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It would involve all nations, with richer nations naturally paying the larger share, and perhaps developing nations being phased in.
However, their narrowly focused anti-drug stance strongly influences the policies and practices of member nations.
By treating drug use first and foremost as a problem of public health, nations can fight the spread of HIV far more effectively.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is not just a deeply networked organization; it has also been actively cultivating relationships with its Northeast Asian neighbors through a set of bilateral and multilateral agreements.
To ensure continued momentum, we – the leaders of 14 nations from regions around the world – have formed a network to promote comprehensive reform of the UN.
The rich and powerful nations often declare their leadership in the world.
The proposed Union of South American Nations (Unasur), like the South American Defense Council, is part of a Brazilian regional strategy to encourage cooperation within Latin America in order to counterbalance the power of the United States and act as a mediator in regional disagreements.
These officials often make it sound as if the livelihood of hundreds of millions of poor people in developing nations hangs in the balance.
The World Bank’s most recent estimate is that complete trade liberalization (including in manufactures and by developing nations themselves) would produce a net gain to the developing world of half a percentage point of their income.
Most developing nations have opened themselves significantly to foreign trade and no longer employ the most damaging policies of the past (such as quantitative restrictions on imports).
The US, in particular, could intensify its pursuit of bilateral deals, by which it is able to impose increasingly inappropriate policy priorities on smaller nations.
The silver lining in an amicable break-up of the trade talks is that it would give negotiators a chance to focus on issues that are of much greater significance to developing nations.
We will then end up with an agreement that will have been wildly oversold and is certain to lead to disappointment in the future – especially in developing nations.
It has surpassed the United States as the world’s largest source of greenhouse gases, and it became developing nations’ diplomatic champion at the recent United Nations climate negotiations in Bali.
Now China may become the target of a full-fledged trade war that could destroy – or perhaps rescue – the chances of bringing rich and poor nations together to fight global warming.
The focus on China intensified late last year, when new data from the International Energy Agency and other research organizations revealed that China had overtaken the US as the largest source of greenhouse gases – and, more ominously, that its emissions are growing at a rate that exceeds all wealthy nations’ capacity to decrease theirs.
Developing nations’ allies, meanwhile, are warning that the sanctions plan could destroy the chances of a post-Kyoto treaty.
In February, China’s top climate negotiator, Yu Qingtai, said at the UN that rich nations, which “caused the problem of climate change in the first place,” must be treated as “culprits,” and developing countries as “victims.”
The growing dispute over trade sanctions brings to the fore not only the fundamental ethical question of whether wealthy nations should bear the burden of emissions reduction alone, but also the strategic question of whether sticks as well as carrots should be used to induce green behavior in developing countries.
Nor is it clear what Obama really means by saying that he recognizes Iran’s “rightful place in the community of nations.”
Every Indian who follows the Olympics has cringed scanning the daily list of medal winners, eyes traveling down past dozens of nations big and small before alighting on a solitary Indian bronze in tennis or wrestling.
In the case of foreign investment and aid flows, the West went further, viewing them as being motivated by altruism, or “benign intent,” whereas the East regarded globalization in a world of poor and rich nations as implying “malign impact.”
Thus, foreign aid was regarded as a plot to trap poor nations in a neo-colonial embrace.
In their recent book Why Nations Fail, the economists Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson suggest that elections – even those that are free and fair – do not necessarily move societies from what they call “extractive” to “inclusive” systems.
Of the ten members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, only Indonesia has a “free” rating from Freedom House.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ long-held dream of unity might first arrive by rail.
But the relationship between European Muslims’ faith and identification with European nations seldom conforms to the “Eurabia” stereotype.
That process is already underway, as China now appears willing to address the disputes multilaterally, through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
Developing nations lavish their limited resources on hospitals, which consume more than 50% of healthcare budgets in many poor countries.
Nations that make large investments in hospitals and physicians who are devoted to improving quality of care clearly expect to see improved patient outcomes.
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