First, America's deficits are certain to sop up vast amounts of the world's pool of savings.

First, some countries are heavily burdened by their physical geography.

First, certain countries turn specifically to Europe for help.

He also captained the Yale baseball team, and as a left handed first baseman, played in the first two College World Series.

Norway does not often make it on to the global news agenda and most seem to like it that way.

But it has also left these countries vulnerable to the twists and turns of global financial markets.

First, in 1989, there were just four democracies in Africa.

Those four states contain half of the world s proven oil reserves and two thirds of what could potentially be exported.

First, the world was sufficiently united that it forced the United States to end its intransigence.

Today, Malaysia s income is 7.8 times that of Ghana, more than five times that of Honduras, and more than 2.5 times that of Egypt. In the global growth league tables, Malaysia is in the top tier, along with China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Thailand.

In the global growth league tables, Malaysia is in the top tier, along with China, Taiwan, South Korea, and Thailand.

First, investors might be telling themselves that in the worst case scenario, the northern European countries will effectively push out the weaker countries, creating a super euro.

And it's one of his first outings as Vice President to an African country.

It thus extends the sphere of competence of magistrates courts which will no longer be limited to functioning in the first phases of the preliminary hearings.

First, the world s industrial core must create incentives for the developing world to industrialize along an environmentally friendly, C02 and CH4 light, path.

First, the oil producing countries and China will continue to export substantially more than they import.

First of all, it depends on whether countries can prevent financial bubbles from developing. The IMF recently asked in a report Are bubbly conditions taking hold?

Rich countries have long meddled, often with their own corruption and incompetence, in the internal affairs of the countries that they now lecture.

First, neither the US nor European countries have much standing as legitimate arbiters of good governance.

First of all, it depends on whether countries can prevent financial bubbles from developing.

As head of an organization of 192 member states, the Secretary General inevitably feels the powerful crosscurrents of global divisions.

First, Sub Saharan African countries are less corrupt on average than countries at the same income level in other parts of the world.

In most first world countries, the police would have detained and arrested the homeless with expired passports and start the process of sending them home.

First, we need to increase our efforts to ensure that the Laggards are no longer left behind. This requires policy changes as well as more generous and more effective aid.

First, as with all systems that preceded it, it puts the burden of adjustment on deficit countries, not on surplus countries.

First, we need to increase our efforts to ensure that the Laggards are no longer left behind.

First, these countries must do more to ensure that their citizens get the full value of the resources.

The BRICs hold 2.8 trillion or 42 of global foreign reserves (though most of that is Chinese.)

First, repair.

First, Afghanistan.

First, the lessons.

Financial crisis are inevitable in the global marketplace.

Cheap Oil and Global Growth

The yen has surged on world financial markets.

Tom fought in both world wars.

During his lifetime, he was one of the wealthiest people in the world.

From the very beginning, the company was brilliant in exploiting talented people. It was one of the first world companies to abolish all discrimination, which rendered it with great selection.

Energy independence may be impossible for a country that consumes a quarter of the world s oil but has only 3 of its reserves.

The emergence of new world powers, combined with the diminishing influence of current powers, is not propitious for stricter disciplines.

Is the dollar about to lose the crown of world finance to the euro?

It has 10 of global oil reserves.

Here are the world wind resources.

It's like losing a precious part of the world.

He is the person I want to have kids with.

First, its currency would naturally depreciate, making exports more competitive and imports more expensive.