly all the major relationship livestock-producing countries in the world, farmers add small amounts of antibiotics to the animals' feed.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Andrei Koztunof of the New Eurasia Foundation in Moscow says both countries essentially agreed not to make it a major issue.

VOA: standard.2010.07.09

"It is largely a consequence of 150 years of industrialization in the major developed countries of the world."

VOA: standard.2009.11.08

Waskow says the major challenges created for many poor countries by climate change, calls for long-term investment.

VOA: standard.2009.12.11

Even a slowdown at the border would have a major impact on both countries.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

Energy has become a major concern in several Western countries, after a dispute between Ukraine and Russia over prices led to major natural gas shortages in Europe earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

Schlundt says it remains common in other major livestock-producing countries.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Analysts say it will take major progress against terrorism in Afghanistan to counter the weight of public opinion in Britain and other NATO countries that this is an unwinnable war.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

But Tarrin calls for the major industrial countries to ensure continued support to developing economies because they are unable to maintain large stimulus packages like those in the industrial world.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

As a major contributor to such loan guarantees, Germany wants stricter measures in place to keep countries from running up such high debts and to regulate the banking and financial sectors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.26

After their talk on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, Mr.Obama said the United States and Japan have a major role in working with other countries toward economic recovery.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Either way,it is going to be an expensive trip." The flight cancellations are expected to have additional repercussions for smaller Southeast Asia countries, where travel and tourism is a major share of the economy.

VOA: standard.2010.04.19

The Congressionally-mandate report covering 189 countries and territories includes sharp criticism of the record on religious issues by countries also listed by the United States as major human rights violators, including Iran and North Korea.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

"For instance,we know that mental illness disorders like depression or alcohol use disorders play a major role in European countries, for instance" "But,we have to also look at Asian countries where impulsiveness plays a much more important role, which is that suicide can happen on the spur of the moment."

VOA: standard.2009.09.10