Word: brazile
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...after years of difficult negotiation and several failed attempts by others to construct something similar. That 1997 convention - under which signatories pledge themselves to outlaw bribery of foreign public officials in international business - has since become the cornerstone of international antibribery policy; six non-o.e.c.d. members, including Brazil and Argentina , have also signed...
...suggest that a global deal would benefit developing countries especially. But are they doing enough to make it happen? Developing countries will be asked to make a proportionate contribution to the Doha package. But a key group of emerging economies like China, Brazil and India are now in a position to do more. These G-20 countries have played a clear leadership role in the Round. For a final deal they must step up to the table with strong offers...
...haven't seen any normal consumption patterns on the East Coast," says Irene Haas, an energy analyst with Canaccord Adams in Houston. Haas also points out that an additional 1.5 million barrels of daily oil production is slated to kick in this year from countries such as Angola, Azerbaijan, Brazil and Canada; that much new oil from non-OPEC nations hasn't hit the global pool in three years, and it should easily counteract the production cuts OPEC is planning. The extra capacity also means oil traders may be less inclined to bid up prices at the first signs...
...front of foreigners, Hu has been a vigorous ambassador for China: the pattern was set in 2004, when Hu spent two weeks in South America--more time than George W. Bush had spent on the continent in four years--and pledged billions of dollars in investments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Cuba. While Wen Jiabao, China's Premier, was visiting 15 countries last year, Hu spent time in the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Nigeria and Kenya. In a three-week period toward the end of 2006, he played host to leaders from 48 African countries in Beijing, went...
...Instead China's key objective is to ensure a steady supply of natural resources, so that its economy can sustain the growth that officials hope will keep a lid on unrest at home. That is why China has reached out to resource-rich democracies like Australia and Brazil as much as it has to such international pariahs as Sudan and Burma, both of which have underdeveloped hydrocarbon reserves. There's nothing particularly surprising about any of this; it is how all nations behave when domestic supplies of primary goods are no longer sufficient to sustain their economies. (Those Westerners...