In some cases, these countries are home to the next generation of global blue chips.
From January to September last year, Nigeria's tax-free spend in the UK grew by 11% year on year, according to tourism services provider Global Blue.
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Infosys, a technology firm, leapt in a generation from a start-up to a global blue chip, owned by institutional shareholders and measured against that most Western of yardsticks, the stock price.
One of these proposals is the development of a global programme aimed at greater protection and restoration of vital ocean and coastal habitats, and of a global blue carbon market as a means of creating direct economic gain through habitat protection.
This is a logical step for an agency that already boasts such blue chips global clients like Budweiser, Diageo, Nike, Sony, and Motorola.
Mulally's first step is to get rid of distractions like Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover and Volvo (it's keeping its stake in Mazda) and throw the company's global resources behind the blue oval.
That, together with continued investor hassles with bureaucracy and labor, may deny the Blue House the global financial fuel it needs come the national ballot in late 2007.
Many fund managers focus on Indian blue chips and the global firms that have established significant foreign divisions there.
Any asteroid as large as a half-mile across would cause a global catastrophe, if it struck the blue planet, he added.
Any asteroid as large as a half-mile across would cause a global catastrophe, if it struck the blue planet, Chodas said.
Originally created by English reverend and railway enthusiast Wilbert Awdry as a bed-time story for his then-ill son, the tales of a cheeky blue steam locomotive today enjoy global popularity.
But even at this stage it feels a little too blue-sky for the very earthbound arena of global logistics.
Let me take you on a quick tour around the world and introduce you to just a few of the people and places Circle of Blue is finding on the front lines of a global water crisis.
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Carl Ganter is co-founder and managing director of Circle of Blue and is vice chariman of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water Security.
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The Blue Carbon Scientific Working Group will attempt to detail the global relevance of coastal carbon by creating an inventory of coastal carbon storage and sequestration potential, by identifying coastal carbon hotspots, and by quantifying possible emissions associated with the degradation of coastal ecosystems.
Saberi, who was dressed in a black tunic and a blue headscarf, said she was only now learning of a global support campaign on her behalf.
In April, as part of the TED Mission Blue Voyage in the Galapagos Islands, we launched the Mission Blue campaign, an effort to garner public support to call on governments to establish a global network of Marine Protected Areas.
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