Not exact matches
But the
world has changed a great deal since the height
of OPEC's power in 1979, when member
nations accounted for 50 %
of global oil production, compared with less than one -
third today.
Mindful
of the growth in Latin American disposable income and a proliferation
of bilateral trade agreements in the mid-1990s, Walker used his experience in the Mexican market to expand into brokering agricultural trade to
Third World nations that were newly industrializing.
The United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) suggests, «Roughly one -
third of the food produced in the
world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted.»
The Port
of Chicago is one
of the
nation's largest inland cargo ports, and the city is the
world's
third - largest handler
of shipping containers (after Singapore and Hong Kong).
Alexis Tsipras was on course on Monday night to sway radical - leftist Syriza MPs to accept the most draconian rescue
of a sovereign
nation since the second
world war, after the Greek prime minister accepted a
third bailout programme that one analyst said came after a weekend
of «gunboat diplomacy».
The United
Nations Environment Programme reports that roughly one
third of the food produced in the
world for human consumption every year — approximately 1.3 billion tons — gets lost or wasted.
This compares with China's current rank as the
third largest trading
nation in the
world, accounting for around 6 per cent
of world merchandise trade.
The
nation already is being reduced to
Third World status, dependent on America and Europe for its food and even its means
of payment.
The
nation is not only the
third largest by race in the
world, but because
of the miss
of unchanging and tangible sovereign regulations, states are generally giveaway to take their possess position on the matter.
Since leaving office, Mr. Martin and the former President
of Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano, co-chaired a high level panel responsible for submitting a report on a new strategic vision for the African Development Bank, following upon an earlier United
Nations panel report on private sector investment in the
Third World of which he co-chaired with former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo.
Wow.Mr.Limbaugh's belated «apology «aside, I find myself stunned at the level
of vitriol, rudeness, and sheer hatred we seem determined to spew at each across the web nowadays; its advent has obviously unleashed some deeply - buried, long - simmering resevoirs
of hate, scorn, and opprobium that has finally boiled over among many
of us.If we spent even a
third of that energy seeking solutions to righting the badly - listing ship -
of - state called America... Well.The politicians aren't going to do it, fellow citizens.As clever as we think we are venting over folly and nonsense on these websites, we had better get busy getting our
nation's affairs in order, or we'll become the laughingstock
of the
world, with tiny,no - name
third world countries thumbing their noses at us and telling us to «Get lost, America, you silly, Hollywood has - been.
Today we can see the same action
of pride destroying
nations and bringing others to the brink
of a
Third World War
The Global Restrictions On Religion report finds that only about one -
third of the
world's countries impose high restrictions on religion, but these 64
nations contain 70 percent
of the
world's 6.8 billion people (thanks to India and China).
As it became clear that the ideas
of development advocated by
Third World nations in the UN General Assembly involved some shift of power from the industrial nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the Worl
nations in the UN General Assembly involved some shift
of power from the industrial
nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United Nations to the IMF and the Worl
nations to developing ones, the United States moved the power to act in this field away from the United
Nations to the IMF and the Worl
Nations to the IMF and the
World Bank.
Also, in a recent missions newsletter that I read, the writer made this statement, «
Of the hundreds of thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.&raqu
Of the hundreds
of thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.&raqu
of thousands who make decisions for Christ in the evangelistic crusades in the
third world nations (like Africa), only a tiny fraction end up regularly attending any church.»
Another issue is «
Third World debt», and many Christians with others are campaigning through the Jubilee 2000 Coalition for the cancellation
of unpayable debts by the poorest
nations.
But we are exposed to a torrent
of monstrous statements about Israel from Libyans, Syrians, the PLO, and communist and
Third World nations.
That theme is a hidden, burning fuse in all the rhetoric pumped out
of Arab countries (even Egypt), and in much
of the propaganda
of communist and
Third World nations.
Third, the context has shifted: in contrast to the traditional Catholic conception
of the political community, and politics within such communities, as the means
of achieving real if limited justice for human life in the
world, and a corresponding theory
of international relations, recent Catholic thought on war often treats the state as a locus
of injustice and the goals
of particular states as inherently at odds with the achievement
of common human goals, while an internationalism defined in terms
of the United
Nations system is proposed as the best means to those common goals.
Large capital investments in the
Third World on the part
of multinational business will increasingly require political commitments from the host
nation — and such commitments are most easily secured in such rightist dictatorships as Brazil and Chile.
This moral superiority
of the liberalized Western
nation over «
third -
world»
nations and their ability to self - govern was seen this weekend when President Obama lectured the president
of Kenya on gay rights.
