And it's no surprise that countries that have the rule of law and that make it easy for entrepreneurs to operate legally tend to do far better than countries that don't.
EU's Mediterranean countries were no longer likely to stop the eastern applicants from joining the club.
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In the poorest African countries Glaxo's drugs are no more than 25% their price in Western countries.
It's no surprise that the most prosperous countries are those that rank well in these indexes.
Despite recent efforts by the government and the private sector to encourage students to pursue careers in STEM-oriented disciplines, the gap between those pursuing STEM education in the U.S relative to other countries shows no signs of closing.
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Even if OPEC's resolve collapses, countries like Venezuela no longer have the capacity to significantly increase production without a multiyear round of capital expenditures.
Some say tax hikes are to blame but U.S. tax rates are no worse than many countries.
Unlike other countries, the U.S. has no national registry to track the performance of implants over time.
Pakistan has so far refused to open the border, forcing refugees to wait in a 200-metre strip of no-man's-land between the two countries.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was sympathetic towards Mr Cameron's view - but no more than she was to all countries involved in the discussion.
There's been no details of that meeting except to say that both countries were working for an immediate ceasefire.
Almost half of Germany's exports go to other euro-area countries that can no longer resort to devaluation to counter German competitiveness.
Less excusably, the fact that the Soviet Union and its successor states no longer challenged the West's very survival led Western countries to behave as if other, new threats could be ignored.
Indeed, Tata, though it says it has no plans to export the People's Car beyond developing countries, may be able to leverage what it learns from designing and producing the world's cheapest car.
So that is -- again, reviewing those files, and if a court determines that there's no legal right to hold them, then we have worked with other countries to find -- either their home countries or third-party countries -- to transfer detainees that courts have decided or the committee has decided should not be held.
The U.S. is among one of the few countries that taxes global income, no matter where the American citizen lives.
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As the experience in many other countries shows, there is no reason for the U.S. Postal Service's agonizing decline and impending collapse.
Most keep their families and dependants back in their home countries, where they place no demands on South Africa's hospitals and schools.
All this institutional reform is intended to prepare the Union for its proposed enlargement from today's 15 to 30 or more countries, but for which there is itself no deadline.
Yet, even setting aside the difficult issue of how much of a free ride China can expect, the EU's policy applies to individual companies, not countries, for which there is no such dispensation.
Despite the bank's best efforts, economic growth remains a mystery: no one really knows why some countries sustain it over decades and others do not.
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Then Zaak explains at length that in recent years, dumping of secondhand clothing on the world's poor has become de rigueur, as many citizens of these countries are in no position to pay the astronomical prices for new clothes.
But the fact is that, in both countries, Turkey's putative membership has been a significant weapon for the no campaigns.
While the poor are getting richer in Brazil while the poor get poorer in the U.S., there is still no comparing poverty and even middle class incomes in the two countries.
Zimbabwe's Government has been criticised for failing to extradite him, even though the two countries have no extradition treaty.
"We have no plans to customize our service for specific countries, " says the network's Hong Kong-based senior producer, Donna Liu.
Saudi Arabia has again confirmed it has no plans to interrupt supply to America, seen as Israel's principal ally by Arab countries.
The World Bank's in-house "watchdog, " an entity called the Independent Evaluation Group, recently lambasted Doing Business, claiming that there was no significant relationship between the publication's indicators and economic growth rates, even though the countries with the lowest rankings usually have the worst long-term records for economic growth.
But, though it would have been thought small in such Eurosceptical countries as Denmark or Britain, the size of the No vote shook Ireland's main parties.
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