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| | Encyclopedia: New Imperialism |
 | | A later usage developed in the early 20th Century among Marxists saw "imperialism" as the economic and political dominance of monopolistic finance capital in the most advanced countries and its acquisition – and enforcement through the state – of control of the means (and hence the returns) of production in less developed regions. | | | The Commonwealth of Nations, usually known as The Commonwealth, is an association of independent sovereign states, almost all of which are former territories of the British Empire. | | | Both the European divisions of the 1870s onward and the accelerated colonial drive of the period can be said to derive from the same causes: strategic conditions, aggressive competing nationalisms and the economic and political imperatives of the new mass society. |
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http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/New-Imperialism
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| | Developed country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Organizations such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Central Intelligence Agency, generally agree that the group of developed countries include: | | | In international trade statistics, the Southern African Customs Union is also treated as a developed region and Israel as a developed country; and countries of eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R. countries in Europe are not included under either developed or developing regions. | | | A developed country is a nation that enjoys a relatively high standard of living through a strong high-technology diversified economy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_world
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| | Developed country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Cyprus, Malta, and Slovenia — among the developed countries, but these mostly former-Communist countries are rather newly industrialized nations and some of them (such as Latvia, Lithuania and Poland) remain significantly less affluent than EU-15 countries. | | | In the United Nations system there is no established convention for the designation of "developed" and "developing" countries or areas. | | | South Korea, another relatively newly industrialized country, does not consider itself as developed. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_nation
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| | The Hindu Business Line : In interest of developed world |
| | Thus, today, free trade in goods has been expanded to cover hitherto exclusive domains of the government where developed nations are using all their levers of unequal power, at the behest of their corporations, to gain access to developing countries. | | | By the end of last year, the developed countries, chiefly led by the US, created a stalemate in the negotiations on the low-cost access of developing countries to vital drugs, overriding patent and intellectual property considerations. | | | As Berkeley economist Prof Bradford de Long puts it, there is no recognition that the successful economic and organisational development of the world is essential for the long-run national security of even the strongest nation in the industrial core. |
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http://www.blonnet.com/2003/04/14/stories/2003041400160800.htm
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| | GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN SERVICES |
| | The most- favoured- nation treatment (MFN) is a general obligation applying to all services sectors and one of the most important pillars for achieving trade liberalization in the multilateral trading system. | | | With respect to sectors of particular interest to developing countries, most of which require the movement of persons other than specialists, executives and managers, such as tourism-related services, construction and engineering, business services, health-related services and maritime transport, it should be noted that they are included in the commitments of the developed countries examined. | | | Typical conditions on national treatment relate to nationality and residency requirements, subsidies or tax privileges granted to domestic services suppliers, special operational limits applying only to operations of foreign suppliers, differential capital requirements, restrictions on acquisition of land. |
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| | Industrialized Nations Under Pressure at UN Global Warming Gathering -- 10/26/1999 |
| | The U.S. Department of Energy has reported that the process of reducing emissions could prompt energy-intensive industries in developed countries to relocate to developing ones, at the cost of thousands of jobs at home. | | | (CNSNews.com) - The United States and other industrialized countries are coming under pressure at a major United Nations conference on global warming underway in Germany, with both the host nation and the UN calling for a deadline on implementing a pact aimed at reducing pollution. | | | Officials from the U.S. and European Union countries differed Monday on one of several "flexibility mechanisms" built into the process - the right of industrialized nations to buy pollution "credits" from developing countries. |
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http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Enviro\archive\ENV19991026a.html
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| | Challenge: International labor standards and child labor |
