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 most Mideast countries (as well as African ones) are economic laggards.
Indeed, while the US voted against the UNHRC's resolution against Israel last week, it made no significant effort to convince other countries to follow suit and had no problem with Britain's and France's decision not to cast a vote despite the dangerous precedent the Goldstone Report and the UNHRC's resolution set for US forces fighting terrorist foes in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world.
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.
But U.S. states have no such registers, and the experience of other countries may not apply to the U.S., which has some different reasons for marriage such as getting access to a partner's health insurance, which is rarely a factor in countries with universal health coverage and, typically, higher rates of heterosexual divorce.
Some say tax hikes are to blame but U.S. tax rates are no worse than many countries.
What is clear from this analysis is that U.S.companies can no longer consider their associations with countries or entities tainted by terror a private, non-material, or irrelevant matter.
Unlike other countries, the U.S. has no national registry to track the performance of implants over time.
Today no fewer than 14 countries in Iran's neighborhood have openly begun to pursue some level of nuclear capability.
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.
But two of Europe's big countries of immigration, Britain and France, have no population registers and censuses typically are ten years apart.
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.
After the war ended, in the interest of strengthening UNIFIL, the government made no effective protest against UNIFIL's inclusion of forces from countries like Malaysia and Indonesia, whose governments are allied with Iran.
In practice, despite the fact that there is no peace treaty between the two countries, Israel's front line with Syria on the Golan plateau has been peaceful since a truce was concluded in 1974 - with the exception of two incidents earlier this year when the Syrians, perhaps hoping to distract attention from the internal turmoil, allowed Palestinian demonstrators to approach the front.
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.
The Subcommittee is appropriately gathering various perspectives on several measures under consideration by the Congress and the executive branch which could potentially lead to a substantial increase in the USSR's trade and financial ties with hard currency countries, including, but by no means limited to, the United States.
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