The U.S., Turkey, Serbia, China and Russia were the biggest non-EU source countries.
Reflecting their skill and education, 27 percent of Asian immigrants from major source countries get employment based green cards (for highly skilled immigrants) compared to just 8 percent of all other immigrants.
They must avoid objects that they know violate so-called patrimony laws, which allow governments of "source" countries to declare ownership of all antiquities within their borders that have not yet been unearthed.
The future of nuclear as a power source for countries around the world was called into question after the Fukushima disaster in March, when a Japanese earthquake and tsunami damaged the nuclear reactors, leaving radioactivity leaking from the plant.
Most of the countries are "source" and "destination" countries, the report says, meaning trafficking victims both come from and are sent there.
Mr Summers wants the Fund to focus on short-term crisis management, and to avoid being a low-cost source of money for countries with ready access to private capital.
In mature economies, infrastructure assets, like airports and toll roads, can provide an important additional source of financing for countries, states and municipalities and at the same time important investment opportunities for pension funds and other sources of capital.
The border truly is a source of strength for both countries, and it is a region that merits investment, support and serious attention from Washington.
When the bank was founded, it really was the only source of capital for many poor countries.
Tourism is growing, a major source being Russia and several other countries that emerged from the defunct Soviet Union.
Similar arrangements for American military personnel in South Korea, Japan and Italy have been the source of considerable resentment in those countries.
Mr Carpenter is right, too, that the Latin American countries which are the source of drugs, or through which they are trafficked, pay a disproportionate share of the costs of failed prohibition.
It adds that tighter controls on immigration could reduce the numbers of migrant workers from developing countries who are able to send money home - a substantial source of income for many Caribbean, Central American and South Asian countries.
Consumers may not see what economists see: Big brands that source product from low-wage developing countries help those economies grow.
At the same time, we know that Americans more than people in other countries perceive IKEA as a source of home furnishings in their starting-up phase.
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Since tourism contributes quite a chunk to the economies of all these countries, such a reliable source of visitors is a godsend, wherever they spend their money.
With Europe facing years of austerity, countries like this offer our only source of growth, Mr Hague says to them.
Therefore, many countries choose nuclear energy as a source.
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Their source is not just the shakiness of both countries' interim governments, which have largely been purged of ministers associated with old ways and are now led by fresh, untainted prime ministers.
Comparing winners and also-rans from within the same countries, to avoid yet another source of bias, Dr Rablen and Dr Oswald found that the winners lived, on average, two years longer than those who had merely been nominated.
The U.N. currently requires countries to submit national emissions inventories, but the data included in these inventories is self-reported, not required annually from all countries and rarely verified by an independent source.
But if the smaller and scalable technologies prove effective, they will establish valuable niche markets for themselves not just among the TVAs of the world but also among those local utilities and less developed countries that need a clean and continuous source of power.
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"Although migrant workers are to a large extent adversely affected by the slow growth in the global economy, remittance volumes have remained remarkably resilient, providing a vital lifeline to not only poor families but a steady and reliable source of foreign currency in many poor remittances recipient countries, " agrees Hans Timmer, director of the bank's Development Prospects Group.
The biggest source of wealth, not surprisingly in these two beautiful countries, is land, whether used for real estate, wine or commodities.
But the World Bank, the alleged source of some of the money, and the other countries involved, could not recall such an agreement.
But a significant part of the dollar inflow comes from Filipinos working abroad, an income source vulnerable to policy and political changes in the host countries.
Another source of unhappiness is to be found in some of the countries where the cash is being spent.
But a senior MoD source has told the BBC there are no plans for the two countries to share aircraft carriers.
Already, 44, 000 university students from ASEAN countries study in the United States, the fourth largest source of university students studying here.
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Another source might be Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet-block countries, which have plenty of helicopters, but have so far offered few of them.
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