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In trade, the current round of global negotiations has demonstrated that if rich nations want developing nations to cooperate, they will need to let them shape the rules of the game.
To make the best of this outcome, developing nations will have to have a good sense of their interests and priorities.
It should also enlarge its emergency credit lines to act more as a lender of last resort to developing nations hit by financial whiplash.
The crisis is an opportunity to achieve greater transparency on all fronts, including banking practices in rich countries that facilitate tax evasion in developing nations.
Developing nations should also push for a Tobin tax – a tax on global foreign currency transactions.
Developing nations also need to enshrine the notion of “policy space” in the World Trade Organization.
Developing nations should argue that recognizing these economic and political realities makes the global trade regime not weaker and more susceptible to protectionism, but healthier and more sustainable.
Developing nations will need to be more understanding and responsive to legitimate concerns in rich countries, and be more willing to pay for some global public goods.
Capital-exporting developing nations should be willing to accept greater transparency in the operation of sovereign wealth funds and pledge not to use them for political purposes.
The largest developing nations – China, India, and Russia – will need to shoulder some of the burden of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions.
Similarly, developing nations must understand that policy space is a two-way street.
Without support from the middle classes of rich nations, it will be difficult to maintain a global trade regime as open as the one we have had in recent years.
First, America’s trade deficit is multilateral: the US ran deficits with 88 nations in 2010.
The difference is that Chechnya is within the Russian Federation, whereas the “near abroad” nations are not.
Finally, although investment in development assistance is key to supporting Africa’s advancement, nations will ultimately have to take responsibility for their own development.
The country’s Orange opposition movement has recently won key posts in parliament and, for the moment, is heeding calls for calm from former United nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan and representatives of the African Union.
The West has established the economic model of the twenty-first century, with its hitherto unheard of standard of living, and almost all nations and regions are trying to equal it, no matter what the cost.
The Riddle of GrowthWASHINGTON D.C.: Why are some nations rich and others poor?
The familiar "scarcity" or "resource" explanation of national poverty implies that, without large infusions of aid from rich nations, poor countries will never catch up.
Pence was able to spread the gospel of American unilateralism at a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Singapore, and again at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Papua New Guinea.
Polls show that developed nations now believe that the world’s biggest problems are terrorism and climate change.
Rich nations have all but eliminated goiter (swelling of the thyroid) by using iodized salt – a preventive measure lacking in 30% of developing world households, but that costs just $0.05 a year per person.
So, if the world’s poor need educational messages about breastfeeding and nutrition, rich nations require a different kind of education.
Mexico, Peru, and other nations were suspicious of the anti-American rhetoric of the ALBA grouping, but some practical proposals – such as the creation of a bank of agricultural products to reduce costs for small and midsize producers – have come out of it.
It was there, in July 1938, that 32 nations met for a shameful discussion that has been virtually airbrushed from our memory.
The first tier comprises the affluent countries, notably the United States, European nations, Australia, and Japan – with a combined population of around one billion and per capita incomes ranging from $79,000 (Luxembourg) to $16,000 (Republic of Korea).
OXFORD – Because peacekeeping initiatives in post-conflict countries are expensive and complex, and because the war in Iraq has undermined rich nations’ belief in their likely success, a dispassionate look at the use of military intervention is timely.
Rich nations don’t fall victim to political violence, but do bear some of its costs.
Used as one part of a package, peacekeeping initiatives remain a reliable and effective way to provide stability to fragile nations and reduce the suffering of the world’s most vulnerable people.
That is, there were two rival economic systems, communism and capitalism; and there was a seemingly permanent division of the world into rich and poor nations.
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