Sentences with phrase «resource rich countries»

The Mexican Senate passed legislation in April 2012 and the European Union is drafting anti-corruption laws that will make it illegal for oil, gas and mining companies to bribe officials in resource rich countries.

The forests in the Congo and Brazil, two of the most resource rich countries, generate over three quarters of their available natural resources.

Many of the largest, most resource rich countries also happen to have large populations.

Despite the dramatic rise in Internet users, new technologies have contributed to a global race for knowledge (see Mark Malloch Brown and Richard Jolly's Human Development Report, 1999), which has enticed resource rich countries to add technological pursuit of knowledge to their goals, while developing countries remain poorly connected.

Queen's University political researcher Nathan Andrews has co-authored a report on the effectiveness of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in improving transparency and domestic government in resource rich countries suffering from the «resource curse.»

The G8 countries recognising the need for hand holding the governments of resource rich countries to comply with EITI standards announced country to country partnerships with Burkina Faso, Columbia, Ghana, Guinea, Mongolia, Myanmar, Peru and Tanzania.

It's so painful to see how most of the other resource rich countries have managed to keep the wealth and jobs for generations to come.

With mining and natural resources being in depression, a resource rich country like Autralie will have many companies exposed to this.

As a country, Costa Rica was largely uninhabited until the early 1900s, a resource rich country full of dense tropical jungle that made travelling through it nigh on impossible.

Not exact matches

In resource - rich countries such as Botswana, Chile and Malaysia, natural resource revenues paid to governments can be invested in roads, health care and education, as well as business development and social services.

Extraction of the potassium - rich farm nutrient sustains many jobs in Israel and is one of the most abundant natural resources in a country that has few.

In one generation, this tiny dot went from being broke to being one of the richest countries in the world, without any natural resources, purely by strict execution of a great strategy.

Doing so is the best contribution we can make to helping promote both strong, steady economic growth and the flexibility needed to ease those adjustments and help our resource - rich country thrive.

The leaders of what are respectively Canada's most populous and resource - rich provinces both now agree that a Canadian energy strategy is a good idea for the country.

European and US companies are historically the largest investors in Africa, but in recent years resource - rich African countries have become increasingly attractive to Asian investors, particularly from China.

The VICE newsmagazine on HBO television has just done a documentary about geologist and mining entrepreneur Keith Barron's return to Ecuador as CEO of Aurania Resources, and it suggests that the country and its people have taken a new, realistic, and practical approach to exploiting their mineral riches.

Now chairperson of Teck Resources, he's penned a memoir / corporate history / fly - on - the - wall account that's a valuable contribution to Canadian business history, not to mention the country's rich mining lore.

Many countries across emerging Europe are rich in resources, have strong banking and manufacturing sectors, healthy economies and lower debt levels than their western neighbors.

There are various instances where transnational corporations have exploited the rich genetic diversity of developing countries as a free resource for research and development.

We should urgently instigate an inquiry into the resources held abroad by the rich citizens of the Third World countries.

We should urgently instigate an inquiry into the resources held abroad by the rich citizens of the peripheral countries and the resultant expropriation, in certain cases, of these resources if they have been gained through means such as theft committed at the expense of the population of the peripheral countries (expropriated wealth should be returned to the people).

Though the rich countries prefer development aid, resources in effect flow from the poor to the rich countries, increasing the gap between them.

It continues the earlier phenomenon of the transfer of resources from the poor to the rich countries.

Though the rich countries proffer development aid, resources in effect flow from the poor to the rich countries, increasing the gap between them.

Liberalizing world trade to the extent that smaller and less resource - rich countries open their services markets to outsiders, erodes the competitive capacity of people's own cultural industries.

That is one reason why most of the world's resources flow into rich countries to produce so many unnecessary items when they could be producing what millions of poor people need.

That could mean de-development in rich countries in order that the poorer countries have their fair share of the resources of the earth.

• It negates the effect of economic development in poor countries and in rich countries it exaggerates still further their disproportionate consumption of the world's resources and their disproportionate contribution to pollution.

Although vast and rich in natural resources, Bolivia is one of the poorest countries in Latin America.

Who starts on our next game will actually matter when we take advantage of being the 5th richest club in a world where countries go bankrupt, and we can be spoiled enough to solve our problems by dropping bags of money here and there, to clubs who actually have limited resources.

Untold riches will rain down upon the English Premier League in 2016, but for all their resources, the country's leading clubs currently seem incapable of staking claims to the title.

President Mahama, said with the country's nascent oil sector it is prudent that it takes experiences from oil rich countries like Trinidad and Tobago to guide the resource.

We have not chosen only five resource rich regions to qualify them as the only regions worth leading our country.......

This rules also apply to resource - rich country.

Country: The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) When: Nov. 27 Why you should pay attention: One of the richest countries in the world, in terms of natural resources, the DRC faces a critical test in 2016.

The leaders also agreed to accelerate efforts to sign a bilateral investment pact to promote Japanese business operations in the African country, which is rich in natural resources and is politically stable.

The campaign coordinator for the Integrated Social Development Center (ISODEC), Dr. Emmanuel Steve Asare Manteaw, has said that district assemblies in resource - rich areas across the country could benefit from the extraction of resources if they conduct an input and output analysis of the activities of the extraction companies.

So when one country that is not an economic powerhouse, such as Turkey, has their defence needs declined by a supplier country that is technically competent and resource rich, then that makes them anxious.

When he appeared before the committee on 20 January, Mr Marfo denied ever saying or implying that only Ghanaians from five resource - rich regions, all of which happen to be Akan - dominated areas in the country, should lead Ghana.

The summit will be hosting 25 Heads of State and Government, and will provide a platform for co-operation amongst solar resource - rich countries, with the purpose of realising «the common goals of increasing the use of solar energy in meeting the energy needs of ISA member countries in a safe, convenient, affordable, equitable and sustainable manner»

The Summit, which was attended by 25 heads of state and government, provided a dedicated platform for co-operation amongst solar resource - rich countries.

Many researchers have long sought for cures for the so - called «resource curse» — the fact that resource - rich countries often suffer from political and economic ailments, in spite of their research wealth.

As Thijs Van de Graaf, one of the study's coauthors, explains: «Some supporters of the EITI have hailed transparency as the magic bullet to bring about good resource governance and sustainable development in resource - rich countries.

The study also postulates some explanations for the ostensible weakness of the EITI: the EITI's limited and its voluntary nature, resistance by the public and corporate sector, and the absence of a strong civil society in many resource - rich countries.

Several countries with the richest biodiversity, such as Brazil, are this week refusing to sign up to new targets unless there is also a deal on sharing the cash benefits from the exploitation of their genetic resources by western corporations such as drugs companies.

In it she casts her country as resource poor, seeking a level playing field alongside the rich nations that are home base to Big Pharma.

Just as there is a wide disparity in research resources at the world's richest and poorest countries, there is a wide disparity in the resources available at India's elite institutions and the country's universities, where research and teaching go hand in hand.

The country has relied on this resource for years to fuel its economy, making coal - rich Yulin one of the fastest - growing Chinese cities.

«On the other hand, when technologies are economically available to harvest renewable energy, Japan can become one of the energy - rich countries in the world using the large resources of wind, solar, biomass and geothermal energies available among the Japanese islands.»

It will also threaten a national strategy in transmitting electricity from resource - rich western China to feed the country's power - hungry manufacturing sector, most of which is in the east.