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	TelecomWeb
		While the economies of many “developed nations” (with the exceptions of Canada and Korea) have been stuck in low gear, many large emerging nations have a compelling combination of strong growth and moderate per-capita incomes: Turkey, Thailand, Russia, and South Africa seem to offer a particularly compelling near-term combination of teledensity and increasing per-capita wealth.
		Emerging nations have, broadly speaking, stronger telecom infrastructure growth opportunities than their developed nation peers, asserts RHK.
		But income disparities in emerging nations are enormous, and it is the issue of telecom for poorer populations that is the subject of this new report.
	www.telecomweb.com /news/1077135566.htm

	Can India ever be a developed country?
		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).
		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?
	www.rediff.com /news/2004/aug/16diary.htm (932 words)

	GENERAL AGREEMENT ON TRADE IN SERVICES
		Most developing countries are not in a position to benefit from the commercial presence mode of supply, given the high cost of establishment in developed countries and the weaknesses of the developing countries' firms in terms of financial and human capital and access to distribution networks and information channels and technology.
		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.
		The emphasis of most commitments put forward by all countries including the developed countries is on commercial presence mode of supply and movement of persons in the form of intra-corporate transferees.
	www.southcentre.org /publications/gats/gats-04.htm (4312 words)

	Encyclopedia: New Imperialism
		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.
		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.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/New-Imperialism (8551 words)

	Meet Maurice Strong
		Strong has served, or is currently on the Board of Directors of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN); the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); and the World Resources Institute (WRI); the three international NGOs that have developed and advanced the global agenda since the early 1970s.
		Earth Summit I, in Stockholm in 1972, not for his demonstrated interest in the environment, but because the Swedish representative to the U.N. believed that only Strong, with his extensive worldwide network of friends, could get both the developed and developing nations to participate.
		Strong's long-time colleague, and former cabinet minister to Pierre Trudeau, J. Hugh Faulkner, was asked to leave his post as Executive Director of the International Chamber of Commerce to take charge of the new organization.
	www.sovereignty.net /p/sd/strong.html (3341 words)

	International Journal on Multicultural Societies special issues: UNESCO-CI
		A special thematic series of the International Journal on Multicultural Societies, developed within the framework of Initiative B@bel, will focus on the debate surrounding the Internet and multilingualism.
		Use of the Internet in a multilingual nation
		Link to the current issue of the IJMS Developed in cooperation with Initiative B@bel related to this subject
	portal.unesco.org /ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=7860&URL_DO=DO_PRINTPAGE&URL_SECTION=201.html (331 words)

	CurEvents.com - A Global Current Events Discussion Forum - US only developed country not cultivating industrial hemp
		WASHINGTON, DC — The United States is the only developed nation that does not cultivate industrial hemp as an economic crop, according to a Congressional Resource Service report.
		“The United States is the only developed nation in which industrial hemp is not an established crop,” the report says.
		US only developed country not cultivating industrial hemp
	www.curevents.com /vb/showthread.php?t=6246 (482 words)

	Pan Commonwealth Forum - Keynote: Strong
		In 1995 more than 90 percent of all data networks, 95 percent of all Internet hosts, and 98 percent of all ISDN networks were in developed nations.
		It is not too much to imagine that it will call in to question the basis on which the very sovereignty of nations over their territory and resources is recognised and respected by the international community, particularly when this accords to some nations a disproportionate share of the Earth’s territory and resources.
		The line between the traditional have- and have-not nations is blurring as a result of the economic progress being made by some developing countries.
	www.col.org /forum/strong.htm (5602 words)

	SSRN-Eliminating Excessive Tariffs on Exports of Least Developed Countries by Bernard Hoekman, Francis Ng, Marcelo Olarreaga
		But tariffs more than three times the average most-favored-nation duty are not uncommon in the Quad and have a disproportionate effect on exports of least developed countries.
		Giving least developed countries full duty- and quota-free access in the Quad for peak-tariff products would increase their total annual exports by 11 percent - or roughly $2.5 billion.
		Average most-favored-nation tariffs in the Quad (Canada, the European Union, Japan, and the United States) have fallen to about 5 percent.
	papers.ssrn.com /sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=632673 (489 words)