Balasuriya argues that the underdevelopment
of the
third world nations was a European creation.
We have used the Bretton Woods Institutions and trade agreements to force
third world nations to give up subsidies
of their products and to open their markets to our highly subsidized ones.
Eyeing but one party and leaving alone all those rich elders and their sons
of high society going to
third world nations / countries seeking acts
of sensualistic desires with enslaved «children» seems to have slipped thru your reason abilities...
This passage will have a different impact and significance for persecuted Christians behind the Iron Curtain and in the impoverished
nations of the
Third World than it has for affluent Christians in the West.
When we read this passage in the light
of the situation today, our eyes are opened to the amazing inroads
of the church
of Christ in the
Third World nations, which may indicate a new Pentecost, a sign
of the last times.
At the end
of the United
Nations Development Decade, almost all
of the
Third World countries had met their growth targets in terms
of increased Gross National Product, but despite more than 35 years
of «development,» absolute poverty was on the increase.
The gross domestic output
of Turkey, a
nation of sixty - four million people, is ranked twenty -
third in the
world, the highest
of any Muslim country.
Thus the Second
World support for «balance» is little more
of a political ploy to appear to be aligned with the
Third World nations than it is genuine support for the concept
of open communication.
In reality, advanced information technology is not the real solution to the current social problems
of the
Third World nations.
A second issue has to do with justice — in this case, justice for the emerging new
nations of the
Third World.
Third World nations should be allowed to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs
of the industrialized
nations.
But the computers, data banks, terminals, programs, and software
of multinationals provide them with the power to move money, labor, parts, and natural resources in ways to emphasize profits without consideration
of the welfare
of any
nation, especially the new
Third World nations and their peoples.
We ought consciously to reject the temptation to take communication models
of the developed
nations and try to make them «fit» the
Third World.
Three guiding ethical principals are suggested, including allowing
Third World nations to develop their own self - reliance in news, information, and entertainment, progressing at a rate and in a manner appropriate to their needs rather than in conformity to the marketplace needs
of the industrialized
nations.
The second view, supported primarily by the new
Third World nations, questions this de facto dominance
of communication by the West, and calls for a «balanced flow,» which means that laws would establish a greater balance between the interests
of the First
World and
Third World.
People who want to travel to
third -
world nations such as Mexico, the Philippines, the countries in Central America and the Mideast with the specific purpose
of exploring the causes
of poverty and the impact
of U.S. policies can contact the Center for Global Education, Augsburg College, 731 - 21st Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55454.
Think
of the numerous forms
of captivity entrapping a poor inhabitant
of a
Third World nation — economic, social, environmental, spiritual and appreciate the promise
of liberation and loosing presented in Jesus» inaugural sermon in the Nazareth synagogue.
Consider this myth in terms
of the demands
of Third World nations to be forgiven part
of their crushing debts to First
World banks.
Third, U.S. advertising invaded virtually every
nation of the
world, bringing with it values and images
of indulgence and selfcenteredness.
The
third -
world nations, recognizing that continuation
of media domination made economic domination all the more inevitable, sought to buttress the UNESCO New Economic Order statement with a New International Information Order statement.
The author analyzes the ethics
of international trade and concludes that we should withdraw support from the move toward transnational trade and seek to strengthen the ability
of nations, especially in the
Third World, to control their own affairs.
Mikhail Gorbachev warned his own people that by the beginning
of the twenty - first century the Soviet Union was at risk
of becoming a
third world nation (at about the level
of India).
But note that this greater evil is variously identified — by some, as the spread
of communism; by others, as the exploitation
of the
Third World by the capitalist
nations.
The United
Nations Environmental Program warns that one -
third of the entire land surface
of the
world is now in danger.
One hopes that they will serve as well to make us — religious and nonreligious people alike — increasingly aware
of the inequities and oppression created and perpetuated for
nations of the «underdeveloped»
Third World by the «overdeveloped»
nations East and West.
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This fact was derived from the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development Commodity Yearbooks which show «
Third World» commodity exports by value in the period 1970 — 1998 as being in order
of crude oil in first place, Kona in second, followed by sugar, cotton, and others.
Our affiliate Humane Society International has persuaded the majority
of states in India, the
world's
third largest producer
of eggs, to declare that confining hens to battery cages violates the
nation's anti-cruelty legislation.
According to UNESCO, the United
Nations» cultural branch, two
thirds of the
world's historical artistic heritage are in Italy.