| | The fear of the poor nations is that labor standards are a facade for hiding the true agenda of developed nations, to wit, protectionism. | | | What all this means is that, if the exports of these countries are cut off, in all likelihood their imports from industrialized nations will shrink as well, making the net effect on the industrialized nations negative instead of positive, though of course some specific sectors may gain. | | | Second, the products manufactured in the worst conditions, often using child labor, are not the sectors in which there is any serious competition between the industrialized nations and the developing countries. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1093/is_5_42/ai_56057299
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| | Economic growth rates of industrialized and developing nations, global economic adjustments, and labour markets |
| | Traditionally, international aid and development organizations as well as economic think tanks have divided the "have" and "have not" nations into two camps: the relatively rich industrialized nations of the North and the poorer, less-developed nations of the South. | | | "The fastest-growing part of the world economy is in the developing world, not in the industrialized nations," said Robert Miller, senior consultant to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank. | | | UN economist Barry Herman noted that the level of development assistance flowing from North to South is dropping, leaving countries that are unattractive to foreign investors — such as nations in post-conflict situations, or those where per capita income is very low — in dire straits. |
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http://archive.idrc.ca/books/reports/1996/33-01e.html
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| | AFROL Background - Senegal's slide from "model economy" to "least developed country" |
| | In July 1991, President Diouf, returning from abroad, declared that Senegal "is not a moderate income country but a least developed country." This declaration, which drew indignant reactions from the public, was surprising since the government tended to continually cite macroeconomic statistics showing how healthy the nation's economy was.. | | | Professor Ndiaye believes the reason for Senegal's decline from a moderate income to a least developed country is due to its failure to put some muscle behind its structural adjustment programme. | | | Given the country's real economic stress, officials under Abdou Diouf, Senegal's previous president, lobbied the international aid community to put Senegal on the LDC list so it could enjoy some of the aid and development programs afforded to such countries. |
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http://www.afrol.com/Countries/Senegal/backgr_ldc.htm
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| | Asia Times: Industrialized nations grilled over global warming |
| | It urged developed nations to make the Marrakesh talks the last stage in the ongoing process before the ratification of the Kyoto Protocol in the World Earth Summit on Sustained Development (Rio+10), to be held in Johannesburg in September 2002. | | | Action Climat Mondial, a network of environmentalist non-governmental organizations (NGOs), joined the call for industrialized countries to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, which it describes as "the sole legal international instrument to engage the world community towards massive reduction of greenhouse-gas emissions". | | | The accord was signed at the Bonn Conference in July, paving the way for the finalization of technical and legal modalities of an international agreement on global warming. |
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| | Discussion Points: |
| | Also important, here is the notion that the industrialized nations act aggressively to keep the peripheral nations dependent upon them by not allowing them to evolve into developed nations(conflict theory). | | | The real down side of this relationship is that peripheral nations educational systems and professional service systems are not advanced as they basically become suppliers of raw materials to and consumers of finished goods from industrial nations. | | | In the short term, peripheral nations benefit, but the benefits are lost when foreign investment becomes very large, when raw materials are exported in great numbers, and when prices fluctuate greatly. |
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http://www.people.vcu.edu/~jmahoney/chapter16.htm
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| | TRIPS - Main Provisions of the TRIPs Agreement |
| | The Agreement reaffirms the well-established principle of `national treatment', which means that the nationals of any country member of the Agreement are to be treated in the same way as nationals of the country where protection is granted. | | | Developed countries members of WTO are obliged, under Article 67 of the TRIPs Agreement, to provide "technical and financial co-operation" in favour of developing and least developed countries to facilitate the implementation of the TRIPs Agreement. | | | These principles are meant to end discrimination, both between foreigners and nationals and between nationals of different countries, which arises when IPRs are granted only to the nationals of the country that pressed for them (as for example in the case of the recognition of pharmaceutical patents in South Korea). |
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http://www.southcentre.org/publications/trips/tripsmaintexttrans-02.htm
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| | Industry minister asks for developed worlds support |