	Space Exploration or Exploitation? (4/24/2000)
		Space including celestial bodies, is the province of mankind and developed for the benefit of mankind.
		Space, including celestial bodies, is the province of mankind and developed for the benefit of mankind
		International law extends to space and celestial bodies.
	www-ssg.sr.unh.edu /preceptorial/Summaries_2000/summary13_2000.html (489 words)

	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.
		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).
		The Agreement thus introduces the `competition test' for the purpose of verifying and curbing the use of restrictive clauses, as proposed by industrialized countries during the long and unsuccessful negotiations under UNCTAD auspices on an international code of conduct for the transfer of technology.
	www.southcentre.org /publications/trips/tripsmaintexttrans-02.htm (2507 words)

	Titular nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The notion worked well for the cases of well established, homogeneous and relatively developed nations.
		The language of a titular nation was declared an additional (after Russian) official language of the corresponding administrative unit.
		In other cases, such as in Kazakhstan, this notion failed to take into an account tribal differences within an ethnos, formally considered a single nation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Titular_nation (2507 words)

	The Georgian - South Ossetian Conflict, chapter 5
		Expressed nationalism outside of the Party elite was not tolerated, there existed a well-developed system of control which made attempts at nationalism on the part of local political elites very risky and unlikely (Zaslavsky 1993, p.37).
		But even though, the tendency is clear, the titular nations, in the case of the Union Republic of Georgia, Georgians, Abkhazians and South Ossetians, were in their designated homelands subject to affirmative action programmes as first-order or second-order titular nationalities, leading to a disproportionate overrepresentation in the party organs, professional employment and higher education.
		The titular nationalities are clearly overrepresentated in comparison to their share of the population at large.
	www.caucasus.dk /chapter5.htm (2507 words)

	Developed country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		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:
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Developed_world (789 words)

	Faculty
		Danish cultural nationalism is a fairly recent phenomena, one attributable to late industrialization, and to the prevalence of peasant values in the homogeneous political culture that developed during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
		Danish nationalism is quiet and cultural, a sheet anchor for a tiny nation of five million people whose ancestors have been perched on some islands and a sand spit north of Germany for millennia.
		Danish nationalism runs deep, but it is not the sort of archly-patriotic and militant nationalism that tore Europe apart during the last century and a half, and that thrives in the USA today.
	www.unh.edu /cie/faculty/bolster.html (666 words)

	Black Hebrew Israelites - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However it was not until later in the nineteenth century that an identification as ancient Hebrews developed from identification with them.
		Abba Bivens was a peer of such notable Black Hebrew Israelites as Malachi Z.York of the Nubian Islamic Hebrews, Ben Carter of Kingdom of Yah, and Rabbi Paris of Beth Shalom, and was Bar Mitzvah'd by Rabbi Matthews.
		Eventhough their faith is open to all people, some Black Hebrew Israelite groups have still been accused of racism and of being "in some ways mirror images of the Christian Identity groups" [1].
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Black_Hebrews (929 words)

	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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Developed_nation (929 words)

	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.
		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.
		(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.
	www.cnsnews.com /ViewPrint.asp?Page=\Enviro\archive\ENV19991026a.html (929 words)

	Caucasus Foundation
		However, among all the national republics of the Northern Caucasus, which has been for years the scene of ethnic conflicts, social instability and constant military operations, Adygeya, according to many socio-economical indicators, is the most economically developed and stable republic.
		However, once Adygeya was upgraded to republican status and the rights of the Adyge as the titular nation were enshrined in the republican constitution it became a staunch supporter of the president and the status quo, to the extent that its current chairmen Ruslan Peneshov has served in the successive republican governments under Dzharimov's presidency.
		For the first time since the foundation of the republic of Adygeya, candidates of different nationalities participated in the presidential election regardless of their knowledge of Adyge language, which was the result of the suspension, for ten years, of the language law which requires the president to be bilingual in Adyge and the Russian.
	www.kafkas.org.tr /english/analiz/Policy_of_positive_discrimination_for_the_titular_nation_in_Adygeya_.htm (929 words)

	Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential Project: 3.5 Method: response to diversity
		But no systematic collection of information is publicly available on, for example, the number of local, regional, or national organizations in different areas, even in developed countries.
		Through the various international statistical series maintained by the United Nations Specialized Agencies (and published in their various Statistical Yearbooks), details are available on the number of cinemas, newspapers, radios, libraries, and so on, per capita in each country.
		the major organization (United Nations, or NATO, or the Government, etc)
	www.uia.be /encyclopedia/encycom_bodies.php?kap=17 (833 words)

	Siksika Resource Developments Limited
		The Siksika Nation has identified over 30 kilometres of prime frontage on Highway 22-X and Highway 547 which could be developed to accommodate highway commercial businesses, including a major commercial truck stop.
		The membership of the Siksika Nation hold an exclusive interest in 72,400 hectares of land in the heart of Southern Alberta, one of the fastest growing economic regions in Canada.
		Siksika Nation lands contain over 100,000,000 tons of bituminous coal at a depth with can be recovered through low impact surface mining.
	www.siksikaresource.com /2005_advantage.html (833 words)

	Satellite will yield more than images
		NSPO officials said that technology transfers involving ROCSAT-2 have aided in the development of the nation's scientists.
		The software that the MOC uses was developed by Integral Systems, a U.S. company that builds ground systems for satellites.
		Wei Che-ho, who resigned as minister of the National Science Council on Thursday, said that ROCSAT-2's successful launch demonstrates the nation's potential to develop its space industry.
	www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw /20040524/20040524s2.html (1166 words)

	VITAMINIC_the music evolution
		Nation Records is more than just a regular record label, since the beginning it has been involved with many creative artists, developed ideas as well as created ideas.
		Nation records was based on an idea from the Punk era, be radical, musically and politically, never work by the book, re-invent the rules and then re-invent them again when those rules become the norm.
		Welcome to Nation Records - the home of originality, the last bastion of the eclectic, and the final battalion of justice and politics in the music industry.
	stage.vitaminic.co.uk /main/nation_records (470 words)

	Language in India
		The developed nations and those nations greatly interested in the propagation of their own ideologies often try to use the teaching of their own languages as a window to spread their influence.
		When a nation wishing to propagate its foreign policy abroad finds its own language to be a barrier in the target nation, it either adopts a language of the target country or a language ordinarily accepted as a respectable medium for such transactions.
		Generally speaking, the language content of a multilingual nation will be different from the language content of the foreign policy of a monolingual nation if the foreign policy is viewed as an extension of the real objective conditions of the multilingual nation.
	www.languageinindia.com /oct2001/foreign3.html (4312 words)

	Developed India
		Moreover, the threshold for definition of “developed nation” is a ever-increasing.
		The common theme across the discussions was that India could transition to a developed country in a very short period of time.
		Mr Nilekani explained that the inherent capital in the country has to be better utilised for higher growth.
	www.kamalsinha.com /iit/news/developed (469 words)

	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.
	www.wawasan2020.com /vision (318 words)

	United States - Fundamentals.com.au
		The United States is noteworthy among developed nations for its relatively high level of religiosity.
		However, the structure of the nation was profoundly changed in 1788, when the states replaced the Articles of Confederation with the United States Constitution; the date on which each of the original 13 states adopted the Constitution is typically regarded as the date that state "entered the Union" (became part of the United States).
		The federal government is the national government, comprising the Congress (the legislative branch), the President (the executive branch), and the Supreme Court (the judicial branch).
	www.fundamentals.com.au /United-States (6280 words)

	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.
	www.blonnet.com /2003/04/14/stories/2003041400160800.htm (1529 words)

	Naval warfare
		The origins of a national Danish naval fleet are to be found at the end of the 14th century, when Queen Margrethe commanded the nobility and the burghers of the Royal Boroughs to equip ships at their own expense for the defence of the realm.
		The role of the Danish nation as "watchman of the Baltic" was further emphasised by the strategic choice of Copenhagen as both the capital and the home of the fleet, situated, as it was at that time, in the middle of the Kingdom of Denmark
		This interest was continued and further developed by his legendary son, Christian IV, who sailed with the fleet every year during his reign.
	www.orlogsmuseet.dk /kroneng122.htm (2232 words)

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