The political changes in the last generation are creating a rapidly growing class of entrepreneurial capitalists around the world--in India, China, Brazil and eastern and central Europe.
Central and Eastern Europe, Central and East Asia, Latin American and the Caribbean on the other hand together account for only 11 % of the global shortage of teachers required to meet the 2015 target for achieving universal primary education.
The report notes that "there is no commonly accepted explanation by criminologists for the fall in violence in many of the world's regions including the US, Western Europe, Eastern and Central Europe, as well as the UK".
Some countries are on target, particularly in Scandinavia and parts of central and eastern Europe.
The number of poor people had also been rising (from much lower levels) in Latin America and in eastern Europe and Central Asia.
And as a consequence, one of the things that I initiated was making sure that we have actual contingency plans for each country, including those in Eastern Europe and Central Europe that obviously are coming out of a fairly recent and difficult history of security issues.
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The idea of applying these fracing techniques to Europe is appealing, especially in Eastern and Central Europe, where the former Soviet bloc countries still largely depend on imported natural gas from Russia for domestic consumption.
Two years later the Soviet Union had splintered and the map of central and eastern Europe had been completely redrawn.
Western assistance to consolidate democracy and free enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe is in danger of being shunted aside in favor of the Soviet Union.
If so, it will likely serve as a vital engine for the successful democratization and economic resuscitation of Central and Eastern Europe and perhaps even of the Soviet Union, itself.
If so, it will likely serve as a vital engine for the successful democratization and economic resuscitation of Central and Eastern Europe -- and perhaps even of the Soviet Union, itself.
In the Cold War, freedom defeated the ideology of communism and led to a democratic movement that freed the nations of Eastern and Central Europe from Soviet domination and today these nations are allies in the war on terror.
The GE Europe boss sees an "incredible boom" for the UK and Nordic countries as a result of oil exploration and discoveries in the North Sea, while many parts of eastern and central Europe are profiting from infrastructure investment from the 27-nation European Union.
With the additional bandwidth, Cisco expects huge growth in data consumption by 2016, with growth up 3x in North America and Western Europe, 4x in Asia Pacific, 5x in Central and Eastern Europe, 7x in Latin America and 10x in Middle East and Africa.
Lack of speed and efficiency in these areas severely hobbled many of the post-communist economies in eastern and central Europe.
Mature markets score 6.3, and the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe score 3.8.
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As a result, the budget agreement may have damaged some of the most important relationships within the EU. For the past decade, close ties between Britain and the new members in central and eastern Europe have been founded on Britain's campaign for their membership.
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Elsewhere in Europe the situation is more acute, with EU consumption of fish outstripping eastern and central Europe's annual fish supplies by 6 July.
Steinberg says the "economic uncertainities" in Russia and other newly independent states in Central and Eastern Europe have created opportunities for these prostitution rings to spread.
The Commission and national governments co-finance development projects, and former Soviet bloc countries in Central and Eastern Europe are big recipients because communism left them with some dilapidated infrastructure.
Asia Pacific was far and away the most pessimistic, followed by Central and Eastern Europe.
While no new conventional force agreement will be concluded at the summit, negotiations leading to the rapid reduction and complete elimination of Soviet occupation forces in Central and Eastern Europe will be a high priority.
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"(Today) it is more of a gate, first of all for Romania connecting (the country) with the world, and in same time it is a gate for central and Eastern Europe, " he added.
Along with the Foreign Office, it is promoting links with eastern and central Europe.
So, too, Israel is better off if Russia is contained by democratic governments in Eastern and Central Europe.
Since then eight other countries in eastern and central Europe have followed suit.
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On visits to eastern and central Europe, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, both argued against a two-speed Europe.
"A lot will have arisen from new European Union (EU) members in part after 2004 when countries from Eastern and Central Europe joined, " he said.
Likewise Jean-Martin Foltz, the chairman of Peugeot, aims to boost production by opening smallish factories in Eastern and Central Europe, as well as Latin America.
The Commission has its allies - mainly those countries from Eastern and Central Europe, led by Poland, which benefit from the EU funds to help poorer regions.
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