| | Hai told attendees that developed WTO members should not make demands in the negotiating process that developing nations cannot meet. | | | HA NOI Developed nations should take concrete action in support of the efforts of developing nations to join the World Trade Organisation, said Industry Minister Hoang Trung Hai. | | | The minister stressed Viet Nams determination to embrace economic reform and integration while also asking for the regions support in the nations bid to become part of the globes largest trade organisation. |
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http://www.vietnamnews.com.vn/2004-06/15/Stories/07.htm
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| | The Vision of the New Hebrew Nation and its Enemies by Yaacov Shavit |
| | The Hebrew national movement, which was becoming consolidated within the Yishuv (Jewish community) in Palestine (and had by now reached a degree of ripe, developed national consciousness) was thus being prepared for a missionary role, similar to that of the armies of the French revolution which spread over Europe under Napoleon. | | | The view that a nation is measured by its contribution to the progress of civilization is expressed very clearly by Marx and Engels, who formulated a criterion for evaluating a national entity or national framework as being the degree to which it is a productive force. | | | A spontaneous process needs to be directed and guided consciously and by ideals; therefore, Canaanite ideology considered the "application of Hebrewness" as a conscious, intentional process and a national goal, to be left to the government authorities. |
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http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/the_new_hebrew_nation.html
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| | United States - Fundamentals.com.au |
| | The United States is noteworthy among developed nations for its relatively high level of religiosity. | | | In subsequent years, the number of states grew steadily due to western expansion, the purchase of lands by the national government from other nation states, and the subdivision of existing states, resulting in the current total of 50. | | | But the national government proved too ineffective, so the administrative structure of the government was vastly reorganized with the United States Constitution of 1789. |
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http://www.fundamentals.com.au/United-States
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| | Can India ever be a developed country? |
| | If we still haven't fulfilled the basic need of bijli, sadak, pani (and are ranked so low in the list of developing countries), how can we ever become a developed nation? | | | Its good to hear 4m u n moreover ur concern towards the development of our nation is laudable. | | | Somewhere, deep down, I still have a faint hope that India will become a developed nation-- and win a gold medal in athletics at the Olympics -- in my lifetime (for the record, I'm in my late thirties). |
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| | Aboriginal Peoples and Mining in Canada: Six Case Studies |
| | Innu Nation developed specific guidelines of conduct for companies operating in Innu Territory, and these guidelines can now be enforced due to threats from protests and legal action, and the panel recommendations on land rights and IBAs. | | | Many First Nations were strongly opposed to the Lands for Life process with good reasons, primarily the lack of recognition of treaty and aboriginal rights and no recognition of the government to government relationship between First Nations and the provincial government. | | | The average First Nation Local Government office is not equipped to realistically respond to the various technical reports, government referrals and inflexible timelines. |
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| | Trade Barriers (con't) |
| | In 1947, many of the world’s developed nations entered the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). | | | In the 1930’s during the depression, most governments substantially restricted trade in an effort to protect domestic jobs. | | | Policy makers began to recognize that when all countries use these practices, it is clearly counter-productive. |
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| | Vision 2020 |
| | We must be fully developed in terms of national unity and social cohesion, in terms of our economy, in terms of social justice, political stability, system of government, quality of life, social and spiritual values, national pride and confidence. | | | It must be a nation that is fully developed along all the dimensions: economically, politically, socially, spiritually, psychologically and culturally. | | | The ultimate objective that we should aim for is a Malaysia that is a fully developed country by the year 2020. |
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http://www.wawasan2020.com/vision
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| | Raven's Eye News and Headlines for August, 1998 |
| | Anderson's latest plans were developed behind closed doors in Ottawa and, as the WCSA points out, did not meet DFO's constitutional obligations to consult with First Nations, as defined by the Supreme Court decisions Sparrow and Jack, as well as the John and John cases. | | | An act to take the Indian Affairs minister out of the decision-making process when it comes to the use, possession and occupancy of First Nations lands and the division of assets upon the breakdown of a marriage was introduced for first reading in the House of Commons on June 11. | | | A coalition of coastal communities, First Nations and commercial fishermen filed a petition earlier this month with the Commissioner on the Environment and Sustainable Development of the Auditor General's Office. |
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| | Restorative Justice: Conference Biographies |
| | Bevann is from Piapot First Nation, and was raised by her late Cree grandparents who are still a great influence on her family values. | | | In 1997, Bev Poitras' employer, the Touchwood First Nations, changed Bev's focus in community planning from project management to social development for youth, because the communities were experiencing high youth crime and wanted alternatives to the court process. | | | She is the organizer and host of this national conference on Restorative Justice: Is it justice for battered women? |
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http://www.hotpeachpages.net/canada/air/rjBios.html
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| | Interventions in support of Aboriginal Voices radio |
| | So from that point of view I think that sooner is better to establish that networking, to get the issues out on a national level to foster that education, public education across the country. | | | My job there is to assist our First Nations people whatever their status in coming to terms with the legacy of abuse in Indian residential schools. | | | The Squarish Nation Chiefs and Council are well aware of the needs and we wholeheartedly support the need for a new native radio service in the Vancouver area. |
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| | Raven's Eye News and Headlines for August, 1998 |
| | Anderson's latest plans were developed behind closed doors in Ottawa and, as the WCSA points out, did not meet DFO's constitutional obligations to consult with First Nations, as defined by the Supreme Court decisions Sparrow and Jack, as well as the John and John cases. | | | An act to take the Indian Affairs minister out of the decision-making process when it comes to the use, possession and occupancy of First Nations lands and the division of assets upon the breakdown of a marriage was introduced for first reading in the House of Commons on June 11. | | | A coalition of coastal communities, First Nations and commercial fishermen filed a petition earlier this month with the Commissioner on the Environment and Sustainable Development of the Auditor General's Office. |
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http://www.ammsa.com/raven/AUG98.html
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| | Access by Topic: Most-Favored-Nation |
| | Decision on Measures in Favour of Least-Developed Countries | | | Third rule: trade according to the most-favoured-nation clause |
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http://www.jurisint.org/pub/06/en/81.htm
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| | Economic Perspectives on Health in the Industrialized Nations |
| | The speakers will discuss a variety of problems facing health care systems in the developed nations. | | | Economic Perspectives on Health in the Industrialized Nations | | | The symposium moves in the second and third talks to an examination of the chronic care needs of young and elderly people, both of which will require much increased attention with the spread of HIV infection and the graying of industrialized societies into the next century. |
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| | Labrador Innu Comprehensive Healing Strategy 2001 - Agreements Database Event |
| | Summary Information: The Labrador Inuu Comprehensive Healing Strategy (the Healing Strategy) was developed in 2001 as a joint holistic approach between the governments of Canada and Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Labrador Inuit. | | | Band creation for Mushuau Innu First Nation and Sheshatshiu Innu First Nation; | | | The federal government has contributed 65.3 million dollars (Canadian) in funding over a period of three years. |
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| | B. GLOBAL USE: |
| | The importing nations and manufacturers argue that, for the importing nation, the benefits in terms of food production and people's health outweigh the risks. | | | Pesticide use in lesser developed countries also has increased because they are increasingly growing fruits and vegetables for sale to more developed countries, such as the US. | | | The lesser developed countries still don't use as much pesticide as does the industrialized world, however pesticide use in many third world countries is not as regulated as it is in the US. |
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http://oregonstate.edu/~muirp/pestglob.htm
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| | Access by Topic: Most-Favored-Nation |
| | Decision on Measures in Favour of Least-Developed Countries | | | Third rule: trade according to the most-favoured-nation clause |
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http://www.jurisint.org/pub/06/en/81.htm
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| | 2004/2 - Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment in International Investment Law |
| | As global competition among exporters of agricultural products is expected to intensify among both developed and developing countries, this annual publication is a key reference for international market trends and medium term projections in agriculture. | | | This document aims to enhance understanding of investment protection provisions in international investment agreements. | | | 2004/2 - Most-Favoured-Nation Treatment in International Investment Law |
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http://oecd.org/LongAbstract/0,2546,en_2825_201185_33773086_1_1_1_1,00.html
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